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Beach Museum of Art
Kansas State University
701 Beach Lane
Manhattan, Kansas
785-532-7718
Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday, noon-5 p.m. (office is open Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.)

Around the World in 88 Days: Selections from the Permanent Collection
June 1 — August 28

Makers Framed: Photographic Portraits by George Kren
June 17 — October 16

Lines Traveling Through Space: Ghosts and Shadows, Minimal Sculptures by Tal Streeter
April 8 — October 30

Teresa Schmidt 2011 Friends of the Beach Museum of Art Gift Print Artist
April 15 — August 28

Salina Art Center
242 South Santa Fe
Salina, Kansas
785-827-1431
Gallery: Wednesday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m., Sunday, 1-5 p.m.

June 10-12 robbinschilds New York-based performance company, robbinschilds, is the Salina Art Center’s 2011 Smoky Hill River Festival Artist. Come enjoy their performance of Instruction Construction at the Festival. This work is a series of recordings that lead participants through detailed movement-based scores responding to a specific environment. Festival-goers are encouraged to listen to the recordings and respond to the directives – create your own spontaneous choreography. MP3 players with recordings are provided. Experience the Movement! For more information about robbbinschilds visit robbinschilds.com.

Adam Pendleton: Radio (ONE)
Opening reception with the artist: March 3, 5-7 p.m.
In Dialogue: March 4, noon Salina Arts Center Curator Christopher Cook sits down the artist for a public discussion
March 3 – July 10

Visiting artist:
Mary Reid Kelley
Film screenings and discussion of Kelley's work: March 24, 7:30 p.m. and March 26, 1 p.m. (at the Art Center Cinema)
March 24 — 27

Salina Art Center Warehouse
149 South 4th Street
Salina, Kansas
(Salina Art Center Artist-in-Residency site)

Artist in Residence: Marie Lorenz
Combining interests in psycho-geographic explorations, mapping, and spatial awareness, Lorenz employs boats and natural navigational techniques to chart the ambiguous, shifting notions of water in an effort to discover a sense of place. Click to learn more.
Artist Talk: June 17, 7:30 p.m. at the Salina Art Center
Open Studio: June 16, 23 & 30, 2-4 p.m. and June 26 & July 3, 2-4 p.m.
June 14 — July 11

Salina Arts and Humanities Commission
PO Box 2181
Salina, Kansas
785-309-5770

June 9—12 35th Smoky Hill River Festival Oakdale Park is the place to be this weekend, especially if you already live in central Kansas, but Salina is only three hours from the Kansas City metro region. Artists, craftspeople, musicians, and performers from all over the region draw 75,000 festival-goers from Kansas, Missouri, and beyond for a unique and enriching time at the annual Smoky Hill River Festival, a project of Salina Arts & Humanities, a department of the City of Salina. There is something for everyone, including a whole tent of free arts activities for children (those 11 years old and younger are admitted to the park/festival for free; adults can come and go as they please all weekend with a festival button, which is $15 at the gate or was $10 in advance). More than 150 fine art and craft exhibitors are on site Saturday and Sunday for the juried Fine Art Show and Four Rivers Craft Market, while three stages of music play a variety of styles all weekend long (including children's theatre, puppet shows, and storytelling), artists and craftspeople do demonstrations, and Artists in Action sculpt sand mountains, paint murals, and more. Artists include Chad Fonfara (Kearney, Nebraska), whose Glass Imaginarium is installed at the riverbank near Kenwood Bridge; Bill Godfrey (Tarentum, Pennsylvania), who has installed Dream Dragon Bridge at Fourth Street's bridge; Ann Arkebauer (Salina, Kansas), who presents Just Another Pipe Dream, a series of abstract, interlocking, undulating sculptural statements; and Gear (Kansas City, Missouri), who brings the Art of Lettering, a demonstration of how words in graffiti are more like abstract art pieces; and Juniper TJ Tangpuz (Kansas City, Missouri) adds to his Flower Animals garden. A complete list of Artists in Action can be found here. Musicians include: Joe's Pet Project, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Annie Up, Turbine, Buffalo Rome, The Good Lovelies, Bill Harley, The John Jorgenson Quintet, Love Canon String Band, and Chris McCarty & Band. More details about the line-up can be found here, where you can also download a PDF of the full festival schedule and learn about the Art Patron Program, the pre-fesival jam, Festival Fitness Foot Race, Big Band Dance, and more. The Smoky Hill River Festival is ADA accessible. More information is available online or by calling 785-309-5770. The Festival is open at 4 p.m. on Thurdsay for the Festival Jam. Gates open at 9 a.m. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and activities run from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

Strecker-Nelson Gallery
406.5 Poyntz Avenue, 2nd floor
Manhattan, Kansas
785-537-2099
Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

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