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Whats Happening Monthly in the Art Department

JANUARY, 2012

Carol Long, who owns and operates  CAROL LONG POTTERY has hired Mark and Bambi Freeman as apprentices.  Mark and Bambi were art majors a few years ago here at Barton Community College. Upon graduation Mark attended Fort Hays University as did Bambi. Mark majored in ceramics at Fort hays.  Carol Long says, "Mark Freeman and Bambi Freeman are apprenticing with Carol Long Pottery.  I am thrilled with the new energy and looking forward to new venues."  Follow this link CAROL LONG POTTERY to see Carol Long's Ceramic Art work.

Barton Community College to present concert and lecture featuring Grammy and Emmy nominated Native American performer John Two-Hawks at Crest Theatre

Jan. 17, 2012
Story by Joe Vinduska

In conjunction with the Shafer Gallery’s current exhibit, “Native Witness: Indians in the Shafer,” Barton will present a free lecture and American Indian flute concert by Grammy and Emmy award nominated Native American performer John Two-Hawks.  The lecture will be at 2 p.m. and the concert will be at 7 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 27 at the Crest Theatre, 1905 Lakin St., Great Bend.  The Great Bend Tribune is co-sponsoring the event.

NOVEMBER, DECEMBER,2011

YOUNG ARTISTS OF BARTON COUNTY Great Bend, KS, December 2 -- The works of two young Barton County artists, Petr Grigorev and Angela Waite, will be featured at the Barton County Arts Center, 1401 Main, Great Bend, through the month of December. A reception will be held Friday evening, December 9th, beginning at 7:00 pm... . The public is invited to attend and meet the artists. Petr Grigorev is originally from Vladivostok, Russia. He came to the United States in hopes of getting a tennis scholarship at Barton Community College, but he received an art scholarship instead. Working closely with art instructor Steve Dudek, Petr discovered his talent and came to feel passionately about his art. Recently, he was honored to receive his first major patron award at the Kansas Watercolor Society’s national exhibition. Angela Waite, from Ellinwood, also studied at Barton Community College, studying ceramics with Bill Forst and two-dimensional art forms with Steve Dudek. She is currently attending Fort Hays State University, where she is majoring in Art Education. This program is supported in part by The City of Great Bend and CPI Qualified Plan Consultants. The Barton County Arts Council is a non-profit charitable and educational organization, supported by individuals, organizations and businesses, who realize the value of The Arts in our communities.
 

ST. Justa Pottery Guild Exhibit and Sale at the Shafer Gallery

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SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, 2011

FACULTY and STAFF EXHIBIT

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June, July, August, - Summer 2011
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MAY, 2011

Barton Community College Student Juried Exhibition May 1- 11, 2011

Congratulations to the art majors who have entered the BCC Student Juried Exhibition.  

Best of Show 2 Dimensional Kaitlin Ptkcek,                                                       Mary Fox Memorial Award                $100.00  

Best of Show 3-Dimensional                            Steven Carney                                                     Shafer Gallery Award                        $100.00

APRIL, 2011
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SIDEWALK ART CONTEST 

Barton Community College will host its fourth annual Sidewalk Art Contest April 19-21 on the sidewalk outside the College’s Shafer Gallery.

COFFEE and ART,  Barton Art Majors Win Awards

The Barton Community College Foundation sent a notice a few weeks ago sharing that they wanted some artwork for the Coffee Cove in the Learning Research Center. The Foundation furnished the canvases for the artists to paint their idea of a perfect coffee cup. Listed below are the winning entries and the Foundation thanks everyone who participated in the contest. The 8 winners received coffee coupons that they can utilize in the Coffee Cove for the rest of the semester. The paintings will be displayed in the near future, so please come in and see the talent of our Barton students and employees.

Karen Kratzer, Diane Engle, Jessica Siefers, Leona Kasselman, Kay Bitter, Fiona Kline-Martin, Deborah Clothier, Billie Bonomo

April Showers:

Kansas Landscapes Photography ExhibitThe Shafer Gallery will exhibit works by Wichita photographer John Morrison and members of the Central Kansas Photography Club. Members who are or have been a part of the BCC Art Department include, Steve Dudek, Rose Dudek, Diane Engle, Karole Erikson, Robert Bonomo and Peter Grigorev. This exhibit will only be in the Shafer Gallery for a short time. This exhibit will continue through April 21.

Art Instructors Support Public Television

Steve Dudek and Bill Forst, art instructors at BCC, have art work in the SMOKEY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION SIGNATURE AUCTION. The Auction will be held on April 17 and 18 at 7:00 - 10:00 p.m. both days. Tune in LIVE for this annual event. Bill and Steve's art work will be auctioned live on April 17 between 7:00 and 8:00 p.m. The Smokey Hills Public Television's LIVE auction is the largest and most popular fundraiser for the television station and if you choose to participate you can bid on items from across the state of Kansas. All proceeds go towards helping Smokey Hills provide services and programming for central and western Kansas.

MARCH, 2011
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The Barton Community College High School Art Exhibit is opening on March 6, in the Shafer gallery. Come by and check out the submissions by our local high school departments. The opening reception will be a good place to meet your friends and former local high school teachers.

Three artists who are ceramics students of Barton Community College art instructor Bill Forst are exhibiting their works in the display cases located outside the Shafer Gallery in the college’s Fine Arts Building. Dolores Baker and Esther Maher, both of Great Bend, and Kay Bitter, Ellinwood, differ in the styles of their art, but their one common denominator is their enthusiasm for their work in the ceramics lab.

Barton Art Instructor Wins First-Place Award in Wichita Garden Art Exhibit. Steve Dudek was awarded the first-place Betty Sieler Award for his watercolor painting in the Wichita Garden Art Exhibit, which took place Feb. 23 through March 6. Dudek’s painting was of roses from a photograph taken in the Great Bend Garden Club’s rose garden in the Great Bend Cemetery. He had two pieces accepted in the show. Juror for the show as Wyatt K. McCrea, a graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design and Bethany College.

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