The Salina Art Center plans to celebrate First Friday and you're invited!
On Oct. 2, Salina Art Center is extending gallery hours for First Friday, a collaborative evening perfect for exploring restaurants, shops, and cultural attractions in downtown Salina. Art Center galleries will be open until 7 p.m., and the Art Center Cinema reopens with a 6 p.m. screening of Kevin Willmott’s The 24th.
The following are featured in the Art Center galleries
Eileen Roscina, Widening Circles, through Nov. 8
Roscina is an artist, experimental filmmaker and naturalist currently living in Denve. She earned a BFA from Emerson College in Boston, Mass., is an MFA candidate at University of Colorado, Boulder, and trained at the School of Botanical Art and Illustration in Denver. Through biomimicry and the study of biophilia, her work examines human’s spiritual and social (dis)connection with nature, and seeks to raise questions about realizing a radically different metaphoric mapping of time, space and our place in the world.
A. Mary Kay, Zenith, through Nov. 8
A. Mary Kay lives and paints in rural Lindsborg. She was born in London England, and has lived in the United States for 30 years. She received a BA Honors in Fine Art from Bath Academy of Art UK, an MA from Goldsmiths College London University UK, and an MFA in Painting from Yale University. Her web site is: marykaypainting.com.
Recently her work was included in 2019- 20 Rural/Urban Invitational II at The Volland Store in Volland, Kan., and in 2018 Big Botany Spencer Museum Kansas University, Lawrence.
She was selected as one of three artists to represent Kansas in 2014 for the exhibition State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now, at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Bentonville. Later Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art toured a show of works from State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now, where the destinations were Mint Museum Charlotte N.C., Dixon Gallery and garden Memphis Tenn., and The Jepson Center Telfair Museums, Savannah, Ga.
Fidencio Fifield-Perez, Birdwatchers, through Oct. 4
Fidencio Fifield-Perez was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, but raised in the United States after his family migrated when he was only six. His current work examines borders, edges, and the people who must traverse them. In his work, Fifield-Perez manipulates paper surfaces and maps to refer to the crafts and customs used to celebrate festivals and mourn the dead, which he learned as a child in Oaxaca. For Fifield-Perez, these techniques are a way to reconnect with a time and place no longer present.
Admission to the galleries is always free. Guests are asked to wear a mask and practice social distancing.
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Artist information courtesy Salina Art Center website.