Volume 18, Number 12, March 7, 2002 Issue

Field studio for exhibit opens in mall

By Julie Rausch

WSU’s Decorative Arts Guild is having an open house for its new Sacred Space Field Studio and Gallery at Towne West Square. Part of the space will be a work study area for creating a groundbreaking exhibition, "Sacred Space: A Collaborative Exhibition," April 4-Aug. 6 at WSU’s Ulrich Museum of Art.

The open house will be 1-4 p.m. Saturday, March 9, in the gallery at Towne West Square’s main north entrance.

The open house is in celebration of International Women’s Day (March 8) and is co-sponsored by the Decorative Arts Guild and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, with the theme "Bread and Roses," recognizing women workers. Free samples of international breads will be available. Art by Decorative Arts Guild members will be on sale at the gallery. People may tour the gallery and observe artists working on the "Sacred Space" exhibition.

The gallery, which is being supported through volunteerism by students, faculty, public and private schools and community service organizations, will be open to the public Saturday afternoons. The public is invited to learn to make origami (Japanese paper folding) cranes, which are symbolic of prayers for healing.

For the "Sacred Space" exhibition, the Ulrich Museum’s Amsden Gallery will be transformed into a sacred garden displaying painted images on life-sized portals based on religious and domestic architecture from around the world.

Interior views through the portals will depict cultural landscapes relating to eight world religions with an emphasis on endangered animals and plants.

The exhibition’s purpose is to promote multicultural education through the visual arts and to initiate dialogue on cultural and natural diversity, says Diane Thomas Lincoln.

The portals with landscapes are designed by WSU students in the decorative and ornamental painting and design certificate program led by Lincoln.

Students from Wichita Northeast Magnet High School are designing and painting a labyrinth, working in the McKnight Art Center atrium. Seventh-graders at Holy Cross Lutheran School will be making multicolored origami animals for the exhibition.

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