WSU Shift Space

WSU Senior Exhibitions

Please join us for two back-to-back WSU Senior Exhibitions this month at ShiftSpace Student Art Gallery!

Friday, May 8th

Fresh Meat: 14 Premium Cuts

WSU Senior Graphic Design Exhibition

Check out some choice graphic design from these sizzling little cutlets:
The 2009 Graphic Design graduates.

Opening Reception: 7:00-10:00pm
at ShiftSpace


and


Friday, May 15

6 Man Gunfight

A WSU BFA Studio Arts Bonanza!

Come see works in a variety of media from the six wiliest whippersnappers to ever mosey out of WSU:
The 2008-2009 BFA Studio Arts graduates.

Opening Reception: 7:00-10:00 pm
at ShiftSpace

PROJECT RUN-A-WAY- A BENEFIT FOR SHIFTSPACE- BUY TICKETS AT FREE FILM FRIDAY!

We would like to invite you to join us from 7-10 pm on Friday April 17, for our second annual fundraising event, “PROJECT, RUN-A-WAY,” a wearable art/fashion show.  For the event student artists will create one of a kind designs, which will be judged by a panel of professional artists in an array of fun categories from “Good Eats” to “Going Green”. The evening will include food donated by local businesses and entertainment from local musicians and dancers. Project Run- a-way will be an evening for the Wichita community to step out and show their support for the Arts, WSU student artists and to enjoy a runway show like no other! 

 TICKET INFO

TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE OFFICE AT THE WSU SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN.

Please stop by McKnight Hall on the third floor between 8 am – 5 pm

You can also purchase tickets at the door on the night of the event or attend one of our other SHIFTSPACE events and pick up your tickets at the gallery!

At this time we can only accept cash and checks!

FOR MORE INFO E-MAIL WWW.SHIFTSPACEPR@GMAIL.COM

Free Film Friday April 10TH

APRIL 10

FREE FILM FRIDAY

HOSTED BY KRISTIN BEAL-DEGRANDMONT

“THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY”

Directed by Julian Schnabel

DOORS OPEN AT 6:30

THE FILM WILL START PROMPTLY AT 7 PM

BRING YOUR OWN SEAT!

BUY YOUR TICKETS FOR PROJECT RUN-A-WAY TONIGHT!

APRIL 17 IS PROJECT RUN-A-WAY!! OUR SECOND ANNUAL BENEFIT FOR SHIFTSPACE

We would like to invite you to join us from 7-10 pm on Friday April 17, for our second annual fundraising event, “PROJECT, RUN-A-WAY,” a wearable art/fashion show.  For the event student artists will create one of a kind designs, which will be judged by a panel of professional artists in an array of fun categories from “Good Eats” to “Going Green”. The evening will include food donated by local businesses and entertainment from local musicians and dancers. Project Run- a-way will be an evening for the Wichita community to step out and show their support for the Arts, WSU student artists and to enjoy a runway show like no other! 

 TICKET INFO

TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE OFFICE AT THE WSU SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN.

Please stop by McKnight Hall on the third floor between 8 am – 5 pm

You can also purchase tickets at the door on the night of the event or attend one of our other SHIFTSPACE events and pick up your tickets at the gallery!

At this time we can only accept cash and checks!

FOR MORE INFO E-MAIL WWW.SHIFTSPACEPR@GMAIL.COM

ARTIST LECTURE AND SNOW DELAYED EXHIBITION OPENING

ARTIST LECTURE

Kristin Beal-DeGrandmont

Wednesday April 1, 2009

7:00 pM

“From observation: a community blog project that engages its participants to find beauty and interest in the everyday”

KRISTIN BEAL-DEGRANDMONT teaches at Friends University and Butler Community College. She was a Visiting Professor of Painting and Drawing at Wichita State University for the 2006-2007 academic year, and the Interim Director of WSU ShiftSpace for the 2007-2008 academic year. She studied at the Kansas City Art Institute, Wichita State University (BFA Drawing and Painting) and Virginia Commonwealth University (MFA Painting and Printmaking) and was awarded the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship Award in 2004. Selected Exhibitions include Paper Chasers, ArtWorks, Cincinnati, OH. Stratification, Trish Higgins Fine Art, c/o The Frame Guild, Wichita, KS. (One-person show) Ephemera, Project Creo Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FLA; Unambiguous, a curated, printed exhibition. Artworld Digest Magazine, published by David Cohen, NYC; Build-up, Babcock Gallery, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA. (One-person show); Notions of Expenditure, Initiated by A. Laurie Palmer with support from Gallery 400. Univ. of Ill., Chicago; Echo, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA. (Three-person show); Lustre, Stefan Stux Gallery, NYC; Rame Panorama, Orange Door Gallery, Richmond, VA; Reflexance, Transformer Gallery, WDC. (Three-person show) and Options 2002, Tenth biennial, WPA/Corcoran, WDC.

FRIDAY APRIL 3 

COME OUT AND JOIN US FOR A GREAT SHOW WITH NO SNOW!

CURRENT 

A JURIED EXHIBITION OF WSU STUDENT ARTWORK

7- 10 PM 

CURRENT - A Juried WSU Student Exibition

CURRENT

ShiftSpace Gallery-
The  WSU Student Art Gallery in Old Town
800 East 3rd Street

March 27th 7pm - 10pm

Please join us this Final Friday for CURRENT, an exhibition featuring current Wichita State University student artwork. This show was juried by Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting Levente Sulyok and Assistant Professor of Printmaking Monika Meler. 

PLEASE JOIN US FOR A GREAT SHOW!

March 13th Free Film Friday

Me and You and Everyone We Know

Directed by: Miranda July

2005

SYNOPSIS

"Me and You and Everyone We Know " is a poetic and penetrating observation of how people struggle to connect with one another in an isolating and contemporary world. Christine Jesperson is a lonely artist and "Eldercab" driver who uses her fantastical artistic visions to draw her aspirations and objects of desire closer to her. Richard Swersey (John Hawkes), a newly single shoe salesman and father of two boys, is prepared for amazing things to happen. But when he meets the captivating Christine, he panics. Life is not so oblique for Richard's six-year-old Robby, who is having a risqué Internet romance with a stranger, and his fourteen-year-old brother Peter who becomes the guinea pig for neighborhood girls -- practicing for their future of romance and marriage.

Hosted by Lauren Clay, a  WSU Graduate Student in Ceramics

The film will start promptly at 7pm

Please bring your own seat and one for your friend.

The heat is on in ShiftSpace!

SAVE THE DATE!!!!!PROJECT RUN-A-WAY APRIL 17- A NIGHT OF WEARABLE ART, MUSIC, DANCE AND FUN!

SAVE THE DATE FOR OUR SECOND ANNUAL FUNDRAISER FOR SHIFTSPACE-

 APRIL 17 from 7-10 pm 

  Wsu ShiftSpace Presents

 "Alternating State"

 Kinetic work By Mike Miller and Brady Hatter
February 27th  7:00 pm -10:pm

ShiftSpace Gallery- The  WSU Student Art Gallery in Old Town 803 East 3rd Street

"Alternating State"-Sometimes I worry that what we are doing is way too simple, so simple that it is not art.  To entertain a baby we hang a mobile over its crib; the baby's eyes are automatically drawn to the movement.  It is part of the innate, subconscious brain taking over.
We ask you to explore the part of the brain that loves patterns, waves and rhythm.  Delve into natural cycles of the organic world reanimated through our mechanical inventions.  Discover the memory of something greater than a sculpture can produce. 

FEBRUARY 13th FREE FILM FRIDAY

Duze zwierze "The BIg Animal"

Directed by: Jerzy Stuhr

2000

SYNOPSIS

When Zygmunt Sawicki and his wife take in a stray circus camel, his larger-than-life presence transforms their tiny Polish town -- until the citizens begin to turn against the couple and their unusual pet. Written by Krzysztof Kieslowski during the height of communist political oppression in the 1970s, this whimsical allegorical tale slyly makes a case for individuality within an intolerant, conformist society.

HOSTED BY WSU ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PRINTMAKING, MONIKA MELER

The film will start promptly at 7pm

Please bring your own seat and one for your friend.

The heat is on in ShiftSpace!