First Friday Opening for "As Grass Grows: Ten Years at Prairieside Outpost"

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"As Grass Grows: Ten Years at Prairieside Outpost" is a group exhibition commemorating the first ten years of the Artist-in-Residence program at Prairieside Outpost in Matfield Green, Kansas. The exhibition features 28 visual artists and writers from across North America, each of whom has worked on their creative endeavors in the remote and head-clearing expanse that is the Kansas Flint Hills. This unique ecosystem, known for its unmediated landscape of rolling hills, layered limestone, and the biodiverse habitat of the tallgrass prairie, provides an engaging natural setting for creativity.

A significant aspect that defines the Artist-in-Residence Program at Prairieside Outpost is its ability to accommodate the artists, their collaborators, and their families. A core concept of the program is the idea of shared creativity as a natural state of being. Freed from regular obligations and habits within the Prairieside Outpost Artist-in-Residence program, the open horizon of possibilities has found diverse ways to take root in each artist's efforts. "As Grass Grows: Ten Years at Prairieside Outpost" celebrates how time and the natural environment have meaningfully supported and impacted the creative work of this outstanding community of artists.

The exhibition is accompanied by “As Grass Grows,” a full catalog documenting the exhibiting artists’ work and thoughts about creating work at Prairieside Outpost.

Contributing essayists in the exhibition catalog include S. Portico Bowman and Sally Paul, with art direction and design by Melissa Dehner at HoneyBee Creative. The exhibition and printed catalog for “As Grass Grows: Ten Years at Prairieside Outpost” are created with support from: Kansas City Art Institute, The Kemper Family Foundation, and Prairieside Cottage + Outpost.

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Exhibiting Artists:

Aaron Fine, Alex Lukas, Amanda Hamilton, Anna Wetzel Artz, April Flanders, Caleb Taylor, Cary Esser, Clare Doveton, Colleen Maynard, Corey Antis, Hannah March Sanders and Blake Sanders, Hilary Lorenz, Jackie Leishman, James Woodfill, Jillian Youngbird, K
Stevenson, Katherine Hair Eagle, Kim Eichler-Messmer, Kirsten Furlong, Lily McElroy, Lydia Gravis, Masha Ryskin, Robert Howsare, Serge Marchetta, Warren Rosser, William D. Lewis, and Yoonmi Nam.

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