'Haunted Prints' and other Halloween-themed artworks are on view at WSU
An exhibition organized by WSU students groups printmaking works from the Clayton Staples Collection.
Wichita State studio art majors Ariana Mixon and Dao Tang selected a handful of spooky prints by WSU alumni and former faculty for a Halloween-themed exhibition. It’s on view through November 14 in the second-floor walkway between the Ulrich Museum of Art and the WSU printmaking studios.
Mixon serves as the student gallery manager, and Tang is the assistant student gallery manager for the School of Art, Design and Creative Industries. They assembled their current exhibition from the school’s Clayton Staples Collection, which is composed of more than 700 objects by WSU alumni and former faculty members.
“Haunted Prints” includes prints by David Bernard, who founded the first collegiate printmaking program in Kansas. Both Mixon and Tang were drawn to an untitled work 1993 by “S. Brown,” the one artist they were not able to identify in their research. In the woodblock print, an apparently female figure sits on a chair opposite a headless man or mannequin.
Mixon and Tang also help coordinate, install and de-install exhibitions at the school’s Clayton Staples Gallery, located in Room 205 in the west side of McKnight Art Center, and ShiftSpace, the downtown gallery located inside Harvester Arts, 120 E. 1st St.
Mixon says they spends 10-15 hours a week on gallery work. In exchange for their applied learning internships, the students receive an applied learning scholarship.
Next up: an exhibition of works by women printmakers. It will open next month and run through January.
See “Haunted Prints” from 7:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday through Friday.
— Emily Christensen is a printmaking fan & the managing editor of The SHOUT.
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