Wisconsin-based artist Robert Possehl returns to Salina for a closing reception celebrating his residency at the Art Center's Warehouse. The reception, which is FREE and open to the public, will be at the Art Center (242 S. Santa Fe) on Thursday, July 28, 5:30-7 p.m. Refreshments will be provided.
Possehl, an authority on making paper from natural plant fibers and a self-described itinerant imagist, spent two weeks in March living and working in the Art Center's Warehouse as the first SAC Paperworks papermaker-in-residence. He returned to Salina in June to create Fiber as Place: Home as Land, an interactive installation on the grounds of the 2016 Smoky Hill River Festival.
The artist's work will be on view in the Art Center's galleries through July 31, including Saline Landscapes, an installation comprising 208 sheets of paper that visitors to the River Festival created from wheat straw, clay, sisal twine, and hemp cord.
Possehl's residency was made possible with support from The National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; the Capitol Federal Foundation; and the Salina Arts and Humanities Grants Program, the City of Salina.