February Final Friday

February 23rd - March 25th

Group art exhibits are so much fun!  This month we welcome the seniors of the KU Illustration program. Come down to Phoenix Gallery to send off February with a super fun collaborative show. An eclectic show with varying art styles from talented student artists, this show ‘The University of Kansas Illustration Class of 2024 Presents: Nature’ will be in the Phoenix Underground Gallery, allowing the community a chance to see and support student artwork. We are so excited to give these artists an opportunity to display their work, and even more excited for you all to come see it!

Upstairs, we will have artist Lauren Bass in the West Gallery. A KU Alumni herself, Lauren’s cinematic artwork will leave viewers in awe of the use of color, movement, and character seen throughout her artwork. Her show, ‘Wild or Tame’, will leave you seeing the beauty in the mundane.

You can meet many of the artists, and gain insight into their artworks, on opening night, February 23rd from 6pm to 9pm.

To view works online or to purchase, please click here.

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Lauren Bass is an artist, environmentalist, and filmmaker from the Overland Park, Kansas area. She graduated from the University of Kansas in 2022 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film and Environmental studies, and a minor in Visual Art, focusing on oil painting. She seeks to combine her love of nature with her creative pursuits through painting, documentary film, and photography. Her work is influenced by filmmaking and impressionism, seeking to create scenes and stories with movement, character, and the sense of being in that moment of time, She currently lives in Lawrence, Kansas.

To view Lauren's works online or to purchase, please click here.

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Live music by local musician Alonzo Beardshear. Alonzo is a guitarist, luthier, sound engineer, DJ, and an Entertainment Director. He has a degree in Theater Tech and Broadcasting and has worked on movies and sound engineering for the last 30+ years.

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This exhibit will be in the Phoenix Underground Gallery, the artists will be stopping by on opening night to discuss and promote their artwork. Be sure to like and follow our Facebook before the show so you can be kept up to date on events involving the February Final Friday exhibition.