The Lawrence Art Center’s Hang12 members — high school students who curate art shows and events in the community — just unveiled 32 new pieces of art that hang above parking spots in the New Hampshire Street garage and celebrate Kansas.
Lawrence High School juniors Wren Jay and Rilo Scholz designed the artwork featuring native Kansas plants and animals, but the pieces were brought to life with the collective work of the other Hang12 members who helped with painting, sanding, jigsawing and more.
Multidisciplinary artist Mona Cliff, enrolled member of the Gros Ventre tribe (A’aninin/Nakota Nations), unveiled a mural in the garage last year. Cliff and members of Hang12 spoke about their work before a red ribbon cutting ceremony in the garage, where attendees toured the garage admiring the new works.
LHS senior and Hang12 graphic designer Willow Marable has been with the current team the longest.
“It’s been a really good way to get like the new members more integrated into the art world and just kind of like thinking about what public art is and making more of it,” Marable said.
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Logan Pierson (he/him) worked as a reporting intern with The Lawrence Times from December 2025 through May 2026 while he was a senior journalism and photography student at the University of Kansas. He previously contributed to the University Daily Kansan as a senior reporter and beat reporter.
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