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Arts & Events January 26, 2026 - 6:42 pm

‘A force of nature’: Posthumous show at Lawrence gallery celebrates the feminist textile art of Becky Johnson

by Wulfe Wulfemeyer

Viewers are invited to contribute to a communal weaving at an exhibition celebrating the work of Becky Johnson, a textile artist and KU grad student who died last year.

Nathan Kramer / Lawrence Times
Arts & Events December 29, 2025 - 3:57 pm

Applications for Lawrence’s community arts grants open Wednesday

by Maya Hodison

The City of Lawrence will soon welcome arts grant applications for projects with community value, including work focused on equity and inclusion and sustainability.

Arts & Events December 24, 2025 - 10:50 am

Have you seen this painting? Lawrence family hopes to reunite with cherished work of art

by Mackenzie Clark

A Lawrence family is hoping that perhaps by way of a Christmas miracle, they can reunite with a painting they treasured for decades until it was accidentally sold in an estate sale.

Tom Harper/Lawrence Times
Arts & Events November 25, 2025 - 10:00 am

City of Lawrence’s 2025 Phoenix Award winners announced

by Lawrence Times

Recipients of the city’s 2025 Phoenix Awards for service, creativity and dedication to the arts in Lawrence are a local blacksmith, an advocate for Indigenous arts, a volunteer and three others.

Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Arts & Events November 15, 2025 - 1:26 pm

Lawrence Arts Center joins international development program to improve digital systems, increase access to arts

by Wulfe Wulfemeyer

As the Lawrence Arts Center joins the ranks of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ program participants, the organization looks toward a new era of digital accessibility and usability meant to increase the community’s access to the arts.

Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Arts & Events October 2, 2025 - 12:37 pm

Art exhibition preserves a moment in time using historical scientific research, microbiology and macabre curiosity

by Wulfe Wulfemeyer

Artist Emily Mulvaney takes the term “body of work” literally in her exhibition focused on the preservation and degradation of specimens, offering perfect fodder for the Halloween season in Lawrence.

Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Arts & Events October 1, 2025 - 3:43 pm

4 Lawrence-based projects awarded 2025 Rocket Grants

by Lawrence Times

Four Lawrence-based artistic projects, including a documentary on Trans Lawrence Coalition, have been selected from a competitive pool of 114 applications to earn $6,000 Rocket Grants.

Arts & Events September 24, 2025 - 12:25 pm

Body of work examining bacteria, bioplastics and species preservation to be revealed in Lawrence

by Lawrence Times

A solo art show focused on specimen preservation and fragmented representations of bodies will open its doors in Lawrence just in time for the most spine-tingling season of the year.

Tyler Lindquist/Contributed photo
Arts & Events September 23, 2025 - 5:16 pm

Park(ing) Day is coming to downtown Lawrence to transform urban environments into public art spaces

by Wulfe Wulfemeyer

An annual global event geared at reclaiming urban, developed environments for the people will temporarily transform parking stalls in downtown Lawrence this week to provoke conversation about the land we dedicate to vehicles.

Arts & Events September 19, 2025 - 2:42 pm

Free walking tour to highlight Lawrence public art, from sculptures to live performance

by Lawrence Times

A reception and walking tour of a Lawrence public art exhibit will celebrate the fleeting and the permanent, featuring sculptures, natural paper pulp on trees, a live performance and more.

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