
Lawrence Arts Center laying off staff, making cuts amid budget crisis
The Lawrence Arts Center has begun to lay off employees as the board has asked staff to cut about $500,000 worth of expenses.
The Lawrence Arts Center has begun to lay off employees as the board has asked staff to cut about $500,000 worth of expenses.
Tibetan monks completed an interfaith world peace sand mandala Saturday at the Lawrence Arts Center; then, in a demonstration of impermanence of all, cleared the mandala and carried the sands to the river.
Tibetan monks are working to create an Interfaith World Peace Mandala at the Lawrence Arts Center. Many of the world’s major religions will be represented in the 5-foot mandala.
A Lawrence event aims to celebrate cats, and help meet their needs, by highlighting some of their best angles captured on camera.
Lawrence artist Javy Ortiz will soon create long-lasting original works to honor the people of La Yarda, a neighborhood of Mexican American railroad workers and their families that stood from 1920 through 1951 in East Lawrence.
The Lawrence Arts Center board of directors has named Thomas (Tom) Huang as interim executive director of the center.
Margaret Weisbrod Morris, who has served as CEO of the Lawrence Arts Center for more than six years, has left her position.
The Lawrence Arts Center’s iconic Red Dancer sculpture stirred up the staff and community members with her sudden disappearance, but fortunately she has simply gone on vacation from her home in front of the building.
An art installation reimagining a housing unit where La Yarda community members lived during the 1920s-50s in eastern Lawrence is nearing completion.
Food and fun were both on the menu Monday as free summer lunches for kids returned to the Lawrence Public Library and launched at the Lawrence Arts Center.
Never miss a story. Sign up for our emails.