Peter Miller:
People of the Great Plains
July 5 – October 12, 2008
Imagination Station
Identifying the patterns and contradictions in everyday life requires both an eager mind and active imagination. Imagination Station, comprised of interactive exhibits, reveals the science of sound and light. Typically kept hidden from the human eye, sound vibration patterns are converted into visible waves as visitors discover the differences in varied sounds. Imagination Station also allows visitors to investigate the anatomy of the human eye and the brain’s interpretation of images, demonstrating the human need for corrective lenses. Furthermore, the exhibit engages visitors’ creative curiosity with color mixing and perception experiments. Visitors’ also experience total immersion in innovative, body-driven interactive artwork that reacts to shadows as if they were solid. Imagination Station kicks off its Oklahoma Museum Network tour at Museum of the Great Plains.
Nancy's View:
An Exhibition of the Art of Nancy Anderson
October 18 – November 29, 2008
"I paint and I draw. In this my interest has never wavered—my desire to create art. The style may differ from painting to painting and drawing to drawing, but never my love of doing it.
Sometimes it’s naturalistic—especially when the computer chip in my brain is clogged with less than creative thoughts. I find it relaxing to just take nature and paint it, whether it is trompe L’oeil on a piece of furniture or a landscape on a canvas support. However, there is a certain joy in moving mountains if you feel nature didn’t properly arrange them.
Sometimes my work conveys my sentiments on a political or social ideal, but mostly I love to play with the lines and colors of something and make it my own view of the world. I can’t seem to paint England without making the lines and colors arbitrary in nature. We lived in England for several years and though we have returned on a few occasions, I still paint from memories ………. and photographs of long ago."
Mermaid Street-City of Rye, England
Santa Fe - Through the Lens of Friends
Janice Drewry, Diane Mullins, and Fran Wehner
December 6, 2008 – February 1, 2009