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KANSAN.COM | MONDAY, MAY 2, 2016
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The 2015 Kansas Food Truck Festival took place on Saturday, May 2 from 5-10 p.m. Around 15 food trucks were set up, and local bands played during the festival.
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Third-annual Kansas Food Truck Festival will come to Lawrence next weekend
RYAN MILLER
RYAN MILLER
@Ryanmiller_UKD
lawrence food lovers, families and hungry college students alike can enjoy the third annual Kansas Food Truck Festival next weekend. The festival is May 7 from 4-10 p.m. and benefits Just Food and the Doulas County Food Bank
The festival will take place between Eighth and Ninth Streets near Pennsylvania and Delaware Streets in downtown Lawrence.
Elizabeth Keever, executive director of Just Food, said this year's festival will feature 26 food trucks. When the festival began three years ago, only five food trucks were present.
"We get to try some places that Lawrence doesn't normally have, and also we've got a couple of great new local Lawrence food trucks that will be debuting their food at the festival, so we're really excited about trying theirs too," Keever said.
The food truck festival will also host a multi-vendor art sale by the Lawrence
Craft Collective, which will represent over 40 artists from the community. Keever said there will also be live entertainment on four stages with live music from local musicians in addition to entertainment from street performers from the Lawrence Busker Festival.
Mr. Nice Guys' Hot Box food truck, located in Topeka and owned by James McWilliams, will make its first Lawrence festival appearance. Mr. Nice Guys' Hot Box is best known for its Philly cheesesteaks and pulled pork sandwiches. Chris Miller, a manager for the food truck, said they joined this year's festival after the last year's turnout.
"The food truck business is booming so well, and since we've got our new mobile truck running this year, we are trying to be everywhere where everybody wants to be," Miller said.
Jason Hering, one of the owners of the Purple Carrot Co-op truck, said they have been part of the festival since it began three years ago and the event is about more than donating food.
"It just brings out so many people who don't normally get to experience food trucks either," Hering said.
"The first year, we didn't know how many people were going to come, and the next year we got even more in attendance, so it's been able to help us set some metrics for where our sellout point is, so we're expected to sell this event out," she said.
The funds raised from the festival will go toward food for the two hosting organizations and funding for their programs, said Keever. The biggest problem planning for the event, she said, was estimating its attendance. She estimates over 3,000 people coming.
Keever said the festival started after their event partner Cider Gallery started bringing food trucks to some of their Final Friday events.
"They got to thinking this really could be something we could really have and make a day of this and bring out a lot of food trucks, and it just kind of
grew from there," Keever said.
It opens people to these new ideas from the different communities."
Jason Hering owner of Purple Carrot
Miller said the food truck festival offers communities like Topeka, Kansas City and Lawrence the chance to connect.
"I think it's awesome that it's bringing everybody together, because with the food truck we find that there's so much passion that people have," Miller said. "And it brings so many people together that have a passion for good food, and this is a way to bring people that can't have big restaurants, a way for us to bring the food to people."
The festival is a way for food trucks, artists, entertainers and the community to come together to create a unique event, Hering said.
"It opens people to these new ideas from the different communities," he said. "It brings a lot of people from different areas all to one space to experience face-to-face what they might not normally experience."
The festival helps bring the community together through food and art and also helps to raise awareness for people in need of food assistance in Lawrence, Keever said.
"What I hope people take away from this is understanding how many people in the community really are in need. Douglas County has thousands of people who worry about where their next meal is coming from," she said.
Tickets for the festival are available online or at the Granada box office, Lawrence HyVee locations, Merchants Pub and Plate, Phoenix Gallery and Just Food for $10.
Edited by Skylar Rolstad
Displays from the 2015 Visual Art Scholarship show. The 2016 show opened May 1 and will run through May 6.
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Visual Art Scholarship Show to run through May 6
SAMANTHA SEXTON
@Sambiscuit
The department of visual art opened its annual Visual Art Scholarship Show Sunday, May 1. The show will run through the end of the week.
The show will be a display of the works of over 60 undergraduate students of all media and experience levels, Gina Westergard, an associate professor and associate chair of the department, said. She said that the show poses an opportunity for students to explain their processes to an audience who would otherwise know nothing but the end product.
"The show allows a unique dialogue between
The show also gives the student artists an opportunity to compete for scholarships based off of their works and those involved must meet a requirement of a 3.0 GPA, as well as being a visual art major, Westergard said.
the artists and students," Westergard said. "Normally in a gallery the audience will walk in and just see the art without context or explanation."
"They won't be told until after the show, but there will be scholarships awarded to different mediums based on their uniqueness, consistency, and willingness to take risks," Westergard said.
Mary Anne Jordan, a professor and chair of the
department, said that while the scholarships are financially important for any student, they help validate the work that the artists are doing in the school.
Jordan also said the show is a great way for the department to emphasize the work done by students to their peers who may be interested in a minor or secondary major.
"Aside from an exhibition of the students competing for scholarship awards, all studio areas will be open for visiting," Jordan said. "This is a great time to see the private graduate and undergraduate studios as well as all of the studio classrooms."
Jordan said that the student work studios open to
viewers will be representing ceramics, expanded media, metalsmithing, jewelry, painting, printmaking, textiles and sculpturing.
Produced entirely by students in the Visual Arts department, Jordan said that the work is "compelling, thought provoking, beautiful, skilled, and interesting."
"A lot of students walk by Chalmers every day and never know what we do here," Westergard said. "This show helps validate the artists and everything they've been working on for the past year and for seniors, for the past four years of their careers, here at KU."
"I am proud of the work that the students produce."
Jordan said. "It is always satisfying to see so much of the work exhibited at once. The work gives faculty a good view of the development of the students over the course of their study. In addition, I look especially forward to meeting the families of the students involved in the exhibition, and other visitors."
A map of the open studios can be found on the third floor of Chalmers hall.
- Edited by Deanna Ambrose
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