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KANSAN.COM | MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2017
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3 artists to be featured in INSIGHT art talk
- LIBBY FLOOD
@libbyflood13
Contributed photo Hong Chun Zhang's "Happy Friday" is a Chinese ink and watercolor on rice paper. It was created in 2016, and donated to the Lawrence Art Center's 2017 Benefit Art Auction Exhibition.
Contributed photo Science Art Center's 2017
the Lawrence Arts Center will host an INSIGHT Art Talk featuring local artists on March 27 at 7 p.m. The event's speakers, Hong Chun Zhang, Bill Bowerman and Justin Marable will have their work featured in the annual Benefit Art Auction Exhibition. This is the second art talk featuring artists of the exhibition.
Zhang was born and raised in China, and graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts. She moved to the U.S. to continue exploring her artistic style, something she said she felt she couldn't do in China.
Zhang has lived in Lawrence for more than 10 years. She said she feels a harsh contrast between urban Beijing and rural Kansas, and the juxtaposition inspired her to create her "Two Cultures" series.
It is her "Hairy Objects" series, though, that she
will be speaking about and will be represented at this year's art auction exhibition. Her work primarily deals with day-to-day living, and how that varies across cultures, she said.
Miranda Clark-Ulrich/KANSAN The 2017 Benefit Art Auction Exhibition began on March 10 at the Lawrence Arts Center.
"My identity as a Chinese woman is in my long hair," she said. "I thought about combining that [identity] with my everyday life in Lawrence."
This year, Zhang said she also will donate 100 percent of the proceeds from her piece "Happy Friday" to the Lawrence Arts Center.
Bowerman has been active member in the art community since the mid 1980s, focusing mainly on painting and drawing. His newest work, though, involves what he calls scanography, "photography using a flatbed scanner for input instead of a digital camera."
I thought about combining that [identity] with my everyday life in Lawrence."
Hong Chun Zhang
Artist
Marable is a printmaker whose work is heavily influenced by the rural Midwest. His website describes the process of
Art in Focus: 'The Listeners' examines the high-pressure world of crisis center volunteers
printmaking as labor intensive using photography, stenciling and, "the physical process of printing."
The Art Talk will include conversations on the three artist's careers, works of art and the opportunity to see some of their work. Those interested in purchasing a piece can do so in the silent auction or by purchasing a ticket to the April 8 live auction. More information can be found on the Lawrence Arts Center's website.
GUS HUNNINGHAKE @gushunninghake
When University film professor Robert Hurst began looking into ideas for his next documentary, he didn't think he would end up looking into the world of suicide hotlines.
But, when work on his then current documentary led him to the Headquarters Counseling Center in Lawrence, he decided to embark on a two-and-a-half-year journey to tell the story of volunteers that take calls for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at Headquarters.
Current volunteers at Headquarters Counseling Center in Lawrence
Contributed photo
"I'm interested in films that have some sort of social component to them," Hurst said. "I got interested in the idea of suicide hotlines because I had been working on another project about veterans, mental health and PTSD. So, it sort of naturally segued into this project."
Although Hurst wasn't particularly interested in films about mental health, he said that this story had enough of that social component to really be worth taking the time to tell.
His now-released documentary, entitled "The Listeners," takes a look at young adult volunteers going into the suicide hotline program and the rigorous training required to be an official volunteer.
Andy Brown, Headquarters' executive director.
found Hurst's involvement with the specific trainees to be the most noticeable aspect of the whole film process.
["Hurst] basically came in and followed a training staff of volunteers from the start all the way to the finish," Brown said. "He then checked up with them about a year later to see where they were."
These students go through extensive training. Scenarios include having to answer situational phone calls from people with guns to their heads, in order to truly test their ability to withstand pressure and keep their composure in such serious situations.
[Hurst] basically came in and followed a training staff of volunteers from the start all the way to the finish."
Hurst said that witnessing this aspect of the training was tough to take in at times. After participating in part of the training himself, he said it really brought weight to all that was going on.
Andy Brown Headquarters executive director
"It's pretty challenging when you're doing role plays and pretending and the
phone rings and someone says, 'Well, I've got this gun here and I want to blow my own head off.' That's pretty scary, even when it's not the real thing."
Despite the challenges, Hurst found the volunteers' care for others and desire to do good as something worth capturing.
"It's interesting in the sense that, at every age, there are people who care deeply about one thing or another, and are really taking action," Hurst said. "All of the people in the documentary were really interested in helping other people. They're all interested in being in the helping professions. So that was really cool to see. They're all
very mature people."
Hurst also said that the students he documented had to deal with some problems themselves from answering the calls. However, he didn't see this as a problem, necessarily, so much as an asset to their job.
"They've been through some stuff, which is actually positive when it comes to volunteering and relating to people who are in crisis," Hurst said. "A lot of people have learned to deal with it, and the result of that is they didn't shut down, they want to help other people."
- Edited by Casey Brown
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