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Lawrence Arts Center's year-long residency program allows emerging artists to shine
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Amanda Maciuba, former printmaker-in-residence at the Lawrence Arts Center, uses the center to develop her work and teach classes.
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Maciuba prints off signs to post.
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The Lawrence Arts Center, along with providing lessons, kindergarten and galleries, offers a handful of different residency programs. From a few days to a whole year, artists from around the world come to the center, usually after earning their master's degree, for an opportunity to further develop their style and continue to learn.
"We employ about 150 artists who either live in Lawrence or near Lawrence and we love to complement that with people from around the world and different walks of life to bring the best art possible to the program," Susan Tate, CEO of the Lawrence Arts Center, said.
This August marks the beginning of the yearround program, which will see two new artists, Carly Slade and Tressa Jones, join the Lawrence Arts Center team. For the yearround program, the center offers two types of residencies: ceramics and printmaking.
Slade, originally from
Canada and an alumna of San Jose State University, will be the ceramicist-in-residence while Jones, a native Bostonian and alumna of the University of Montana, has been selected as the printmaker-in-residence.
Both women have a lot to look forward to according to last year's printmaker-in-residence, Amanda Maciuba.
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Amanda Maciuba, last year's printmaker-in-residence at the Lawrence Arts Center, works on her prints.
I definitely felt very supported and I am so grateful that I was able to continue to work on my art so seamlessly after graduating. I would definitely recommend this program to anyone."
Amanda Maciuba Former Lawrence Arts Center Resident
time here and I couldn't be happier how it all turned out," Maciuba said. "Having this residency was exactly what I needed when I needed it and it has been the perfect buffer between school and the real world."
Maciuba said that as a printmaker, in order to simply rent the space and equipment necessary to pursue her art, she would have been spending upward of $200 a month. At the Lawrence Arts Center, however, Maciuba was given a private studio, free access to all the equipment she needed, a fully furnished residence within walking distance of the center and even a bike.
"I have had an amazing
"We want to make sure that the artists have everything they could need and that they enjoy their time here with us," Kyla Strid, director of residencies at the Lawrence Arts Center, said.
"Emerging artists who need a kiln or who need a press can't exactly be expected to have the ten to fifteen thousand dollars
needed to go buy one so our program really helps new and developing artists as they leave school and go out into the professional world."
Strid, a former artist-in-residence at the center, said that the residents are expected to teach classes, participate in community outreach as well as construct a new body of work during their time in Lawrence.
Maciuba said that she spent the time working on community pieces and delving into the history of the Lawrence area.
"I've learned so much, from being a teacher to how to speak to anyone about my art and how to promote myself," Maciuba said. "I definitely felt very supported and I am so grateful that I was able to continue to work on my art so seamlessly after graduating. I would definitely recommend this program to anyone."
- Edited by Brendan Dzwierzynski
'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' is a worthy addition to the books but maybe wait to see it live
JOSH MCQUADE
@L0neWO1lMcQuade
Professor Snape must have taught "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling the potion for success, as she continues to stun her fans with her work.
Earlier this year, Rowling announced that an original play titled "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" would be performed in Europe, and along with it would come a book with the same title. However, she specified that the book would be the script from the play.
The Palace Theatre in London showing advertising for "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," the new play that continues the "Harry Potter" book series
The story takes place 19 years after the Battle of Hogwarts and centers on Harry's youngest son, Albus Severus Potter, and his time at Hogwarts. Albus is shockingly chosen as Slytherin, just as his father was considered for the house during his experience with
Many were outraged at the fact that this was not a true Harry Potter book, but the script was almost able to recreate the world many had once entered.
Kristy Wigglesworth/Associated Press that continues the "Harry Potter" book series.
While fighting to live up to the legacy his father left as the boy who lived, Albus ignites a friendship with the last person any Harry Potter fan would expect, the son of Draco Malfoy, Scorpius. The duo gets a hold of the time-turner device, first seen in Rowling's third Potter book, "The Prisoner of Azkaban," and visits the past of their fathers.
the Sorting Hat.
A new villain, temporary resurrection of dead characters and the rewriting of classic Harry Potter stories brought in a sense of nostalgia for me and many other Potter fans.
As I read the book, I couldn't help but notice the lack of substance between the pages. This was mostly due to the book being a rehearsal script for the play, but I did not feel the energy Rowling put into her work as I did from the past seven novels. Instead of a Rowling original, the book read more as a fan fiction, though a beautifully written fan fiction.
The book delves into the
idea how the future would transform if Harry's story was changed even one bit; whether it be the rescue of a beloved character on the brink of death, or if Hogwarts had fallen to He Who Must Not Be Named. Rowling was able to toy with the masterpieces she had written in the past and show the audience why she the choices she had made for Harry were the correct ones.
a nostalgic trip into the past of the Potter universe and a look into the satisfying future, but it is not of the same caliber of the original seven Potter novels. If you are looking to truly experience a new chapter to
Overall, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" was
the Potter franchise, then waiting for the play to make its way over to the United States would be the best way to capture the beauty Rowling wanted her audience to experience.