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Between Fences
LUCAS
October 20-December 3, 2006
• Juried Photography Exhibit
• Joleen Goff’s “Fabric Fences”
• Exhibits of smooth and barbed Wire Sculptures; Outsider
Art Fence Line
• Environments past and present; Fence Posts Signs (like the
old Burma Shave signs)
• “Test your Fence IQ”
• "Surveying Fences and Boundaries of Women" exhibit
at Fossill Station Museum, Russell. Open Saturdays (11 AM - 4 PM)
and Sundays (1-4 PM)
October 20 (Friday)
10 AM - 5 PM Opening reception for Photography
Show, Flying Pig Studio and Gallery, Main St.
7-9 PM Between Fences Sneak Preview
Reception, by invitation at Grassroots Art Center.
October 21 (Saturday)
"Fences in the Wild" Bus Tour. Reservations due at art
center by October 14. Cost: $50 per person (30 persons).
8:30 AM Arrive at the Grassroots Art Center. All
day tour guide. “Test your fence IQ.” Participate in
a fence materials quiz. Travel to Vonada
Farms and tour Vonada’s Stone Quarry to discover how a
limestone post is quarried and set. Travel back to Lucas and learn
about jealousy, devil’s alley and invisible fences. Tour Kaufman’s
unique rock and floral garden with zigzag log fencing. “Don’t
Fence Me In” lunch. Tour Smithsonian and 5 complementary exhibits
at the art center and various locations in Lucas. Travel to Twin
Creek Farm and meet Jerry and Sharon Rowe. Discover a world
class Australian sheep dog herding/training headquarters. Refreshments
served.
4:15 PM Travel back to the Grassroots Art Center
and round ‘em up for home at 4:45 PM.
10 AM - 5 PM Opening reception for Photography
Show, Flying Pig Studio and Gallery, Main St. Meet guest grassroots
artist(s).
October 22 (Sunday)
4 PM Land of OZ Sheep Herding Adventure. Cost $ 48 per
person (40 persons). Reservations due at art center by October 15.
Location: Twin Creek Farm
north of Luray.
Meet Jerry Rowe, a gentleman who trains people and their Australian
sheep dogs. Discover a world class sheep dog training headquarters.
Individuals travel from all over the United States and Canada to
learn the correct techniques of herding sheep with or without fences.
• First, experience sheep herding with Jerry and Tank and
Dee his dogs, as they work as a team to read the natural instincts
of livestock.
• Sharon Rowe will give a tour of the Sheep Herding Camp facilities.
The 20th century barn has been converted into a club house. The
western décor has the original slate chalkboard from the
old Twin Creek school house and the floor was laid with bricks from
the streets of Osborne, KS which adds a wonderful atmosphere. Enjoy
the indoor and outdoor training arena, patio and bunkhouse in the
Cabin. Learn the story and tour the authentic 19th century sheep
wagon, the sheepherder’s “Home on Wheels,’ where
the sheepherder lived day and night, rain or snow, year round taking
care of his sheep.
• Twin Creek Farm joins with the Jones Ranch for an authentic
19th century chuck wagon dinner. Mike Jones’ great grandfather
purchased this wagon brand new in 1884. Mike and Donita will be
preparing the rib eye steaks, homemade cornbread, beans, and potatoes,
cooked over an open fire and dessert will be cobbler or pie with
homemade ice cream all served on metal tins. Enjoy visiting with
the cooks.
• Watch the sun set with campfire entertainment by Galen Larsen.
He is a cowboy storyteller and musician who will share his love
of stories and music from older western artists.
October 24, Tuesday
“Fences in the Wild” weekday bus tour. Repeat of the
October 21st bus tour.
Reservations due at art center by October 17. Cost: $50 per person
(30 persons)
October 28 (Saturday)
Haunted Fences
1:30 PM “Last Fence to Cross” with
Charma Craven, researcher and author of Cemeteries of Russell County.
Lucas Public Library.
4 PM Halloween Costume Contest – Youth Division.
Adult division – Fence related costumes,
• Fence/fencing, what hangs or sits on a fence. Hay rack ride
with Gene Meitler.
• Kansas Grassroots artist, J.R. Dickerman’s Art from
the Heart costumes.
7 PM Steak dinner, hay rack ride, Dan Naegele,
barbed wire collection and Garden of Eden Night Tour with S. P.
Dinsmoor.
November 4 (Saturday)
Fences Scavenger Hunt
10 AM Begin search at the Grassroots Art Center.
11 AM - 2 PM Lucas United Methodist Church Bazaar.
1:30 PM "Fences in Kansas" with Joyce
Thierer, Historian, Emporia State University. Lucas Public Library.
November 11 (Saturday)
“Fences of Freedom” Veteran’s Day
10:30 AM - 12 Noon Presentations: Bill Paschal
- WWII prisoner of war and Lowell May speaking about the Concordia
POW Camp for Germans. Lucas Public Library.
1:30 PM 21st Century Wire Splicing Demonstration:
Fiber optics high-speed internet cable by John Zamecnik, Salina,
and Dick Lantz, Wilson. Grassroots Art Center.
November 18 (Saturday
“The Fence as a Canvas: Expression on the Edge”
12 Noon - 2 PM “Red Hat” Tea –
By invitation.
3 PM “The Fence as a Canvas” Erika
Nelson introduces local, regional, and national examples, of embellished
boundaries. The power point program explores methods, material,
motivations, and meanings behind public expression on the fencerow.
Erika has traveled the back roads of the US. Along the way she has
seen ordinary objects used in extraordinary ways, including fencelines
used as a ‘canvas’ for expression. Lucas Theater.
November 25 (Saturday)
Speaking of Fences
1:30 PM Barbed wire presentations and displays
Dan Naegele, Garden of Eden, Lucas.
1:30 PM “A Look at Greenhorn Postrock Limestone,”
Duane Vonada, Grassroots Art Center courtyard.
December 3 (Sunday)
Last Chance to visit Between Fences exhibits
at Lucas.
1:30 PM “Don’t Fence Me In” Talent
Show,” Fence related songs/ poems/ skits. Lucas Theater. Announcement
of contest winners. Lucas Theater.
For additional information, contact:
Grassroots Art Center
213 S. Main St.
Lucas KS 67648
785/525-6118
grassroots@wtciweb.com
Hours: Mon, Thu, Fri, Sat 10 AM - 4 PM and Sunday 1-4 PM.
Special rates for group tours.
Current updates on times or additions of events at www.grassrootsart.net
Between Fences, Schedule of events.
Or contact:
Lucas Chamber of Commerce
lucascoc@wtciweb.com
785-525-6288
www.lucaskansas.com
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