The Lawrence Art Guild will host Art in the Park on September 13 and 14 in Lawrence’s beautiful South Park. This juried fine-art and fine-craft fair will feature over 130 local, regional, and national artists including printmakers, painters, potters, ceramic artists, jewelers, sculptors, mixed-media artists, woodworkers, photographers, glassmakers, paper artists, mosaic makers and more. The artists selected to participate feature a wide range of creative 2-D and 3-D art.
Among the twelve printmakers is the 2025 featured artist, Lawrencian Justin Marable. Justin creates screen prints using silkscreens, squeegees, and monoprint techniques of his own invention. His work explores imaginative landscapes, merging the past and present to create new moments in time. Another printmaker, Theresa Martin, winner of the 2024 Art in the Park’s Best of Show 2-D, creates expressive linocut prints that describe the human condition. Using an illustrative style, Caitlin Penny’s wood-block, hand-printed relief reduction prints bring attention to environmental issues. And Nate Crosser, a Kansas City-based Sōsaku-hanga artist, combines Japanese & Western techniques to create block print compositions with ink on quality papers.
The breadth of expression and style found within the printmakers is seen across all mediums at Art in the Park. Painting styles range from large contemporary abstracts to oil landscapes, to finely detailed and sensitive watercolors. Mixed media artists work in a variety of materials such as Angie Pickman’s cut paper, Ursula Minor’s beads, Hope Steinle’s flowers, Cindy Berry’s sculptural resin, and Zorіana Lylo-Otkovych’s fabrics, pieces of lace, wood, and more. Art in the Park woodworkers create intricate 2-D work, large sculptural pieces, and vessels with organic and flowing shapes. Terry Evans’s, whose wooden boxes and teapots are found in museums and collections across the United States, will also be at Art in the Park.
Art in the Park is known for art which is not only finely crafted, but unique; art which causes the viewer to stop and think or brings a smile to their face. The ceramic work follows this pattern with the elegant porcelain of Kim Brook alongside Melanie Harvey’s drumming dino, Kyra Miller’s sgraffito cephalopods, and Dorrie Sullivan’s painted wares. “My most popular designs include the figures of dogs and cats in domestic and park settings. They help us laugh at our own human foibles. I try to incorporate what I see with the essence of things. And it’s always good to add a bit of humor when we can.”
