Let Your Voice Be Heard:
Museums Advocacy Day 2023

Museum professionals and supporters from across the country are uniting as one voice for Museums Advocacy Day to make the critical case for museums directly to their representatives, taking part in advocacy training, and meeting with members of Congress.

According to the American Alliance of Museums, 97% of Americans believe museums are educational assets for their communities, and 96% want federal museum funding to be maintained or increased.

Your voice matters! Make sure your legislators know the value of museums in your community. Whether you’re a seasoned advocate or have never contacted your legislators before, use these tools from AAM to contact Congress today: bit.ly/AAMContactCong

Faculty Talks | Artist Talks
Jeff Pulaski & Barry Badgett
Wednesday, March 1
11:15 a.m.

Jeff Pulaski is passionate about type, its design, form, meaning and history. Barry Badgett takes ideas within various contexts and crosses them in ways that would not normally occur.

Both are faculty at WSU's School of Art, Design and Creative Industries and artists featured in Transmissions: The XXIV Faculty Biennial, on exhibit Jan. 26-April 22 in the Polk/Wilson Gallery. Join us at 11:15 a.m., Wednesday, March 1 to learn about their inspiration and processes.

Community Event
Love Is Memory Workshop
Thursday, March 2
Noon to 2 p.m.

Love is Memory is a free community engagement workshop presented by Wichita artist Micala Gingrich Gaylord in conjunction with The Big Read 2023, a program across several Wichita institutions designed to revitalize the role of reading in American culture and engage participants with ideas about active aging.

This workshop will focus on the way objects house memories, and will be held from noon to 2 p.m., Thursday, March 2 at the Ulrich Museum. Elders are invited to bring a small object they are willing to leave behind that represents a memory of love. The object should fit on an 8"-by-8" board. Attendees will also make a short audio recording about their object during the workshop. The object and voice recording will become part of a larger community art piece which will be on view in the exhibition Micala Gingrich Gaylord: Love Is Memory, April 1-May 20 at the Ulrich Museum of Art.

Exhibition
Elemental Bodies Part II
Opening: 5-8 p.m., March 3
Exhibit: March 3-31
ShiftSpace Gallery at Groover Labs

Elemental Bodies Part II, a collaborative curatorial exercise that explores depictions of the human form, is opening this Friday at ShiftSpace, located at Groover Labs, 334 N. St. Francis. A public opening event is planned from 5-8 p.m., Friday, March 3. The exhibit, curated by Olivia Laine, Madison McCullough, Macalah Ruff, and Jada Whiterock features work by Mickey Clark, Anthony Corraro, Timothy Fey, Sam Gales, Matthew Johnson, Jessica Lada, Macalah Ruff, Madalyn Schrag, Katherine Snider, Austin Storie, Lucia Rose Suniga, Blake Straughn, and Marshall Woodie, and will be on view through March 31.

ShiftSpace gallery was established in 2015, and the ShiftSpace Gallery Student Group programs the gallery, prepares exhibitions, and engages in community outreach. With the assistance of Gallery Manager Jefferson Godard, students take on every gallery role, including curator, preparator, community outreach coordinator, social media manager, and more. The group is open to any currently enrolled Wichita State student.

Have you shared your Ulrich memories with us yet?

Our 50th anniversary is right around the corner (in 2024) and we're planning lots of great exhibitions and events to celebrate the Museum's excellence. One thing we are working on is collecting memories from folks who have been connected to the Ulrich over the years. Whether you are a present or past employee, a donor, volunteer, student, or general visitor, we'd love to hear your favorite memories of the Ulrich. We've created this webpage, which has a form on it, to help you share your stories. The memories we collect will be shared throughout our 50th anniversary celebrations and might even end up in a book we're putting together. We'd love to hear your stories.