July 4 - August 9 | 2026
Curated by Matt Regier
with work from
Zak Barnes | Clare Doveton | Terry Evans | Lisa Grossman
Philip Heying | A. Mary Kay | Bill McBride | Jim Richardson
Terry Evans, Field Museum, Echinacea, 1899, 2000
Last summer, Symphony in the Flint Hills celebrated its 20th and final signature event and published its 17th volume of the Field Journal, a companion publication consisting of historical articles, contemporary writing, scientific essays, poems, and visual art. This annual tradition of collecting and presenting artifacts of the Flint Hills has generated not only a rich deposit of recorded material about an invaluable and (hitherto) underrepresented ecosystem, but also a growing network of living artists, writers, and informed citizens with a collective passion for the prairie.
The artists in this show have each contributed work to the Field Journal on more than one occasion and were all included in the final volume. Collectively, their work shows us the breadth of the landscape from its flora and fauna and cultural significance, to its unique geological structure, the slowly eroded layers of bedrock generating a seemingly infinite recession of horizon lines.
Together with all of the many Field Journal artists over the years, this work has not only helped to draw attention to the Kansas prairie, but has forever shaped the way we see this land. As historian Simon Schama says in his book, Landscape and Memory, “landscape is the work of the mind. Its scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock.”
-Matthew Regier
