July 4 - August 9 | 2026
Curated by Matt Regier
with work from
Zak Barnes | Clare Doveton | Terry Evans | Lisa Grossman
Philip Heying | Mary Kay | Bill McBride | Jim Richardson
Terry Evans, Field Museum, Echinacea, 1899, 2000
Reception
July 18, 2026 | 5:30pm
at the
Celebration of the Legacy of Symphony in the Flint Hills
details
here
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 all were included in the final volume. Collectively, their work shows us the breadth of the landscape from its flora and fauna and human cultural significance, to the unique geological structure of the slowly eroded layers of bedrock that made these hills.
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 our understanding of the 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.”
-Matt Regier
