October 18 - December 6
Jeremiah Ariaz, Artist
Opening Reception October 18 |
Artist Talk 1:30pm
followed by
Flint Hills Fiddle Gathering
Stay for the music!
Betse & Clark, The Lost Keys, The Bledsoe Trio
FAULT LINES: THE MARION COUNTY RECORD
A 2023 raid by police of the Marion County Record, in Marion, Kansas, was a national controversy.
Fault Lines features photographs Jeremiah Ariaz made of the Marion County Record before and after the police raid.
Since 2022 Jeremiah Ariaz has photographed more than 100 newspaper offices across Kansas for his project The Fourth Estate. The images celebrate the civic function, labor, and technology at the heart of local journalism, while documenting an industry under threat, as are the ideals of democracy the industry upholds.
The photographs of The Fourth Estate are accompanied by The Kansas Mirror: The Fourth Estate in the Heart of America, a newspaper-style publication created by Ariaz to provide a platform to share his work. The first edition included ten original columns by newspaper journalists from across the state creating a collective portrait of the press in Kansas, the communities they serve, and the mounting challenges faced by the newspaper industry today. Weeks before its release, police raided Mirror contributor Eric Meyer’s Marion County Record office and home. “I didn’t think it could happen in America,” Eric said.
The second edition of the Mirror, to be released October 18, in conjunction with Fault Lines, is a collaboration between Ariaz, a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow, and Tim Schuler, a journalist and Marion native. The exhibition and the Kansas Mirror II document the lingering effects of the police raid in the context of the 250th anniversary of the country's founding. Mirror II is dedicated to Marion and includes voices from the town, an essay by Schuler, and photographs by Ariaz. Copies will be available for purchase at the Opening.
BIO
Jeremiah Ariaz is a photographer whose long-term projects examine the constructs of American identity within personal and political contexts. He was born and raised in rural Kansas.
Ariaz is a recipient of numerous awards and grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Robert Frank Foundation Fellowship, an ATLAS grant, the Michael P. Smith Award for Documentary Photography from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, a Louisiana State Fellowship and the South Arts Finalist Prize.
Ariaz’s works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions internationally. His photographs have appeared in publications including The New York Times, Oxford American, New York Magazine, and The Paris Review. His writing has been published in The Washington Post, Southern Cultures, and the Flint Hills Field Journal.
Publications include Louisiana Trail Riders (2018) and the series, The Kansas Mirror: The Fourth Estate in the Heart of America (2023 & 2026) which features newspaper offices across his home state. He is a Professor at Louisiana State University.
