Water Events

May – June  2018

A close up of a rocky shoreline with algae growing on it.

 “Spring Creek, Wabaunsee County” by Patty Reece

The Volland Store will explore “water” from the perspective of an artist, poet, scientist, curator and geologist during

Lynn Benson’s exhibit “ River Compositions”

 All events will be held at The Volland Store

 May 19   “Rattlesnake Creek, the Mississippi River, and Kansas”
Heidi Mehl, David T. Beals III Healthy Streams for Kansas Initiative Manager, The Nature Conservancy
2 pm

A woman in a purple shirt and gray sweater is sitting on a rock.
Heidi Mehl

 May 20  “The Art of Lynn Benson”
Aileen June Wang, Curator, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum
2 pm

A woman is smiling for the camera while standing next to another woman.
Aileen June Wang

 

June 2  Details to be announced
Mary Pinard, Visiting Poet from Babson College, Boston

A woman wearing glasses is reading a piece of paper
Mary Pinard

 June 24  “Water in Kansas Past and Present”
Rex Buchanan, Director Emeritus, Kansas Geological Survey
 co-sponsored by the Kansas Humanities Council
2 pm

A man wearing glasses and a suit is smiling for the camera.
Rex Buchanan

 The “Water Events”
are made possible with the support of
 Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission
 National Endowment for the Arts
 Volland Store Fund , a 501c3 nonprofit administered by
the Kansas Rural Communities Foundation

 24098 Volland Road, eight miles southwest of Alma, Kansas.
Open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays 1-4pm and by appointment 785-499-3616.

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