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Come celebrate the unveiling of the newly painted Karate Kid🥋mural by artist John Sebelius at Danielsan Electric. The mural was created with a combination of spray paint, house paint, acrylic, and graphite. Jeromy Morris and John Sebelius will be exhibiting a collection of new collaborative landscape works inside on the gallery walls and The Wayne Gottstine Band will be performing LIVE to celebrate the event. Drinks will be provided and G’s Jamaican Quisine will be serving delicious food.
The space will be open on Final Friday 5-9pm and you can meet the artists and gain insight into their creative process from 5pm to 9pm Saturday Sept. 28. Everyone is welcome!
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Artist Biography
John Sebelius is an interdisciplinary artist who holds a MFA from the University of Kansas and BFA with honors from Rhode Island School of Design. Sebelius’s work has been featured in: Harper’s, Express, DETAILS, Review, CNN, Aspen Daily News, The Washington Post, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. John has shown work in Gallery Two (Sydney, Australia), Woods-Gerry Gallery (Providence, RI), Mulvane Art Museum (Topeka, KS), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), Kansas City Artists Coalition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and had a solo exhibition at the Gonzo Museum (Aspen, CO). Sebelius’s short documentaries have screened at Austin Film Festival, Tallgrass Film Festival, Virginia Film Festival, Free State Film Festival, and The American School of Kinshasa in Democratic Republic of Congo.
The citizens of Lawrence, KS voted him the Best Artist of 2022 and The Kansas City Chiefs selected him as the featured artist for My Cause, My Cleats 2018 and 2019. Sebelius' art program Artistic Expressions Healing Arts Initiative was created in 2016 as an art class for veterans who experienced military related trauma. This innovative art program has been taught at West Los Angeles VA Hospital (CA), Osawatomie State Hospital (KS), Lawrence College Amd Career Academy, The Stress Disorder Treatment Program (Colmery-O’Neil VA Hospital, Topeka, KS), Bert Nash Mental Health Center (Lawrence, KS), First Step at Lake View (DCCCA Women Treatment Facility, Lawrence, KS), VFW Post 1650 (Topeka, KS), and Warriors’ Ascent (Kansas City, MO); and awarded an ARPA Grant in 2022, Rocket Grants (Spencer Museum, Charlotte Street Foundation, and Andy Warhol Foundation of Visual Art) in 2018 and TOPArts Grant (ARTSConnect) in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021. Sebelius currently serves as Artist-In-Residence at Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment at University of Kansas and lives with his wife Allie, daughter Monroe, and son Leonardo in East Lawrence.
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Artist Biography
Jeromy Morris was born in Denver, CO and now lives and produces in Lawrence, KS. Morris has a bachelor's degree in Visual Communications and Graphic Design from the University of Kansas. He is a founding member of Fresh Produce Art Collective, Cider Gallery Curator and Owner of SeedCo Studios. His work is in numerous private and corporate collections.
Morris is constantly finding new techniques to express his creativity through multiple mediums. He fuses together process to "build moods" using, acrylic, toner transfers and spray paint on wood panel. Inspired by chaos and the mundane, he seeks out subtleties and embraces the accidental. Morris’ work deals with, interactions and happenings relating to, consumerism and advertising, urban ruins and type decay, nature vs. industry and the equilibrium and fusion thereof.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Danielsan Electric, LLC, 900 New Jersey,Lawrence,KS,United States
