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In memory, Donna Hicks 1962-2024
The Trashformer exhibit for Donna Hicks is open to the public May 2025 - September 2025 at the Grassroots Art Center with an open house...

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Jul 73 min read


Kathy Ruth Gallery OPENING April 1, 2025
Please join us in celebrating the grand opening of this new space, and explore the featured exhibit, titled “ Pass the Popcorn ,” on ...

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Mar 112 min read


Summer Workshops!
So far the Grassroots Art Center has hosted two summer workshops, first workshop was a mosaic vase workshop in May of 2023. We had 7...

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Jun 20, 20231 min read


Grassroots Art Center Grants and Internship opportunities
Grants Grassroots Art Center projects are underway after the announcement of local grant awards. The organization has received a grant...

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Jun 20, 20232 min read


April Fools Palooza
April 1st, 2023, Lucas KS hosts its annual Art Day! There will be open studios, as well as food and musical performances. Come to Lucas...

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Mar 9, 20232 min read


New Executive Director at the Grassroots Art Center
LUCAS – In May, the Lucas Arts & Humanities Council, Inc board of directors named Chandler Reich-Sellens as the new Executive Director...

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Aug 16, 20222 min read


POSTPONED Workshop with Donna Hicks
The workshop has been Postponed until further into the summer for health reasons. We want everyone to be happy and safe, and we hope to...

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Jun 10, 20221 min read


VOTE LUCAS BEST SMALL TOWN ART SCENE 2022
Lucas has been nominated for USA Today's Best Small Town Art Scene! Please go vote every day until July 4th to help us climb the...

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Jun 8, 20221 min read


EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT (FILLED)
The Lucas Arts & Humanities Council, Inc (LAHC), also known as the Grassroots Art Center, is a non-profit organization whose mission is...

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Oct 1, 20212 min read


2021 USA Today Reader’s Choice Winner
The results are in! Lucas placed 4th in the 2021 USA Today Reader’s Choice awards. https://www.10best.com/awards/travel/best-small-town-a...

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May 15, 20211 min read


Go on an Art Adventure!
The Grassroots Art Center has coordinated field trips to iconic artist sites, galleries, and workshops. You may carpool or drive your own...

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Apr 23, 20212 min read


Thursday Therapy: Lucas Arts Day Celebration
April 1, 2021 Don’t forget your mask, keep you distance, and enjoy the day. There is a prize for most creative mask, awarded at the end...

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Mar 14, 20212 min read
Artist Donations and Other Newsworthy Items
Paul Seiwald, Vermillion, donated several of his stylized paintings. Bob Mix, Great Bend, metal art work was featured in an exhibit at...

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Dec 1, 20191 min read


What is an Outsider & Who Decides?
By Dr. Richard J. Bay — Tulsa, Oklahoma First, what a wonderful time my wife and I had visiting the Grassroots Art Center this summer....

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Dec 1, 20193 min read
Upcoming Exhibits & Events
October 10 - March 25, 2020 Ole McKellip exhibit. “Flat Toad Iron Works” November 23 – January 10, 2020 Marlynne Snare’s hand crafted...

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Dec 1, 20191 min read


Art Classes offered at Grassroots Art Center
Thanks to a grant from the Post Rock Community Foundation, the art center under the direction of Kathy Lupfer-Nielsen, arts educator, has...

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Dec 1, 20191 min read


Grassroots staff instrumental in establishing new tourism coalition.
Many hours of staff time this year have been spent utilizing the $25,000 SPARC grant LAHC received from the Russell County Area Community...

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Dec 1, 20191 min read


GAC benefits from Dane G. Hansen Summer Intern
The art center applied for a Summer Intern grant from the Dane G. Hansen Foundation for a student from any university to assist us in...

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Dec 1, 20191 min read


Sylvan Lucas Unified High School continues to help the Art Center
Every April or May for about the last four years, students and instructors from the Sylvan-Lucas Unified High School divide into groups...

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Dec 1, 20191 min read


Flat Toad Iron Works — Ole McKellip
Ole McKellip works primarily in metal and wrought iron, fabricating animals – and people both real and imagined – out of pieces of steel...

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Dec 1, 20191 min read
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