I was happy to be invited to participate in the ‘art fair’ side of this year’s Art & Book Fair, presented by the Friends of the Wichita Art Museum. After being held at Century II for the past several years, the event this year was moved back to the Wichita Art Museum, where it first began 55 years ago.
All indications are that the event was a big success. It was held this past Mother’s Day weekend and was attended by 3,500 people. All three of my mixed-media collage paintings sold early on Saturday, in fact, early enough that by the time my son and I made the short walk from our house to see them, they were already gone!
In keeping with the theme for this year’s sale of small works by regional artists, “The Art of the Book,” I decided to create works inspired by my stash of mid-century grade school textbooks.
“Let’s Look Around” acrylic, collage and graphite on paper, 7.5″w x 10″h
“Science In Our World” acrylic, collage, crayon and graphite on paper, 7.5″w x 10″h
“Exploring Science” acrylic, collage and graphite on paper, 7.5″w x 10″h
My son and I had a great time at the event. We perused the books, really enjoyed the daguerreotype exhibition in the main gallery, and took in the illustration demonstration by John Pirtle. I scored this nice old art book from the sale.
Bosworth Studio 