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Horvat to Host Virtual Artist Talk on Sept. 9

(Leavenworth, Kan.)—A new exhibit by Kate Horvat, »¨½·Ö±²¥ art program director, commemorates the 100th anniversary of the ratification of women's right to vote while pointing to current civil rights and feminist movements.   

Horvat's exhibit, "No Endpoint for the Stubborn," will be on view at the Mulvane Art Museum in Topeka, Kan., through December 2021. She will give a virtual artist talk at 6 p.m. on Sept. 9.

Registration and other details are available at 

Horvat is an instructor of art at USM and a Kansas City-based artist. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Northwest Missouri State University and a Master of Fine Arts from Arizona State University. She was awarded the Artist's Book Residency Grant that she completed through the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, N.Y.

"No Endpoint for the Stubborn" includes four large banners depicting women of historical significance and 60 pennants with quotes and images selected from feminist writing, calls to action, and other printed items. Varied shades of yellow – the color of the women's suffrage movement – permeate the pieces.

"For this work, I collected mass-produced digital and physical ephemera as a way to archive and reinterpret feminist collective action, events, and social change," Horvat said.

The Mulvane Art Museum, which is located on the Washburn University campus, invited Horvat to create work in response to the national suffrage movement and women's rights.

"I approached Horvat about this project because of her demonstrated ability to generate visually complex and multivalent work that critically engages popular culture and politics," Director of the Mulvane Art Museum Rebecca Manning said. "Here, her dithered portraits and collective calls to action culminate in a visual installation thrumming with diverse voices and perspectives. She threads the history of women's suffrage through to the present day in a manner marked with poignant relevancy. From the imperceptible and formless, Horvat affords the viewer luminous clarity: the realization that there is still much work to do."

Admission to the Mulvane Art Museum is free. Visit  for the address, hours, and more information.

 
About the Event

Who: Kate Horvat, USM art program director and instructor of art
What: Virtual artist talk on "No Endpoint for the Stubborn" exhibit
When: Sept. 9 at 6 p.m.
Where: Virtual, register at 

 

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