Monday, September 29, 2008/Categories: Parish News
St. Mary's Church has been named a finalist in the "8 Wonders of Kansas Art" series. The project is designed to educate the public about the state and to encourage travel. Public vote will determine the top eight. People are encouraged to vote online from the link at www.8wonders.org, or call 620.585.2374 for a ballot, or pick up a ballot at St. Mary's Church. Voting began August 28 and will end October 15 at midnight. The top eight will be announced October 31. You may vote up to 3 times online; however, only one paper ballot will be accepted. The 8 Wonders of Kansas series is a project of the Kansas Sampler Foundation, a non-profit based near Inman. The Foundation has long used the eight elements of rural culture (architecture, art, commerce, cuisine, customs, geography, history, and people) to help see Kansas with new eyes. The series will continue until all eight elements have been featured.
In alphabetical order, the finalists are: Thomas Hart Benton’s Ballad of the Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence Blue Sky Sculpture, Newton Boyer Museum of Animated Carvings, Belleville Buffalo Bill Bronze Sculpture, Oakley Martin Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection, Wichita John Steuart Curry Murals, State Capitol, Topeka Davis Memorial, Hiawatha Dreamers Awake sculpture, Wichita Art Museum Pete Felten Stone Sculptures, Hays Garden of Eden/Lucas, Grassroots Art Mecca Stan Herd Earthworks, Atchison and Lawrence Justice statue, Kansas Judicial Center, Topeka Kansas Art Collection, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Manahttan Keeper of the Plains, Wichita Elizabeth “Grandma” Layton, Wellsville M.T. Liggett’s Metal Sculptures, Mullinville Gordon Parks, Fort Scott Post Office Section Art, statewide Red Barn Studio, Lindsborg St. Mary’s Catholic Church, St. Benedict Birger Sandzen, Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg Do-Ho Suh’s Some/One, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park Tiffany Windows, First Presbyterian Church, Topeka Wichita High School North exterior paintings
Foundation director Marci Penner said, “The diversity of these finalists is tremendous! From the exterior of a school to the contemporary art of a military dog tag sculpture, the public is going to see the Kansas art with new eyes!”
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