Pageturner

October 21, 2023

Kelly Yarbrough, 2023 Artist

Art by Kelly Yarbrough is featured in The New Territory Magazine’s Pageturner Fundraiser on October 21, 2023.

Buy tickets here to participate in the live and silent auctions.

Featured artwork in our live art auction:

Sumac Field

art piece depicting red leaves and brown leaves with a fence in the background

Kelly Yarbrough (b. Plano, TX) is an artist based in Manhattan, Kansas. Her practice is rooted in an ecosystem that includes mixed media drawing, arts administration and creating meaningful opportunities for humans to engage with their environment. She enjoys unexpected collaborations, transdisciplinary conversations, and continual learning. Kelly holds an MFA from Kansas State University, and founded the Tallgrass Artist Residency in 2016. She is a Regional Field Representative and Art & Environment specialist for the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission, a peer facilitator for Artist INC, a Konza Prairie docent, a TEDx Austin College presenter, and a 2023 PLAYA Wildfire + Water resident.

See a collection of Kelly’s work in The New Territory Issue 09: Rebuilding

Value of painting for The Pageturner Fundraiser: $500

About Kelly Yarbrough and her Connection to the Midwest

portrait of a woman smiling; woman is white with brown hair, has a bandanna around her neck and wears hoop earrings

“I want my work to inspire others to become more land literate of their own places.”

My work is rooted in the prairie ecosystem and presenting views of place through an ever-expanding library of my lived experiences. The tallgrass prairie is called the most altered landscape on the planet, yet grasslands tell incredible stories of human history and their re-establishment can offer hope for the future of life in the Great Plains. I want to contribute to the growing body of knowledge and research seeking hopeful solutions to issues of climate crisis and rural depopulation in the places I call home.

In the studio, I make mixed media drawings and paintings that resist static views of landscape, inviting the viewer to engage and self-navigate. Ultimately, I want my work to inspire others to become more land literate of their own places.

Silent Auction Offerings

Buy tickets to The Pageturner here to participate in the live and silent auctions.

Topics: prairie

Join us at The Pageturner!

The Pageturner is a fundraising event for The New Territory designed to fuel new stories about our region — together.

October 21, 2023, 4-8 p.m.
The Hayloft at Lifted Spirits Distillery

Benefits
Ticket and sponsorship funds will go toward:

  • paying writers, photographers and artists telling true stories of nature and culture in the region
  • developing programs to train literary and journalistic voices

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Marika Josephson, 2023 Artist

“My art follows a similar tack to [my brewery], exploring what is unique about southern Illinois utilizing found materials natural to our environment.”

Dan Holtmeyer, 2023 Artist

“…even here the line between death and life is thin and easily cracked.”

Allysa Rebar, 2023 Artist

While visually united by natural subjects, her paintings are also infused with emotions of the human condition.

Luke Townsend, 2023 Artist

“There’s a sweet spot every evening when the output of light from both the environment and artificially sync-up perfectly, and was grateful to find a spot fluttering with energy.”

Lisa Grossman, 2023 Artist

“Painting on location in the expansive grasslands has enthralled me ever since and my work has been an exploration of what it feels like to be in that space.”

Haley Rains, 2023 Artist

“…We are very much present, active, evolving, and living in full color.”

Angela Müller, 2023 Artist

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Greg Edmondson, 2023 Artist

“My primary hope for the Arts in [the Lower Midwest] requires a shift in perception.”

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