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UNL CATHER PROFESSOR OF ART KAREN KUNC HAS TWO EXHIBITIONS OPENING IN MARCH


Lincoln, Neb.-Cather Professor of Art has two exhibitions opening in March.

"Lyrical Legacy: The Prints of Karen Kunc" opens March 2 and continues through April 28 at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City, Mo. The exhibition is the result of her receiving the prestigious Printmaker Emeritus Award at the 36th annual conference of The Southern Graphics Council, the largest non-profit printmaking organization in the country.

There will be two First Friday receptions at this exhibition: March 2 from 6-9 p.m. and April 6 from 6-9 p.m. Kunc is scheduled to appear at the April 6 reception.

She will receive the Printmaker Emeritus Award at a ceremony at 10 a.m. on March 22, which will be followed by an interview discussion with her. Kunc will also present a gallery talk from 6-8:30 p.m. on March 22.

Gallery hours for this exhibition are Thursday-Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

"Karen Kunc: Sensory Source" opens March 2 and continues through May 26 at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha. An opening reception will be held from 7-10 p.m. on March 2, which Kunc is scheduled to attend.

Gallery hours at the Bemis Center are Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Bemis Center is located at 724 S. 12th St. (12th and Leavenworth) in downtown Omaha.

Kunc will also present a workshop in reductive printmaking April 13-15 at the Bemis Center. Call (402) 341-7130 for more information or to register.

Kunc has an international reputation as a printmaker and artist whose works have been exhibited in venues as varied as Kearney, Neb., and Laramie, Wyo., to Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Iceland, Italy, Japan and Russia. Kunc's medium is reduction wood cut print, a painstaking process that works in the negative and in stages. Using a variety of tools to extract layers of wood, carving patterns and strokes and lines, the technique creates prints in stages, color by color, layer by layer. Her prints are bold, dramatic, calculatedly puzzling. They are instantly recognizable due to her unique style and dazzling color. She was Nebraska's Artist of the Year in 2000 and in 1998, she received the University's Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award.

Kunc received a Master of Fine Arts from Ohio State University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from UNL in 1975. She is the Cather Professor of Art at UNL, where she has taught since 1983.

For more information, visit her website at www.karenkunc.com.