Tornado Alley Press Steamroller Printmaking Event and Empty Bowls

Tornado Alley Press Steamroller Printmaking Event

Wichita State University’s student-led printmaking guild Tornado Alley Press took over our parking lot and lobby on Friday, April 29, for a special, annual event where they partnered with the City of Wichita to use a steamroller to make print images. This was one of the first events we hosted in 2019, and we loved it. So, we were excited to have Tornado Alley Press and the City of Wichita back to our space to create unique, powerful art by combining several different mediums. Artists inked carved wood blocks that they created, and a steamroller drove over them to press the images onto paper. They then hung them up for display in our lobby and in the ShiftSpace gallery.

Empty Bowls and the Kansas Food Bank

Of course, if you wanted to attend the Tornado Alley press Steamroller Event or the mixer with Andrew Crowe, you had to walk through our south-facing parking lot, in which case you would have bumped into Wichita State University’s Ceramics Guild’s annual “Empty Bowls Wichita'' event. Local and regional artists set up their work on tables all through the south parking lot, where patrons could browse or buy them. All proceeds went to the Kansas Food Bank.