Blood, Sweat, and Tears Talk & Tour: Artist’s Eye

Enjoy coffee and a casual tour of the exhibition with Shawn Bitters, artist and associate professor in the University of Kansas Visual Art Department, as he connects his use of historical imagery with works in the exhibition.

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Shawn Bitters is originally from Orem, Utah, and received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2005. He is an associate professor in The University of Kansas Visual Art Department. Solo exhibitions include Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York; Swarm Gallery, Oakland, California; Open Spaces KC, Kansas City; and The Hall of Awa Handmade Japanese Paper and Museum in Japan. He has also exhibited works at Planthouse Gallery, New York; The International Print Center of New York; Dieu Donné Papermill, New York; Icebox Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; The Michener Museum of Art, Doylestown, Pennsylvania; the Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; and the Visual Art Center at the University of Texas, Austin. He has been an artist-in-residence at Officina Stamperia Del Notaio, Tusa Sicily; Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna, Florida; Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee, Belgium; The Hall of Awa Handmade Japanese Paper and Museum in Japan; and the Danish Council of Artists Residency on Hirsholm Island, Denmark. Bitters was one of three recipients of a 2016 Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artist Award, Kansas City, Missouri.