Kim Eichler-Messmer, Habitat 3, watercolor and paper collage, 5.5 x 5.5 inches, 2017.
As Grass Grows – Ten Years at Prairieside Outpost
September 5 - November 21, 2025
Front Gallery | LVAC
FEATURED ARTISTS
Aaron Fine | Alex Lukas | Amanda Hamilton | Anna Wetzel Artz | April Flanders
Caleb Taylor | Cary Esser | Clare Doveton | Colleen Maynard | Corey Antis
Hannah March Sanders and Blake Sanders | Hilary Lorenz | Jackie Leishman
James Woodfill | Jillian Youngbird | K Stevenson | Katherine Hair Eagle
Kim Eichler-Messmer | Kirsten Furlong | Lily McElroy | Lydia Gravis | Masha Ryskin
Robert Howsare | Serge Marchetta | Warren Rosser | William D. Lewis | Yoonmi Nam
As Grass Grows: Ten Years at Prairieside Outpost is a group exhibition commemorating the first ten years of the Artist-in-Residence program at Prairieside Outpost in Matfield Green, Kansas. The exhibition features 28 visual artists and writers from across North America, each of whom has worked on their creative endeavors in the remote and head-clearing expanse that is the Kansas Flint Hills. This unique ecosystem, known for its unmediated landscape of rolling hills, layered limestone, and the biodiverse habitat of the tallgrass prairie, provides an engaging natural setting for creativity.
A significant aspect that defines the Artist-in-Residence Program at Prairieside Outpost is its ability to accommodate the artists, their collaborators, and their families. A core concept of the program is the idea of shared creativity as a natural state of being. Freed from regular obligations and habits within the Prairieside Outpost Artist-in-Residence program, the open horizon of possibilities has found diverse ways to take root in each artist's efforts. As Grass Grows: Ten Years at Prairieside Outpost celebrates how time and the natural environment have meaningfully supported and impacted the creative work of this outstanding community of artists.
The exhibition, curated by Prairieside Outpost Program Directors Laura Berman and Chris Akers, is accompanied by “As Grass Grows”, a full catalog documenting the exhibiting artists’ work and thoughts about creating work at Prairieside Outpost. Contributing essayists in the exhibition catalog include S. Portico Bowman and Sally Paul, with art direction and design by Melissa Dehner at HoneyBee Creative. The exhibition and printed catalog for “As Grass Grows: Ten Years at Prairieside Outpost” were created with support from the Kansas City Art Institute, The Kemper Family Foundation, and Prairieside Cottage + Outpost.