May – June 2018
“Spring Creek, Wabaunsee County” by Patty Reece
The Volland Store will explore “water” from the perspective of an artist, poet, scientist, curator and geologist during
Lynn Benson’s exhibit “River Compositions”
All events will be held at The Volland Store
May 19 “Rattlesnake Creek, the Mississippi River, and Kansas”
Heidi Mehl, David T. Beals III Healthy Streams for Kansas Initiative Manager, The Nature Conservancy
2 pm
Heidi Mehl
May 20 “The Art of Lynn Benson”
Aileen June Wang, Curator, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum
2 pm
Aileen June Wang
June 2 Details to be announced
Mary Pinard, Visiting Poet from Babson College, Boston
Mary Pinard
June 24 “Water in Kansas Past and Present”
Rex Buchanan, Director Emeritus, Kansas Geological Survey
co-sponsored by the Kansas Humanities Council
2 pm
Rex Buchanan
The “Water Events”
are made possible with the support of
Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission
National Endowment for the Arts
Volland Store Fund, a 501c3 nonprofit administered by
the Kansas Rural Communities Foundation
24098 Volland Road, eight miles southwest of Alma, Kansas.
Open Saturdays and Sundays 12-5 pm and by appointment 785-499-3616.