We’re so excited for Angeline and Christina’s talk tonight!
Curious to know more about Christina, the moderator?
Christina Catherine Martinez (website, opens in new tab)
Did you know you can hear Christina reading her essay about Angeline’s work on our digital guide?
Angeline Rivas – Bloomberg Connects Guide (opens in new tab)
Installation image of Angeline Rivas: I Had a Dark Night of the Soul and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
March is a busy month at the Nerman Museum!
Earlier this week, we hosted Olathe Leadership Lowrider Bike Club students for a mini-pop up and awards to support them in the next steps of their educational and artistic careers.
Photo: Susan McSpadden, JCCC Photographer
Photo: Susan McSpadden, JCCC Photographer
Here is what else is coming up this month. We hope to see you at one or more of these events and special installations!
Angeline Rivas, Charm and Strange (detail), 2024, acrylic, gouache, and graphite on panel, 60 x 48 in. Collection Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS, Acquired with funds provided by the Barton P. and Mary D. Cohen Art Acquisition Endowment at the JCCC Foundation. Photo: Chris Sharp Gallery
Angeline Rivas Artist Talk and Reception
Wednesday, March 11 • 6-8 PM
Hudson Auditorium • Livestream option available
FREE – RSVP Requested
Artist Michael Brantley
Michael Brantley Artist Talk and Reception
Sunday, March 22 • 3-5 PM
Hudson Auditorium • Livestream option available
FREE – RSVP Requested
Band Weaving Workshop with Rebecca Vaughan at The Salon
Wednesday, March 25 • 5:30-6:30 PM
FREE – Space is limited • RSVP required
Trespassers Beware! Fort Conley and Wyandot Women Warriors, 2025 installation view. Photo: Deanna Johnson
Special Installation: Trespassers Beware! Fort Conley and Wyandot Women Warriors
On view March 24 through May 22, 2026
Regnier Center South Lawn
Co-directed by the Wyandot Nation of Kansas and Monumenta, in collaboration with lead artists Omakyehstih Collective, Trespassers Beware! Fort Conley and Wyandot Women Warriors is a mobile monument that illuminates the story of the Wyandot Conley sisters who occupied their family’s cemetery to save it from urban development. The monument reimagines Fort Conley, the small dwelling the sisters built inside the Wyandot National Burying Ground and inhabited for years to defend their family’s graves. Their decades-long activism and legal arguments protected this sacred land, impacting preservation and tribal sovereignty movements.
This multimedia installation is based on a replica of the historic fort and incorporates video, music, writing, interpretation, oral histories, an original performance, and more to share the story.
Trespassers Beware! is generously funded by the National Endowment for the Arts/ArtsHERE, in partnership with Mid-America Arts Alliance, the Mellon Foundation, Humanities Kansas, Kansas Studies Institute, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College, the Wyandot Nation of Kansas, the Kansas Arts Commission and individual donors.
Check out the video of Julie Buffalohead talking about her exhibition, Stories of Becoming.
Aside from our talk with artist Julie Buffalohead earlier this month, we are also hosting another event at The Salon for Possible Futures, as well as marking the start of Spring 2026 Youth Art Classes!
Join us on Feb. 22, 1-3 PM, for a FREE Game Day at The Salon!
Students creating art projects in a Nerman Museum Youth Art Class
Our Youth Art Classes occur on Saturdays, 2-4 PM, during the Spring session, with sessions available for children in grades K-2, 3-5, and 6-9. Learn more about these classes.
We’ve been getting quite a few visitors asking museum staff if someone has drawn on Angeline’s paintings. We appreciate folks looking closely and alerting us to things!
Angeline draws on her own paintings! The size of her marks (often very small), and the fact that they are mostly embedded in the otherwise pristine looking fields of color, so meticulously created, makes them surprising. Take a look next time you’re at the museum and see how many you can spot.
What Easter eggs can you find?
Many thanks to docent Margaret and staff member Julian for getting this list started. Let us know if you notice something that’s not on the list!
We’re so excited for Julie Buffalohead‘s exhibition Stories of Becoming to open at the Nerman Museum next Thursday, Feb 5th, with Julie speaking in dialogue with Kendra Greendeer that evening. Julie Buffalohead Artist Talk and Reception | Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (RSVP for livestream link)
If you’re eager to learn more about Julie before the opening, here are some resources our student intern Ansel found online from other institutions and exhibitions.
Minneapolis Institute of Art exhibition (has both audio interview and video of artist talk) (audio interview)
Buffalohead speaking at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College. Here are some timestamps for that video:
17:40 – using animals in her works
21:21 – you are on indian land
24:37 – trickster showdown
27:50 – high point
30:04 – revisenest history lesson
32:00 – lots of people mistake her work as “cute” or “whismical”
33:32 – fox tussle
35:40 – the garden
42:30 – hearts of our people, thoughts on exhibitions
45:15 – feminist works
47:33 – coming back to painting
51:50: – titles
57:12 – nourished
1:04:17 – views on land (acknowledgement)
1:06:40 – role of negative space in her works
1:10:40 – two rectangle shapes, the division in her work
1:14:50 – preparatory drawings
Visions West Contemporary art gallery (contains links to several PDFs with articles)
Amy Kligman: The Salon for Possible Futures
Collective Imagining Circle: 2026 Intention Setting – The Salon for Possible Futures has been extended into 2026! Stop by the Museum on Jan. 31, 1-2 PM, to set intentions for this space for the months to come. This event is free, but space is limited and RSVP is required.
Artist Julie Buffalohead
Join artist Julie Buffalohead on Feb. 5, 6-7 PM, for an artist talk for her latest exhibition, Stories of Becoming, alongside Kendra R. Greendeer, PhD. Opening reception to follow. Free and open to the public. No RSVP required for in-person attendance; RSVP for livestream link.
The amazing exhibition of abstract, air-brushed paintings by Angeline Rivas has a lot of little secrets to find for those looking and reading closely. The essay, written by a friend of Angeline, Christina Catherine Martinez, is eloquent but may leave some visitors still scratching their heads.
To help dig into some of the specific reference points, one of our Student Aides Mayte typed up some info about Angeline that she shared with us:
Angeline Rivas (spring exibition 2026)
Next time you are at the museum, make sure you look closely – there’s some tiny and subtle details to be found in the works, especially along the edges and corners. The name Buddy appears several times – that’s Angeline’s dog. And Carl refers to Carl Sagan.
Linda’s talk at the exhibition opening for her show at the Nerman is now online!
And one of our fabulous student aides, Mayte, pulled together some information about the exhibition.
Linda Lighton_ Love & War, A Fifty-Year Survey (spring exhibition 2026)
