Micol Hebron comes to Kansas :D

July, 2015




















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Virginia Center for Creative Arts

May, 2015





















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Utah Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition review in 15BYTES

June, 2015













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In the interim of her facebook ban, Micol’s analysis of sexist hypocrisy reaches Playboy, including discussion of the Gallery Tally Project, and we go on an odyssey ski-masked as Chris Burden’s “You’ll Never See My Face in Kansas City.”

A sculpture I spent months on disappears into the earth in 30 seconds.

Honored to be carefully reviewed by Geoff Wichert in 15bytes for the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art’s exhibit curated by Jared Steffensen. Wichert writes:

                Abell’s populist approach, involving loyal assistants in idiosyncratic actions, such as unleashing hundreds

                of ping pong balls to disrupt mundane activities, suspending sheets of blue plastic over a green field on a

                windy day to turn a meadow into a lake, or exercises in futility like constructing a bike that goes backwards

                when pedaled, could at the very least expose him to charges of triviality from insensitive onlookers. Yet “An

                Inside Out Mine Tunnel” stands as a model of student involvement in a project by a visiting artist. Present are

                various level of artifact, from maps and methodological examples to completed projects, of a plan to make

                students intimately aware of their environment as they probably haven’t been since childhood. Not only that,

                but the principal product, a unique colorful slab made by the student from recycled material individually

                gathered and indelibly stamped with the form of a topology significant to the maker, argues for what likely will

                prove a lifelong connection between school and students. Even more significant from the points of view of

                enrollment and fund raising, it’s hard to imagine those who see these opulent talismans not wanting to try this

                magic for themselves.

A visit to The Land Institute

June, 2015




















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To research for my upcoming fieldwork themed issue of the .continent journal I went on a tour of The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, and it was so inspiring! I’ve shared my documentation and notes < here >.

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I set up the H.M.S. Hydra at the Land Institute’s Prairie Festival

September, 2015





















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My boat, made of milfoil, held in check by the prairie at The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas at their fall prairie festival.

Washburn University Art Department Faculty Exhibition

November - December, 2015



















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I will have an installation in this biennial Washburn University Art Department Faculty Exhibition running this November 6 - December 24, 2015.


Reception: November 6, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm


The Mulvane Art Museum is located at 17th & Jewell Streets, Topeka, Kansas 66621

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Mulvane Art Museum Art Faculty Roundtable

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, November 19, 2015













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I am participating in an Art Faculty Roundtable led by Dr. Kelly Watt, art historian, to accompany the faculty exhibition.


The Mulvane Art Museum is located at 17th & Jewell Streets, Topeka, Kansas 66621

Washburn University’s High School Art Day

Friday, November 13, 2015













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One of my roles at Washburn is to orchestrate our High School Art Day event, along with the accompanying exhibition. This is an all day field trip for schools across the region in which the most talented high school students take workshops with our faculty. This year we had 158 students participate from 16 regional high schools. It couldn’t have been a success without so many hardworking volunteers.

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A couple weeks ago the art department hosted workshops as a day-long field trip for high schoolers, it went really smoothly thanks to so many volunteers, and I just received a pleasant surprise - Mike Allen, the museum preparator, photographed the museum tour activities that he and the curator Julie did with the high schoolers - they wrote comments about the work onto post-it notes. I love it.

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