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HAYS, Kan. — Allen Craven, associate professor of art at Fort Hays State University, will hold the opening reception for his sabbatical art exhibition, “Witness,” from 6:30-9:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 28, in Moss-Thorns Gallery, located on the first floor of Rarick Hall.<\/span><\/p>\n The exhibition is a culmination of work begun during Craven’s four-week residency at the Vermont Studio Center, the largest international residency program for artists and writers in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n Craven said he named the exhibit “Witness” because even when he was working alone in his studio, he always like someone was there with him.<\/span><\/p>\n The exhibit features more than 40 drawings, paintings, encaustic works and hand-carved pipes. Encaustic painting uses heat to melt pigmented wax into layers. Painters can keep the wax flat to create a two-dimensional image, sculpt the wax to create reliefs or use the wax to hold objects in collages.<\/span><\/p>\n Craven used oak, bamboo and deer antlers to hand-carve his smoking pipes.<\/span><\/p>\n “It’s what I like to do when I get tired of drawing or painting,” said Craven.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0Though Craven has carved more than 80 pipes, many of which are in the shape of animals, only a portion of them will be displayed because he sold many of them.<\/span><\/p>\n The collection of works in the exhibit is eclectic, but Craven said that if viewers look for it, they will find an under-lying theme of birth and the cycle of life.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FHSU University Relations and Marketing HAYS, Kan. — Allen Craven, associate professor of art at Fort Hays State University, will hold the opening reception for… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,3398],"tags":[7417,7415,7129,106,689,7416],"class_list":["post-21620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-campus-news","tag-witness","tag-allen-craven","tag-fhsu-department-of-art-and-design","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-moss-thorns-gallery-of-art","tag-vermont-studio-center"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21632,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21620\/revisions\/21632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}