Arts events: Wayne Clark exhibit, ‘Sound & Color,’ student curator

‘Painting With Parkinson’s: Healing Brush Strokes’

Venerable Wichita artist Wayne Clark is 88 years old and has Parkinson’s disease but is still “painting like crazy,” according to his son Jonathan. Sixteen of Wayne’s pieces will be on exhibit at Delano Barbeque, 710 W. Douglas, on Friday, and he will be there, too, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Ten percent of the evening’s restaurant proceeds will go to the Parkinson’s Association of the Plains, as will proceeds from sales of prints and cards featuring Wayne Clark’s work.

“Sound & Color/Noise & Light”

Expect your eyes and ears to work together at “Sound & Color/Noise & Light” on Friday at Cowtown’s Empire House Theatre. The Harvester Arts event will feature a sculptural sound installation by Wichita State University painting professor Levente Sulyok – it emits sounds produced from the frequency of the colors used in the sculpture – and a performance by Aaron Wirtz (of “Super Car Guys” TV-commercial fame, aka Cutter J the Absurdist). The event starts at 7 p.m. and is free. Wirtz will give a multimedia pseudo-motivational presentation at 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. Afterward, Sulyok’s “Forming the Sound of Color” installation will be moved to the Frame Guild at 506 E. Douglas to remain on display through mid-March.

History of writing on display

Saturday will mark the opening of a new exhibit at the Museum of World Treasures: Transcribing History: Pictographs, Parchment and the Printing Press. It is the annual exhibit at the museum that is curated by a student, this year by Emily Simon, a lover of literature and history from Newman University. She put together a history of how humans have recorded events and communicated over the centuries, including how ancient cuneiform on clay tablets paved the way for today’s text messages. Items in the exhibit come from the museum’s collection, many of them not typically on display. The exhibit will be up for the rest of the year and is included in museum admission. More information: 316-263-1311, www.worldtreasures.org.

Annie Calovich

This story was originally published February 26, 2015 at 1:35 PM with the headline "Arts events: Wayne Clark exhibit, ‘Sound & Color,’ student curator."