2pm–3pm
Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery
Lindsborg, KS

Join Kansas City-based artist Caroline Honas for a presentation about the research and drafting behind her new science fiction painting series. Caroline explores how sci-fi as a genre is intertwined with history/technology/politics, and how a fictive approach in combination with an amateur interest in place-based natural science can be a conceptual starting point for painting compositions. Expect a fun, visual, nerdy talk about concept-focused draftsmanship! 

Caroline Honas is an artist from the prairie currently residing in Kansas City, Kansas. Honas graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2022 with a BFA in painting, minoring in social practice. She is primarily an oil painter, and also incorporates sewing, piecing, and quilting into her work as an ode to her family’s generational craftsmanship. Interested in the intersection between art and natural science, her practice explores the concept of interdependence by drawing parallels between ecological– specifically, botanical– phenomena and the human experience.