Kansas State University Department of Art will present the first of two BFA Thesis Exhibitions of the spring semester featuring Emery Brown, Lacie Kohman, and Logan Sprague. The artists will showcase an exhibition of their undergraduate artwork from May 4 through 8, 2026 in the Mark A. Chapman Gallery, first floor of Willard Hall. Gallery hours are 8am – 5pm, Monday through Friday. Please feel free to attend the reception with the artists on Friday evening, May 8, from 5:00 to 7:00pm in the gallery. Admission is free and open to the public.
Emery Brown is an artist from Lincoln, Nebraska, who creates vibrant drawings and paintings. Their works are inspired by nature, often creating images that combine multiple plants or animals into one figure. They hope that their pieces will inspire other people to look at the world around them with a new, creative perspective. They try to invent creatures that could feasibly exist in a fantasy world, while still being based in reality through the life that inspires them.
Lacie Kohman is a printmaker from Salina, Kansas, whose primary process includes reductive linoleum relief and risograph prints. Through these techniques, the final product consists of colorful, multi-layer prints with different pop/comic art styles. “The process of printmaking felt like a door to exploration; every print is the product of that freedom from perfection and discovery through color.” The result of these prints reveals that exploration of color and working in those “Happy little accidents.”
Logan Sprague is an artist from Waterville, Kansas, specializing in photography, and secondarily drawing. His photos and drawings reflect his interest in black metal, philosophy, and horror through night scenery, flash, and evocative splatters and texture.
The Mark A. Chapman Gallery on the first floor of Willard Hall, across from the art office, opened in 2005. Cheryl Mellenthin and Mark Chapman funded a complete renovation of the former Willard Hall Gallery, increasing the exhibition space to over 1,400 square feet along with 400 square feet dedicated to exhibition preparation and kitchen facilities. The Department of Art hosts BFA and MFA student exhibitions in the gallery as part of graduation requirements each semester. The technology friendly gallery serves not only exhibition purposes but also provides a location for an active Visiting Artist lecture program.