Join us on the first Saturday of October for a day of art, music, food and a celebration of the prairie. The day starts with a Matfield Green Open Studios tour followed by an opening of two new exhibitions of photographs at The School with music, lawn games, and a cookout supper featuring grass-fed burgers from Homestead Ranch. Scroll down for more details.
2-5 pm Open Studios throughout Matfield Green (more details to come)
5-6 pm Opening Reception for “The Color of Rain” photographs by Don Wolfe and “Eye to Eye: Wildlife of the Flint Hills” photographs by Greg Kramos. Plus live music from local musicians.
6-7 pm Cookout supper featuring grilled hamburgers with grass-fed beef from Homestead Ranch (or veggie burgers), baked beans, chips, and homemade cookies and bars. Suggested Donation: $15
5-8 pm lawn games (croquet, bocce, frisbee and more) on the schoolyard.
Eye to Eye: Wildlife of the Flint Hills. Photographs and Video by Greg Kramos
Don Wolfe grew up on a farm in western Kansas but only came to appreciate the prairie after years in the city and an eventual return to rural life. What had once been taken for granted now felt worth paying attention to. Photography became his way of studying landscape more closely. Through his images, he looks past the vastness to the lives and everyday realities of rural existence. He lives just outside of Matfield Green where he shares a studio with his wife and quilt artist, Michelle Wolfe.
Greg Kramos spent 35 years as a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He has worked and photographed at the Quivira Wildlife Refuge, the Flint Hills and the Red HIlls of Kansas. His photographs have been used in multiple brochures, articles, scientific papers, and press releases. Kramos lives in Manhattan, Kansas with his wife, Sandi Kramos. You can find more of his work on Facebook and Instagram (@gregkramos) and on his wife’s travel blog, BraveWiseTraveler.com.
The Open Studios map (below) provided by Matfield Green Works.
