Medium: acrylic on cradled wood board

Artist Statement: My art often includes a theme of connection between all living things, as well as self-reflection and healing. The Flower of Life is one of the original sacred geometry shapes and consists of overlapping circles that form a flower-like pattern. It is a reminder that everything is united, originating from the same blueprint. Sacred geometry and mandalas are often used as focus points for meditation and healing.

Piece Details: Piece is 12" x 12" and pre-wired to hang.

Medium: spray paint stencil

Artist Statement: Dave Loewenstein is a muralist, printmaker and arts organizer based in Lawrence, Kansas. His community-based murals can be found across the United States, and in Northern Ireland, South Korea and Brazil. Loewenstein's prints, which focus on social justice issues, are exhibited internationally and are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Yale University, and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics in Los Angeles. He is the co-author of Kansas Murals: A Traveler's Guide, and is the subject of " Called to Walls," a feature length documentary that premiered in 2016. In 2014, he was named one of the founding Cultural Agents for the new U.S. Department of Arts and Culture, and in 2019 he was named one of the first Interchange fellows (a program supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) for his project "Between the Rock and a Hard Place."

Piece Details: Piece is 19" x 19" (17.5" x 18" without frame) set in a silver, metal frame. Frame is pre-wired to hang.

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Artist Statement: Peace Gardens were popular during times of war and civic strife. They were an oasis for meditation, and solitude. May this acrylic arbor give you the comfort from life's challenges.

Piece Details: Piece is 18" x 22" (10.5" x 13.5" without frame) set in a white matte and white frame. Frame is pre-set to hang horizontally.

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Artist Statement: I find, as a survivor, you have the opportunity to rediscover who you are in the healing process. This is one avenue of discovery for myself.

Piece Details: Piece is on 11" x 11" canvas.

Medium: watercolor and acrylic

Artist Statement: When sharing this piece with my mom, who is still undergoing chemotherapy for her battle with breast cancer, I said, "Maybe I should have chosen a different subject. Some of this is just a dirty road." She said, "Sometimes in the country, you go down a dirty road." As soon as she said it, I knew this piece symbolizes the road we wouldn't have chosen, and the wheat stands for my mom's radiant defiance, making and sharing her art, inspiring us all that, in spite of it all, hope grows.

Piece Details: Piece is 11" x 14" (8.5" x 11" without frame) and set in a white matte and white frame with glass. Frame is pre-set to hang horizontally.

Medium: watercolor

Artist Statement: Buffalo are majestic and cannot be tamed.

Piece Details: Piece is 11" x 14" (8.5" x 11" without frame) and set in a white frame with glass. Frame is pre-set to hang horizontally.

Medium: watercolor

Artist Statement: The prism in the picture represents a way of looking at things differently, like a beam of sunlight, as it goes through the prism and splits into a rainbow.

Piece Details: Piece is 11" x 14" (8.5" x 11" without frame) set in a wood frame with glass. Frame is pre-set to hang horizontally.

Medium: watercolor

Artist Statement: To me, this sunset feels serene. My grant-grandparents had a tree swing, and it felt magical. I remembered them while I was making this.

Piece Details: Piece is 11" x 14" (8.5" x 11" without frame) set in a wood frame with glass. Frame is pre-set to hang horizontally.

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Piece Details: Piece is on 12" x 12" canvas.

Medium: mixed media - acrylic and pencil on paper

Artist Statement: Alycia is a multidisciplinary artist working in metalsmithing and mixed media works on canvas. She began her artistic career by starting a small jewelry business, Oxbow Studio, but after years of working with rigid materials and processes, Alycia began to paint as a new form of creative release, embracing the fluidity and spontaneity it allowed. Through different media, Alycia explores the relationships between colors, forms and textures, often looking to nature or materials themselves for inspiration.

Piece Details: Piece is 6.5" x 8.5" in a white frame with glass. Frame is pre-set to hang either horizontally or vertically.

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Artist Statement: Becky Drager is a local Topeka artist who has been painting colorful Topeka and Kansas scenes for 11 years.

Piece Details: Piece is on 9" x 12" canvas and pre-wired to hang vertically.

Medium: acrylic and ink

Artist Statement: My art embraces my love of nature, animals and the beauty in the world around us.

Piece Details: Piece is 19" x 25" (12" x 15" without frame) and set in a white matte and black frame with glass. Frame is pre-wired to hang vertically.

Medium: woodcut relief print with watercolor

Artist Statement: This piece is part of a collection created after giving birth. It is a celebration of one's new body, based off the Votive "Venus of Willendorf."

Piece Details: Piece is 21.5" x 31.5" and set in a white matte with a light distressed wood-like frame with glass. Frame is pre-wired to hang vertically.

Medium: acrylic paint and floetrol

Artist Statement: Pour paintings are both very process driven and very chaotic, and for the past several years, I have enjoyed the harmony in that juxtaposition. Each piece has a similar, formulaic setup, but a distinct and unpredictable result. The inherent relinquishment of control over the end product is freeing, and my focus can naturally shift from an imagined goal to the process, and I find that my color choices, application technique and the finishing sheen get the attention they deserve and occasionally lack in works of other art styles.

For this piece, I chose to use white, violet and a deep Windsor blue that reminds me of my late mother who passed away last September. She and I bonded over our passion for art, and I feel that the loyal, reassuring coloring of this piece contrasts with its tumultuous imagery in a way that mirrors a complicated mother-daughter relationship.

Piece Details: Piece is on a 16" x 20" canvas and is pre-set to hang both vertically and horizontally.

Medium: oil on canvas

Artist Statement: The act of painting allows me to process emotions while applying layers of paint mixed at different consistencies laid on top of each other, like thoughts passing in the silence of a long afternoon. Each painting is an opportunity to explore my inner thoughts and emotions. It is the process, not the product, that drives me. I paint until I have achieved some sort of harmony with these feelings. I invite the viewer to spend time exploring the interplay of textures, movement, opacities while reflecting on the emotions they create.

Piece Details: Piece is on 30" x 40" canvas that is pre-wired to hang horizontally.

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Artist Statement: The flowing gown in the colors of Spring usher in a new beginning. This acrylic gown forms a butterfly symbolizing both strength and beauty in the women the YWCA supports.

Piece Details: Piece is 15" x 18" (10.5" x 13.5" without frame) and set in a detailed frame with glass. This frame is not pre-set to hang.

Medium: acrylic

Artist Statement: The artist, Robert Ault, was an artist, art therapist and long-time supporter of YWCA. He died in 2008.

Piece Details: Piece is 27.5" x 33.5" (24" x 28" without frame) set in a wood frame. Frame is pre-wired to hang horizontally.

Medium: mixed media - linoleum block print, stencil, India ink, speedball ink and spray paint

Artist Statement: Paul Punzo creates authentic block prints using ink washes, breaking down black carvings to make vibrant, iconic prints. This piece tells us about the solution of a program to help people overcome alcoholism and addiction.

Piece Details: Piece is 15" x 21" (11.5" x 17.5" without frame) and is set in a grey frame with glass. Frame is pre-wired to hang vertically.

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Artist Statement: When I met them, I thought the sisters had a very intriguing look. How interesting it would be to go through life with someone who looked like you. Seeing yourself in another person couldn't be clearer. It also made me think of Frida Kahlo's "The Two Fridas," so I decided on a similar pose but with the symbolic natures of shared expansion and contraction of a lifetime in the background with personality differences symbolized in the plants they are holding.

Piece Details: Piece is 26" x 26" (24" x 24" canvas without frame). Canvas is set in a deep, wood frame. Frame is pre-wired to hang.

Medium: acrylic on a framed canvas

Artist Statement: Becky Drager is a local Topeka artist who has been painting colorful Topeka and Kansas scenes for 11 years.

Piece Details: Piece is on 18" x 24" canvas (17 x 22 without frame) and set in a black frame. Frame is pre-wired to hang vertically.