By Any Means: Works from the National Drawing Invitationals press release

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[Your Institution] Hosts By Any Means: Works from the National Drawing Invitationals

Defining the word drawing is difficult, and defining it to encompass the entire scope of the discipline would be a monumental endeavor. It is drawing’s ability to adapt to any circumstance that has kept it vital through millennia. By Any Means: Works from the National Drawing Invitationals, opening on [opening date] at [your institution], demonstrates that contemporary drawing maintains its vitality through continuous reinvention of the form.

For 25 years, the Norman R. Eppink Art Gallery at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas, celebrated the art of drawing in its Annual National Invitational Drawing Exhibition. Inaugurated in 1977, each exhibition brought together exceptional drawings by both established and emerging artists from across the United States. No effort was made to limit the exhibitions to a particular movement in art, and the term drawing was never defined. As a result, each Annual was noted for a wide-ranging display of media, techniques, and concepts.

By Any Means consists of 31 representative drawings from the Eppink Gallery’s exceptional collection of some of the most outstanding works on paper purchased from each year’s Annual, including works by Donald Roller Wilson, Janis Mars Wunderlich, Robert Stackhouse, Phillip Pearlstein, and Harvey Breverman.

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By Any Means is curated by Donald D. Perry, professor of art at Emporia State University. The exhibition is organized by Emporia State University and toured by ExhibitsUSA. The purpose of ExhibitsUSA is to create access to an array of arts and humanities exhibitions, nurture the development and understanding of diverse art forms and cultures, and encourage the expanding depth and breadth of cultural life in local communities.

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