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	September-October Highlights Click here for a complete calendar of area events Curtain goes up on 8th Tallgrass Film Fest Nearly 10,000 people are expected to attend this year’s Tallgrass Film Festival Oct. 22-24. About 70 films will be screened at five venues in downtown Wichita in addition to other events, including presentation of the Ad Astra award. This year’s recipient is Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated film composer Rolfe Kent, who has scored more than 40 films, including “Charlie St. Cloud,” “Up In The Air,” “Men Who Stare At Goats,” “Legally Blonde” and “Sideways.” For details and a schedule, visit tallgrassfilmfest.com. ‘Art on Speed’ at Ulrich Museum Conveying motion has always been a challenge to artists, and the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State is displaying an exhibition titled “Art on Speed” to showcase works where it has been attempted. The exhibit is on display until Dec. 17. Also on display at the Ulrich from Sept. 11 to Nov. 28 is “Hindsight is Always 20/20,” works by R. Luke DuBois which look at State of the Union addresses by U.S. presidents. Admission is free. For more information visit ulrich.wichita.edu or call 978-3664. WAM celebrates 75 years Opening Oct. 3, “Student Visions: The Museum in 75 Years (2085) will be on display until Jan. 9, 2011. The winning entries were from students at Oklahoma State University and the University of Nebraska. A reception for the winners is Oct. 17 from 1 to 3 p.m. with a program at 2 p.m. On display through Sept. 26 is a traveling exhibition of iconic aircraft, “In Plane View: Abstractions of Flight,” which features the work of Smithsonian Institution photographer Carolyn Russo. The exhibition showcasing the aesthetic quality of famous aircraft was organized by the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, where it premiered in 2008. On display until Oct. 10 is “The Secrecy Series: Selected Works by Michael Aurbach” which offers visitors the opportunity to decipher the meaning of room-like sculptures through their details. A native Wichitan, Aurbach attempted to portray the power of secrets in wood, galvanized metal, silver paint and references to famous works of art. For more information, call 268-4921 or visit wichitaartmuseum.org.

September-October Highlights

Click here for a complete calendar of area events

Curtain goes up on 8th Tallgrass Film Fest

Nearly 10,000 people are expected to attend this year’s Tallgrass Film Festival Oct. 22-24. About 70 films will be screened at five venues in downtown Wichita in addition to other events, including presentation of the Ad Astra award. This year’s recipient is Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated film composer Rolfe Kent, who has scored more than 40 films, including “Charlie St. Cloud,” “Up In The Air,” “Men Who Stare At Goats,” “Legally Blonde” and “Sideways.” For details and a schedule, visit tallgrassfilmfest.com.

‘Art on Speed’ at Ulrich Museum

Conveying motion has always been a challenge to artists, and the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State is displaying an exhibition titled “Art on Speed” to showcase works where it has been attempted. The exhibit is on display until Dec. 17.

Also on display at the Ulrich from Sept. 11 to Nov. 28 is “Hindsight is Always 20/20,” works by R. Luke DuBois which look at State of the Union addresses by U.S. presidents. Admission is free. For more information visit ulrich.wichita.edu or call 978-3664.

WAM celebrates 75 years

Opening Oct. 3, “Student Visions: The Museum in 75 Years (2085) will be on display until Jan. 9, 2011. The winning entries were from students at Oklahoma State University and the University of Nebraska. A reception for the winners is Oct. 17 from 1 to 3 p.m. with a program at 2 p.m.

On display through Sept. 26 is a traveling exhibition of iconic aircraft, “In Plane View: Abstractions of Flight,” which features the work of Smithsonian Institution photographer Carolyn Russo. The exhibition showcasing the aesthetic quality of famous aircraft was organized by the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, where it premiered in 2008.

On display until Oct. 10 is “The Secrecy Series: Selected Works by Michael Aurbach” which offers visitors the opportunity to decipher the meaning of room-like sculptures through their details. A native Wichitan, Aurbach attempted to portray the power of secrets in wood, galvanized metal, silver paint and references to famous works of art.

For more information, call 268-4921 or visit wichitaartmuseum.org.