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WAM Nights. Gallery Closing: TWINVERSE
March 21, 2025 | 6:00pm
Exhibition Opening, Featured Event, FREE Event, Local Creatives Exhibition Series, WAM Nights, Adult Events & Programs
Cost:
FREE | Open to the Public | No RSVP Required
Organizer:
Wichita Art Museum
About this Event

Smack Dab Dance Lab
Join us for the closing of TWINVERSE by local twin artists [A+B], an exhibition that explores the dynamic complexities of twinship through collaborative diptychs. Using a sonnet-inspired grid system, the artists reflect on themes of sameness and difference, individuality and interdependence, with colors, shapes, and symbols drawn from their personal experiences, memories, and cultural folklore. Their work reimagines twin identity, celebrating the bond as a catalyst for creativity and connection.
6:30 – Twogether immersive dance
Dancers: Aviance Battles, Heather Eilerts, Sara Goldfarb, Piper Patterson, Rhiannon Vieyra, and Liberty Warne.
Experience the closing of TWINVERSE with a site-specific dance performance by Smack Dab Dance Lab, led by Mina Estrada. Performed within the exhibition, this piece transforms movement into a dialogue with the artwork, offering a fleeting, in-the-moment experience before the show concludes.
Twogether is a 30-minute immersive dance experience to celebrate the closing of TWINVERSE by artists [A+B]. Smack Dab Dance Lab, led by founder Mina Estrada, will explore the ideas of connection and memory, community and interdependence, and be in a practice of embodying the symbols and sonnets that vibrantly exist in this collection of work. Step into the space with the dancers and allow yourself to ask: What if we are already in relationship with one another? What if we can share our memories with speaking? What if here is where I need to be? What if…
Learn more about the artists here: https://www.artistsaplusb.com/
WAM Nights We’re open late on Fridays until 9 pm! Start your weekend with after-hours access to the galleries and shopping in the Museum Store. WAM Nights will include programs with artists, musicians, and performers–don’t miss your chance to see the art at WAM in a new way! The museum comes to life with local creatives during WAM Nights!
WAM’s Regional Creatives Exhibition Series is dedicated to exhibiting art by local artists. This program is a partnership with Harvester Arts, a local nonprofit art organization fostering opportunities for Wichita creatives. Their core values of experimentation, capacity building, and community engagement are a framework for this partnership, which includes this exhibition space and programming with local creatives, including performances, talks, and pop-up experiences.