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Bruce Helander
Bruce Helander (born January 27, 1947) is an American artist associated with collage and assemblage. He lives and works in West Palm Beach. Early life and education Helander was born in Great Bend, Kansas, to Amos and Carmen Helander. His mother was an interior designer whose eccentric styles inspired him to go on and become an artist. He studied painting and went on to graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1969 and a Master of Fine Arts in 1972. While attending college, Paul Klee and Sewell Sillman became major influence in Helander's early life. After graduating, Helander began his career at RISD as a Director of Admissions, eventually becoming the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs. During his tenure there, Helander became a White House fellow at the National Endowment for the Arts. Leaving Academia in 1979, Helander became the editor and publisher of the Art Express magazine. Work Bruce Helander is an art criti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Bend, Kansas
Great Bend is a city in and the county seat of Barton County, Kansas, United States. It is named for its location at the point where the course of the Arkansas River bends east then southeast. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 14,733. It is home to Barton Community College. History Prior to American settlement of the area, the site of Great Bend was located in the northern reaches of Kiowa territory. Claimed first by France as part of Louisiana and later acquired by the United States with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, it lay within the area organized by the U.S. as Kansas Territory in 1854. Kansas became a state in 1861, and the state government delineated the surrounding area as Barton County in 1867. The first settlers of the area arrived in 1870. Living in sod houses and dugouts, they worked as buffalo hunters since trampling by bison herds precluded crop farming. In 1871, the Great Bend Town Company, anticipating the westward construction of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
