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Cycle: Haskell Students Draw The News

Alysah Carpenter | Arts & Entertainment | March 10 2026

“On the last Friday of every month, the city of Lawrence transforms into a massive art walk from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. Starting in August 2010, Final Fridays is a community-driven event in which storefronts and businesses in Downtown Lawrence serve as temporary galleries, hosting diverse art exhibits and cultural events. Lawrence, KS, has one of the highest rates of working artists per capita in the country. Hence, the Lawrence community recognizes the value of the arts and sees this as an opportunity to bring them to the wider public.

The Bourgeois Pig, a downtown cocktail bar, contacted Haskell Indian Nations University and invited students to have an art exhibit at their bar for this month’s final Friday event. This is Haskell’s second time being invited to participate in the artfest. Their first exhibit, titled ‘Interrupting the Imaginary,’featured summer school students drawing on old Edward Curtis photographs. “

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