The light at the end of the tunnel
Jill Rumoshosky Werner ’81
Loosely inspired by a Dr. Seuss painting, this Werner quilt was made for the year 2000.
“Like the future,” she says, “there is always something mysterious and exciting right around the bend of the tunnel.”
Werner’s art quilts have won awards on the national and international levels, but her background is as a research audiologist, technical writer and computer systems engineer.
A native of the NYC area, she has lived in Wichita for 27 years. Visit http://www.wernerstudio.com to see more of her work.
Whiskey Purse
Teresa Shannon
A graduate student in Wichita State’s College of Art and Design, Shannon often works in the natural medium of clay.
“I enjoy the interactive medium of ceramics,” she reports. “I like the fact that the viewer can touch and hold the finished product.”
Birth of the Cool
“The sound of the big bang is b-flat.”
— Miles Davis
And the note keeps
stretching, keeps
bending, following the spoon
into his evening brew,
sliding from tongue to blood.
He wakes, a dying dream
wet on his lips, and it’s been waiting,
prying him open, enlarging his lungs,
pushing his fingers as they charm the valves.
And the notes he let loose
follow the first, and the earth
and the smoke and all these troubled,
troubled nights —
everything worth keeping —
keeps cooling.
— William Coleman ’93/97
