The Painting Center is pleased to present New Optics, a curated exhibition whose fundamental ambition is to engage material and images to create transformational moments. Curators Jack McWhorter, Lisa Mintz, and Perri Neri chose 16 artists from the Painting Center’s Art File whose work generates a dialogue with painting that is more than self-expression. This work challenges us to think about our contemporary condition today, and about contemporary art’s relation to it.

Catalog for the New Optics juried invitational exhibition at The Painting Center in NYC, 2020

Interview with Lara J. Hightower of the Democrat-Gazette.

"Through the Looking Glass" Solo exhibition by Kellie Lehr

A dual show from painter Kellie Lehr and textile artist Suzannah Schreckhise — titled “Layered” and curated by Wallis-Atkinson

Radio interview with Katy Henrickson and KUAF 91.3 NPR (May 2019)

The Gallery at Midtown Associates will host a solo show for their new gallery director and curator, Kellie Lehr. Lehr will be organizing and...

Selected for THE ART FILE, the Painter Center's juried registry.

Selected by independent curator as one of the artists from the state of Arkansas to be included in this registry.

Video footage from May, 2017 at The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, Art Department.

The 21st Annual Artists of Northwest Arkansas Regional Art Exhibition