Stacy Sparks, assistant professor of journalism at Southwestern College, has photography on exhibit at Montezuma’s Stauth Memorial Museum through July 22.
The Stauth Memorial Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. until noon and from 1 to 4:30 p.m. and Sunday from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. There is no charge for admission but donations are accepted.
Sparks’s documentary photography exhibit, “Isolation and Community on the High Plains,” is being featured in the special exhibitions gallery at the museum. The project started as an opportunity to make images about Kansas during the dawn of the 21st century. It became an opportunity to communicate with the individuals who allowed this artist to take their photographs, and now it offers her an opportunity to communicate with those who are looking at these images.
All of the images were created between June 2002 and August 2003 and the majority were made during a one-semester sabbatical from Dodge City Community College in the fall of 2002. Sparks concentrated on a geographic area with boundaries formed by the Colorado and Oklahoma borders and Kansas Highway 96 and U.S. 281. Sparks joined the Southwestern College staff in 2006.