EST. 2022

Woodpecker Archives is an artist-run co-working space housing art, preservation, and project files relating to artist-built environments, roadside vernacular architecture, and contemporary studio practice with a focus on rural. The site facilitates visiting scholars, art history illuminated window drops, and free poetry/zine/artist publication newspaper boxes for public distribution.

Submissions to the Archives are always accepted:
Woodpecker Archives
PO Box 145
Lucas Kansas 67648

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ART HISTORY WINDOW DROPS

Rotating illuminated art history displays for viewing around the clock

Currently:
Faith Ringold “American People Series #18: The Flag is Bleeding” + Jasper Johns “Flag (Moratorium)”

Past:
John James Audubon “Woodpeckers of North America”
Pieter Brughel “Hope” + “Justice”
Elizabeth “Grandma” Layton “Censored” + “Kansas Sesquicentennial”
Watson Heston “The Genie who Preside over Wisdom” + “The Freethought Road”

RESOURCE LIBRARY

The building hosts a large collection of art books, publications, magazines, historical ephemera, maps, and more. Collections are open to artists and scholars for dedicated research or exploration.

Subjects include: Roadside Vernacular Architecture, Artist-Built Environments, Travel, Kansas History, Art & Design, Preservation, Commercial Architecture

Contributors include: Eric Abraham (WFA), Kelly Ludwig, Erika Nelson, and Dwight Nelson

COLLABORATIONS

Cross-sector research projects involving community members, organizations, and long-term relational practices

Recent Collaborators
Artist-Built Environment Network
More Parades
Strange Grange Visiting Artists
Rock Paper Feather Press
Humanities Kansas
S.P. Dinsmoor’s Garden of Eden

FREE POETRY

Poems, publications, zines, artist items, and local prints available to the public. When the box is gone, the stock is out!

Distributions

Written in the Stars, Humanities Kansas
Miller’s Park Zines, local neighbors & visitors, in partnership with Switchgrass Artist Co-Op, Grassroots Art Center, Garden of Eden, and Lori Brack
Words of a Feather, Humanities Kansas
A Fine Place to See the Sky, Lori Brack
Big Kansas Road Trip Field Guide, Kansas Sampler Foundation
Snake & Maude, Leslie VonHolton
Wild Words, Humanities Kansas
Inappropriation on the American Road, Erika Nelson, Mona Cliff, and Armando Minjarez

SCHOLARSHIP

Visiting scholars are hosted by invitation for research-based residencies

In residence: Erika Nelson

Emeritus
Mary Welcome
June Sanders
Sarah Green
Lori Brack