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.

We’re also the incorporating office for the Artist-Built Environment Network, a collaborative extablished to share resources related to the preservation and stewardship of artist-built environments across the United States

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



Current Window Drops:
World’s Largest Leg Lamp, Chickasaw OK (2022) + Paul McCarthy “Tree”, Paris (2014)

Past Window Drops:
Wendy Red Star “Four Seasons: Indian Summer” + “Four Seasons: Fall” (2006)
Amplifier: The Wide Awakes Nana Partha Wijaya+ Never Made (2020)
Pablo Picasso “Guernica” (1937)
Faith Ringold “American People Series #18: The Flag is Bleeding” (1969) + Jasper Johns “Flag (Moratorium)” (1969)
John James Audubon “Woodpeckers of North America” (1827 - 1838)
Pieter Brughel “Hope” + “Justice” (c. 1559)
Good Dogs! Loukanikos (Athens, Greece) Street Mural + Negro Matapacos (Santiago, Chile) Street Mural
Elizabeth “Grandma” Layton “Censored” (1989)+ “Old Age Advocates” (1985) + “Kansas Sesquicentennial” (1986)
Watson Heston “The Genie who Preside over Wisdom” (1896) + “The Freethought Road” (1896)

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, Barbara McCreary, Jon Blumb, Rosie Cowan, 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!




Current  Distributions:
Dodge City Community College Art Appreciation Fall 2025

Past Distributions

SCHOLARSHIP

Visiting scholars are hosted by invitation for research-based residencies and pop-up public art experiences




Artists and Scholars 2025:
Jo Cunningham + The Freak Family Road Show
Mary Welcome
June Sanders
Sarah Green

Artists and Scholars 2024:
Lori Brack