By COLE REIF
Great Bend Post
Acquisitions come into the Shafer Art Gallery from a number of different
sources. The art gallery, centered in the campus of Barton Community College,
features permanent pieces that further the vision of the gallery.
Gallery Director Dave Barnes said regional artists are another focus. The
Shafer Gallery recently installed a new sculpture just outside the Fine Arts
buildings.
"One of the artists we have in the Great Bend area is a fellow by the name of Bob Mix," said Barnes. "Bob is pretty well known to the people of Great Bend because he creates these wonderful sculptures made out of welded steel. He makes them out of metals he finds out of junkyards. He turns them into animals, birds and dinosaurs."
Mix has quite a few of his pieces displayed at the Great Bend Brit Spaugh Zoo.
Former Barton Community College Board of Trustees member Robert Feldt donated a
Bob Mix sculpture titled “Sabretooth” to the Gallery.
The Shafer Gallery will celebrate the installation of the new sculpture in
conjunction with the Great Bend Chamber of Commerce with a ribbon cutting at
9:30 a.m. on Nov. 3 on the plaza in front of the gallery.