Jan & Jack Gaumnitz Gallery

Celebrating the visual arts

Experience Art at Every Visit: Our Lobby Gallery Awaits

Our adaptable lobby also serves as one of Lawrence's exhibition spaces. Each regular season show features a new exhibit highlighting local artists. The displays are currently curated in partnership with the Lawrence Art Guild


There's no need to wait for a performance to enjoy the art; the lobby gallery is accessible every weekday during box office hours.

The lobby gallery also serves as a backdrop for receptions, meetings, small-scale performances, in addition to preshow and intermission socializing.

Artwork display in a gallery, with several framed pieces hanging on a beige wall.
People view art in a gallery. Paintings line the wall. Natural light streams in from large windows.
A series of framed art prints on a wall in a room, hanging above black chairs.

Current Exhibits

On display through Aug. 31, 2026

Steven Haack

I prefer to remain lost, much like my favorite places.

-A frozen field, ground which yields nothing but ice and snow.
-Granaries, sagging from years of weather and toil.
-Evening streets whose long shadows urge passers-by to hurry home in pursuit of safety and comfort.

I am determined to blend in with these spaces. I watch the world as they do. These stark surroundings echo my love and longing for those lost people and places that are, that have been, and maybe never really were. I have no particular interest in being found, so please don’t send anyone looking for me. We seem to have an affinity, these places and I.

We write broken symphonies together, though they may never be heard.

Lawrence, Kansas is home. I paint in oils and have done so for the past thirty-some years. Some of my work currently hangs in Kansas City Union Station, The offices of Visit KC, and the Kansas City Streetcar Authority.

Learn more about the artist

Emma Kostopolus

Emma Kostopolus has been making glass art since 2021, and served as the studio manager for the Richard Hill Glass Studio at the Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts in Valdosta, GA, from 2023-2025, where she taught classes in stained glass, glass fusion, and lampworking. Her work has appeared in galleries across South Georgia, with a planned first solo exhibition in January 2027. She moved (back) to Lawrence in December 2025, and is very excited to become involved in the local arts scene.


She has a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Kansas, and when she's not making art you can find her at her day job as an Assistant Professor of English at Johnson County Community College.