{"id":1018808,"date":"2026-08-23T09:32:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T09:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1018808\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T09:32:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T09:32:37","slug":"brinegar-show-opens-gallery-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1018808\/","title":{"rendered":"Brinegar Show Opens Gallery Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Cary\u00a0Brinegar\u00a0had not planned to be an artist, but that\u2019s the direction his journey is taking him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">His show of drawings and mixed media, \u201cJourney,\u201d is now open at The Gallery in Sams Hall of Fine Arts on the Kansas Wesleyan campus and runs through Sept. 20. A reception is planned for 5 p.m. Aug. 27, with remarks at 5:30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u201cI\u2019m not a lifetime artist,\u201d\u00a0Brinegar\u00a0said. \u201cIt\u2019s what I\u2019ve done since retiring. It\u2019s not been just one thing (medium). It\u2019s been exploring, trying, therapy, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Brinegar\u00a0has worked in various media since taking up art about 15 years ago, from photography to oil painting. He retired from serving as principal of USD 305\u2019s Special Education Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">His work leans toward the abstract, he said, and his watercolors draw inspiration from aerial photography of the rural landscape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Admission to the Gallery is free, and the public is encouraged to attend.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-155782\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/brinegar-show-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cary\u00a0Brinegar\u00a0had not planned to be an artist, but that\u2019s the direction his journey is taking him. His show&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1018809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[36369,648,1032,1033,171,19785,36370,728,50,36371,36368,36367,36373,36372,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1018808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-36369","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-kansas","tag-ksal","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-news-radio-1150-ksal","tag-raido","tag-salina","tag-salina-local-news","tag-salina-news","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1018809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}