- June 4, 2024
Papercut artist Rosa Leff visited Lawrence for only the second time this weekend to debut her exhibit at the Lawrence Arts Center.
The arts center found Leff, who is known for creating cityscape papercuts, online and asked her to create papercuts of Lawrence.
“Not having any personal connection to Lawrence, I wasn’t sure what the story was going to be when I first started," Leff said. "And I started doing my research online and people were just so excited to tell me what they knew, and I met so many local historians like Jeanne Klein.”
Leff began working with the retired University of Kansas professor to tell the little-known Black history of Lawrence.