Paintings from Dr Frye’s collection of renowned Kansas artist Grandma Layton are now hanging in the medical clinic at SENT a Grassroots organization working with under resource communities in Topeka. The letters stand for strengthening and equipping neighborhoods together . Leighton became an artist in her 60s and often referenced political issues such as women’s rights and the threat to defund the National Endowment for the Arts . She’s been exhibited throughout the United States and credits her pursuit of drawing as curing her depression and comforting her grief over her son’s death in 1976. In 1992 shortly before she died she was the focus of shows at the smithsonian’s Nashua Museum of American art and the Delaware Art museum. In 2001 she was the only American Artist featured in an exhibit of naive (untrained) art at the Musee d’Art Brut & Singulier in Paris. Come see her art at the clinic.
