Museums

110 N. Main
El Dorado, KS 67042
(316) 321-1212
www.skyways.org/museums/coutts

601 N. Water
Wichita, Ks 67203
(316) 262-7651
www.thekansasafricanamericanmuseum.org

Challenging Assumptions: Kansas African American Artists’ Exhibit
June 27 – July 31, 2008
Exhibit Party and Gallery Talk – Friday, June 27, 2008 - 5:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Featuring talks by the artists and the music of jazz guitarist Sterling Gray.  Refreshments provided.  No admission charge (donations requested).

The Kansas African American Museum is please to present a new exhibition Challenging Assumptions: Kansas African American Artists’ Exhibit funded in part by a grant from the Kansas Arts Commission.  The exhibit features the photographic works of Patricia Patterson and oils on canvas by Mitchell Pearson. 

Ms Patterson’s powerful exhibition depicts the faces, races and resulting clash of emotions at a rally of the National Socialist White People's Party.  Using a style reminiscent of black and white newsprint photos, she tells stories that challenge the viewer’s assumptions about the subjects’ motives and viewpoints.  Ms Patterson describes her approach to photography as, “looking for pictures that are unusual and out of the ordinary.  I look for humor, struggles, pride and everyday life situations.  I like shadows and contrast because it shows depth, action, vision and character.  I do not want to take beautiful pictures.  I just want to take pictures that tell the story.”
 Mr. Pearson’s work features oils on canvas depicting African American cowboys and others at the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo.  He captures the “cowboy mystique” and visually documents the skills and historical significance of the Black cowboy.  Mr. Pearson’s artistic approach is founded on what he refers to as “Colorism Theory.” He states, “I seek to explore and manipulate different hues on a two dimensional plane to create vibrant, rhythmic passages.”   Pearson notes, “I know the contributions that the African American cowboys made to the American West were many. I know that this history must be told and retold, and kept alive.”  Pearson’s talent brings history alive through the color, imagery and pageantry of a Wild West Rodeo.

The Kansas African American Museum Hosts the 12th Annual Youth Camp: Roads to Freedom
July 21 – 26, 2008
The Kansas African American Museum has scheduled the week of July 21 – 25 for its 12th annual youth camp. Approximately 60 area youth between the ages of 7 and 13 will be enrolled in a fun-filled series of activities. With the theme “Roads to Freedom,” children and youth will explore five areas of discovery:   Art, dance, history/literature, photography and music.

The week’s activities run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, and culminate on day six with a finale Showcase by the young participants. In addition, a souvenir newsletter will be developed and published.

The cost for the camp is $40 per youth. Space is limited to 60 participants and applications and fees will be accepted on a first come-first serve basis. The deadline for applications and fees is Thursday, July 17, 2008. Camp directors are Drs. Evies and Sharon Cranford.

For additional information, registration applications and to pay fees, please contact Elaine Guillory at the museum office at 262-7651. For information contact:  Lisa Dodson or Elaine Guillory 316/262-7651, 316/265-6953; Website address: tkaam.org

ATTENTION All EXHIBITORS AND ARTISTS:
Please contact the museum to reserve your booth.  This will be a monthly event. Booths to exhibit and sell your art are free.

John Q. Hammons Plaza
238 N. Mead
Wichita, KS 67202
316-262-2038
www.kshof.org
info@kshof.org

The Kansas Sports Hall of Fame is open Monday-Saturday from 9 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 1 to 5 pm. Admission price is $7 adults; $6 students, seniors, military, AAA and AARP members; children under 6 with adult free.

Linedrives and Lipstick: The Untold Story of Women's Baseball
September 1 - October 20, 2008
A traveling exhibition created by the Mid American Arts Alliance in Kansas City, MO. Linedrives and Lipstick features more than 60 items from the WWII-era All-American Girls Professional Baseball League including picture postcards, game programs, photographs, posters, and in-depth articles from mainstream magazines such as Colliers, Liberty, and The Saturday Evening Post.

650 N. Seneca
Wichita, KS 67203
(316) 262-5221
www.theindiancenter.org

Mid-America All-Indian Center Museum Reopening

Date: June 6, 2008 Contact: April Scott, Operations Manager : ascott@wichita.gov : (316) 262-5221

The Board of Trustees and the City of Wichita are excited to announce the grand reopening of the Mid-America All-Indian Center Museum on June 27th 2008.   The museum has been closed for renovations since January. The $700,000 worth of renovations includes new environmental heating and air conditioning and improved security as well as visual remodeling. These renovations will allow the museum to pursue accreditation through the American Association of Museums.   “On behalf of the Board of Trustees of the Mid-America All-Indian Center, we appreciate the Mayor and City Council for their continued support of the center. With these renovations we will be able to start the process of becoming an accredited museum and continue to share our heritage with the community,” Paula Langworthy, Chairperson of the Board of Trustees.   The event will feature artwork from the original dedication in 1978 as well as other artifacts from the existing collection. The event takes place from 6-8 p.m. it is free and open to the public.     See more of the Arts at:   http://www.wichitaart.blogspot.com/

The hours for MAAIC are Tuesday – Saturday, 10:00am – 4:00pm. Admission is $7.00 Adults, $5.00 Seniors, $3.00 Youth (6-12), under 6 FREE. The Indian Center gift shop is also open during museum hours with a wide variety of Native American items.

1871 Sim Park Drive
Wichita, KS 67203
(316) 264-6398
Cassie Fahey (316) 660-1883
www.oldcowtown.org 

Old Cowtown Museum July Events

Saturday and Sunday, July 19-20; Rails & Trails
Thundering hooves, clouds of dust and tired trail cowboys come to mind as you think about the millions of Longhorn Cattle driven north to meet the railroad. Join Old Cowtown Museum as we celebrate the longhorns and locomotives of the Old West at Rails & Trails! The day will be filled with music, dancing saloon girls, gunfighters and an exhibition of railroad displays by the Wichita Toy Train Club and Garden Railway. The event will also feature the 1st Annual Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament. The event runs from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Sunday; regular admission rates apply. Preregistration is required for Texas Hold’em Tournament and is limited to 50 participants per day. Additional information and application forms are available online at www.oldcowtown.org.

July 26 & 27: Saddle Up
This weekend will focus on the storytelling of mounted travel with interpreters moseying through the streets on horseback.

Saturday, July 26; Girl Scout 50th Anniversary
Old Cowtown Museum is proud to host a 50th Anniversary celebration of their partnership with the Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland. The event will feature Girl Scouts presenting Living History Experiences that portray domestic Victorian life on the frontier. These experiences include lessons in the schoolhouse, baking cookies and making sand tarts in the Wulf House as well as sewing on the treadle machine and much more. Yvonne Larsen of Waterville, KS will present an ongoing interpretation of a woman crossing the prairie through Nan’s Covered Wagon. There will also be a static display of pictures and text documenting the program history.  A commemorative program will be held at 3:30 with refreshments to follow.  Commemorative books will be provided with t-shirts and badges for sale. This event is open to the public; regular admission rates apply with a reduced admission of $5 for past Girl Scout participants.

July 30: Senior Wednesday “Salute to Kansas Veterans”
An Army veteran of WWII and current program manager of “Operation Ensign”, Philip Blake pays tribute to the countless veterans who served our country and state by presenting a multi-media program “They Paid the Price,” a guide to veteran’s monuments in Wichita. World War II era piano music will be played before the program with snacks to follow. $2.00 admission

Wichita State University
1845 Fairmount
Wichita, KS 67260
(316) 978-3664
www.ulrich.wichita.edu

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Boy and girl on the move
Last Wednesday was moving day for Lynn Chadwick's "Teddy Boy and Girl II," a 300-pound bronze located in front of the WSU School of Art and Design. The work will be stored indoors during road construction that is scheduled to begin this summer. Chadwick's sculpture lies in the path of Perimeter Road, which will be redirected to loop around McKnight Art Center West.
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What's new on the walls?
Opening Saturday is a new collection exhibition, "Taking Shape: Geometric Abstraction from the Collection." Emily Stamey, curator of modern and contemporary art, has selected artworks in which artists explore an idea, concept, or emotion thorugh lines, shapes, and patterns. Pictured at left is "Yellow Turn," a 1969 painting by Edna Andrade. "Taking Shape" will be in the Amsden Gallery through August 31.
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In an effort to connect with Ulrich audiences, we've created a Facebook fan page. Facebook is a social networking site that allows users to post photos, comment on news stories, highlight musical tastes, share videos, showcase favorite artworks--all from a single Web site. Joining Facebook (www.facebook.com) is free and becoming a fan of the Ulrich Museum offers access to additional content (photos and videos) and helpful reminders about upcoming events.

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The museum is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Admission is free. Questions? Need more information? Call (316) 978-3664 or e-mail ulrich@wichita.edu.

1400 W. Museum Blvd.
Wichita, Ks 67203
(316) 268-4921
www.wichitaartmuseum.org

2008 Exhibition Schedule

American Ruins Exhibition Coming to The Wichita Art Museum
Sunday, June 29 to Sunday, September 7
Wichita: The exhibition American Ruins, opening June 29th at the Wichita Art Museum, proves you don’t have to leave the country to experience haunting historic sites. This photography exhibition celebrates places within the United States where crumbled walls and weathered stones stand in honor of our American past. Their geographical and historical diversity allow us, as Americans, to see where we came from and understand where we’re headed.
Arthur Drooker has photographed historic sites throughout the United States. Subjects include adobe missions and the remains of elegant mansions. With his unique photographic style called digital infrared, Drooker captures these ruins and preserves them for a moment in time. To be included in Drooker's project, the ruins had to meet certain criteria: they had to be part of a preservation program, they had to have historical value and they had to represent the geographic and architectural diversity of America.
American Ruins features fifty sepia-toned infrared photographs of more than 25 historical sites. A companion hardcover publication is also available on sale in the Museum Store.  Drooker and his photos were featured on CBS Sunday, and the book earned a 'Best Book of 2007' award in General Photography from usabooknews.com.

Across America: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Wichita Art Museum
Reopening September 30, 2007 and then ongoing
This installation features landscapes and scenes from rural America, urban America and the American Southwest. It unites some of the strongest works in the Museums collection and explores a collective image of America based on its diverse physical spaces.

Exhibition of Late Wichita Artist Jerry Buchanan
Sunday, May 25th 2008 to Sunday September 28th, 2008
WICHITA, KS – Sunday, May 25th WAM will open the exhibition entitled “The Art of Jerry Buchanan” which highlights Buchanan’s lifelong devotion to painting, teaching and study.

Born in Wichita, Kansas, Buchanan (1936-1992) demonstrated his artistic talent during a childhood bout with rheumatic fever. He later attended art classes at the Wichita Art Association and in high school. He received his BFA from the University of Kansas. After a yearlong stint as Assistant Director of the Wichita Art Association, he relocated to New York City. He lived much of his adult years in the Little Italy area of Manhattan, NY, near SoHo. Those same SoHo galleries often featured his works.

Buchanan employed a style of painting many referred to as sequential and journal-like. He spent months building each work, invoking the feelings of his life story onto the canvas. The colors reflect the darkness and lightness he felt in his soul; the shapes often told the story of interrelationships between mind and body. These works of art were conceived during hours of deep, emotional introspection. Buchanan’s psyche contributed to the texture of his art.

The Wichita Art Museum will feature many of his works. The colors and imaginative shapes in Jerry's paintings are as alive on his canvases today as they were when he painted them in his studio more than two decades ago. Highly acclaimed, Mr. Buchanan’s works have been featured in a number of one-man  HYPERLINK "http://www.jerrybuchanan.com/exhibitions.htm" \t "_self" exhibitions and numerous group shows.

Arctic Spirit: Inuit Art from the Albrecht Collection at the Heard Museum
April 6, 2008 through July 20, 2008
A major exhibition of the art of the Inuit, or Eskimos, from Alaska, Siberia, Greenland, and Canada. The multi-media exhibition features 150 works that span 2,250 years of artistic creativity and invention. A Program of ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance with The Kansas Arts Commission and The National Endowment for the Arts.

Jerry Buchanan
May 25, 2008 through September 28, 2008
Jerry Buchanan’s career as a professional painter began in Wichita, where he was born, and ended in New Haven, Connecticut, where he was professor of painting at Yale. His career was cut short by his death from AIDS. This retrospective examines the many influences on his career.

Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell
August 3, 2008 through November 9, 2008
Organized by the Driskell Center of the University of Maryland, this exhibition honors David Driskell - artist, art historian, art collector, curator and educator. Driskell is one of the most respected names in the world of African American art and culture.

Goya’s Caprichos
September 14, 2008 through November 23, 2008
Los Caprichos, by Francisco Goya, remains one of the most moving-and largest-print series in the history of printmaking. It is one of the treasures of the Wichita Art Museum collection.

Nick Trabue
October 5, 2008 through January 11, 2009
Wichitan Nick Trabue paints imaginary universes. The poetic nature of his work is so evocative that the Wichita Art Museum has commissioned a catalogue essay from a creative writer at Wichita State University.

Central American Textiles from the Collection of Jerry Martin
Nov. 23, 2008 through March 1, 2009
This exhibition showcases an outstanding local collection of contemporary - and brilliantly colorful - Central American textiles of the highest level of craftsmanship and design sophistication.

Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray
December 7, 2008 through February 1, 2009
This intimate exhibition features photographs of the outstanding Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, taken by Nickolas Muray during their close relationship. From the collection of the Nickolas Muray Archives.

204 S. Main (across from the downtown Wichita Public Library)
Wichita, KS 67202
Eric Cale
(316) 265-9314
ecale@wichitahistory.org
www.wichitahistory.org

Hours are Tuesday - Friday from 11 AM to 4 PM, Saturday and Sunday from 1 - 5PM. Admission is $4.00 for adults and $2.00 for children ages 6 to 12. Members and children under 6 are admitted FREE. The price of admission includes access to all exhibits as well as the Museum Shop on the ground floor.

Award-winning assistant director
Congratulations to Linda Doll, the Ulrich Museum's assistant director for finance and management, who was honored with the President's Distinguished Service Award at the WSU Shocker Pride Celebration last week. Linda, one of eight award recipients, was recognized for 29 years of service to the university with 15 of those years at the Ulrich Museum. Way to go, Linda! For a list of award recipients and their bios, visit: http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=SHOCKERPRIDE&p=/Honorees/

Enrollment still open for summer youth program
Need a kid-friendly activity this summer? The Ulrich Museum will offer tours and art activities for kids' groups (10 or more) this summer. June's program is "Element Exploration with the Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection," and kids will learn how artists use line, shape, texture, space, color, and value to create art. This 90-minute tour and art project is $2 per child (adult registration is free) and requires preregistration with three weeks' notice. To register, call Aimee Geist, curator of education, at (316) 978-7116 or e-mail aimee.geist@wichita.edu. The summer programs will be provided by WSU art education students, led by instructor Stephanie Danker. Watch for more info about July's activity, "Steadfast Against the Storm."

2008 Senior Wednesday's at the Historical Museum
Senior Wednesdays at the Historical Museum, 204 S. Main, begin at 10 am on the fourth week of the month, January through October.  The $2 fee for non-members includes light refreshments and admission to the entire museum.  Please call 265-9314 for further information.

July 23 – “Music for Christmas in July” by Five Times Harder
Songs of beauty and laughter by Tom and Lois Harder and their three talented daughters.

August 27 – “Historic Fairmount” by Barbara Hammond
Photos and stories of the college, the cottage, and the church called Fairmount.

September 24 - “Musical Memories” by Adam Miller
Songs and stories of our prairie past by a noted folksinger and autoharp virtuoso.

October 22 – “Hand Crafted Traditions” by Kindred Spirits
Show and tell of hand-stitched holiday ornaments exchanged each year by twelve friends.

Funding for this project is provided in part by the Kansas Health Foundation, a philanthropic organization whose mission is to improve the health of all Kansans.

2008 Exhibitions:

Music for Christmas in July
July 23, 2008
by Five Times Harder
Songs of beauty and laughter by Tom and Lois Harder and their three talented daughters.

Historic Fairmount
August 27, 2008
by Kathy Morgan and Barbara Hammond
Photos and stories of the college, the cottage, and the church called Fairmount.

Stories Tied with Apron Strings
September 24, 2008
by Sally Hayes
History told by this collector’s aprons; you may bring one too.

Hand Crafted Traditions
October 22, 2008
by Kindred Spirits
Show and tell of hand-stitched holiday ornaments exchanged each year by twelve friends.