Hutchinson Art Center

Hutchinson Art Center Since 1949, we have supported the fine arts and all the ways creativity enriches life in Hutchinson, KS.

Make sure to start the summer off right by picking up a copy of the **FREE** Hutchinson Art Center brochure. Our biyearl...
06/02/2026

Make sure to start the summer off right by picking up a copy of the **FREE** Hutchinson Art Center brochure. Our biyearly brochure is an excellent source of information for what is going on at the Art Center throughout the year, from exhibitions to classes and workshops, and everything in between.

Our brochure for June through December of 2026 is ✨OUT NOW✨ and features our recent Permanent Collection acquisition -- a mixed media painting by our very own Don Fullmer!

Interested in getting a copy? Brochures can be picked up any time at the Art Center by the front door or at the Front Desk, or become a member of the Art Center and have all future brochures sent straight to your mailbox 📬 (check out our website at https://www.hutchinsonartcenter.net/membership for details).

Charles Sanderson is a featured artist from our upcoming 2026 Summer Consignment Art Auction.Auction artwork is on displ...
06/01/2026

Charles Sanderson is a featured artist from our upcoming 2026 Summer Consignment Art Auction.

Auction artwork is on display in our Main Gallery May 22nd through the morning of June 6th. The artwork is also viewable on our website at https://www.hutchinsonartcenter.net/art-auctions. The auction will take place on Saturday, June 6th. Doors open at 9:00 AM, with the auction starting at 11:00 AM that day. Admission to the auction is FREE and open to the public.
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Charles Sanderson was a painter of abstract-realist Kansas landscapes and was born in Hamilton, Kansas in the heart if of the Flint Hills. He studied architecture at Kansas State University before transferring to Emporia State University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in art education. He also earned a Master of Fine Arts from Fort Hays State University. Sanderson taught art in Kansas public schools in places such as Altoona, Lyons, El Dorado, and then in Wichita for twenty-six years. From there, he taught at Kansas State University, Wichita State University, Friends University, the Wichita Center for the Arts (now MarkArts), and the Wichita Art Museum. He was also a member of The Artists’ Guild of Wichita.
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🖼: 1. "Fort Larned", Ink (n.d.)
🖼: 48. "Monument Rock", Ink (n.d.)
🖼: 62. "Water Power Mill", Ink (n.d.)
🖼: 95. "Old Water Tower", Ink (n.d.)
🖼: 106. "Barn with Silo", Ink & Watercolor (n.d.)
🖼: 119. "Old Fence Line", Watercolor (n.d.)
🖼: 128. "Windmill Prairie", Watercolor (n.d.)

Our Art History Inspired workshops are back again for another week at the Hutchinson Art Center! ✨This past Friday, Have...
05/31/2026

Our Art History Inspired workshops are back again for another week at the Hutchinson Art Center! ✨

This past Friday, Haven, KS, artist Kayann Ausherman led a workshop where students learned about American Neoexpressionist painter Jean-Michel Basquiat and the fun and expressive
freedom of his style that took the 1980s art world by storm. The students used acrylic paint to incorporate Basquiat’s naive storytelling style into their own artwork, featuring the subject
matter of their own experiences.

We invite you all to check back here next Sunday for the last installment of this workshop series, which focuses on the work of Rex Ray, a collage artist and graphic designer whose work takes inspiration from Pop art and midcentury modernism.

Thank you to all our Saturday Morning Artists for sharing your artwork!The Saturday Morning Artists group meets from 9:0...
05/30/2026

Thank you to all our Saturday Morning Artists for sharing your artwork!

The Saturday Morning Artists group meets from 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM on Saturday with a come-and-go atmosphere. Bring $8 and your art supplies to join this creative, supportive group of artist. New faces are always welcome!

Learn more about Saturday Morning Artists by visiting our website at https://www.hutchinsonartcenter.net/classes.
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This week’s featured art is by:
Kathie Moore
Larry Bolton
Alex Epp
Chinlee
Betty Jo
Louise Hutchison

🌟SATURDAY MORNING ARTISTS IS IN SESSION🌟Big thanks to Elizabeth for modeling for our artists today! Keep an eye on our s...
05/30/2026

🌟SATURDAY MORNING ARTISTS IS IN SESSION🌟

Big thanks to Elizabeth for modeling for our artists today! Keep an eye on our social media pages for the resulting artwork later this afternoon at 4:00 PM.
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If you would like to participate in Saturday Morning Art Sessions remotely, feel free to draw or paint this week's model and share your images with us via email at [email protected]. Images are shared on Saturday afternoons with credit to the artists. We ask that artists working remotely send their artwork to us by 3:30 PM the same day of the session in order to be included.

The group is also always looking for new models! Check out our website: https://www.hutchinsonartcenter.net/sma-modeling for more information.
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Our next session will be Saturday, June 13th from 9:00 to 11:30 AM! Learn more about Saturday Morning Artists by visiting our website at https://www.hutchinsonartcenter.net/classes. See less

✨ COMING SOON ✨The Hutchinson Art Center is excited to exhibit the work of local artist and educator Hannah Lounsbury in...
05/29/2026

✨ COMING SOON ✨

The Hutchinson Art Center is excited to exhibit the work of local artist and educator Hannah Lounsbury in our Front Gallery during the month of June into the beginning of July.

Hannah Lounsbury is a multidisciplinary artist and educator whose work is rooted in expressive portraiture. Working across large-scale painting, oil pastel, and drawing, her practice explores emotion, identity, and the complexity of human experience. Her portraits move through, either, likeness and accuracy, or capturing fleeting states of vulnerability, tension, and introspection.
Through a balance of bold mark-making, color (or lack thereof), and careful observation, Lounsbury creates figures that feel both immediate and unresolved. Some of her work focuses on realism and capturing likeness, while others are created through layered surfaces and gestural lines. This allows her subjects to exist in space between realism and abstraction, where emotion takes precedence over precision.

In addition to her studio practice, Lounsbury works as an educator in Hutchinson, fostering creative confidence and critical thinking in her students. This dual role informs her work, grounding it in both technical exploration and a continued curiosity about how individuals see themselves and others.

This exhibition will be on display in the Front Gallery from June 5th - July 3rd, 2026.

Mike Livingston is a featured artist from our upcoming 2026 Summer Consignment Art Auction.Auction artwork is on display...
05/28/2026

Mike Livingston is a featured artist from our upcoming 2026 Summer Consignment Art Auction.

Auction artwork is on display in our Main Gallery May 22nd through the morning of June 6th. The artwork is also viewable on our website at https://www.hutchinsonartcenter.net/art-auctions. The auction will take place on Saturday, June 6th. Doors open at 9:00 AM, with the auction starting at 11:00 AM that day. Admission to the auction is FREE and open to the public.
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Mike Livingston of Rice County, Kansas has spent nearly fifty years as a local artist, creating Spanish-influenced furniture, bronzes and, most recently, paintings. In 1972, Livingston created his own foundry in Hutchinson and began his “ethnic primitive” sculpture style with heavy African and Native American influences. Livingston no longer creates custom furniture but devotes his time to sculpting and painting.
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🖼: 133. "Grass Land", Oil (n.d.)

The Hutchinson Art Center is proud to host a retrospective exhibition of work by renowned artist Patricia “Pat” Potucek ...
05/27/2026

The Hutchinson Art Center is proud to host a retrospective exhibition of work by renowned artist Patricia “Pat” Potucek starting at the end of July and lasting through the month of August.

The Hutchinson Art Center is organizing this exhibition in cooperation with Pat Potucek’s family. Along with curating artworks from the Hutchinson Art Association Permanent Collection and the private collections of the family, the Hutchinson Art Center is requesting the public to lend artwork by Pat Potucek from their collections for this exhibit. The Hutchinson Art Center also encourages lenders to share a fond memory of Pat Potucek and/or a story connected to the loaned artwork, which will go on display with the artwork.

The exhibit will be on display in the Main Gallery July 31st through August 29th, 2026, with an opening reception on Friday evening, July 31st from 5:00 to 7:00 PM.

**Lenders can loan 1-2 works of art by Pat Potucek for this exhibit. Lenders must deliver their artwork and paperwork to the Hutchinson Art Center between May 11th and July 24th, 2026 during regular business hours.**

If you are interested in lending artwork by Pat Potucek from your collection for this exhibit, you can get the art on loan form by visiting our website at https://www.hutchinsonartcenter.net/call-for-art-pat-potucek-retrospective, or stop by in-person and get the form from the Front Desk. THANK YOU!

Martha Hamilton is a featured artist from our upcoming 2026 Summer Consignment Art Auction.Auction artwork is on display...
05/26/2026

Martha Hamilton is a featured artist from our upcoming 2026 Summer Consignment Art Auction.

Auction artwork is on display in our Main Gallery May 22nd through the morning of June 6th. The artwork is also viewable on our website at https://www.hutchinsonartcenter.net/art-auctions. The auction will take place on Saturday, June 6th. Doors open at 9:00 AM, with the auction starting at 11:00 AM that day. Admission to the auction is FREE and open to the public.
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Martha Hamilton was a painter of plein air art, which is a French expression meaning, “in the open air,” particularly used to describe the act of painting outdoors. Hamilton used oil paints as her medium and said she paints “only what she sees” and did not use photo reference. For many years, Hamilton grew a plethora of flowers. She enjoyed nurturing and painting still-life images of those plants. Hamilton was active as an artist for over sixty years, and she attended the University of Kansas and the Chicago Art Institute. Martha Hamilton was a founding member of the Hutchinson Art Association. She passed away in 2020.
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🖼: 130. "Garden Bouquet", Oil (n.d.)

We have ✨extended✨the deadline for enrollment for our Kids Summer Art Camp. Read on to learn more...This year’s art camp...
05/25/2026

We have ✨extended✨the deadline for enrollment for our Kids Summer Art Camp. Read on to learn more...

This year’s art camp centers on the thing most kids want to learn the most: how to actually draw what they want. Kids will work on drawing techniques that no one else dares to teach at this level. These techniques are the foundation to drawing anything and everything whether it’s from imagination, in a photo, or sitting right in front of them. This isn’t going to be your typical crafty art camp. Prepare your little artists to expand their artistic skills and come out ready to make whatever their heart desires!

Classes will be different each week. The best experience will be signing up for both weeks, as week two builds upon week one, but has also been designed to be introductory enough that students only able to attend week two will not feel as though they are behind or missing anything.

2026 Kids Summer Art Camp Schedule:
Week One: June 9th - 12th
Week Two: June 16th - 19th

Group A: Ages 6-9, meets Tuesday through Friday, 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Group B: Ages 10-12, meets Tuesday through Friday, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

For Hutchinson Art Center members, a single week costs $30 per child, and both weeks cost $60 per child. For non-members, a single week costs $32 per child and both weeks cost $64 per child.

For more information or to enroll your child, visit our website at https://www.hutchinsonartcenter.net/kids-summer-art-camp.
**Enrollment for Week One closes on Friday, June 5th at 4:30 PM, while enrollment for Week Two closes on Friday, June 12th at 4:30 PM.**

This year's Kids Summer Art Camp is made possible by the Ginger Mayfield Memorial Fund

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405 N Washington Street
Hutchinson, KS
67501

Opening Hours

Monday 12pm - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm

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(620) 663-1081

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