Mid-America All-Indian Museum

08/20/2023

08/17/2023

Due to a power outage-our museum is closed. No idea when Evergy will have it fixed.☹️

08/15/2023

08/14/2023

Indigenous Artists - Mark your calendars!

In concert with, Twice Removed: Native American Life After Relocation, an exhibition organized by Daniel Pewewardy, Warclan Collective artist, Taiomah Rutledge, will be leading two ledger art workshops for Indigenous artists! You are invited!

Saturday, August 19 • 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Wednesday, August 23 • 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (during Community Night)
at the Mid-America All-Indian Museum - 650 N Seneca St, Wichita, KS

Workshops are FREE and all materials are provided! You are welcome to bring personal supplies to create with as well.

No need to register - just show up! We'll see you there!

08/14/2023

Sign up today! Another Community health Session from our friends at FactsNotFearICT/KU Med. Space is limited. https://www.factsnotfearict.com/healthsessions

08/12/2023

Grassland Groupies is excited to announce Wichita's first annual ICT Bee Fest!
Sept. 16, 10am-1pm
Celebrate the pollinators and plants of Kansas’s first Bee City with us at the Mid-America All-Indian Museum! Collect Kansas wildflower seeds, build a bee hotel, and learn how to start a native garden to help protect these important insects in your own backyard, school, or work. Local growers and vendors will be selling native plants to help you bring a piece of the prairie home.
Activities include:
- Take-home bee hotel (while supplies last)
- Bumblebee petting zoo
- Native plant vendors
- Monarch tagging
FREE come-and-go event perfect for pollinator lovers of all ages.
If able, please park in the Exploration Place parking lot and walk across the Keeper Plaza to enter the Indian Museum.

08/12/2023

Daniel Pewewardy is organizing Twice Removed: Native American Life After Relocation, an exhibition centered around present-day Indigenous life at the new community gallery at Wichita Art Museum. WAM’s community gallery is in partnership with Harvester Arts. They are looking for area indigenous creatives to participate in a community ‘ledger art’ wall at the Wichita Art Museum as part of the exhibition.
Want to participate? Daniel has made ledger paper available for those interested in participating. Artists interested in participating should contact Stacy Holly at [email protected] with your name, email address, and phone number.

08/09/2023

📢 CALL FOR LEDGER ART📢

Daniel Pewewardy is organizing Twice Removed: Native American Life After Relocation, an exhibition centered around present-day Indigenous life at the new community gallery at Wichita Art Museum. WAM’s community gallery is in partnership with Harvester Arts.

We are looking for area indigenous creatives to participate in a community ‘ledger art’ wall at the Wichita Art Museum as part of the exhibition.

What is ledger art?

For those not familiar with Ledger Art. Ledger Art is a traditional form of Native American art that gained popularity among Plains Native artists during the middle 1800s. It involved native artists creating artwork by using paper from discarded print materials like business ledger books as their drawing surface.

Traditionally, Plains Native art was crafted on buffalo hides, but due to the government's efforts to eradicate the buffalo in the mid-1800s, Native artists turned to writing paper as a means to preserve and continue their artistic traditions. Initially, Ledger art was predominantly created by Plains artists, but over time, it has become a popular motif among contemporary Native artists from various regions.

Today, many Native artists from different backgrounds and regions embrace Ledger art as a means of connecting with their cultural heritage and expressing their artistic visions. This form of art serves as a significant link between the historical traditions of Native American art and its vibrant evolution in the modern era.

Want to participate? Daniel has made ledger paper available for those interested in participating.

Artists interested in participating should contact Stacy Holly at [email protected] with your name, email address, and phone number.

08/09/2023

No matter the challenges or circumstances you face, always stay true to yourself. Embrace your individuality and never lose sight of your roots and identity.

08/05/2023

08/04/2023

Remember to park at Exploration Place and enjoy a walk across the Keeper Plaza to our backgrounds.

07/31/2023

Save the dates! Our parent advisory committee meets just 6 times throughout the school year and your input and participation at these meetings is crucial for the success of the Title VI WPS Native American Education Program program. Commit to these short meetings this school year to stay in the loop with program events and updates and have the opportunity to share how we can better serve our American Indian students. You'll also have the chance to connect with other families in our program. 😁 We have snacks to share each meeting and you'll have a chance to win a door prize by attending! We look forward to seeing you all on August 16th at 6:30 for our first meeting of the school year.

07/28/2023

Just 6 Saturdays left to view this amazing travelling exhibit from the Osage Nation Foundation. Museum is open 10-4, Tuesday through Saturday.

07/27/2023

Join us at this year's Veterans Awareness Expo on Saturday, August 5 from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. and connect with over 70 community programs that serve veterans! The Sedgwick County Register of Deeds Office will be in attendance to file original DD214 discharge papers and issue discount cards.

07/27/2023

Please join us for the 5th Annual Veteran Art Show on August 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Mid-America All-Indian Museum.

If you are interested in participating in the Veteran Art Show, you must be enrolled for health care with the Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center. For more information on how to register and Deadline dates, please contact Christina Vasquez at 316-685-2221 Ext. 54658.

07/20/2023

First annual invitational exhibit for Native artists, featuring local Native artists Brandon Buffalohead, Josh Johnico, Michelle Sutton and the three founding artists of the War Clan Collective.
On exhibit June 24-July 29, 2023

07/14/2023

Our very own Board member Daniel creating amazing content!

NEW PODCAST EPISODE!

Sara and Daniel welcome author Nghi Vo to the "Read. Return. Repeat." podcast! They dive deep into category 8: a book featuring a LGBTQIA+ protagonist.

AND BONUS! We have a giveaway! Listen, read or watch the episode (link below) and leave a comment with your biggest takeaway from the episode for a chance to win a copy of Vo's book "Mammoths at the Gates!"

🎙 wichitalibrary.org/podcast

07/12/2023

Senior Wednesday Talk-BISON-Supermarket of the Plains.
July 26, 2023, 1:30 pm
$2, plus tax per person (museum visit included)
Free to our Museum Members
Senior Wednesdays are informational and entertaining sessions, designed for active seniors and offered by a collaboration of local institutions.

07/09/2023

Our very own Education Director, Michelle Conine is part of this great event!

~ ART Chatter is next Friday!!! 😎 💲 $15 general public, FREE for WAM members wam.org/event/art-chatter-7

🔥🔥🔥This summer installment of sizzles with a local lineup inspired by the "Clearly Indigenous" exhibition. "Mr. Wichita," Fayola Oyatayo, is back as our host with an incredible lineup of presenters:

🟣Native Artist Michelle Conine (Shawnee, Delaware and Cherokee)
🟣Artist/Skateboarder Ric Dunwoody (Pawnee – Otoe – Wyandotte)
🟣Glassblower Aaron Jasso
🟣Filmmaker and librarian Daniel Pewewardy (Comanche)
🟣Yoga Storyteller Whitney Rodriguez (Diné)
🟣Artist Giizhig Rutledge (Ojibwe and Meskwaki)
🟣Artist Taiomah Rutledge (Ojibwe and Meskwaki)
🟣Designer Shude Victors (Ponca and Tohono O’odham)
🟣Indigenous activist, designer, model, ceremonialist, and teacher Delmar Uqualla (Kiowa, Comanche, Havasupai, and Kumeyaay)

**[Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass] organized by Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, and Curator Letitia Chambers, and is toured by International Arts & Artists. **

07/07/2023

We are a museum dedicated to educating people about and preserving the culture and art of the American Indian for future generations.

07/01/2023

Dreamcatcher Class-July 6, 2023 10am-noon. Create a dreamcatcher for yourself or work with your child to create their dream catcher. $25-children 8 & up with an adult over 18 are welcome. Choice of colors. Each additional child is $20. https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ejrt7da74ef1334e&oseq&c&ch&fbclid=IwAR3fPS_hzXp08xHIbkfE4SWAeYBINV486MsjpcI-C1k2Hj09AfOYugnBwYk

06/28/2023

We're just over a week away from the Indian Art Market and the Voices from the Drum exhibit! Open 10-3, July 8. Market feature local Native/Indigenous artists.
Park at Exploration Place and enjoy a nice walk over the Keeper bridges to our backyard and right into the Art Market.

We are a museum dedicated to educating people about and preserving the culture and art of the American Indian for future generations.

06/23/2023

Our new community project: Stumblingbear Regalia Cupboard. Shawls and ribbon shirts made by community volunteers are lent to youth so they may participate in our powwows and make certain that every child feels included, regardless of their financial situation. We hope to grow the cupboard enough to lend to adults as well. Help us fill the cupboard. https://www.paypal.com/US/fundraiser/charity/1506729

06/20/2023

Thank you City of Wichita for taking an environmental friendly approach!

06/16/2023

Pick up your free copy of the book during our Keepers of the Culture powwow, June 24, 2-8pm.

06/16/2023

Proud to be a partner for the 2024 Big Read!!!!

⭐️ BIG NEWS! ⭐️

The 2024 Big Read selection is "There There" by Tommy Orange.

“Wichita is specifically influenced by its Native American and Indigenous origins, being named after the Wichita people,” said Savannah Ball, Education and Engagement Manager for Wichita Public Library. “While our city has many ties to the Native community, we have not yet chosen a Big Read book that explores this.”

This novel grapples with the complex history of Native Americans with an inheritance of profound spirituality, and with a plague of addiction, abuse and su***de. It follows 12 characters, each of whom has private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwwow.

The 2024 NEA Big Read: Wichita will kick off March 16, 2024 and run through April 27, 2024.

➡️ bigreadwichita.org

06/15/2023

06/10/2023

Our friends, Chuck and Todd from the Kansas Wildlife Exhibit visited us recently. They hit it off so well with our Education Coordinator, Michelle Conine, that she visited them this morning and read them a Lenni Lenape story that featured a vulture just like Chuck! He kept his wings spread to remind everyone that he was the hero of the story❤️❤️❤️

06/09/2023

06/09/2023

This amazing exhibit opens in a month! Same day as the Indian Art Market, 10-3pm.

06/09/2023

📍Wichita, KS

Tomorrow, Saturday June 10, from 2-3pm I will be speaking on the importance of getting civically engaged, especially as a Native American person.

Come on by and hang out, say hi!

06/08/2023

Join our education coordinator, Michelle Conine this Saturday, June 10 at 11am as she reads a Native story to our two legged and four legged friends at Kansas Wildlife Exhibit.

06/05/2023

Thank you, Blackbear for your gift of a cultural museum and the City's icon. May we always remember and honor you.

06/03/2023

Meet KS Representative Christina Haswood, Navajo and learn about her journey. Visit Voices & Votes and the American Indian Vote exhibits. Engage with the League of Women Voters Wichita Metro. Be part of the Landmark Celebration community craft /Dole Institute of Politics. Find out how your vote can make a difference in your community. Free and open to all.