Friends of the Wichita Art Museum

11/29/2022

Friends of the Wichita Art Museum updated their information in their About section.

Friends of the Wichita Art Museum updated their information in their About section.

11/09/2022

Mark your calendar for the Holiday Open House. Start your holiday with a festive event for the entire f family.

10/13/2022

Looking forward to the opening of Psper Dreams this weekend! It should be spectacular.

10/11/2022

FWAM Mini Book Sale Saturday, October 15th from 10:00-3:00.

10/10/2022

A wonderful night was had at the FWAM party. The food, drinks, entertainment, and company was the best. Thank you to our hosts Gena and Steve Dillard for having us in your beautiful home, and yard. Thank you also to the social committee. It was a perfect evening.

09/18/2022

Friends of the Wichita Art Museum had a fun day on the Art Bus Hop. It was a great day viewing Wichita’s impressive public art.

09/12/2022

The Friends of the Wichita Art Museum presented Patricia McDonnell a painting by Roger Shimomura. This is in honor of her leadership as the Director of the Wichita Art Museum. This painting will be part of the museum’s permanent collection. Patricia will be missed, and we wish her a wonderful retirement.

09/10/2022

Join the Friends of the Wichita Art Museum for a lunch and lecture with Anne Kraybill, WAM’s new Director/CEO
Monday, October 3
11:30 am Doors open
Noon Lunch
12:45 pm Presentation.
RVSP deadline is Wednesday, September 21
Tickets are $35.00
Purchase tickets online at wichitaartmuseum.org/artonamonday, or mail a check payable to Friends of the Art Museum, to Friends of the Wichita Art Museum, PO Box 780223, Wichita, Ks. 67278-0223
We hope to see you there.

08/31/2022

Friends, See you Monday, September 12 at 12:30!

07/24/2022

This exhibition is SO cool!

Have you seen the stunning, spectacular glass work by artist Beth Lipman? If you missed Exhibition Opening Day for "Beth Lipman: All in Time" last Saturday, visit this week and take in "All in Time," which follows her retrospective at the MAD | Museum of Arts and Design in NYC.

Many thanks to our wonderful donors, sponsors and patrons!
This exhibition has been generously underwritten by presenting sponsor F. Price Cossman Memorial Trust, INTRUST Bank, Trustee. Sondra M. Langel provided major underwriting, and DeVore Foundation is a principal sponsor. Additional generous support has been provided by Sue and Fred Berry, Sonia Greteman and Chris Brunner, Dr. Harold and Mrs. Evelyn Gregg, Terry and Lou Heldman, and Trish Higgins.

2022 exhibitions and public programs are generously supported by the Downing Foundation. All museum exhibitions receive generous sponsorship from the Friends of the Wichita Art Museum and the City of Wichita- Government.

04/28/2022

Don’t miss “Books and all that Jazz” this weekend at the Wichita Art Museum. Music, food, drinks and amazin books at ridiculously great prices. Friday evening 5-8 pm, Saturday 10-5 and Sunday 11-5. It’s going to be great!

03/19/2022

The “BIG” book fair, “Books and all that Jazz” is coming April 29-May 1. If you have gently used books you no longer need or want, drop them by the Museum in the drop box on the north side of the parking lot. Your donation will help the Friends raise funds to support the Museum. Watch for more news about the book sale soon!

03/08/2022

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Don’t miss this month’s Art on a Monday, March 21. It will feature Trish VanOsdel, Vice President and secretary/treasurer of Reuben Saunders Gallery. She will share the story of the gallery and it’s role in Wichita’s arts community.

Deadline for reservations is Tuesday, March 15. Tickets are $35 per person and may be purchased online at Wichitartmuseum.org/artonamonday.

The fun begins at 11:30 with a cash bar reception, lunch at noon, with the presentation beginning at 12:45. Join us!

02/07/2022

Looking forward to the American Art Deco Exhibition opening this weekend at WAM. It’s going to be terrific.

11/10/2020

MINI BOOK SALE: Friends of WAM will hold its next mini book sales on 11/27/20 & 11/28/20, 10:00-3:00 ea day. A variety of book categories available at reasonable prices. Masks required. Held in conjunction with Winter Art Mania.

11/02/2020

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HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE—Sun, 12/6/20, 2:00-4:00–FWAM invites you to warm up with holiday cheer at WAM! BYOC - bring your own camera for an outside Photo Op as Santa will be taking a toymaking break to swoop in on his sleigh w live reindeer (socially-distanced line and socially-distanced photo). FREE Museum Admission! Holiday shopping galore inside at the WAM Museum Store. See the WAM art exhibitions. The Muse Museum Cafe will be open for food & beverage purchases. Treats and individual art-making bags will be handed out to kids.

05/28/2020

Leave it to the artist to leave his mark on history.

From Artnet News: An Artist Is Transforming the Parking Lot of the Queens Museum Into a Tribute to Health Care Workers ‘So Big It Can Be Seen by Satellite’

Artist Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada's mural appears in one of New York City's hardest-hit neighborhoods.

05/25/2020

Wichita Art Museum

FINALLY!

03/26/2020

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03/26/2020

Postponed or cancelled until further notice. 😔

MAR27 Postponed until July 17: Interactive Film Screening: Grease
Tomorrow 6 PM • 376 guests
MAR28 Cancelled: Mini Used Book Sale
Sat 10 AM • 583 guests
MAR28 Postponed: Family ArtVenture: WAM BAM Disco Time
Sat 11 AM • 207 guests
APR1 Cancelled: Senior Wednesday: Mid-America All-Indian Center
Wed 10 AM • Myron Ackerman is going
APR9 Postponed: Curator Talk with Candice Hopkins
Thu 6 PM • 67 guests
APR12 Cancelled: Drop-In Tour: Preston Singletary
Sun 2 PM • 33 guests
APR14 Postponed: Volunteer Appreciation Reception
Tue 5 PM • Christopher Gulick is going
APR21 Cancelled: Tuesday Tour: Preston Singletary
Tue 2 PM • Christopher Gulick is going
APR24 Cancelled: Members-Only Late 'til 8
Fri 5 PM • 37 guests
APR25 Postponed: Renovation Opening Day Extravaganza
Sat 11 AM • 129 guests
APR25 Cancelled: Docent Dialogues in the Galleries: Preston Singletary
Sat 1 PM • 18 guests

03/25/2020

Mourning the close of museums.

03/21/2020

Indeed, there may be "safety" in art.

From Artnet News: Want to avoid catching the coronavirus? Maybe you should have been an artist.

Fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators, have a remarkably low risk for contacting the disease, according to new data compiled by the New York Times.

Art is the second-safest career, with a physical proximity score of nine and a disease exposure of zero. That ranks it behind only loggers and just ahead of authors and writers, who are at zero on exposure but 14 on proximity.

Graphic designers have comparatively less risk: they score zero for exposure and 34 for how close they typically get to other people.

03/20/2020

Thank you to our loyal WAM community.

The world has turned inside out in the past week. A sense of belonging means so much more in anxious days. We thank you—our incredible WAM community—for all the ways you connect and care about the Wichita Art Museum. We’ve honestly felt it this week, as many reached out to the museum. The support is so very appreciated.

Stay safe, remain healthy. We will be back in action and together again. It can’t come soon enough, and we will reach out virtually during this period as we weather a global crisis. We thank you for support of the Wichita Art Museum.

03/19/2020

David Hockney from his home in Normandy, France, creates a new painting to brighten the spirits of all those sequestered from Covid-19.

03/16/2020

FWAM board member, Mickie Moore Brown, shares her "Doors and Windows on the World" with us--photos she took on a recent trip to Egypt.

03/16/2020

Bookies working hard for the big may2,3 sale at WAM

03/14/2020

What the world is missing during the museum shut down in Italy.

03/10/2020

We've lost two patrons of the arts and past FWAM board officers who paved the way for the rest of us. Paula Varner and Dora Timmerman Bayer, may you R.I.P.

I got to say goodbye to Dora without knowing it. I stopped in to see my friend Bev Hoover, also a past FWAM president, at Larksfield a month ago, and Dora Timmerman Bayer and her husband Bob came into our room to visit. Dora was an extraordinary person. We worked on the restoration of the Soldiers and Sailors monument on the lawn of the Old Courthouse, and we were on again-off again board members of the Friends of the Wichita Art Museum for at least 25 years. Dora did more to introduce art to the children of Wichita than anyone in this city. A beautiful, soft spoken woman, loaded with smarts and talent. We've lost a good one in Dora.

What can I say about Paula? Just a sharp, talented woman who knew the history of the Wichita Art Museum like the back of her hand. She worked tirelessly with Pam Kingsbury, Steve Gleissner, the late Mary Ellen Barrier and others who served on the FWAM board at the time to start our on-building endowment which benefits the Wichita Art Museum yearly. Paula was the go-to woman if anyone had a question about the museum or any community development for that matter. Paula had her fingers on the pulse of Wichita a city she loved and served well into her 90s.

These two fabulous, powerful women will be greatly missed.

03/07/2020

The Met is having a party in its honor on April 13 of this year. The museum that sees 7 million visitors pass through its doors to view 1.5 million collection objects covering 5,000 years of history will be 150 years on that date. Big plans, including a huge cake, dinners and dancing in the museum, and invitations to every living artist in its collection, are in the works. Look for the Empire State Building to be lit up in red for the celebration.

03/04/2020

Explore our museum store. Lots of unique gifts and treasures!

03/04/2020

Perhaps taking a cue from WAM with its current Preston Singletary exhibit, Artnet News reports:

Native American Art Has Become a Sleeper Sensation in Museums and the Art Market Alike.

03/02/2020

Art Lovers and Volunteers Recreate Georges Seurat’s Famous Painting in Real Life

Gotta' love the reenactors.

https://themindcircle.com/seurat-recreation-beloit/?fbclid=IwAR2FEbMYfDO8H0ljW016rQlYxWZXC-Houw4SHJQCWyeWw7gDlAC0KU77xMc

In 2006, volunteers recreated Georges Seurat’s famous painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, along Beloit’s riverfront in Wisconsin.

02/28/2020

Check out the unique cards at the WAM store!

02/27/2020

The Friends enjoyed their first trip so well, they're doing an encore. This time to The Momentary, a satellite to Benton, AR's famous Crystal Bridges. The Friends leave by motor coach April 23-25, 2020.