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Thanks to Wichita Mom for this holiday list! You can see Santa and Mrs. Claus this Sunday afternoon during the Friends of WAM Holiday Open House, sponsored by the Friends of the Wichita Art Museum. In addition to photos with Santa, Lamphouse Photo Booth Co. will be here to capture your family's holiday-themed portrait.
Today is the last day to see stunning glass in the show we organized titled "Beth Lipman: All in Time." 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.
Julia guided Friends of the Wichita Art Museum on a tour of the art in our building last week! KLC and the Kansas Health Foundation Conference Center houses a rich and varied collection of painting, sculpture, photography and fiber art by Kansas artists.
Learn more about the intersection of art and leadership in our book In Plain View here:
https://kansasleadershipcenter.org/store/in-plain-view-klc-art-collection/
Today marks the beginning of , and we're pleased to be included in Visit Wichita's list of events and activities with a new exhibition, "Power to the People: Mexican Prints from the Great War to the Cold War." This exhibition is generously supported by City of Wichita- Government and the Friends of the Wichita Art Museum. 2022 exhibitions and public programs are generously supported by the Downing Foundation. Annual exhibition funding is provided by the Judy Slawson Family Exhibition Fund and the Charles E. Baker and Jim V. Phillips Exhibition Fund.
Special thanks to Teresa Molina, assistant professor of Spanish at Friends University, for advising and for translating "Power to the People" exhibition signage and labels for each work of art for our Spanish-speaking visitors.
WAM agradece especialmente a Teresa Molina, profesora de español en la Universidad de Friends, por el asesoramiento y la traducción de la señalización de la exposición Power to the People y de las etiquetas de cada obra de arte para los visitantes de habla hispana.
https://www.visitwichita.com/blog/post/honoring-hispanic-heritage-month-in-wichita/
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.
Tons of tomes! The Friends of the Wichita Art Museum’s “Books and All That Jazz” continues today with live music & performances by Wichita High School East & Buckner Performing Arts Magnet Elementary School from Wichita Public Schools + Roxy's Downtown & more. Join us for Family ArtVenture with free artmaking activities from 11am to 3pm.
Thanks to Visit Wichita for including us on their list! Make sure your calendars are marked for the Friends of the Wichita Art Museum's big book fair, Books and All That Jazz, starting on Friday night, April 29. Books, books, and more books!
The Wall Street Journal, in their review of the Denver Art Museum's "Whistler to Cassatt" exhibition, called our "Mother and Child" painting by Mary Cassatt a "masterpiece!" How fortunate we were to hear from the exhibition curator, Dr. Timothy Standring, back in October during the Friends of the Wichita Art Museum's Howard E. Wooden Lecture, as he gave us a behind-the-scenes look on the making of this fabulous exhibition.
The Friends of the Wichita Art Museum will have Santa & Mrs. Claus here this Sunday afternoon, December 5, during their free Friends of the Wichita Art Museum Holiday Open House. Meet Sparkle the reindeer from Fulton Valley Farms A Country Christmas, too!
Don’t miss the Friends of the Wichita Art Museum’s Blowout Book Sale today & tomorrow. We have tons of tomes in 35 categories!
The career of Will Barnet, born in 1911, "spanned many of the great art movements of 20th-century America. In his early years, Barnet embraced the social realism of the 1930s, making paintings and prints that grappled with the devastating poverty of the Great Depression. In the 1940s and 50s, Barnet turned to abstraction and painted flat, hard-edged geometric shapes that lacked any obvious reference to the observable world. By the early 1960s, however, Barnet had abandoned pure abstraction and returned to depicting the human body—mostly images of his family. He developed a style that would characterize the next 50 years of his career.
"Chess Game" pictures Barnet’s daughter, Ona, in the New York City brownstone the family began renting in the late 1960s. Barnet was fascinated by the 1901 building and used it as the setting for many of his prints and paintings during this period. The artist was particularly interested in the home’s original woodwork—slanting floors, old staircases, bannisters, windows, and doorways. In both his figural and abstract work, Barnet juxtaposed strong verticals with horizontals and curves with right angles.
Image: Will Barnet, "Chess Game," 1973. Oil on canvas, 43 1/4 x 33 inches. Wichita Art Museum, Museum purchase, Friends of the Wichita Art Museum
Book donations needed! The Friends of the Wichita Art Museum are wanting gently used books (no magazines or encyclopedias, please) for the Mini Used Book Sale on June 8. Do you have unneeded books on your bookshelf? Bring them to the Wichita Art Museum--the dropbox is on the north side of the museum's parking lot. And know that your book donations to the Friends, and proceeds from book sales, help support the exhibitions and events at WAM.
Lovely lay out and array of art