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Wichita’s Great Plains Transportation Museum hosts benching art exhibit

The Great Plains Transportation Museum in Wichita, Kansas, is hosting an exhibition of 'benching art.' This show features artistic benches, transforming a common functional object into a medium for creative expression.

A ‘showstopper’ of an exhibition at WAM: ‘Alex Katz: Theater and Dance’

The Wichita Art Museum (WAM) has opened a major exhibition titled 'Alex Katz: Theater and Dance,' focusing on the celebrated American artist's decades-long engagement with performing arts subjects. The show features over 50 works, including paintings, collages, and prints, that capture the energy and aesthetics of theater and dance, highlighting Katz's distinctive style of flat planes and bold color.

Artist recreates snapshots of 1950s resort with colorful quilts, paintings at WAM

The Wichita Art Museum (WAM) is presenting a new exhibition by an artist who recreates snapshots of a 1950s resort using colorful quilts and paintings. The works draw on vintage photographs to evoke the leisure and social life of mid-century American resort culture, rendered in textile and paint.

New works by well-known Wichita artists marry the couple’s talents

The Wichita Eagle reports on a new collaborative body of work by a well-known married couple of Wichita artists. The article highlights how their individual artistic practices merge in these new pieces, blending their distinct styles and techniques into a unified creative output.

Iconic photos are part of Gordon Parks exhibition at Wichita Art Museum

The Wichita Art Museum opens "Homeward to the Prairie I Come," an exhibition of 71 photographs by Gordon Parks, running from May 11 to July 27, 2025. The works come from a collection Parks curated and donated to Kansas State University in 1973, now held by the Beach Museum of Art, which co-curated the touring show with Aileen Wang and Sarah Price. The exhibition is organized thematically around five large iconic images, including portraits of Muhammad Ali, Alexander Calder, Malcolm X, and Flavio da Silva, the subject of Parks' first film.