Explore the Art Garden with a Wichita Art Museum docent as your guide! This seasonal, drop-in tour opportunity takes visitors outdoors to explore the Art Garden and its sculptures. Meet in the museum’s Boeing Foyer. Please dress accordingly for an outdoor tour. In case of inclement weather, an indoor museum tour will take place. Ages […]

Painter Keith Jacobshagen is a son of Wichita who achieved rare art-world acclaim. He grew up in Wichita and taught as a faculty artist at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. For decades, any major exhibition on the art of the Midwest and Plains has included Jacobshagen’s hauntingly beautiful landscape painting. Exclusive program for Murdock […]

To celebrate the Wichita Public Library’s annual Big Read, the Wichita Art Museum celebrates literacy and the arts with special artmaking, games, and activities. Families are invited to attend this ArtVenture that brings the joy of reading and the arts together. The 2019 Big Read book is Lab Girl by Hope Jahren, a memoir about […]

Join the Friends of the Wichita Art Museum for a lunch and lecture with Janelle King, community activist, art advocate, interior designer, and entrepreneur. After earning degrees in business administration and organizational development, her focus and passion for interior design led to her opening her own business, The Workroom, in 2013. The store offers interior […]

Join Gloria Groom, Curator of European Painting and Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago, for an illustrated talk exploring the relationship between fashion and modern art at the end of the 19th century. Groom organized the 2012 blockbuster exhibition Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity that toured Paris, Chicago, and New York. The New York Times […]