Nordfeldt Connections pairs with An American Internationalist: B. J. O. Nordfeldt to highlight this internationally regarded artist’s connections to Wichita in the 1930s. Nordfeldt was tied to our city through local son Ed Davison, a banker and painter who summered in New Mexico and befriended many notable artists in the art colonies of Taos and […]

Richard Marquis: Keepers is a late career survey of a towering figure in the Studio Glass movement. Richard Marquis is known for extraordinary technique, comic sensibility, bold innovations, and iconoclastic spirit. In his 50-year career, he has consistently been gleefully inventive and unfailingly smart. His work is collected and exhibited world-wide. The 119 objects in the exhibition are […]

African American Art in the 20th Century: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond, presents nearly 50 paintings and sculptures by 34 African American artists. These masterpieces explore everyday American themes as well as those specific to the African American experience, including the struggle for economic and civil rights, the beauties and hardships of life […]

Foot in the Door celebrates the artists who call Wichita home. Featuring the work of hundreds of Wichita artists—young and old, professional and emerging—the exhibition showcases 12x12-inch artworks—from paintings and prints to drawings and reliefs. Artworks were accepted on a first come, first serve basis from Wichita artists eager to get their “foot in the […]

A Tale of Two Women: Louise Caldwell Murdock and Elizabeth Navas celebrates the two female visionaries responsible for the formation of the Wichita Art Museum. In 1915, Murdock made it her mission to ensure that her hometown would have an art museum, donating her family fortune to the purchase of a “significant collection” of American […]