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  • Jul 12 Tuesday

    Sorting out Facts, Truth, and Opinion | Engage ICT with 1A

    Brickyard
    07:00 PM - 09:00 PM on Tue, 12 Jul 2022

    Join KMUW at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 12, at the Brickyard for a special edition of Engage ICT as part of 1A's Remaking America.

    Guest-hosted by 1A's Jenn White, this in-person event will take place outdoors at the Brickyard in Wichita's Old Town. *Space is limited. Please RSVP at engageict.org.*

    Unlike most Engage ICT events, this conversation will not be live-streamed. A future episode of 1A will feature our talk. 1A airs weekdays on KMUW from 9 to 11 a.m.

    Panelists to be announced. Submit your questions in advance to info@kmuw.org.

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  • Jul 20 Wednesday

    Trust by Hernan Diaz | KMUW's Literary Feast

    KMUW
    $10
    06:00 PM - 07:30 PM on Wed, 20 Jul 2022

    KMUW's monthly book club features selections made by KMUW staff. For July we're reading Trust by Hernan Diaz.

    "Told through 4 documents, 'Trust' is really 4 books in one, each examining a different perspective of the richest man in 1920s America."
    Beth Golay, host of Marginalia

    We'll meet in-person at KMUW for a group discussion over dinner and drinks from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 20. Dinner is provided by Public.

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  • Jul 03 Sunday

    The International Block Print Renaissance Then and Now

    Wichita Art Museum
    $5-$10
    10:00 AM - 05:00 PM, every day through Aug 07, 2022.

    The International Block Print Renaissance began in the last decades of the 19th century in Europe, as artists and collectors rediscovered the block print medium. Wichita played a major role in expanding this renaissance throughout America. In 1922, the newly assembled Wichita Art Association presented American Block Print Makers as one of its first exhibitions. The exhibition inaugurated a century-long relationship between Wichita and prints. Beginning in 1928, Wichita hosted an annual juried block print exhibition. It continued through the 1990s and became one of the most important print competitions in America. In these same years, the Wichita-based Prairie Print Makers—a national print artist collective—was founded, and from 1931 through 1965 assembled annual exhibitions. Together, these events firmly established Wichita’s position in the history of printmaking and American art. "The International Block Print Renaissance Then and Now" includes over 140 prints. Together with its accompanying catalogue, the exhibition explores Wichita’s important role in the history of this international renaissance. It features prints by European leaders including Emil Orlik, Walther Klemm, Henri Riviére, Frank Morley Fletcher, John Platt, Allen Seaby, Jules Chadel, Hans Neumann, and Auguste Lepére. It also includes works by the Japanese masters Katsushika Hokusai and Ando Hiroshige. These European and Japanese masters influenced and inspired the American printmakers featured in the show, including B.J.O. Nordfeldt, Ernest Watson, Helen Hyde, Frances Gearhart, Gustave Baumann, and C.A. Seward. Many of these artists were chosen for the initial 1922 exhibition and the annual print shows that followed.
    The International Block Print Renaissance Then and Now also celebrates the ongoing vigor of this renaissance through the work of 12 contemporary printmakers—Jean Gumpper, Mark Sisson, Mike Lyon, Karen Kunc, Leon Loughridge, Gordon Mortenson, Micah Schwaberow, Walt Padgett, Michelle Martin, Tim High, Louise Fisher, and Linda Lee Boyd. These artists—like their predecessors who worked a century before—continue to push the artistic possibilities of the block print medium. Join WAM in celebrating the 100th anniversary of block prints in our city, then and now.

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  • Jul 03 Sunday

    Learning From the Japanese: The International Block Print Renaissance

    Wichita Art Museum
    $5-$10 Museum Admission
    10:00 AM - 05:00 PM, every day through Aug 28, 2022.

    At the 1867 Paris World’s Fair, Japanese block prints—previously unknown to most European and American audiences—took the art world by storm, reawakening interest in block printmaking in Europe and America. Western artists were captivated by Japanese printmakers’ way of viewing the world.
    Japanese prints depicted everyday subject matter (including landscapes, birds, flowers, fashionable women, and famous actors), unlike the traditional European focus on religious or historical scenes. The style was equally compelling—Japanese prints featured cropped compositions and bird’s-eye views, rather than European one-point perspective.
    Numerous exhibitions of these prints soon followed, and their popularity spread throughout Europe and America. These color woodcuts so impressed artists in Europe and America that a revival of interest in the possibilities of block printmaking occurred—the International Block Print Renaissance.
    This exhibition, organized in conjunction with "The International Block Print Renaissance Then and Now," explores the rich thematic, stylistic, and technical connections between Japanese and Western block prints from the late 19th century. It features Japanese and European block printmakers, including Utagawa Hiroshige, Imao Keinen, Utagawa Kunisada, William Nicholson, Emil Orlik, and Felix Valloton.
    The exhibition is guest curated by Barbara Thompson. Thompson is an independent curator and collector devoted to prints. As the granddaughter of artist C.A. Seward—a prime force behind the Wichita artist- collective the Prairie Print Makers.

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  • Jul 03 Sunday

    Beth Lipman: All in Time

    Wichita Art Museum
    $5-$10
    10:00 AM - 05:00 PM, every day through Sep 25, 2022.

    In celebration of Beth Lipman--whose monumental, 3-ton sculpture Living History was recently unveiled in the museum’s Boeing Foyer--WAM presents All in Time, a mid-career retrospective of the artist featuring her work from the mid-2000s through today.

    For over 20 years, artist Beth Lipman has used glass and other materials to create luscious and sumptuous still lifes. These still lifes feature everything from bowls of fruit to prehistoric plants to piles of books. For Lipman, each still life object speaks to identity--of an individual, a society, and of human culture in general. All in Time brings into focus Lipman's long interest in using glass to explore issues of life, creation, decay, and death--the fleeting nature of human life and human history contrasted with the billions of years of geological time. What is the role of humanity and art in a world and universe that existed long before us? What do we create that endures?

    Beth Lipman is a star of the contemporary art world. The Museum of Arts and Design staged a one-person survey exhibition last year with related catalogue. She has been honored with artist fellowships by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. In 2013, she was honored by a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. That same year, PBS featured her in the Craft in America documentary. In 2018, Lipman was elected a Fellow of the American Craft Council. Recently, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Arkansas) and Chrysler Museum of Art (Virginia) have commissioned major Lipman artworks. She is currently working on a major project with the Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio). Her work is held in permanent collections across the country, from the de Young Museum in San Francisco to the Brooklyn Museum in New York.

    Beth Lipman: All in Time is organized by the Wichita Art Museum.

    The 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.

    Image: Beth Lipman, "Sphenophyllum and Chains," 2019. G;ass, wood, metal, paint, and adhesive, 54 x 50 x 38 inches. Collection of the artist. Photo by Rich Maciejewski

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  • Jul 03 Sunday

    ShowerUp Wichita | Sundays

    Church On the Street Wichita
    Every 18 weeks through Jul 31, 2022.
    Sunday: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    ShowerUp: Mobile Showers And Personal Care ShowerUp serves those experiencing homelessness and anyone in need by providing mobile showers, hygiene resources, and personal care. It’s our goal to Shower Grace, Hope, and Love with everyone.

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  • Jul 03 Sunday

    Central Kansas Ostomy Support Group

    Child Advocacy Center of Sedgwick County
    06:30 PM - 08:00 PM, every day through N/A.

    The ostomy support group meets the second Tuesday of each month at the Child Advocacy Center on Lincoln between Emporia and Topeka in the Education Center. We welcome ostomates and their support people to a time of learning, networking and support at 6:30 p.m. monthly. For more information call Valerie at 316-799-9456.

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  • Jul 04 Monday

    The International Block Print Renaissance Then and Now

    Wichita Art Museum
    $5-$10
    10:00 AM - 05:00 PM, every day through Aug 07, 2022.

    The International Block Print Renaissance began in the last decades of the 19th century in Europe, as artists and collectors rediscovered the block print medium. Wichita played a major role in expanding this renaissance throughout America. In 1922, the newly assembled Wichita Art Association presented American Block Print Makers as one of its first exhibitions. The exhibition inaugurated a century-long relationship between Wichita and prints. Beginning in 1928, Wichita hosted an annual juried block print exhibition. It continued through the 1990s and became one of the most important print competitions in America. In these same years, the Wichita-based Prairie Print Makers—a national print artist collective—was founded, and from 1931 through 1965 assembled annual exhibitions. Together, these events firmly established Wichita’s position in the history of printmaking and American art. "The International Block Print Renaissance Then and Now" includes over 140 prints. Together with its accompanying catalogue, the exhibition explores Wichita’s important role in the history of this international renaissance. It features prints by European leaders including Emil Orlik, Walther Klemm, Henri Riviére, Frank Morley Fletcher, John Platt, Allen Seaby, Jules Chadel, Hans Neumann, and Auguste Lepére. It also includes works by the Japanese masters Katsushika Hokusai and Ando Hiroshige. These European and Japanese masters influenced and inspired the American printmakers featured in the show, including B.J.O. Nordfeldt, Ernest Watson, Helen Hyde, Frances Gearhart, Gustave Baumann, and C.A. Seward. Many of these artists were chosen for the initial 1922 exhibition and the annual print shows that followed.
    The International Block Print Renaissance Then and Now also celebrates the ongoing vigor of this renaissance through the work of 12 contemporary printmakers—Jean Gumpper, Mark Sisson, Mike Lyon, Karen Kunc, Leon Loughridge, Gordon Mortenson, Micah Schwaberow, Walt Padgett, Michelle Martin, Tim High, Louise Fisher, and Linda Lee Boyd. These artists—like their predecessors who worked a century before—continue to push the artistic possibilities of the block print medium. Join WAM in celebrating the 100th anniversary of block prints in our city, then and now.

    Read More

  • Jul 04 Monday

    Learning From the Japanese: The International Block Print Renaissance

    Wichita Art Museum
    $5-$10 Museum Admission
    10:00 AM - 05:00 PM, every day through Aug 28, 2022.

    At the 1867 Paris World’s Fair, Japanese block prints—previously unknown to most European and American audiences—took the art world by storm, reawakening interest in block printmaking in Europe and America. Western artists were captivated by Japanese printmakers’ way of viewing the world.
    Japanese prints depicted everyday subject matter (including landscapes, birds, flowers, fashionable women, and famous actors), unlike the traditional European focus on religious or historical scenes. The style was equally compelling—Japanese prints featured cropped compositions and bird’s-eye views, rather than European one-point perspective.
    Numerous exhibitions of these prints soon followed, and their popularity spread throughout Europe and America. These color woodcuts so impressed artists in Europe and America that a revival of interest in the possibilities of block printmaking occurred—the International Block Print Renaissance.
    This exhibition, organized in conjunction with "The International Block Print Renaissance Then and Now," explores the rich thematic, stylistic, and technical connections between Japanese and Western block prints from the late 19th century. It features Japanese and European block printmakers, including Utagawa Hiroshige, Imao Keinen, Utagawa Kunisada, William Nicholson, Emil Orlik, and Felix Valloton.
    The exhibition is guest curated by Barbara Thompson. Thompson is an independent curator and collector devoted to prints. As the granddaughter of artist C.A. Seward—a prime force behind the Wichita artist- collective the Prairie Print Makers.

    Read More

  • Jul 04 Monday

    Beth Lipman: All in Time

    Wichita Art Museum
    $5-$10
    10:00 AM - 05:00 PM, every day through Sep 25, 2022.

    In celebration of Beth Lipman--whose monumental, 3-ton sculpture Living History was recently unveiled in the museum’s Boeing Foyer--WAM presents All in Time, a mid-career retrospective of the artist featuring her work from the mid-2000s through today.

    For over 20 years, artist Beth Lipman has used glass and other materials to create luscious and sumptuous still lifes. These still lifes feature everything from bowls of fruit to prehistoric plants to piles of books. For Lipman, each still life object speaks to identity--of an individual, a society, and of human culture in general. All in Time brings into focus Lipman's long interest in using glass to explore issues of life, creation, decay, and death--the fleeting nature of human life and human history contrasted with the billions of years of geological time. What is the role of humanity and art in a world and universe that existed long before us? What do we create that endures?

    Beth Lipman is a star of the contemporary art world. The Museum of Arts and Design staged a one-person survey exhibition last year with related catalogue. She has been honored with artist fellowships by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. In 2013, she was honored by a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. That same year, PBS featured her in the Craft in America documentary. In 2018, Lipman was elected a Fellow of the American Craft Council. Recently, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Arkansas) and Chrysler Museum of Art (Virginia) have commissioned major Lipman artworks. She is currently working on a major project with the Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio). Her work is held in permanent collections across the country, from the de Young Museum in San Francisco to the Brooklyn Museum in New York.

    Beth Lipman: All in Time is organized by the Wichita Art Museum.

    The 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.

    Image: Beth Lipman, "Sphenophyllum and Chains," 2019. G;ass, wood, metal, paint, and adhesive, 54 x 50 x 38 inches. Collection of the artist. Photo by Rich Maciejewski

    Read More

  • Jul 04 Monday

    Central Kansas Ostomy Support Group

    Child Advocacy Center of Sedgwick County
    06:30 PM - 08:00 PM, every day through N/A.

    The ostomy support group meets the second Tuesday of each month at the Child Advocacy Center on Lincoln between Emporia and Topeka in the Education Center. We welcome ostomates and their support people to a time of learning, networking and support at 6:30 p.m. monthly. For more information call Valerie at 316-799-9456.

    Read More

  • Jul 05 Tuesday

    The International Block Print Renaissance Then and Now

    Wichita Art Museum
    $5-$10
    10:00 AM - 05:00 PM, every day through Aug 07, 2022.

    The International Block Print Renaissance began in the last decades of the 19th century in Europe, as artists and collectors rediscovered the block print medium. Wichita played a major role in expanding this renaissance throughout America. In 1922, the newly assembled Wichita Art Association presented American Block Print Makers as one of its first exhibitions. The exhibition inaugurated a century-long relationship between Wichita and prints. Beginning in 1928, Wichita hosted an annual juried block print exhibition. It continued through the 1990s and became one of the most important print competitions in America. In these same years, the Wichita-based Prairie Print Makers—a national print artist collective—was founded, and from 1931 through 1965 assembled annual exhibitions. Together, these events firmly established Wichita’s position in the history of printmaking and American art. "The International Block Print Renaissance Then and Now" includes over 140 prints. Together with its accompanying catalogue, the exhibition explores Wichita’s important role in the history of this international renaissance. It features prints by European leaders including Emil Orlik, Walther Klemm, Henri Riviére, Frank Morley Fletcher, John Platt, Allen Seaby, Jules Chadel, Hans Neumann, and Auguste Lepére. It also includes works by the Japanese masters Katsushika Hokusai and Ando Hiroshige. These European and Japanese masters influenced and inspired the American printmakers featured in the show, including B.J.O. Nordfeldt, Ernest Watson, Helen Hyde, Frances Gearhart, Gustave Baumann, and C.A. Seward. Many of these artists were chosen for the initial 1922 exhibition and the annual print shows that followed.
    The International Block Print Renaissance Then and Now also celebrates the ongoing vigor of this renaissance through the work of 12 contemporary printmakers—Jean Gumpper, Mark Sisson, Mike Lyon, Karen Kunc, Leon Loughridge, Gordon Mortenson, Micah Schwaberow, Walt Padgett, Michelle Martin, Tim High, Louise Fisher, and Linda Lee Boyd. These artists—like their predecessors who worked a century before—continue to push the artistic possibilities of the block print medium. Join WAM in celebrating the 100th anniversary of block prints in our city, then and now.

    Read More
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