Art Exhibition: Genevieve Frickel
THE ARTISTIC LIFE and WORK of GENEVIEVE FRICKEL Genevieve Ingram Frickel (1900-1985) was an independent visual artist and remarkable figure in the local art and culture scene of mid-century Wichita. Frickel led the Art Department at the Wichita School of Fine Arts before moving to Tucson, Arizona in 1953, where
METAL to the PEDAL — Vintage Pedal Cars
June 2020 – December 2021 50 Years of American Pedal Cars Children’s toys hold a place among the most ancient artifacts. They typically mirror the adult world children aspire to and often teach children how to look forward to life as a grown-up. The pedal car holds a unique position
80th Anniversary Exhibit
April 2019 – November 2020 This year marks the 80th Anniversary of the Museum and celebrates its work to collect, preserve and educate through the interpretation of our local history. Over the years the Museum has featured an encyclopedic range of exhibits telling stories using artifacts – material culture bearing
Prairie Print Makers of Wichita
April 2019 – July 2020 When the Prairie Print Makers organized in 1930 “to further the interest of both artist and laymen in printmaking and collecting” they followed a tradition of print societies established in the nineteenth century to promote fine art and cultivate patronage. From a charter membership of
PAST Guitar Exhibits at the Historical Museum and Exploration Place
The Historical Museum partnered with Exploration Place! January- May 2016 Featured at the Historical Museum was The Electric Guitar – Wichita’s Instrument. The electric guitar may have been born in Los Angeles, California, but it was launched from Wichita (that’s right – Wichita!) in October of 1932. The Historical Museum
The Spirit of Wichita
“The Spirit of Wichita” examines our local history during the early 20th Century, from 1912 to 1939. This long-term exhibit explores the aircraft industry, the oil industry, the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the World War I, the period’s cultural arts, entertainment and technology. Capture the spirit of Wichita through
Fred Wassall- Midwestern Mystic
April 2018 – April 2019 The art of Fred Wassall was the focus of an exhibit at the Historical Museum in the Lois Kay Walls Gallery. Born in Birmingham, England in 1904, Wassall studied at the Brighton School of Art before immigrating to the United States in 1926, settling in
Toys of the Future
September 2018 – January 2019 Toys follow tools as the earliest known artifacts. Essentially the world in miniature created for the amusement of children, toys are fun, yet they exert an influential force upon the present. In our time, the nature of “the toy” has not changed nearly as much as the
Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
A traveling exhibition on view: June 16 – August 11, 2018 Created by the Museum of the City of New York and adapted to tour for NEH on the Road by Mid-America Arts Alliance. Visitors to the exhibition will experience a Riis presentation–immersive life-size photographs, as well as artifacts and personal documentation.
Cecil McAlister
April 2016 – March 2017 Born in Wichita in 1890, Cecil McAlister found employment as a young man at the Western Sign Works Company, notably designing a flour milling exhibit at the 1915 International Wheat Show held at the Forum. After leaving the city in 1918 to study art in