Wichita Art Museum

The Wichita Art Museum brings people, ideas, and American art together to enrich lives and build community. Discover one of the finest collections of American art, plus a lively schedule of events, along with a hands-on children’s gallery, Art Garden, Museum Store, Muse Cafe, and guided, group tours.

Exhibits

Family ArtVenture: Get SMART with Art
Celebrate National Education Week with WAM and the Wichita Public Schools!
Wichita Public Schools and WAM are proud partners in encouraging all students to experience arts in education! Join us as WAM partners with the state’s largest school district to celebrate Arts in Education Week. This special day will feature WPS student docents in the galleries, student musical performances, art making opportunities hosted by area art teachers, and more. Come celebrate the hard work of teachers and students, educators, and learners!
Saturday, September 17
11 to 3 pm

Beth Lipman: All in Time
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.

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