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August 19 - September 30, 2007
Curator: Ann Horton
The Artists Guild of Wichita includes over fifty paintings in ink, pastel, watercolor, acrylics and oils along with bronze and clay sculpture.
In existance since 1924, the Artists Guild of Wichita has began with a small group of artists who sketched in a studio three nights a week. Within a year of its founding, the Guild was asked to exhibit their work and has continued to exhibit annually since this date.
Many founders of the Artists Guild of Wichita came to Wichita, Kansas to work in advertising and/or the printing industries. Some of the original members of the Guild helped found the Prairie Print Makers in 1930 (of which E. Hubert Deines was a member). With the completion of the Wichita Art Museum, the Guild was invited to be the first to exhibit at its opening ceremonies in 1935. A list of past members of the Guild reads like a "Who's Who" in Kansas’ art history and includes Birger Sandzen.
The history of this organization is intertwined with many major arts organizations, institutions and groups in Kansas. Today, new artists are invited to become members, and the Guild's membership includes highly respected professional artists living in Wichita and the surrounding area. These include painters, sculptors, silversmiths, printmakers, ceramists, and weavers. Their work reflects a variety of styles, techniques and subject matter from traditional realism to modernism to abstract expressionism.
"The Artists Build of Wichita" Artists and Media
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| Rita Beutell |
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wood carving, watercolor/wax painting |
| Doug Billings |
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printmaking |
| Bob Cain |
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clay sculpture |
| Sharon Conaway |
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water media and oil |
| Judy Dove |
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acrylic collage and pastel |
| Rosemary Dugan |
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lithographs |
| Vesta Ewing |
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oil painting and pastel |
| Marty Fergerson |
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oil paintings |
| Maleta Forsberg |
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watercolor |
| Hermine Greywall |
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acrylics |
| Dena Griswold |
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pastel |
| Matthew Hilyard |
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mixed media |
| Christie Hiser |
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pastel and ink |
| Sherry Hoffman |
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bronze sculpture |
| Ann Horton |
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watercolor and pastel |
| Judy Hull |
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oil and pastel |
| Linda Metsker |
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batik |
| Jacquie Nethercot |
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oil paintings |
| Curtis Newby |
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pastel and oil |
| Lynn Nolte |
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watercolor |
| Judith Pearson |
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bronze sculpture |
| Becky Price |
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oil |
| Carole Ranney |
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watercolor and acrylic |
| Betty Sieler |
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watercolor |
| Helen Veatch |
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watercolor |
| Maureen Walter |
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watercolor |
| Mary Ellen Williford |
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pastel |
| Harry Williford |
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oil |
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