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May 9 - June 22, 2008
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition
Kansas Humanities
Listen to America's music and hear the story of freedom. It's the story of people in a New World, places they have left behind, and ideas they have brought with them. It is the story of people who were already here, but whose world is remade. The distinct cultural identities of all of these people are carried in song—both sacred and secular. Their music tracks the unique history of many peoples reshaping each other into one incredibly diverse and complex people—Americans. Their music is the roots of American music.
The music that emerges is known by names like blues, country western, folk ballads, and gospel. The sounds are as sweet as mountain air, and as sultry as a summer night in Mississippi delta country. The instruments vary from fiddle to banjo to accordion to guitar to drum. But a drum in the hands of an African sounds different than one in the hands of a European. And neither is the drumbeat of an American Indian. Yet all the rhythms merge, as do the melodies and harmonies, producing completely new sounds, new music. The musics merge because this is America. New waves of music ride ashore in the hearts and heads of new immigrants and they create still new sounds from what they have brought with them and what they find here. And nothing expresses the tensions, or the triumphs, of this journey into democracy quite like the music that it spawns.
The main beat of the exhibition is the on-going cultural process that has made America the birthplace of more music than any place on earth. The exhibition provides a fascinating, inspiring, and toe-tapping listen to the American story of multi-cultural exchange. The story is full of surprises about familiar songs, histories of instruments, the roles of religion and technology, and the continuity of musical roots from "Yankee Doodle Dandy" to the latest hip hop CD.
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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 |
| 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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acrylicsacrylics |
| 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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Located in Russell, Kansas, the Deines Cultural Center is a non-profit educational resource that enriches local cultural life by providing artistic exhibits and activities, musical events and concerts, educational and historic programs. Free admission and accessibility to those with disabilities, makes it easy to welcome the entire community.
- Visit the Deines Cultural Center>
- History of Deines Cultural Center>
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- Learn about art exhibits, art workshops, and permanent collections including the E. Hubert Deines art collection and Birger Sandzen paintings.
- Featured Exhibits>
- Collections>
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