Events
Family ArtVenture: Backstage
March 21, 2026 | 11:00am
Alex Katz: Theatre & Dance, Featured Event, FREE Event, Exhibitions, Youth & Family, Youth & Family
Cost:
FREE and Open to the Public
Location:
Wichita Art Museum
Organizer:
WAM + Harverster Arts
Smack Dab Dance Lab dancers
Family ArtVenture: Backstage
Saturday, March 21, 2026 | 11 AM – 3 PM
Free and open to the public ◆ Including admission to Alex Katz: Theater and Dance
Backstage takes centerstage for a Family ArtVenture celebrating dance, theater, and technical artistry. In partnership with Harvester Arts, WAM invites you to play with stagecraft in every corner of the museum (including in the exhibition Alex Katz: Theater and Dance) with programming for visitors of all ages, including a Storytime dance in the exhibition.
Pull back the curtain with us as:
- Smack Dab Dance Lab dancers greet you at the door with color, rhythm, and smiles
- Museum teacher Mason Talbott casts you in a shadow puppet play
- Clown Madi White shares her tricks in a drop-in camp (12 and 1PM)
- Dancers move, read, and look with you for Storytime in the exhibition (1 and 2PM)
- You make art inspired by Alex Katz and performing artists
Thank you for our sponsors
Thank you to our sponsors:
Youth and Family programs are generously supported by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program.
Free Saturday Featured Events and Library Passes* are sponsored by Colby Sandlian, Sandlian Realty.
Youth Education programs are supported by the Lynne Ruffin-Smith Charitable Foundation.
Exhibitions and public programs are generously supported by the Downing Foundation.
The Wichita Art Museum’s education programs are supported in part by the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission, which receives funding from Kansas Department of Commerce and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
* Thanks to the generous support of Colby Sandlian, Sandlian Realty, more than 40 public libraries in the metro area and across the state offer access to check out passes to all temporary exhibitions at WAM for FREE! Visit your library and check out your pass today!
General admission to the museum is free to everyone.