Events
Family ArtVenture: A Sewful Celebration with Stephen Towns
January 17, 2026 | 11:00am
Featured Event, FREE Event, Safer Waters: Picturing Black Recreation at Midcentury, Exhibitions, Youth & Family, Youth & Family
Cost:
FREE and Open to the Public
Location:
Wichita Art Museum
Family ArtVenture: A Sewful Celebration with Stephen Towns
Saturday, January 17, 2026
11AM – 3PM
WAM invites you to a Family ArtVenture with a very special guest: Stephen Towns, the artist of Safer Waters: Picturing Black Recreation at Midcentury. Inspired by the subject of Towns’ paintings and quilts—a Florida lake resort for Black vacationers in the age of segregation—join us for creativity, community, and learning. While the weather’s chilly and gray, channel sunny summertime days at WAM as you:
· Join guest artist Towns for a storytime in the galleries, and ask him about his art
· Explore the sights, sounds, and scents of Paradise Park at a sensory and imagination station
· Learn to sew by hand, like Towns
· Create wearable art
· Travel back in time to Paradise Park in the 1950s with swing music and dance
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.
StoryTime programs are generously supported by the Walser 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.