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Artcation

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Traveling by water is one of the oldest ways to see the world. You could travel the oceans, seas, rivers, canals, and lakes of the earth's watery passageways.

Free
The word Artcation in a colorful, stylized font with a line drawing of the the sun and date 2021
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Artcation

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Railroads first connected America's coasts in the 1800s. Today the United States has more than 125,000 miles of train tracks. Where will you go?

Free
The word Artcation in a colorful, stylized font with a line drawing of the the sun and date 2021
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Artcation

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Your imagination is all you need to travel to a destination of your own creation.

Free
The word Artcation in a colorful, stylized font with a line drawing of the the sun and date 2021
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Family ArtVenture: Rock On

Featured Event, Outdoor Activity, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum
Free
Girl in purple shirt and red apron hanging an anstract artwork on a string tied to a tree in the Art Garden
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Summer Birthday Bash

Featured Event, Outdoor Activity, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Don't miss this annual birthday celebration!

Free
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Family ArtVenture: Make it Mod

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Unleash your creativity, and make your own mod masterpiece!

Free
Four children around a table with artmaking supplies
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Family ArtVenture: A Nod to Nordfeldt

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Family-friendly activities to celebrate the Swedish heritage of artist B.J.O. Nordfeldt

Free
Photograph of people around a table with art supplies -- scissors, pencils, teal plastic basket with glue sticks and colorful drawings they have made. From left, dark-haired girl with a large pink bow on the back of her head and wearing a pink shirt with a face wrapped in a white scarf on the front; woman with dark hair and dark glasses, wearing a long-sleeved maroon shirt, in the center a younger girl holding a cutout snowman. She has dark hair with a large white bow and is wearing a gray sweater. Next to her is an adult male, dark-haired, wearing a black jacket with white stripe from shoulder to wrist, with a marker in his hand, coloring a piece of paper in front on him on the table. At far right is another dark-haired girl wearing a light, mossy green long-sleeved shirt. She is holding a yellow and green picture in her hand.
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Family ArtVenture: PetPalooza

Featured Event, Outdoor Activity, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

ArtVenture goes to the dogs! Bring your special companion along for some pet-friendly outdoor activities.

Free
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Winter Art Mania: Ar(t)cade

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

What is WAM thankful for? Our visitors!

Free
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Winter Art Mania: Ar(t)cade

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

What is WAM thankful for? Our visitors!

Free
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Holiday Open House

Featured Event, Youth & Family, Friends of the Wichita Art Museum
Wichita Art Museum

Celebrate the season with a visit with a visit with Santa, live reindeer, dance performances and get in the holiday spirit!

Free, Free
Santa, Mrs. Claus, dressed in green and red, and an elf dressed in red.
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Winter Art Mania

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Bring all your gnomies, big and small, to WAM!

Free
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Family ArtVenture: Dream Weaver

Featured Event, Outdoor Activity, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Come to WAM for an afternoon of warm and woolly fun with alpacas and artmaking.

Free Admission
A fawn colored alpaca, shown from head and neck, with the body of a darker brown alpaca behind. The alpaca are in a steel pipe enclose, with a portion of the enclosure visible in the background and people standing outside looking at the animals.
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Family ArtVenture: Art Around the Block

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

See our new print exhibition and explore the art of printmaking

Free admission
Family of four sitting at a able making art
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Artcation: Adventures in Sci-Fi

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Explore the mysteries of otherwordly places with artmaking and more!

$1 admission for youth 5 and older
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Artcation: Adventures in Sci-Fi

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Explore the mysteries of otherwordly places with artmaking and more!

$1 admission for youth 5 and older
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Artcation: Adventures in Sci-Fi

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Explore the mysteries of otherwordly places with artmaking and more!

$1 admission for youth 5 and older
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Artcation: Adventures in Sci

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Explore the mysteries of otherwordly places with artmaking and more!

$1 admission for youth 5 and older
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Family ArtVenture: Deco Dance!

Featured Event, Youth & Family

Get your toes tapping at an Art Deco-inspired all-ages dance party

Free admission
Boy in orange shirt and jean jumping on his hands in front of a group of other children
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Family ArtVenture: Mer-May

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Explore the mysteries of the ocean during this fin-tastic event!

Free admission & activities
Colorful abstract drawing with green lines, purple and blue shapes, on an off-white tray with pencils, other art supplies, and other drawings on the tabletop around it.
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Family ArtVenture: Rock, Paper, Scissors

Outdoor Activity, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Join in the fun in the Art Garden and all around WAM

Free admission and activities
Boy in yellow shirt and kakhi shorts and woman in blue shirt and striped shorts kneeling on a sidewalk with three blue rights in front of them.
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Tunes + Tallgrass: The Wizard of Oz

Outdoor Activity, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

We're off to see the Wizard with a free movie night

Free
Glittery red slippers with a bow centered on a yellow brick background and emereld green text reading Tunes + Tallgrass, Friday July 15
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Summer Birthday Bash

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Celebrate WAM's 87th birthday with cool treats, Pan ICT Steel Drum band, and more!

Free
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Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

This is an annual celebration of boundless curiosity is hosted by Smithsonian Magazine

Free
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Family ArtVenture: Get Smart With Art

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Celebrate National Arts in Education Week with Wichita Public Schools

Free
Graphic image of a dark-haired girl in front an aqua blue background with a marker in her hand and the words Celebrate National Arts in Education Week with Wichita Public Schools. The girl is wearing a white top and red pleated skirt. Her hair is braided.

Family ArtVenture: Paper Screams

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Treat yourself to a day of schemes, screams, and spook-tacular artmaking

Free
Woman with dark hair and dressed in a black top, leans toward a dark-haired girl, dressed in pink, holding a white marker to her face and looking at a piece of paper on hte table in front of them. The woman's hand is next to the child's. indicating something on the paper. A green plastic basket with pencils and other art supplies are on the table.
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Family ArtVenture: Friendsgiving

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Bring your friends, bring your family for artmaking, music, and more on Thanksgiving weekend

Free
Group of people sitting on the stairs, with one person standing with their back to the camera, holding a cell phone and taking a photograph of the group.
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Family ArtVenture: Fleeced to Meet You!

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Create Kansas-themed art & make friends with a Flatland Ranch alpaca

Free
A child's and an adult's hands making art with strips of colored paper next to a container of scissors on a white tabletop
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Family ArtVenture: We Love Colors

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Harvester Arts Managing Director and dance artist Mina Estrada debuts a performance featuring dancers Sheldon Mba and Aviance Battles

Free
Arm and hand of a child with a colorful array of paints and stamps on a table top
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Cubing at the Museum

Featured Event, Adult Events & Programs, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Speedcubing is a fast-paced competition to solve Rubik's Cubes

Free
Color bars of green, teal and purple
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Spring Break Artcation

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Go on a vacation without leaving the museum!

Free admission & activities
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Spring Break Artcation

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Go on a vacation without leaving the museum!

Free admission & activities
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Spring Break Artcation

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum
Free admission
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Family ArtVenture: The Little Read

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Experience the joy of reading & art together as part of The Big Read Wichita

Free
Two little boys who are white with blonde hair sit on a wooden bench facing away from each other while one of them holds up a book. They have on dark long-sleeve shirts and jeans.
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Family ArtVenture: Playful Patterns

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Playful patterns make fashion and art pop!

Free admission
Six colorful fabrics and papers photo-stitched together reflect playful patterns of various shapes
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Family ArtVenture: Ani-May

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Step into the world of anime & come dressed as your favorite anime character

Free
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Storytime

Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Summer storytime for young learners

Free
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Family ArtVenture: Summer Celebration

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Performances, glass-blowing demonstrations & artmaking for all ages

Free
Family ArtVenture Summer Celebration

Storytime

Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Summer storytime for young learners

Free
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Family ArtVenture: WAM Stars

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

What happens when works of art are the stars of the show?

Free event. No reservations required.
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Storytime: “Dream Snow” by Eric Carle

Storytime, Youth & Family, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Children and caregivers enjoy Storytime in the Galleries with new books each month.

Free

Family ArtVenture: Holiday Open House

Featured Event, Youth & Family, Friends of the Wichita Art Museum
Wichita Art Museum

Come early to meet Santa, Mrs. Claus, and their reindeer. Enjoy holiday performances and storytelling and create your own work of art.

Free event. No reservations required.
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WAM Winter Break Camp

Featured Event, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum
Fee for a week-long session: $125/participant, $100/participant for Members.
Winter Break Camp
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Summer WAM Camp: Brushes and Branches: An Outdoor Painting Experience | Ages 6 (finished kindergarten) to 8 years old

WAM Camp, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Ages 6 (finished kindergarten) to 8 years old. Explore the Art Garden at WAM to be inspired to create your masterpieces. Explore shadows, make paint, and be prepared to get messy as we explore the wonders of nature and art.

Weekly Session: $100/participant (Members) | $125/participant (public)
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Summer WAM Camp: Brush and Beyond: Mixed Media Extravaganza! Ages 9 to 12 years old

WAM Camp, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Ages 9 to 12 years old. Walk on the wild side to explore how out-of-ordinary materials combine in the process of art. Be inspired by WAM’s Art Garden and get “outside” of the box to create artworks that will surely “pop”!

Weekly Session: $100/participant (Members) | $125/participant (public)

Storytime: “The Concrete Garden” by Bob Graham

Storytime, Youth & Family, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Children and caregivers enjoy Storytime in the Galleries with new books each month.

Free event. No reservations required.
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Summer WAM Camp – Wild Wonders: Printmaking with Nature | Ages 6 (finished kindergarten) to 8 years old

WAM Camp, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Ages 6 (finished kindergarten) to 8 years old. Little artists will explore different printmaking techniques to discover how art can capture the beauty of nature with plants and flowers, garden veggies, and sunshine to celebrate the summer season.

Weekly Session: $100/participant (Members) | $125/participant (public)
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Summer WAM Camp: Add a Little Ink and Imagination | Ages 9 to 12 years old

WAM Camp, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Ages 9 to 12 years old. Explore the fun of printmaking—be bold with color, peel away a surprise, make a lasting print, and ink on the creativity.

Weekly Session: $100/participant (Members) | $125/participant (public)
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Teen Studio Workshop: Exploring Portraiture Through Paint (3 session workshop)

Robert Peterson: Somewhere In America, RSVPs & Ticketed Events, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Teen Workshop: explore the world of portraiture as you embark on your own thoughtful painting process during this three-session workshop.
This workshop includes 3 Sunday Sessions: 10/27, 11/03, and 11/10 - 1 - 3:30 PM.

$75 for 3 sessions | Open to High School Teens

Storytime: “The Quilt” by Ann Jonas

Storytime, Youth & Family, Youth & Family
Wichita Art Museum

Children and caregivers enjoy Storytime in the Galleries with new books each month.

Free event. No reservations required.

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