Name: Tunes+Tallgrass: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Start: 2023-06-16T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2023-06-16T23:30:00-05:00
Location: Art Garden at the Wichita Art Museum

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March 2023

Sun 19

March 19, 2023 | 5:00pm

Chamber Music Society: Akropolis Reed Quintet

Featured Event, Adult Events & Programs

Wichita Art Museum

Five reed players with a shared passion to make music that sparks joy & wonder

$30 general public; $25 for WAM members

Group of people holding musical instruments standing in front of a bank of tall windows

Fri 24

March 24, 2023 | 6:30pm

WAM Nights: mama.film Series – The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Featured Event, WAM Nights, Adult Events & Programs

Wichita Art Museum

The second in a mama.film series celebrating the art of costume design on screen

$10 general public; free to WAM members

Three men in colorful costumes of yellow, blue and red stand together with their backs toward the camera and look out over the desert

Sat 25

March 25, 2023 | 11:00am - 3:00pm

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.

Fri 31

March 31, 2023 | 6:30pm

WAM Nights: Gallery Talk with Robert Peterson

Featured Event, Adult Events & Programs

Wichita Art Museum

Hear from Oklahoma artist Robert Peterson as he discusses his life & work

Free admission

Photo of a Black man with a mustache and goatee wearing a red baseball hat and a black hoodie with a stud on his left ear and gold chain with a circular photo attached to it

April 2023

Wed 5

April 5, 2023 | 10:30am

Senior Wednesday: Wichita Wore What?

Featured Event, Exhibitions, Senior Wednesday, Adult Events & Programs

Wichita Art Museum

Curators from WAM and Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum dish on a century of Wichita fashion

$2 general public; free to WAM members

Installation image of four colorful dresses hanging on display forms: the first short-sleeve dress is long, with orange and gold; the second long-sleeve dress is short with an orange and pink pattern; the third short-sleeve jacket dress has a purple, teal, white and pink design; the fourth short-sleeve, v-neck dress has a shimmery pattern in pastel colors

Sat 8

April 8, 2023 | 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Ask Me! Tour – April

Featured Event, Exhibitions, Docent Programs, Adult Events & Programs

Wichita Art Museum

Docents share their knowledge & insights about WAM's paper fashion exhibition

Free to WAM members or with paid admission

Red Circle with white text: Ask Me! in a cursive font on a turquoise background

Wed 19

April 19, 2023 | 6:00pm

Wichita Jazz Festival: Trombonist Marcus Lewis with the Delano Jazz Orchestra

Featured Event

Wichita Art Museum

Local jazz musicians play with Kansas City's Marcus Lewis on trombone

$30 general public; $25 for WAM members

Photo of a Black man smiling and looking at the camera wearing a light brown hat, light blue shirt and dark blue jacket

Thu 20

April 20, 2023 | 6:00pm

Wichita Jazz Festival: “Night of the Guitars”

Featured Event

Wichita Art Museum

An evening of jazz guitar music with three of Wichita’s most well-known jazz guitarists

$20 general public; $15 WAM members

Man with dark framed glasses and a close trimmed beard, dressed in a white t-shirt, plays a guitar. Standing in front of a dark background with a reflection of a window

Fri 21

April 21, 2023 | 6:00pm

Wichita Jazz Festival: Terell Stafford with the Mid-Kansas Jazz Ensemble and WSU Jazz Arts

Featured Event

Wichita Art Museum

New York-based trumpter Terell Stafford plays with the Mid-Kansas Jazz Ensemble

$30 general public; $25 for WAM members

Sat 22

April 22, 2023 | 10:00am - 5:00pm

Free Day – Isabelle de Borchgrave: Fashioning Art from Paper

Featured Event, Exhibitions, Youth & Family

Wichita Art Museum

See the paper fashion exhibition free on this special Saturday!

Free admission to featured exhibition

Six museum visitors in the galleries standing near the tutus and kaftans from the exhibition

Sat 22

April 22, 2023 | 11:00am - 3:00pm

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

Fri 28

April 28, 2023 | 6:00pm

Howard E. Wooden Speaker Series with Fashion Curator Helen Jean

Featured Event, Adult Events & Programs, Friends of the Wichita Art Museum

Wichita Art Museum

Phoenix Art Museum Curator Helen Jean discusses the fascinating fashion phenomenon from the late 1960s

Free admission to the talk

Image of the galleries at the Phoenix Art Museum that show several colorful paper dresses on view

May 2023

Fri 5

May 5, 2023 | 6:30pm

WAM Nights: Gallery Talk with Sharif Bey

Featured Event, WAM Nights, Adult Events & Programs

Vollmer Gallery Wichita Art Museum, 1400 West Museum Blvd.

Bey combines his intellectual curiosity, scholarly research & love of physically making art to create work that is not simply beautiful but layered with history, cultural critique, & knowledge of biology and geology.

Free