Happening at Harester - Dec. 29 - Jan. 4
December 29, 2025 | Kristin
Help us reach our goal!
As the year wraps up, we’re feeling so grateful for all the ways Harvester Arts has helped spark creativity, build community, and bring people together through art with artist residencies, workshops, gallery exhibitions, public projects, and pop-ups right here in Wichita. Your support has helped us expand creative capacity and make space for fresh ideas, bold experimentation, and connection.
We’re almost at our fundraising goal, and we could really use one last boost before the year ends! Whether it’s a one-time gift or joining as a monthly Harvester Arts Subscriber, your contribution keeps artists thriving and keeps art alive and accessible in our community.
Your generosity makes all the magic happen. Thank you!
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In the Galleries
We’re installing our next exhibitions and can’t wait to share them with you at the next opening reception!
January Harvest
A collection of works from artists from Wichita Sketch Club and our city’s ever-growing creative community
PIECES
A fundraiser for Gallery Place Collectives featuring portions of community mural walls from 2021-2025. Harvester Arts’ Gallery Place Collective is a team of multi-disciplinary artists who create engaging activations for the community. The proceeds earned from these pieces will go directly to support the collective.
Ethereal Currents
Ethereal Currents presents a body of work by Monica Morris where paintings are steeped in atmosphere, movement, and quiet introspection. Using a process-driven approach, each artwork begins with handwritten journaling or gestural drawing that remains hidden beneath sweeping motions, layered textures, and translucent fields of color. In this series, forms dissolve into fluid transitions between light and shadow, creating spaces that feel suspended between the tangible and the intangible. The paintings invite the viewer to linger in these thresholds, where edges blur and boundaries soften, evoking a sense of weightlessness and calm.
Ethereal Currents is an invitation to pause, breathe, and experience the subtle pulse of what lies just beyond sight — a space where presence becomes a form of quiet transcendence.
Nathaniel McManis / Charlottie
An exhibition of framed poetry.
OPENING RECEPTIONS
Friday from 6-8PM | Harvester Arts | Free Entry
Join us on January 2nd for an opening reception to celebrate the new art in the galleries!
HOLIDAY HOURS
We will be closed for the holidays from December 23 through January 1!
Wichita Sketch Club
There will be no sketch club on Dec. 29, 2025. Join us on Jan. 5, 2026 for the next one!
Mondays | 6-9 PM | 120 E 1st St N, Ste 115, Wichita, KS
Calling All Art Nerds! Looking for a chill space to sketch, doodle, or dive into your latest creative project? Join us Monday nights for Wichita Sketch Club! Bring whatever you’re working on — no pressure, just good vibes and good company. Free and open to all. Email info@harvesterarts.org for more info.
WAM Regional Creatives Exhibition: Now & Then by Kathleen Shanahan
Wichita Art Museum | Free and on view through Jan. 11, 2026
Wichita-based artist Kathleen Shanahan explores “all the gritty relationships possible” in her mix media canvases — both in the shrewd and slippery visual links she creates and in her investigation of sensory contrasts. Now and Then: From the Studio of Kathleen Shanahan reunites early examples of her art with recent projects, inviting viewers to chart the “gritty relationships” in her work. A Jack-in-the-pulpit flower’s slender stem and undulating bloom; a water bird’s S-curve neck and scissors-shaped head; a dog’s corkscrew tail; a child’s bouncy curls — these are a handful of the many images she rhymes, layers, and splices together.
WAM’s Naftzger Family Regional Creatives exhibition series is dedicated to exhibiting art by local artists. This program is a partnership with Harvester Arts, a local nonprofit art organization fostering opportunities for Wichita creatives. Their core values of experimentation, capacity building, and community engagement are a framework for this partnership, which includes this exhibition space and programming with local creatives, including performances, talks, and pop-up experiences.
Artist INC 2026 Applications are open!
Application Deadline: Jan. 28, 2026
Are you a painter, poet, photographer, performer (really, we welcome artists of any discipline) who is looking for help on how to set goals for your arts practice? Maybe you need help writing about your work for your artist statement or to pursue a grant or residency? Or perhaps you need some solid tips on how to build your personal and professional brands? You’ve landed in the right place.
Led by Harvester Arts, Artist INC Wichita takes place annually over the course of eight consecutive Tuesdays from 6-9 p.m., March 31, 2026 - May 19, 2026. Sessions will take place at 120 E. First St. N., Wichita, KS 67202.
For more information or to apply, visit https://artistinc.art/communities/wichita/
Harvester Arts joins the Purple Line Project
The Purple Line Project is an initiative of ComfortCare Homes, a Wichita-based innovator in memory care for more than 30 years. This groundbreaking initiative empowers businesses to make their establishments more welcoming and accessible to individuals living with dementia and their care partners.
Services Offered by Harvester Arts
Creative Consulting: We offer guidance and collaboration on artistic and community-centered projects — helping you bring bold, creative ideas to life.
Pop-Up Experiences: Looking to add something special to your event? We create engaging, art-based pop-up experiences perfect for community gatherings, festivals, and private parties.
Space Rentals: Our unique venue at Harvester Arts is available to rent for parties, meetings, workshops, and events. It’s the perfect backdrop for gatherings that inspire creativity and connection.
Let’s Work Together: To learn more or book a service, contact us at info@harvesterarts.org.
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