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See what else we have to offerWichita Wore What? A Century of Local Fashion spotlights our city’s fashionable history. In 1870, Wichita officially boasted about 700 residents. By the turn of the 20th century, however, Wichita had become a major regional center offering a wide variety of shopping spots, places to see and be seen, and residents eager to assert their identities as refined citizens of the world. With nearly a dozen department stores dotting the downtown area alone, Wichitans could admire and purchase the latest styles from the East Coast and beyond. As the city continued to flourish after World War I and World War II–with the success of companies including Coleman, Metholatum, Travel Air, Beech, Stearman, and Cessna–residents continued to embrace the most up-to-date designs.
Wichita Wore What? features clothing and accessories worn in Wichita from 1888-1988, surveying changes in both apparel and lifestyle. The exhibition includes designs by superstars like Sadie Nemser, James Galanos, Geoffrey Beene, Halston, Norman Norell, Oscar de la Renta, and Bill Blass. It also features clothing worn by key figures in Wichita’s history including the city’s first female mayor, Connie Peters, and civil rights icon Chester I. Lewis.
Wichita Wore What? A Century of Local Fashion is drawn from the collections of the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum and local collectors. The exhibition is organized in conjunction with Isabelle de Borchgrave: Fashioning Art from Paper. See extraordinary paper reproductions of textiles from around the world in Isabelle de Borchgrave and enjoy an immersion in local fashion in Wichita Wore What?
From the Permian through the Jurassic, journey to the south polar landscapes of Antarctica hundreds of millions of years ago. Roam the primitive forests and thick swamps with bizarre dinosaurs and colossal amphibians. Enter a surreal world of bug-eyed giants and egg-laying mammals where survival means enduring the sunless, six-month polar winter surrounded by meat-eaters with night vision. Join intrepid Antarctic scientists on a quest to understand the ice continen
Rated: G | Run Time: 40 Minutes | Daily: 11:00 am, 1:00 pm, 3:00 pm and Thursdays only: 5:00 pm
Experience GOLDEN REPAIR at the Envision Arts Gallery featuring Ciara McCaughy, Laridda Murphy, and Brandon Murphy.
To honor Black History Month, this group of artists has taken the Japanese art of Kintsugi which is a technique known as, “golden repair” used in repairing pottery with gold or silver lacquer as a philosophy to treat the breakage and expose its damage as opposed to disguising it to be something it is not. Metaphorically, this technique is a way for these artists who are Black and Disabled as a way for them to examine the many parts that make them who they are and to honor each part as not being “broken” by life’s experiences, trauma, and heartache, but pieced together by each account and desire that makes each life uniquely whole, worthy, deserving…beautiful.
Poems and written word statements accompany this body of ceramic artwork and examine the raw emotions of what it means to be Black and Disabled in today’s society.
On display in the Patricia A. Peer Window Gallery until March 31.
The Envision Arts Gallery is the premier destination for artists and audiences that are blind, visually impaired, and have other disabilities. We're open Monday - Friday from 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (closed for lunch 12:00-1:00 PM). Open Second Saturdays from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM.
Experience WRAP, CROSS, REPEAT at the Envision Arts Gallery featuring Jenny Knapp and Monte Arst.
In this exhibition, we witness the dedication of two artists who layer symbols and materials that bring comfort and stability to one’s self through repetition. As we seek to find sanctuary in a time when uncertainty surrounds us, our patterns of behavior have the power to bring awareness to that which we can control by establishing an understanding of what we cannot. WRAP, CROSS, REPEAT is a negotiation between the beauty of the human condition and the suffering we experience that unites us all.
On display in the Main Gallery until April 28.
The Envision Arts Gallery is the premier destination for artists and audiences that are blind, visually impaired, and have other disabilities. We're open Monday - Friday from 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (closed for lunch 12:00-1:00 PM). Open Second Saturdays from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM.
Originally a painter, Isabelle de Borchgrave’s fashion time-traveling dates to 1994 when she visited the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. There, an exhibition of 18th-century garments was on display. “It gave me a shock–particularly a yellow dress, which would become my first paper creation,” the artist said. Since that time, de Borchgrave has created astonishing fashion with a surprising medium–trompe l’oeil paper artworks.
From replicas of Renaissance Italian gowns to recreations of the fantastical modernist costumes of the Ballet Russes, de Borchgrave’s work is meticulously crafted and astonishingly beautiful.
This exhibition explores 300 years of fashion history, featuring dresses from Queen Elizabeth I to Coco Chanel. De Borchgrave’s paper costumes have been featured in major exhibitions around the world from Venice to San Francisco—and soon in Wichita.
The extensive exhibition with more than 90 artworks celebrates the breadth of de Borchgrave’s work with costume and fashion history and is designed to introduce her work to a wider audience. De Borchgrave’s paper sculptures are masterpieces of trompe l’oeil—even upon close inspection it is often difficult to discern that the costumes are made of paper.
All museum exhibitions receive generous sponsorship from the Friends of the Wichita Art Museum and the City of Wichita.
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