Enjoy the afternoon in a festive environment with cookies and cocoa, stories, and a visit from Santa! This is a FREE event, so bring the family!
The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) presents “Journey Stories,” a set of seven posters designed to encourage dialogue, engagement and participation in classrooms and communities on how movement has defined America.
This year’s Neewollah exhibit will focus on Neewollah during the 1970’s.
This exhibit, funded by a grant from Humanities Kansas, will explore what our community was like in the 1970’s.
Attention quilters! The IHMAC Quilt Show Returns. Quilt entry & Drop off August 8 Entry fee: $7 per quilt max 5 Quilts (3 per category). CLICK HERE FOR ENTRY FORM
Online bids open on July 31 and close August 6 at 5:00pm
Joan Allen’s major interest is watercolors, using color and line. She expresses art using a wet-on-wet technique. Using flowers as a subject she applies a wet-on-wet technique with splashes of color. She also paints animals and landscapes. Techniques are always emphasized. Most of Joan’s work involves mixed media—watercolor paints and ink. Fee: $30 per person, $25 for IHMAC members.
To register: Mail a check to IHMAC, 123 N. 8th, Independence, KS 67301, or call 620-331-3515. To receive a list of the supplies, email drothgeb62@gmail.com or call 620-332-7694.
A benefit concert to raise funds for the IHMAC Forever Capital Campaign to repair, renovate and restore our historic building.
Joan Allen’s major interest is watercolors, using color and line. She expresses art using a wet-on-wet technique. Using flowers as a subject she applies a wet-on-wet technique with splashes of color. She also paints animals and landscapes. Techniques are always emphasized. Most of Joan’s work involves mixed media—watercolor paints and ink. Workshop fee: $45, IHMAC Members $40.
To register for the Workshop, call 620-331-3515 no than Friday, May 5.
On Monday, May 1 at 7pm, Invoke will be presented by Independence Community College at Independence Historical Museum and Arts Center (123 N 8th St.). The group will perform several selections of their original music, in addition to performing Enigma for the Night by Jocelyn C. Chambers and The Lessons of History by Jonathan Bingham.
Invoke is an Austin-based, multi-instrumental quartet comprised of Nick Montopoli, violin/banjo/vocals; Zach Matteson, violin/vocals; Karl Mitze, viola/mandolin/vocals; Geoff Manyin, cello/vocals. They are an Austin-based group– which the Capital Gazette describes as “versatile and musically adventurous”
The second gradient wash workshop uses the same techniques as the first workshop to explore the different types of washes, creating a new landscape painting. Workshops are open to adults and high school age students. The cost is $35 per person per workshop ($30 for IHMAC Members). Contact Donna Rothgeb to register for one or both workshops and for the list of supplies: drothgeb62@gmail.com or call 620-332-7694. Registration deadline: April 17, 2023.
THIS WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD AT THE INDEPENDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 220 E. MAPLE
Bixby, Oklahoma watercolorist Dennis Crouch, will conduct two independent workshops teaching gradient washes, a technique that creates beautiful skies, distant hills, water, and flower petals. Dennis will explore three types of washes, ending with a landscape painting that will be different from the second workshop. Workshops are open to adults and high school age students. The cost is $35 per person per workshop ($30 for IHMAC Members). Contact Donna Rothgeb to register for one or both workshops and for a list of supplies: drothgeb62@gmail.com or call 620-332-7694. Registration deadline: April 17, 2023.
Our annual Spring Tea returns.
Independence History Museum & Art Center Gallery
FREE ADMISSION
Area students are invited to submit their artwork for this show. For more information contact museum director, Ashley Hovell, at ihmac.director@gmail.com or 620-331-3515.
ICC ORCHESTRA on the IHMAC Gallery stage. This concert will feature the ICC Campus/Community Orchestra. Admission is free.
February 7-18, 2023
Independence Historical Museum
& Art Center Gallery
FREE ADMISSION
Drawn from the Portrait Gallery’s unrivaled collection of Lincoln portraits, this exhibit charts Lincoln’s passage from a fresh-faced Illinois congressman to a troubled visage as he led the fight for the Union, culminating in his grizzled isolation as president.
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