HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Now in the Front and Main Galleries at the Hutchinson Art Center is "75 Years in the Making:" A Hutchinson Art Association Permanent Collection Exhibition.
The exhibition will be on display through July 29th.
Go to the Hutchinson Art Center on Friday, July 7 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. to enjoy the wonderful pieces from the Hutchinson Art Association permanent collection as well as welcome the new Executive Director John Eberly.
The Hutchinson Art Association was founded in the spring of 1949 by board members Ernest Dewey, Martha Hamilton, Mrs. Jack Jarrot, Ed Wiley, Josephine Dalton, Marguerite Sours, and Shirley Schmidt.
Its first big exhibition was held on June 12, 1949 in the auditorium at Hutchinson Community College, then known as the Hutchinson Junior College. The exhibit was a New York show from the American Federation of Art. Regional art was also shown in various classrooms.
At the time, it was one of the most prestigious exhibits to ever visit Hutchinson, Kansas.
In the decades since, the Hutchinson Art Association has collected over 350 works of art by local, national and international artists. These works of art display on rotation year round in the Permanent Collection Gallery.
The art within the anniversary exhibit represents some of the best the collection has to offer.
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