"2016 Visions of the Flint Hills"
October 7th through November 23rd, 2016

ARTISTS: Please visit the "Artist Login" tab in the top right corner to login or create your Artist Account. Click here for instructions on how to upload and submit artwork for upcoming exhibits. 

EXHIBITION DATES: OCTOBER 1 - DECEMBER 11, 2024

FIRST FRIDAY RECEPTION: OCTOBER 4, 2024, 5PM - 8PM 

The 16th Annual Visions of the Flint Hills Art Benefit and Sale is a juried exhibition featuring artwork of the remarkable ecosystem that is the Flint Hills. The Flint Hills region contains the largest tallgrass prairie in North America. The beautiful scenes of the prairie inspire artists locally and nationally. 

All artworks in this exhibition depict or are derived from the Flint Hills region of Kansas. This exhibit will run from October 1st - December 11, 2024 at Buttonwood Art Space, 3013 Main Street, Kansas City, MO 64108. 

Art sales benefit Friends of Konza Prairie (FOKP), a friends group of Kansas State University. FOKP promotes educational research and experiences in the Konza Prairie Biological Station, an area of the Flint Hills just south of Manhattan, Kansas. The 8,600 acre Konza Prairie and the surrounding Flint Hills region contain the largest remaining parcels of the Tallgrass Prairie that once covered 140 million acres in North America. 

Each purchase of beautiful artwork will benefit FOKP with 50% of net sales going to the organization and the remaining 50% going directly to artists. 

For a $35 entry fee, artists will enter the chance to win over $1,000 in art awards in 4 different categories: Painting, Photography, 3D and Other. Submissions are limited to a maximum of 4 per artist. All submissions must be done through your Artist Profile on this website. 

Artworks professionally juried by the 2024 Visions Judge: Susan Rose

2024 Award Winners: 

Best of Show: "Switchgrass Summer" by Kathryn Baker
 
PAINTING CATEGORY:
1st Place: "Coney Konza" by Mike Savage
2nd Place: "Winter Sunset" by Chris Willey
3rd Place: " Chasing the Sun" by Sandy Braga
Honorable Mention: Flint Hills Lullabye by Elaine Haake
 
3D CATEGORY:
1st Place: "Kansas Common School" Pam/Paul Anderson
2nd Place: "Summer Prairie #2" by Pamela Anderson
3rd Place: "Prairie Sunset" by Daniel Baxley
 
PHOTOGRAPHY CATEGORY:
1st place: Category: Photography "Stop" by Mark Feiden
2nd place: Category: Photography "Cloud Shadows on the Prairie" by JoLynne Martinez
3rd place: Category: Photography "Lights" by Shawn White
Honorable Mention: "Beatitude" by Jill Haukos
 
OTHER CATEGORY:
1st place: Category: Other "Prairie Slowpoke" by Candi Phillips
2nd place: Category: Other "Windswept Prairie" by Laurie Ullrich
3rd place: Category: Other "Butterfly Milkweed" by Cheryl Goodwillie
Honorable Mention: Growing Cloud: Diane Lawrence
 
Buttonwood's Patron Choice: Spring Prairie Hills by Lisa Grossman

 

The submission deadline has passed. 

Click the links below to download artist paperwork: 

Download Artist Agreement | Download Drop Off Labels | Download Proper Hanging Instructions

Thank you to our 2024 sponsors:

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ALL AT ONCE -- Artist: Steven Schroeder Size: 24" x 36" Medium: Oil Price: $750.00
ALMOST HUMAN -- Artist: Steven Schroeder Size: 14" x 20" Medium: Watercolor Price: SOLD
LIKE FLINT 2 -- Artist: Steven Schroeder Size: 14" x 20" Medium: Watercolor Price: $500.00
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