"2022 Visions of the Flint Hills"
October 3rd through December 14th, 2022
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EXHIBITION DATES: OCTOBER 2 - DECEMBER 13, 2023
FIRST FRIDAY RECEPTION: OCTOBER 6, 2023, 5PM - 8PM
15th 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 2nd - December 13th, 2023 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 2023 Visions Judge: Kim Casebeer
2023 Award Winners:
Best of Show: "Prairie Expanse" by Larry DeGraff
Category: Painting
1st Place: "Cove and Creek" by Clive Fullagar
2nd Place: "What Lies Beyond" by Cris Chapin
3rd Place: "Sunrise Contemplation" by Jean Terry
Honorable Mention: "White House" by Michael Walsh
Honorable Mention: "Cottonwoods Touching the Water" by Donna Paul
Category: Photography
1st Place: "Hillside on Fire" by Bruce Hogle
2nd Place: "Spring Pastures" by Mark Feiden
3rd Place: "Wind and Water Ellsworth County" by Steve Johnston
Honorable Mention: "Anderson" by Mark Feiden
Honorable Mention: "Elevator Lights" by Mark Dierker
Category: 3D
1st Place: "Never-Ending Rain" by Jennifer Walker
2nd Place: "Blooming Yellow" by Wanda Tyner
3rd Place: "Flint Hills Glory" by Karen Merkel
Honorable Mention: "Tornado" by Susan Freeland
Category: Other
1st Place: "Prairie Clouds" by Diane Lawrence
2nd Place: "Summer Winds" by Mary Gordon McFall
3rd Place: "Stacked Stones" by Linda Kinder
Honorable Mention: "Silver Maple Line Edge Table" by Deb Chaussee