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An award-winning Kansas quilt artist answers her grandfather’s challenging question with every stitch As a child, narrative quilt artist Marla A. Jackson delighted in fabric and color and artistic

Photography by Aaron Patton and John D. Morrison It’s as if a favorite landscape painting has come to life. Winding roads, a canopy of trees, peaceful waters and—come spring—thousands and

A conversation with Kansas! photographers about their lives in photography Emily Barnes began her photography journey at a young age as she experimented with her parent’s film camera in the 1980s. Her

Several Kansas communities boast their own unique versions of cows on Parade, the public art exhibit featuring fiberglass sculptures of cows decorated by local artists and displayed in public

Zack Schaffer exudes midwestern modesty. He ranches by day, running several hundred head of cattle, and refers to his furniture shop as a passion for woodworking that “just kind of turned into a

FOR MANY PEOPLE, KEEPING A PET IN THEIR LIFE IS A PRIORITY, EVEN AFTER DEATH. There are a few Kansas artists who help those who want an everlasting presence of their pet through artwork. Amanda

FOR THE PAST 83 YEARS, the National Baseball Congress (NBC) World Series has entertained and delighted baseball fans in Wichita and throughout Kansas and the Midwest with its unique brand of

With his leather boots firmly planted in front of the microphone, the rugged-looking man in a black ten-gallon hat clears his throat before weaving a rhyming tale about his horse and an angry mother

Great Plains Theatre executive director Elizabeth Weese says it is unusual for a town of 6,500 people in the middle of Kansas to have a theater that hires professional performers from throughout the