Event: Sensationally Sensory

Date: April 3 from 5 to 8 p.m.

Featured Exhibitions: Interactive artwork by Heartspring School students

Event Description: The opening celebration of Sensationally Sensory features interactive artwork created by Heartspring School students. Heartspring is a Wichita-based nonprofit providing therapies and special education for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities. Through the Outpatient Clinic and Therapeutic Residential & Day School, Heartspring supports children and youth with diverse developmental, sensory, and communication needs.

Sensationally Sensory celebrates touch, sound, movement, and vivid color. The exhibition features ocean drums on turntables, kinetic gear sculptures, tactile wood and acrylic creations, expressive wooden faces, patterned block designs, squish-art textures, and resin-encased fidget pieces. Each artwork invites exploration of the senses and offers creative experiences in accessible ways.

The exhibition will be on display in the Patricia A. Peer Window Gallery from April 3–26.

Event: Alexandra Palmer | First Friday at Gallery 12

Date: April 3 from 12 to 4 p.m.

Featured Exhibitions: Ceramic work by Alexandra Palmer

Event Description: The opening celebration of Alexandra Palmer’s exhibition features ceramic collections that tell unique stories. Each piece demonstrates meticulous craftsmanship and expressive design, inviting visitors to engage with the artistry of ceramics in a meaningful way.

Alexandra Palmer’s work highlights the intersection of form and narrative, with each collection offering insight into inspiration, technique, and imagination. The exhibition provides an opportunity to explore the depth and creativity of contemporary ceramic art.

Event: Jill Stromberg Exhibition Opening | First Friday at Gallery 12

Date: April 3 from 6 to 9 p.m.

Featured Exhibitions: Paintings by Jill Stromberg

Event Description: The opening reception for Jill Stromberg takes place during First Friday on April 3 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Gallery 12. Stromberg, a Gallery 12 member and painter, presents a new exhibition showcasing her latest work. Guests are invited to meet the artist and experience her paintings in a welcoming gallery setting.

This exhibition highlights Stromberg’s artistic style and creative expression, offering visitors the opportunity to explore her work and engage with the themes and techniques throughout the collection.

The exhibition will be on display through April 25. A closing reception for Jill Stromberg will be held on Final Friday, April 24.

Event: The Art of Benching

Date: April 3 from 5 to 8 p.m.

Featured exhibitions: The Art of Benching

Featured artists: Darnel Marley

Event description: Benching is the art of photographing graffiti tagged rail cars. This exhibition features the work of local artist Darnel Marley along with HO scale tagged models and a 20 foot container tagged by local graffiti artists.

Guests can also enjoy a lineup of food trucks, adult beverage trucks and music from a DJ throughout the evening.

Event: MFA Thesis Exhibition

Date: April 3 from 6 to 8 p.m.

Featured exhibitions: MFA Thesis Exhibition

Featured artists: Madison Mullen, Branden Lawless, Sloane Dyer, Ink and Honey Studios and Zayden Tomson.

Event Description: Three MFA graduates from Wichita State University will be exhibiting their work at Harvester Arts from April 3 to 24. The opening reception takes place on April 3 from 6 to 8 p.m. Guests are invited to meet the artists and experience their work in a welcoming gallery setting.

The exhibition showcases the unique perspectives and artistic styles of each graduate, offering visitors an opportunity to engage with contemporary themes and creative approaches.

Event: Art and Craftivism

Date: April 3 from 3 to 11 p.m.

Featured exhibitions: Fiber-based artwork by Rebecca Sellers

Featured artists: Rebecca Sellers

Event description: Welcome Rebecca Sellers as the featured artist for April. Her artwork will be on display throughout the month, and she will be at the taproom from 5 to 8 p.m. on April 3 with additional items for sale.

Artist statement: Rebecca Sellers explores fiber-based art as a versatile and evolving creative practice. Working across embroidery, quilting, crocheting, knitting and weaving, her work reflects both a passion for craft and its historical role in activism.

Her work is informed by a commitment to equality and inclusion, often responding to current social and political issues in the United States. At times, her process is rooted in experimentation and the joy of creating. At others, it serves as a direct form of advocacy supporting human rights, the LGBTQ+ community and body neutrality.

Sellers sources textiles from small or local businesses and frequently incorporates secondhand or upcycled materials into her work.

Event: Opening Reception: School of Creativity Salon

Date: April 3 from 5 to 7 p.m.

Featured exhibitions: School of Creativity Salon

Featured artists: Mark Arts instructors and students.

Event description: The School of Creativity Salon showcases a dynamic range of work created at Mark Arts by students and instructors across a variety of mediums including painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, pottery, sculpture, jewelry, enameling and metalsmithing. The exhibition includes 128 participants and approximately 150 works of art. It will remain on view in the Gladys and Karl T. Wiedemann Gallery through May 16.

Guests can enjoy live music and a cash bar throughout the evening. Remarks will take place at 5:45 p.m. along with recognition of Volunteers of the Year Baseline Creative Inc. and Ruthie Williams.

Free to attend. RSVPs appreciated.

Event: Natural Frequencies

Date and Time: April 3 from 5 to 7 p.m.

Featured exhibitions: Natural Frequencies

Featured artists: Hannah Crickman, Tyra Grace, Alexis Gruenwald, Lindsey Kernodle, Kate King, Lindsay Lord, Kinta Mcghee, Emily E. Ritter and Yulla Vega.

Event description: This exhibition brings together a group of women artists whose work engages with the natural world through diverse materials, perspectives and creative approaches. Working across a variety of media, the artists explore themes of wildlife, landscapes, environmental systems and space.

While each artist approaches these subjects differently through observation, documentation, abstraction or imaginative interpretation, they share a curiosity about the living world and humanity’s relationship to it. Their work reflects moments of wonder, attention and inquiry while examining both the beauty of nature and the systems that sustain it.

From intimate encounters with animals and ecosystems to broader reflections on planetary and cosmic environments, the exhibition invites viewers to consider the interconnectedness of life across scales and the importance of understanding and caring for the world around us.

Event: New Landscapes: Studies, Meditations and Reveries

Date: April 3 from 5 to 8 p.m.

Featured exhibitions: New Landscapes: Studies, Meditations and Reveries

Featured artists: Mark Flickinger

Event description: This solo exhibition features new paintings by artist Mark Flickinger. The collection presents a series of landscapes that reflect moments of observation, reflection and imagination.

Event: Heights High School ART SHOW

Date: April 3 from 5 to 9 p.m.

Featured exhibitions: Heights High School ART SHOW

Featured artists: Heights High School students and alumni.

Event description: Step into a vibrant showcase of student and alumni talent at Vertigo 232 Art Gallery’s Heights High School "ART SHOW". The exhibition features work by students and alumni from the Class of 2025 and beyond, highlighting a wide range of creative expression.

The show opens on Final Friday March 27 and continues through First Friday April 3. This one night showcase invites the community to support emerging Wichita artists and reconnect with creative alumni.