Art and Book Fair to return to Wichita Art Museum

Details are starting to come out about the 2015 version of the Art and Book Fair, which is moving back to its original home at the Wichita Art Museum this year. The fair, which used to be part of the Wichita River Festival and has been held at Century II for many years, is a fund raiser put on by Friends of the Art Museum on Mother’s Day weekend.

The fair will be inside the museum this year, but next year it will move outside to the museum’s grounds, which are in the process of being newly landscaped. New features also will be added next year.

This year, in addition to the usual sale of books that have been donated to the museum in the past year, the fair will include a Small Works Market selling smaller artworks by regional artists, a photo booth where images of people will be transformed into a work of art for $20, a Tallgrass Film Festival showing of “Big Fish” at 2 p.m. May 9 and 11 a.m. May 10, storytelling from 10 a.m. to noon May 9 by The Griots: Keepers of Stories troupe, puppeteer Amy Woolf and artist Christ Gulick; and a Creative Rush panel discussion from 1:30 to 3 p.m. May 10.

Aside from purchases of books and art, all activities will be free, along with admission to the museum both days.

This story was originally published March 17, 2015 at 2:12 PM with the headline "Art and Book Fair to return to Wichita Art Museum."