Current Exhibitions
MAIN GALLERY: SISTER SHOW BY JUDY SCOTT & AMY PILGER
JANUARY 10th to FEBRUARY 15th, 2025
The Hutchinson Art Center is looking forward to displaying the work of sisters Judy Scott and Amy Pilger in our Main Gallery for months of January and February, sharing the space with artist Denise Biberstein.
Despite having grown up in the same household, sisters Judy Scott and Amy Pilger have developed their own artistic styles – Judy prefers warm hues while Amy prefers a cooler palette. However, both credit their mother, who was a creative herself, for influencing their artistic pursuits.
Judy, a retired art teacher, holds a Master’s degree in Ceramics from Fort Hays State University and currently works as an artist. She is inspired by the landscapes of western Kansas and the communities in which she lives. Similarly, Amy, who lives in Green Valley, Arizona, is influenced by the world around here, finding shapes, lines, patterns, textures, and colors everywhere she looks.
This exhibition is on display in the Main Gallery from January 10th - February 15th, 2025.
main gallery: paintings by denise biberstein
JANUARY 10th to FEBRUARY 15th, 2025
The Hutchinson Art Center is excited to exhibit the artwork of Manhattan, KS native Denise Biberstein in our Main Gallery for the months of January and February, sharing the space with sisters Judy Scott and Amy Pilger.
Denise Biberstein is an artist who primarily uses acrylics, working en plein aire (a French expression for ‘in the open air’). She uses a palette knife to apply paint and occasionally a brush to create captivating, impressionist landscapes.
She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Kansas and continues to take art classes both in-person and online.
This is what Denise had to say about her work as an artist:
“Learning to see… to really see, is what I am striving to do. Plein air studies record my responses to water, land, and sky. Sketching and painting the landscape imprints the image not only on the paper, board, or canvas, but in me. I much prefer to set up and observe outdoors immersed in nature.”
This exhibition is on display in the Main Gallery from January 10th - February 15th, 2025.
FRONT Gallery: CHAOS OUT OF ORDER by kelli snider-short
JANUARY 3rd to FEBRUARY 1st, 2025
The Hutchinson Art Center is excited to feature the work of Hutchinson, KS artist Kelli Snider-Short in our Front Gallery for the months of January and February.
Kelli Snider-Short’s creative pursuits began in childhood when she would go through her mother and grandmother’s fabric remnants and put them together to create flashy fashion designs. As she grew older, she would try and fit as many art classes as she could into her schedule, along with other creative classes such as woodworking and sewing.
Today, Kelli uses art as a means of therapy. She is a practitioner of reiki, yoga, sound therapy, and uses painting, jewelry making, sewing, and even cooking as a way to transmute tense or anxious energy into something nourishing. Most of her work lives in the realm of abstract with occasional representations of nature.
This exhibition is on display in the Front Gallery from January 3rd - February 1st, 2025.