Learn the fundamentals of drawing. We will cover different drawing tools, shading techniques, and start to train your brain to observe what you're drawing.
New this year for ages 7–10, our STEAM Art series features one special class each month.
Art with Artists
May 12
We will focus our insights into art through the eyes of 2 artists. Lee Krasner and Matisse will be the artists to guide our exploration.
Art Byte | Bring your lunch and join us in the Gallery for a 30-minute, interactive conversation exploring a new piece of art each month—designed to spark insight, conversation, and confidence in experiencing contemporary art.
Get summer break started with our "vacation" party! Wear your best "cruise wear," sip a summer cocktail, and prepare for a few surprises along the way!
Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family to the Walley World theme park for a vacation, but things don't go exactly as planned.
Throwback Thursday is sponsored by Wedel Financial Group and selected programming for Tell Me What You Think of Me by Ann Resnick. The exhibition is available January 28 - May 3, 2026 at Salina Art Center.
On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, before the grotesque race of Skeksis find and use the crystal for evil.
REEL FILM FANS is a partnership with the Salina Public Library. Anyone with a library card can attend for FREE!
Don't have a card? No problem - you can get one at the Cinema before the film.
REEL FILM FANS is sponsored by Kevin and Kathy Willmott.
Are you the best home cook in North Central Kansas? Prove it at the Appetite for Art: Kansas Home Cook Showdown! Want to attend, eat, and vote for the best home cook in Kansas? Attend Appetite for Art!
April Showers Bring May Flowers is a two-part exhibition, perfectly encapsulating spring time in Kansas. Created as a great way to encourage the community to create art, as an homage to Earth Day, and to host Lawrence pressed flower artist, Hope Steinle. Friends and families are encouraged to take part in the community art exhibition. Create your own work pertaining to the environment with prompts provided by the Art Center. Get creative and use any medium that you want. Your work will hang on the wall in celebration of Earth Day. The work in Hope Steinle’s exhibition connects people to the memories they make, and the world around them with pressed flower arrangements. Her process began in her own garden as she realized “the beauty and peace that nature offers.” Through her work she hopes to inspire peace, joy, nostalgia, and reinvigorate memories connecting to the flowers in her pieces.
Inspired by Jules Verne’s novel, this adventure film provides a fun starting point for separating geological fact from fiction. We hope to pair the screening with a discussion highlighting Kansas’s geological history, fossils, underground formations, and ancient life—potentially including hands-on displays or visual materials to enhance audience engagement.
As legions of birds fall from New Delhi's skies and the city smoulders with social unrest, two brothers race to save one of the casualties: a majestic black kite, a bird of prey essential to their city's ecosystem.
REEL FILM FANS is a partnership with the Salina Public Library. Anyone with a library card can attend for FREE!
Don't have a card? No problem - you can get one at the Cinema before the film.
REEL FILM FANS is sponsored by Kevin and Kathy Willmott.
Correlation ≠ Causation: Spotting Bad Conclusions in Everyday Life
With Dr. Chase Billingham
Wednesday, April 22 • 6–7 pm
Urban sociologist and Wichita State University professor Chase Billingham will discuss how he used his professional training to (mis)interpret data, form conclusions, and create visualizations for Ann Resnick's project Tell Me What You Think of Me. How do sociologists find patterns in data and decide what's significant? How much do starting assumptions matter? How do people—from politicians to your uncle at the Thanksgiving table—use and abuse statistics to make a point? Dr. Billingham will address all these questions and more.
Learn how to make delicious yogurt at home without a yogurt maker. Katie will show you how to culture your yogurt using your oven, a sous vide wand, or even an insulated cooler. In addition to the basic recipe, we will learn how to make flavored yogurt and Greek yogurt.
This monthly event is free and open to all visual artists who want to connect to other visual artists. All artists of any medium, of all skill levels, and at any stage of your artistic career are welcome. Whether you're here to share, learn, or just enjoy some great coffee and conversation, we’d love to see you there! Coffee will be provided.
Being There (1979)
Thursday, April 16 • 6:00 pm
Based on a novel by Jerzy Kosinski, this is the story of Chance, a simple-minded middle-aged gardener who becomes a blank screen for the needs and projections of others.
Throwback Thursday is sponsored by Wedel Financial Group and selected programming for Tell Me What You Think of Me by Ann Resnick. The exhibition is available January 28 - May 3, 2026 at Salina Art Center.
Art Byte | Bring your lunch and join us in the Gallery for a 30-minute, interactive conversation exploring a new piece of art each month—designed to spark insight, conversation, and confidence in experiencing contemporary art.
New this year for ages 7–10, our STEAM Art series features one special class each month. Engineering Art
April 14
Sculptural engineering through various materials will build upon this class.
April 13 | Adult Watercolor Sunflower Series | 10am-Noon OR 6-8pm | Warehouse
Come and learn the basics techniques and terms of watercolor through the step-by-step process of painting a sunflower.
Second Saturday | Free for all Ages!
Misinterpretation Machines
Saturday, April 11 • 11:00–1:00 pm
Design a playful ‘machine’ out of cardboard and simple linkages that changes a message from Point A to Point B—because meaning can get wonderfully messy.
This casual, welcoming film club is where recent Cinema favorites come back to life through conversation. Each month features a focus film, but all films screened at the Art Center over the past month are on the table for discussion.
Join Executive Director Misty Serene for Mini Masters, a monthly art appreciation class designed just for Pre-K kids (ages 3-6)! Every first Tuesday from 5:30-6:30 PM, young artists will explore the gallery, enjoy interactive story time, and create their own masterpieces inspired by the featured artists.
The Salina Art Center is proud to partner with Presbyterian Manor to present Art is Ageless, celebrating the creativity and talent of artists age 65 and older. This annual juried exhibition features acrylics, oils, photography, and mixed media works by artists ranging from amateur to professional. Each piece embodies the spirit that creativity knows no age limit.
This class is open to beginners and beyond. Fee includes all supplies and 25lbs of clay.
Students will learn basic throwing techniques for the potter’s wheel along with glazing. Fee includes all supplies and 25lbs of clay. Additional 25lbs of clay is $25.
A horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim their ancestors' lost kingdom.
REEL FILM FANS is a partnership with the Salina Public Library. Anyone with a library card can attend for FREE!
Don't have a card? No problem - you can get one at the Cinema before the film.
REEL FILM FANS is sponsored by Kevin and Kathy Willmott.
Brooklyn-based artist Ed Rath has been working as a professional graphoanalyst—a person who analyzes handwriting using a system called Graphoanalysis—for 38 years. For Ann Resnick’s project Tell Me What You Think of Me, Ed analyzed numerous writing samples, looking at stroke formation and patterns of various features (loops, slants, pressure, size, and spacing) in the handwriting of project participants to assess complex features such as emotional responsiveness and depth, imagination, fears, defenses, social traits, and integrity. In his presentation, Ed will talk about the history and present-day uses of Graphoanalysis as a discipline using his findings for this project as illustrations.
March 24, 2026 — National Science on Screen Night
Topic: Codes, Curves, and Coordinates
Hollywood icon Hedy Lamarr’s overlooked scientific legacy takes center stage in this documentary about her invention of frequency-hopping technology, a foundation for modern Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth. The screening will be followed by a short talk, Q&A, and an optional geocaching activity in downtown Salina.
This monthly event is free and open to all visual artists who want to connect to other visual artists. All artists of any medium, of all skill levels, and at any stage of your artistic career are welcome. Whether you're here to share, learn, or just enjoy some great coffee and conversation, we’d love to see you there! Coffee will be provided.
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Throwback Thursday is sponsored by Wedel Financial Group and selected programming for Tell Me What You Think of Me by Ann Resnick. The exhibition is available January 28 - May 3, 2026 at Salina Art Center.
Art Byte | Bring your lunch and join us in the Gallery for a 30-minute, interactive conversation exploring a new piece of art each month—designed to spark insight, conversation, and confidence in experiencing contemporary art.
This fun art camp will focus on a different artist and medium/material each day of the camp. Sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking will all be explored.
Second Saturday | Free for all Ages!
Bias-Buster Mini Zines
Saturday, March 14 • 11:00 am–1:00 pm
Make a pocket-size zine that flips a stereotype on its head. Quick prompts help all ages turn ‘first impressions’ into thoughtful stories.
Come join 2026 Smoky Hill River Festival installation artists for a talk and hands on activity, leading up to a large collaborative community building project, taking place during the 50th year celebration in Oakdale park, June 11-14. Discover the magic of creating an Ephemeral Sculpture--art of natural materials, time, and impermanence--. This workshop will also provide an experience in the power of the collective mind where the line is blurred between artists and participants in creating art that is community driven.
This casual, welcoming film club is where recent Cinema favorites come back to life through conversation. Each month features a focus film, but all films screened at the Art Center over the past month are on the table for discussion.
Match funding from Match Madness provides scholarships, pays teaching artists, and purchases supplies for hands-on art-making experiences. By reducing financial barriers often associated with quality art experiences, Salina Art Center attracts diverse audiences from all backgrounds. We believe art is for everyone.
New this year for ages 7–10, our STEAM Art series features one special class each month. Science Art | March 10
This class will explore scientific investigations through art. Color through paint and light will be the focus of our discoveries.
FIRST FRIDAY | MAR 6 | 5-7pm
Talk to the artist about his process and how he came to discover it. Environmental exposure artist Glen Ediger showcases his newly created process and medium for this exhibition. Glen’s work incorporates sheets of metal or wood with materials set on top, exposing it to the weather for a period of time, creating abstract landscapes with the resulting rust, dust and patina.
In partnership with the Salina Selfie Station, students will have the opportunity to work as a team, designing and creating a booth at the Salina Selfie Station. We are also partnering with Salina Arts and Humanities to create a printmaking event. Students will work on a printing block and their image will be contributed to a community mural print. his is a free club for middle/high school students.
