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Delia's Community Building Is Bursting With Dance and Color!
Okay, Delia is officially on my list of favorite small-town surprises! I pulled up to the community building and found the Tribute to Msawa…
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Explore artwork, artists, and places through stories from the Kansas mural collection.
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There's a Giant Green Moth Hiding in Downtown Hutchinson!
Okay, Hutchinson, you have been hiding a giant green moth from me! I was wandering around downtown when I spotted this gorgeous green moth…
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Salina’s Mural at the Mill: an everyday game at an extraordinary scale
Local children at play became the subject of Guido van Helten’s mill mural in Salina. Explore how an everyday scene changes at monumental scale.
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Clay Center’s Veterans Mural: where a painted flag meets a moving one
Clay Center’s Veterans Mural adapts a familiar wartime photograph, while a real flag above the painting adds a changing element to the memorial.
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Woodbine’s welcome mural: the small details that make a town
Mindy Allen’s Woodbine mural gathers familiar Kansas symbols and distinctly local details on the side of City Hall.
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Greetings from Seneca: read the town inside the postcard
A fire engine, a Pony Express rider, and local architecture turn Seneca’s greeting mural into a small exercise in reading place.
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