The Wichita Center For The Arts Presents
"The Kansas Watercolor Society
Great 8 Exhibition'

This was on Exhibition
November 16, 2007 - January 6, 2008

Juried exhibition with entries from Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico, & Texas.

Great 8 Exhibition Cash Award Winners

The Wichita Center for the Arts / Kansas Watercolor Society Best of Show Cash Award $1000
Ed Pointer, Wichita, KS – “Twilight Winter – Flint Hills”

Charles & Ruth Sanderson Memorial
Cash Award $750
Jinx Wright, Hutchinson, KS – “Rio Leaves”

Friends of the
Kansas Watercolor Society Cash Award $500
Sam Bailie, Plano, TX – “Echo”

Beverly Hill Hoover Cash Award $250.00
Donna Brigman, Hutchinson, KS – “Dance the Night Away”

Charter Members of the
Kansas Watercolor Society Cash Award $200
Jonathan Knight, Shawnee, KS – “Lily Pond VIII”

Tucker and Nation Meyer Cash Award $200
Barbara Maxwell, Kansas City, KS - “Lower Cascade”

Beaver Bend Cash Award $200
Paul Jackson, Columbia, MO - “Fascination”

Frank & Betty Hedrick Foundation Cash Award $200
Penny Stewart, Colorado Springs, CO – “May’s Garden”

Mrs. Bud Beren Cash Award $100
Mark Schuler, Prairie Village, KS - “Rough Morning”

Wichita Women Artists Cash Award $100
Frank Francese, Grand Junction, CO -
“Lake McDonald, Glacier”

The Wichita Center for the Arts
/ Kansas Watercolor Society Cash Award $100
Harry Shields, Richardson, TX - “Oriental Roofscape”

The Wichita Center for the Arts / Kansas Watercolor Society Cash Award $100
Becky Tubbs, Anson, TX - “Before the Dance”

The Wichita Center for the Arts / Kansas Watercolor Society Cash Award $100
Dianne Widom, Canon City, CO - “Solemn Reflection”

The Wichita Center for the Arts / Kansas Watercolor Society Cash Award $100
Wayne Conyers, McPherson, KS -
“Nothing I Do Is Ever Good Enough”

Great 8 Exhibition Patron Purchase
Award Winners

Emprise Bank Patron Purchase Award
Edwin Johnson, Kansas City, MO
– “East Bottoms Crossing”

MKEC Engineering Consultants Patron Purchase Award
Harry Shields, Richardson, TX - “Oriental Roofscape”

Mary Lou Sunderland, Hutchinson, KS
- “The Greenhouse”

Koch Industries, Inc. Patron Purchase Award
Marlin Rotach, Kansas City, MO - “Dance of the Tulips”

Steve Dudek, Great Bend, KS - “Christi’s Koy”

John Redwine, Wichita, KS - “Map of Dreams”

Liz Koch Patron Purchase Award
Kathleen Byrd, Omaha, NE - “50% Off”

Asja Kornfeld, Albuquerque, NM - “Louisiana Bayou”

Lynne Miller, Colorado Springs, CO - “Grasses in a Basket”

Caryl Morgan, Newkirk, OK - “Chicago Art Institute Courtyard”

Missi Paul, Lincoln, NE - “Christo:
The Gates – Central Park, NYC”

Wilma Wethington, Wichita, KS -
“Market Place at Chapala, Mexico”

Jinx Wright, Hutchinson, KS - “Rio Leaves”

The Law Firm of Martin, Pringle, Oliver, Wallace & Bauer, L.L.P. Patron Purchase Award
Ed Pointer, Wichita, KS - “Twilight Winter – Flint Hills”

Nestor Weigand, Jr. Patron Purchase Award
Larry Haught, Colorado Springs, CO - “Gold in Colorado

"Dance of the Tulips"
by Marlin Rotach, Kansas City, MO


Judy Morris, Watercolor Juror's Statement

Great 8 Exhibition Catalog of Artists
(Must have Adobe Acrobat to view)

View all Paintings on Exhibition

The Kansas Watercolor Society
Great 8 Exhibition 2007
November 16, 2007 -
January 6, 2008

The Kansas Watercolor Society
Returns to the Center
The Kansas Watercolor Society, founded in 1968 and incorporated in 1970 at The Wichita Art Association (now The Wichita Center for the Arts), is returning to the Center, effective July 2007. The Kansas Watercolor Society will cease to be a 501-(C)3 corporation and will merge with The Wichita Center for the Arts and operate as a committee under the Centers organization umbrella. The Kansas Watercolor Society committee chair will serve on the Centers’ Board of Trustees as an ex-officio member.

The Kansas Watercolor Society “Great 8 Exhibition” includes a prestigious group of artists from an eight state area including: Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. The Kansas Watercolor Society “Great 8 Exhibition” will open November 16, 2007 and close January 6, 2008. Slide deadline is September 4, 2007 and Jurors’ Day
is October 13, 2007.

The Kansas Watercolor Society gives the Center another opportunity to offer a juried exhibition to showcase water-media painting to our students, members and the community at large.

The addition of the “Great 8 Exhibition” to the Center’s bi-annual and annual exhibitions brings the total of juried shows at The Wichita Center for the Arts to six. All of these exhibitions feature the disciplines that we teach in The Mary R. Koch School of Visual Arts.

This merger is a great fit for The Wichita Center for the Arts and The Kansas Watercolor Society. It insures the continuity of both our missions in encouraging and promoting the study, advancement, appreciation and creation of art as a quality of life opportunity for the inventive mind.