Marie Plinsky
First Friday Art Walk
February 2025
Marie is a versatile artist who brings her passion for color and creativity to life through a variety of mediums, including watercolor, oil, acrylic, and mixed media. Her work features vibrant textures and layers, blending acrylics, paper, and fabric to create captivating compositions.
Jen Free
First Friday Art Walk
January 2025
Jen finds peace in capturing the hidden beauty of her home state, Kansas. Turning to photography as a creative escape, she brings her vision to life through images that reveal the unexpected diversity of the Kansas landscape. Her collection invites viewers to experience the state from her calming and vibrant perspective.
Courtney Armstrong
First Friday Art Walk
December 2024
Courtney’s art spans lifelike portrait drawings and vibrant pastel paintings. Her meticulous drawing style, honed over years in graphic design, showcases an extraordinary attention to detail—especially in her equine portraits. In her pastel works, she explores still life and nature themes with bold colors, dynamic compositions, and textured depth that breathe life into her subjects.
Bernadette Robbins
First Friday Art Walk
November 2024
Bernadette is a fine artist based in Hoyt, Kansas, known for her diverse use of mediums, including acrylics, ink, graphite, needle felting, mosaics, and sculpture. Since beginning her artistic journey in 2011, she has developed a distinctive style characterized by continuous exploration and a deep appreciation for cultural diversity.
Shelly Bedsaul
First Friday Art Walk
October 2024
Working across various mediums, including oils, colored pencils, acrylics, and hand-pulled block prints, Shelly’s work is a reflection of her eclectic inspirations. Her art is infused with elements of mythology, the human condition, humor, quantum theory, music, and the ever-important coffee. Her style ranges from stylized realism to abstract geometrics, each piece a testament to her versatile creativity.
Special Exhibit
First Friday Art Walk
August 2024
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Maria Martin’s artwork will not be on display this August. However, we are pleased to offer a diverse selection of beautiful pieces from many talented local artists. We appreciate your understanding and hope you enjoy the new exhibitions.
Beth Hanna
First Friday Art Walk
September 2024
Featuring the works of Beth Hanna, a renowned multi-media artist currently based in Tecumseh, KS. The exhibit emphasizes her mixed-media cold-wax and oil on wood pieces, described by Beth as “a collection of mental snapshots that gather on the panels to express a variety of emotions.”
Barbara Waterman-Peters & Larry Peters
First Friday Art Walk
July 2024
Barbara, primarily an oil painter, but often uses watercolor and other media as well, will display work from her “My Women Series” and “Ship of Fools” series.
Larry will exhibit petroglyphs inspired artwork from his travels and pieces from his Gorky Garden series.
Ed Balda
First Friday Art Walk
June 2024
Edw. is an art educator and accomplished artist, known for his creativity, distinctive style and thought-provoking subject matter. Influenced by British painter, J.M.W Turner, Edw.’s style consists of avoiding hard edges; preferring soft luminescent layers and ambiguous forms that at times might suggest waves or mountains.
Sylvia Levings
First Friday Art Walk
May 2024
Over the years as an active quilter, Sylvia has created lots of unique designs. She uses techniques such as quilting around images to make them puff out and appliqueing by hand. When there isn’t a printed image on material available, appliqueing by hand is a way to create the quilt picture.