For more than 40 years, the Wichita Children’s Theatre & Dance Center has been a staple of the Wichita Arts Community. A non-profit theatre and dance school, its mission is to provide arts opportunities to young people of all ages and backgrounds in Wichita and the surrounding area. Now with satellite schools at Marks Arts in east Wichita and in downtown El Dorado, the Wichita Children’s Theatre & Dance Center is proud to enhance the cultural life of south-central Kansas by providing the highest quality performing arts education to its youth.
Originally founded as the Wichita Art Association in 1920, Mark Arts is the area’s oldest and most comprehensive visual arts organization. For more than 100 years, Mark Arts has made art and arts education available to the citizens of Wichita and the surrounding communities.
The School of Creativity provides a 9,500-square-foot continuing education facility dedicated to art instruction for adults, teens and children.
- Painting & Drawing
- Culinary Arts
- Printmaking
- Pottery
- Sculpture
- Enameling
- Jewelry Making & Metalsmithing
- and More
Mark Arts offers a 14,000-square-foot gallery with annual exhibitions showcasing regional and national artists. Exhibitions include:
- John Newsom’s Universal Frontier
- Gaze featuring Women Artists
- School of Creativity Student and Faculty Exhibitions
- Brenda Lichman and Tim Stone
- National Watercolor Exhibition
- Abstract National Exhibition
- Eastern Kansas Scholastic Art Awards Exhibition
- Congressional Art Awards
The Gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
ADMISSION IS FREE.
Wichita Gymnastics has been serving recreational and competitive gymnasts in South Central Kansas with a tradition of excellence since 1969. With a quality, caring staff, innovative teaching progressions, unparalleled organization and the best equipped facilities in the country, WGC has risen to become imitated and respected throughout our region.
Our primary emphasis is on positive self-image, physical conditioning, coordination and development to the child’s fullest potential. We have one location in Wichita, KS; we are located just west of 37th and Webb.
Staff members at WGC are chosen for their maturity (adults), sensitivity, expertise, enthusiasm and positive caring approach to teaching children. We are very proud of our staff and facilities. Come in and take a look!
We will be offering classes in ballet, pointe, tap, jazz, hip hop, lyrical, music theatre and acrobats. At Kansas Dance Academy, you will find a professional, adult staff dedicated to teaching the art of dance to all ages. For more information and schedules, please call us at 316-684-2848.
Our Mission: Inspiring a deeper interest in science through creative and fun experiences for all ages. Exploration Place has hands-on exhibits, birthday party packages, classes for all ages, and much more.
We offer a full range of dance classes for children and young adults, summer programs, master classes, and workshops with visiting instructors.
OUR MISSION:
To develop a lifelong love of dance, movement, and physical fitness, to foster an appreciation of the art form, and to provide excellence in dance education.
Botanica was opened to the public in May 1987 to generate enthusiasm for horticulture and enlighten people through educational, artistic, and cultural experiences. With this mission, Botanica’s gardens and programs expand public awareness of horticulture, educate Kansans about how nature can improve their daily lives, and assist in the promotion of community development.
Come face to face with the wildest animals from around the world! See eye to eye with endangered chimpanzees and orangutans. Get to know the gorillas of The Downing Gorilla Forest. Spend the day with colorful birds, playful penguins, poison dart frogs and more than 3,000 other individual animals of all sizes, shapes and colors. Discover why Sedgwick County Zoo is the No. 1 outdoor family tourist attraction in Kansas. Come out and play!
Nestled in the heart of the Museums on the River district just five minutes from downtown in the Riverside neighborhood, the Wichita Art Museum is home to a nationally renowned collection of American art.
As the largest art museum in the state of Kansas, WAM houses one of the country’s premier collections with 7,000 works in our permanent collection, including masterpieces by Mary Cassatt and Edward Hopper.
The Museum features two dramatic and large-scale works by Seattle glass artist Dale Chihuly. Inspired by the intricate patterns of traditional Persian glass, the Persian Seaform Installation provides a stunning first impression at the Museum’s entrance and hanging in the S. Jim and Darla Farha Great Hall is the Confetti Chandelier.
Music Theatre Wichita creates a joyful summer of Broadway-scale productions and unparalleled educational opportunities for aspiring artists and technicians.
As you tour Tanganyika our guides will give you many opportunities not only learn about the animals, but in many cases interact directly with them. This hands-on approach gives you a rare chance to connect with some of natures most unique and often endangered species.
Because Tanganyika is dedicated to education and animal preservation, your visit not only supports your experience at the park, but the very survival of many of the rare animals that call Tanganyika home.
Tanganyika’s breeding programs play an important role in preserving genetic diversity among captive populations, and Tanganyika participates in several international projects to preserve wild population in their natural habitats.
We hope your experience at the Park will provide a sense of peace, exhilaration, respect and resolve to help ensure survival of these wonderful birds and animals around the world.
Christian Performance Theater (CP Theatre) is a fall, winter and spring after-school theater arts program in all aspects of the performing arts. Students ages 5-18 are instructed in voice, drama, dance, improvisation, musical theater and more. Ages 8-18 currently enrolled in the class session are welcome to audition for a Broadway-style production. Parents also make a commitment to serve as a vital and active participant of the production by serving on production committees. We round out the year with our summer camps combining games, summer fun and opportunities for learning and growing in theatrical skills.
Ballet Wichita offers ongoing classes at Ballet Wichita. The Institute, a training program that focuses on classical ballet technique offers classes for students who are just beginning ballet (as young as 3.5 years) to dancers who’s pointe shoes have been long neglected and to those who have always been interested and are finally ready to take that big step and enroll in a ballet class. What better way to welcome the new year!
For the serious dance students, our highly trained faculty will work to inspire the whole student to be both an accomplished dancer and a healthy, strong, confident athlete. Students will experience a structured curriculum offered in a nurturing and positive environment, targeting and exploring each student’s strengths and abilities. At the Institute, we offer a multi-skill level system, providing students with a unique curriculum allowing them to observe and learn from each other.
Riverside Music Together is a center in Wichita, Kansas that offers family music classes. We are an accredited provider of Music Together®—an internationally recognized music education program for children from birth through age 5 and the grownups who love them!
When your family joins our community, you and your child will be immersed in a world of participatory music-making, where the combination of singing, movement, and instrumental play is facilitated by a certified music teacher trained in early childhood music education and licensed to teach the Music Together curriculum. The songs and other high-quality music materials we use, crafted through 25 years of research into how children’s music awareness develops, are included in the cost for families to take home.
At Riverside Music Together, you’ll nurture your child’s music potential in the important early years while supporting their overall development, and you’ll have fun together doing something we all enjoy—making music!
Field Station: Dinosaurs is a world-class family attraction that combines cutting-edge science with the creative minds of great artists and teachers to create a one-of-a-kind experience that’s thrilling, educational and fun.
Set against the natural backdrop of rolling Kansas grasslands, the Field Station is just minutes outside Wichita, Kansas. Over 40 life-sized, realistic dinosaurs (including the 90-foot long Alamosaurus, among the largest animatronic dinosaurs ever made) come to life thanks to the brilliant engineering of the world’s leading roboticists and the imagination of our artists. The park also includes Kansas Climb – a geodesic dome ropes course and Jurassic Golf, creating memorable and challenging activities for every member of the family.
The story of the dinosaurs is vividly presented on 14 acres of tall grasses, shady trees, winding trails and an outdoor amphitheatre. Scientists from the Bighorn Basin Paleontological Institute have worked to ensure that the exhibition encompasses the latest theories and discoveries in the fields of paleontology, geology and environmental studies. Workshops, games and activities connect the story of the dinosaurs to our world today, giving new relevance to their lives and power to the tale of their extinction.
At JAG our mission is to help our students meet their full potential while in a fun and safe environment. We offer classes starting from 18 months up to adult classes. Our classes include boys and girls recreational gymnastics, tumbling, and ninja warrior for ages 6 & up, preschool for ages 1.5 to 5, urban gymnastics for ages 16 & up. We have both boys and girls competitive gymnastics teams. We also offer camps, birthday parties, mom’s day out, parent’s night out, and more!
Garten’s Music is a family-owned retail store that opened in 1969, now featuring keyboard instruments, guitars, ukuleles, music books and more! Band instruments are also available for rental or purchase. In addition, the Wichita Music Academy offers lessons for children and adults in piano, guitar, bass, ukulele, voice, violin, viola, cello, brass, woodwinds, and drums and percussion. All of our instructors must pass four background checks, and all of them have university training and/or professional performance experience. We believe that learning to make music should be fun and that students should learn the music they want to play! Our students earn trophies, wristbands and certificates for achieving musical milestones.
Acrobatic Academy Fitness & Education Center, Inc. is a family-oriented business that provides motor skill development, physical fitness and educational activities for our students, emphasizing positive self-image.
Acrobatic Academy, Inc. has been serving the Wichita and surrounding communities since 1977, offering quality instruction in non-competitive gymnastics, dance, cheer, youth & adult fitness, martial arts, educational pre-school and daycare, and Summer Red Cross swim lessons. The goal of our certified staff is to help students achieve a positive attitude and learn the importance of physical fitness.
Our students enjoy participating in class with experienced instructors who are chosen for their enthusiasm, ability to communicate with children and their caring, positive attitudes.
We offer classes for children and adults at all ages and levels, as well as parent-tot and special needs classes. Our kid-sit service is available for parents wanting to work out or observe a class.
Our facilities include a variety of equipment, air conditioning, and 26,000 square feet of space.
Hi! I’m “ViolinJudy” a Wichita wife, mom, Wichita Symphony Violinist, author and blogger at and blessed to be a teacher to the most amazing Violin, Piano and Ukulele students in the Wichita area! Most mornings I do consulting with other Independent Music Teachers all over the world helping them to bring more joy into their studios. Afternoons and weekends you’ll find me teaching Private and group music lessons in my home studio (yes I teach every day) and weeknights I’m rehearsing and performing with the Wichita Symphony. I also manage a group of Wedding musicians as well as my own string quartet at http://www.WichitaWeddingMusic.com.
Kelcy’s Dance Studio in Wichita offers a wholesome and positive environment to educate dancers ages 3 and older.