Posts in category: Featured Artwork

Don Smischy made these suncatchers and other stained glass items. Although these lamps are a work of art, they are fully functional. Don Smischny was celebrated as the Featured Artist at this year’s Art is Ageless exhibit at Salina Presbyterian Manor, ...

“Poppy Happy,” a painting by Marilyn Hope Lake of Hutchinson. The People's Choice Award resulted in a tie at the 2015 Art is Ageless competition at Newton Presbyterian Manor. “Poppy Happy,” a painting by Marilyn Hope Lake of Hutchinson, and “4-Whee ...

Rick Prosser’s needlepoint entry, “Universe in Motion,” won Best in Show at Lawrence Presbyterian Manor’s Art is Ageless competition. After his stellar showing in this year’s Art is Ageless competition, Lawrence artist Rick Prosser said he’s re-energi ...

Jacquelyn Wynn’s art is just a hobby, she says, not a business. But people keep buying her paintings of landscapes and wildlife just the same. “I enjoy it when people like my work, like everyone else does,” said Wynn, a Rolla resident. “The recognition ...

When Betty Piersol first picked up a paint brush more than 60 years ago, she didn't exactly master the craft right away.“ “The first picture I ever painted, I was so proud of it. It was a landscape, with a little stream going through it. My daughter as ...

She wasn’t always a photographer. No, Jeannie Hannon didn’t start taking photos as a hobby until her husband, Bob, bought her a digital camera in 1999. “I always loved pictures and wildlife, but when I had a film camera, I just didn’t get into it becau ...

Betty Womack enjoyed crocheting while she raised her four daughters. But that was as far as her artistic training went. It was only after she moved to Rolla Presbyterian Manor that she learned to paint and make jewelry. Womack’s skill progressed so qui ...

Marian Rajewski, mother of Executive Director Michael Rajewski, shows the painting she created in her art class. When Executive Director Michael Rajewski’s father James fell and broke his back last year, helping him choose where to recover, and eventu ...

Alma Decker, 102 , still embroiders intricate tea towels. Alma Decker has been a friendly face at Clay Center Presbyterian Manor since 2005, when she and her husband, Ernest, moved in together. He passed away in 2010, and Alma has kept busy since then ...

Why one Kansas farmer exchanged bushels for brushes Omar Schartz was faced with a difficult decision when he married his wife, Jewell. Either pursue his passion as an artist, or pursue his profession as a farmer. “I just couldn’t do both. My problem w ...