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Art Installations

The Smoky Hill River Festival’s Art Installations distinguish the event from any other in the country!

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Throughout the park

Arte’s Crew
by Kourtney Sweet

City: Salina, KS

Arte’s Crew

Arte's Crew by Kourtney Sweet, Salina, KS

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East of Fourth Street Bridge

Beyond the Horizon: The Journey
by Ann Arkebauer

City: Leawood, KS

Lines, movement, and patterns from past Festivals are reinvented and re-imagined to create a new rhythm that inspires.

Beyond the Horizon: The Journey

Beyond the Horizon: The Journey

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East Arts Area

Big Fan
by Juniper "TJ" Tangpuz

City: Kansas City, KS

When things heat up, it’s best to stay cool. Luckily, your biggest fan showed up! Let’s form the ultimate team and life will be a breeze!

Big Fan

Big Fan by TJ Tangpuz

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East Arts Area

Cooler Mom
by Juniper "TJ" Tangpuz

City: Kansas City, KS

Her cooler is packed (no glass, of course) and she’s ready for a weekend of art, music, food, and fun!

Cooler Mom

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Hear the handball court and Stage II

Crazy Cool Crochet Treewrap
by Tamara Kingery-Gonzales

City: Wichita, KS

Find the tree snuggled up in a beautiful teal and yellow crocheted creation.

Crazy Cool Crochet Treewrap

Crazy Cool Crochet Treewrap

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Attached to staff golf carts throughout the Park

Creature Constellations
by Juniper "TJ" Tangpuz

City: Kansas City, KS

Look fast and you might catch a glimpse of these sculptures flying past. These creatures inspired by the cardinal directions of the Chinese constellations are going, going, gone.

Creature Constellations

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Fourth Street Bridge

Dream Dragon Bridge
by Bill Godfrey

City: Tarentum, PA

Get ready to be immersed in an experience like none other. Journey through mysterious symbols under an amazing dreamscape of mythical themes!

Dream Dragon Bridge

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East Arts Area

Food Truck Prime
by Juniper "TJ" Tangpuz

City: Kansas City, KS

A heroic consumer of Festival foods…

Food Truck Prime

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Attached to Staff Golf Carts throughout the Park

Four Elemental Directions
by Juniper "TJ" Tangpuz

City: Kansas City, KS

Keep your eye out for these roving sculptures representing the four cardinal and elemental directions of the Native American medicine wheel.

Four Elemental Directions

Four Elemental Directions

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Surprise Locations Throughout the Park

Jitterbugs
by Matt Farley

City: Lucas, KS

A total re-envisioning of the typical festival white pop-up tent, where the tent frame and panels have been completely disassembled and given new life as building blocks for a truly one-of-a-kind sculpture.

Jitterbugs

Jitterbug Sketch

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West of Kenwood Bridge

Poetry Wall
by Rich Bergen, Salina Public Library

City: Salina, KS

Fancy yourself a writer, poet, or just want to try your hand at it? Create your own poems and prose on the “S River Scroll.”

Poetry Wall

Poetry Wall

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Throughout the park

Rainbowretum: tree wraps
by Kate Jennings & Central High School students

City: Salina, KS

See if you can find all the tubular tree trunks around the park, decorated with colored fabric.

Rainbowretum: tree wraps

Rainbowretum

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Kenwood Bridge

Reinventing the Wheel
by David Exline and the Exline Family

City: Aliso Viejo, CA

The wheel is reinvented through this merger of design, art, engineering, fabrication, and mechanical expertise. A true collaboration of minds! This kinetic Festival icon has changed the Festival landscape for more than 20 years. Designed by David Exline, Engineered by the Family of Exline, Inc.

Reinventing the Wheel

Reinventing the Wheel

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Riverbank at Kenwood Bridge

Riverbank Mural
by Colin Benson

City: Salina, KS

The natural landscape becomes a painter’s canvas. Immerse in this feature and experience how art can transform a space and bring this riverbank to life!

Riverbank Mural

Riverbank Mural

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By Art/Craft Demonstration

Setting Seed Installation – Friday/Saturday Only
by Margaret Craig

Sunday Scavenger Hunt

City: San Antonio, TX

300 cast acrylic etchings on paint skins with recycled materials; including drinking straws, lettuce boxes, yogurt containers, glue, glass beads wire and alligator clips. Seeds will set on Sunday throughout the park when the plastic flower seeds will be hidden on the Festival grounds and ready to be removed from the environment before they spread uncontrollably!

Setting Seed Installation – Friday/Saturday Only

Setting Seed by Margaret Craig, San Antonio, TX

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Pop-up locations throughout the park

Sneaky Snake
by Junpier "TJ" Tangpuz

City: Kansas City, KS

Watch for the giant snake, slithering its way throughout the park, slow but sure, he will be on the move, finding a nice spot to chill out each day at the Festival.

Sneaky Snake

Sneaky Snake by TJ Tanpuz

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Events Center Bridge

Standing Wave
by Mike Miller, Meghan Miller

City: Wichita, KS

New and interactive additions invite your participation as you cross the TPEC bridge. This is a hands-on installation with spinning parts and more. Listen for some unique sounds of nature as you engage in this experience.

Standing Wave

Standing Wave 2021

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Between Stage II and East Arts Show

Tea Party in the Park
by Tamara Kingery-Gonzales

City: Wichita, KS

A giant teapot and mushrooms will make you think you have shrunk like Alice in Wonderland. Take a break and catch a selfie at this crazy cool crochet tea party.

Tea Party in the Park

Tea Party in the Park by Tamara Kingery-Gonzales

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Art/Craft Demonstration Area

Tiny Art Vending Machine

City:

Tiny artworks for a $1. A collection of Kansas-based, past, and present installation artists and other local makers have populated a vending machine with different styles and media works. See what different tiny artworks you can collect.

Tiny Art Vending Machine

Tiny Art Vending Machine

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West of Art/Craft Demonstration

Tool Trailer Mural
By Scribe

City: Kansas City, MO

A festival favorite, Kansas City-based graffiti artist Scribe is back with another live mural painting west of the Craft Demo, he’ll be sprucing up our festival tool trailer this year.

Tool Trailer Mural

Scribe, Kansas City, MO

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Weaving a Community
by Amy Schmierbach & Fort Hays Students

City: Hays, KS

Weave with us! Weaving a Community is an inclusive, accessible, and hands-on weaving experience. We aim to bring people together to make art and build connections with those who attend the Festival. Weavings finished will be added to our on-site installation.

Weaving a Community

Weaving a Community

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Mulberry Bridge

Wind-O-River
By Bergen’s Art LLC, Salina Sculptor, Rich Bergen.

City: Salina, KS

Come by the Mulberry Bridge and enjoy the sculpture “Wind-O-River” by Bergen’s Art LLC, Salina sculptor Rich Bergen. Enjoy the dazzling color as the wind or Festival-goers turn the kinetic forms. Take time to view the natural beauty of the river between the wind sculptures as if looking through a window on the river.

Wind-O-River

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Contact

785.309.5770
Salina Arts & Humanities,
a department of the City of Salina
211 W Iron Ave • PO Box 2181 • Salina, KS 67402 •
Fax: 785.826.7444

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