Lawrence Arts Center

09/08/2026

Thank you Lawrence for showing your love for the Lawrence Arts Center!

We are so proud of these Best of Lawrence Awards:
🖼️ 1st Place Art Gallery
🩰 1st Place Dance Studio
🖍️ 1st Place Pre-K Teacher & 2nd Place Preschool Teacher: Andria Devlin
👶 2nd place Childcare Center
🎨 3rd place Preschool Teacher Donika Wiley

09/08/2026

This Saturday’s Art for All at Game Nut Entertainment was a hit! Thank you to all who came by to make trading cards together, to Game Nut for hosting, and to Teaching Artist Katie Alldritt for demonstrating how fun it is to ‘catch ‘em all!’

09/08/2026

Mark your calendars for October 23 to see Freedy Johnston with Heidi Gluck, James Piller, and Jeremy Sidener!

Kansas and OKC in October. The Heidi Gluck Band is a monster.

09/08/2026

Check out this interview by Nick Spacek with drummer Josh Adams in The Pitch Kansas City! Josh plays this Saturday, Sept. 12 with Gregory Uhlmann, Shawn E. Hansen & Sterling Holman Trio during Love Garden Sounds first concert in the Abstraction Series. Get your tickets now and see what it's all about!

Josh Adams. // image courtesy the artist Once the drummer for local indie acts like Ghosty and Hospital Ships in the mid-’00s, Josh Adams has become the go-to guy for national acts as varied as Beck, Jon Batiste, Vetiver, Jenny Lewis, and Tim Heidecker both in the studio and on the road since his ...

09/05/2026

So many great early childhood classes start in September! Young learners will sing, dance, and make art with us this fall. Browse our catalog and enroll today!

Highlights include:
🖍️ Coloring Outside the Lines | Fridays at 10:45am starting Sept. 11
🪩 Toddler & Me Dance Class | Tuesdays at 9:45am starting Sept. 29
🪇 Tiny Tunes | Mondays at 9:45am starting Sept. 28
🥁 Magical Musicians | Mondays at 10:30am starting Sept. 28
🔍 Art Investigators | Saturdays at 9am starting Sept. 26

https://lawrenceartscenter.org/early-learning-experiences-in-lawrence/

09/04/2026

Faculty members from the Visual Arts team gathered last night to kick off an exciting fall session of classes! Many classes start right after Labor Day, so browse our catalog over the long weekend and sign up for printmaking, ceramics, metals, fiber arts, painting, drawing, writing, and so much more.

09/04/2026

Kick off your Labor Day weekend with art! Drop by Game Nut Entertainment tonight from 5-7pm to make your own trading cards inspired by Pokémon. Then, join BLACK Lawrence for an Open Mic at 10th & Mass Studios at 7pm.

📌 Reminder: The Lawrence Arts Center will be closed Monday, Sept. 7 for Labor Day.