2024-25 Fine Arts Season
We are so excited to welcome you back to campus for our 2024-2025 performance season! Despite the construction challenges of last year, the artistic gifts of our students and faculty flourished, resulting in sold-out shows and accolades both far and wide.
Our fine arts students have distinguished themselves as Wichita’s Student Marketer of the Year, NATS Singer of the Year and 1st Place finish in the national competition, along with several of our mainstage performances selected as finalists in the American Prize national competition.
You, however, don’t have to travel the country to see these students in action; these wonderful performances are here in your own back yard!
Please join us for a spectacular season, featuring the 100th anniversary celebrations of the renowned Singing Quakers, our new spring Piano Extravaganza, and many more thrilling productions! We pray that you experience an abundance of God’s grace and light in the year ahead!
Dr. Nathanael May
Tim & Gail Buchanan Endowed Chair
Division of Fine Arts
View the 2024 – 2025 Fine Arts Events guide here! And keep in the loop with all our events by subscribing to the Fine Arts newsletter, The Weekly Happenings.
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Free Fine Arts Events – Spring 2025
The events listed below are free to attend and do not require a ticket.
First Friday: Art of Teaching | Riney Gallery (on view until May 31)
Concert Choir Coffee House | Sunday, April 27, 7 p.m. | Casado Campus Center
Friends University Brass Quintet Exchange Concert with Intrepid Brass Quintet | Tuesday, April 29, 6 p.m. | Chapel*, Riney Fine Arts Center
Opera Workshop Showcase | Tuesday, April 29, 7:30 p.m. | Sebits Auditorium | Friends University Graphic Design students will also be selling a range of hand-made and designed gifts at the concert in the Riney Atrium – this performance is a collaboration between Vocal and Graphic students.
Visual Arts Showcase | Monday, May 5, 5-7 p.m. | Riney Atrium*
*new performance spaces in the Riney Fine Arts Center
EVENT UPDATES
Conjunto Meets Mariachi | Wednesday, February 5 | CANCELED
High School Honor Band | Tuesday, February 18 | CANCELED
Piano Extravaganza: Music of the Americas | Saturday, May 17 | POSTPONED UNTIL SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
