The new permanent public art initiative invites community participation during the five-day festival Aug. 21-25.

ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. (KSNW) — A once-blank downtown wall in Arkansas City is now pretty as a postcard, thanks to a new mural by the Cowley College Art Club.

Known as “the city of darkness,” Kowloon Walled City was a crowded, tangled metropolis of 60,000 people with little political or legal oversight.

Artist Meg Saligman's interactive art project 'Ministry of Awe' will open inside the former Manufacturer's National Bank building in Old City in 2026. It will feature murals from , sculptures ...