Woodcarving Show and Sale

Ron Davidson · #1 03-08-2008, 11:31 AM

In case anyone is interested the 42nd annual Great Plains Show and sale will be held Sat April 5th and Sunday the 5th. The hours Sat will be 10:00 a.m. to5:30 p.m. and Sun 11:00 to 4:00. It will be located at Cessna Activity Center 2744 S George Washington Blvd in Wichita,Ks. Free Parking and only 3:00 admission. hope some of you can make it. I won't have anything to display but Xsailor will have a table I think. Heineke Wood products will be there along with the woodcrafts store.
Ron

Kenny_S · #2 03-08-2008, 12:49 PM

Have to wait to see what developes around here but know where it is at and how to get there. If we plan on it, plans get disrupted around here to fast.
Would be nice finally meet you and see Bob and Muralene again.

Keoma · #3 03-08-2008, 02:24 PM

Wow...that sure sounds like fun! Wish we had something like that around here. Have a great time!

xsailer · #4 03-08-2008, 10:15 PM

It would be nice to see some forum folks at the show. Be sure to say hello if you come. I intend to put a "xsailer" calling card on the table. Should also mention that the Wichita Sculpture Guild will also be included in the show. I'll bet I can get Ron to sit with me for a while. I'll be the one without a dog.

Lynn O. Doughty · #5 03-09-2008, 08:39 AM

If things line up we'd like to come up. Got lots of friends up there and we missed it last year. Hopefully, relocating the show will be a positive step. That Century Center location was a dark room at the end of a long hall. Maybe the Cessna location will let the show "take off" again!!

Here's a funny story about the Wichita Show that some of you old-timers who attended back then might remember. Back in the mid-90's the show was attended by a this transvestite fella who'd show up in high-heels, fishnet stockings, a flashy black dress, black wig and a 50's era hat he must have picked up at a flea market. I'm not kidding!! He's walk around while checking out the tables trying not to step on the jaws of all the bugged-eyed carvers. He came for several years in a row. Just shows the wide appeal woodcarving has I guess.

Now that would make a nice subject to carve. Let's see....how could I work a transvestite kowboy into a set of chaps and onto a horse?

xsailer · #6 03-09-2008, 10:31 AM

Lynn,
I really hope you're able to make it. It would be nice to see your latest art works and say hi. I don't know about the "dark room at the end of a long hall" appraisal. I always liked the City owned exhibition area. I"m looking forward to the Cessna Activity Center location though. As with all public shows by small organizations the shows success depends on minimum expenditures and public participation. The Cessna location offers a lot more to the users and the public than the City does at their location -costs, parking and refreshments to name a few. You would think our tax dollars could do more to help local organizations such as ours(reasonable rent and perks) but alas.......oh well, never mind.

My remarks are my personal thoughts as a bystander and are meant to be critical.

Lynn O. Doughty · #7 03-09-2008, 10:54 AM

Bob.....I agree completely about your comments about how our tax dollars are spent. Used to be that Community Centers, Civic Centers, whatever were meant to be built and used by the people financing the projects.......Taxpayers. Unfortunately, the city governments now view and use them as a means to raise more revenue and tell the small non-profit groups like woodcarvers to take a hike or pay to use them even though they already paid to build them. In a similar vein local newspapers, TV and radio stations used to seek out news about local organizations or groups to flesh out their news. Now it seems they could care less or else direct you to the advertising department.

We have a little group of about 6-12 carvers who have met at the local community center since the mid-70's. The room is always there for us unless someone shows up wanting to use the room and willing to pay. Then we're pushed out into the hall or the kitchen.

My comment about the "dark room at the end of a long hall" was based on the Wichita Civic center moving the show to the back side of the building even though the show had been held there for years. Now, with the move of the show to a new location, I'll bet anything that even that room will stand vacant the weekend of the show with the City getting no revenue. Of course that fact doesn't even fit into the equation of small-minded bureaucrats!

snickerbocker · #8 03-09-2008, 11:09 AM

Lynn,
He had on a hot pink mini skirt the year we saw him, he had nice legs, too.

xsailer · #9 03-09-2008, 12:02 PM

Vicki !!!!!

Kenny_S · #10 03-09-2008, 01:58 PM

Lynn or thr trans??? Sorry Lynn, couldn't resist but totally agree with yours and Bob's comments. We have a so called Community Center but no matter who you are, cost to use it. Funny thing is, it was the Community who raised the funds to build it and the City fathers took the glory and do charges for its use. Alas, They sure not get rich as everything has gone to the local schools and a waiting list at that.Local Churchs are opening their Fellowship halls at no cost also. So much for the forsight of htose powerd of being or the lack there of???? Just My thoughts also and not that of the management which,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Pink mini eh Vicki

All I can say is at this time that weekend is open!