Salina Arts & Humanties

As a department of the City of Salina, Salina Arts & Humanities (SA&H) has served a unique role in arts advocacy since 1966. SA&H is noted nationally for its services as a valued component of balanced local governance and for the financial and other support it provides many area arts organizations. Among the longtime programs SA&H directly produces are the Smoky Hill River Festival, Smoky Hill Museum, Arts Infusion Program, Horizons Grants Program, Community Art & Design, and Cultural Creative Connections Newsletter.

Key to the long-range focus of Salina Arts & Humanities is four goals that comprise the city’s Big Ideas Community Cultural Plan, adopted in 2008.

• Make arts, culture, and heritage offerings welcoming, affordable, and accessible to all Salinans.
• Make our community a more beautiful place in which to live, work, and visit.
• Use the arts as an engine to drive economic development and downtown and community revitalization.
• Make Salina a model community for cultural-sector coordination, unity, and support.

Staff

Staff Photos Courtesy of AH Photography ©2023

Salina Arts & Humanities Foundation

Foundation members are chosen through a process of nomination.
2023-2024 Board Members

• Pam Davis
• Robert Justus
• Rod Meier
• Aaron Morrison
• Trey Mowery
• Mark Ritter
• Linda Salem
• Monte White
• Ann Zimmerman

Salina Arts & Humanities Commission

Salina Arts & Humanities Commissioners are chosen through Expression of Interest applications and appointed by the Mayor. Community members can apply for a board or commission on the City of Salina website.
2023-2024 Commissioners

• Patricia Ault-Duell
• Tanner Colvin
• Peggy DeBey
• Michael Durall
• Taylor Gray
• Robert Haworth
• Alisha Jester
• Brooks Oliver
• Brittany Willer
• Karl Ryan, City Commission Liaison
• Ruby Hassler, Student Liaison
• Aubrey Lendecker, Student Liaison