The Hutchinson Art Center is honored to host a heartfelt retrospective of artwork by renowned artist and Kansas native Pat Potucek during August.

Born in 1925, Pat Potucek was an artist of pen and ink, watercolor, pastels, and so much more. Any surface she paint, she did.

She worked on illustrations for Wiley’s and Pegues department stores and the Hutchinson News. She gained recognition for her portraiture, murals, and still-life paintings as well as her work with papier-mâché. At one point, Hollywood even offered her a job as a set designer, but she decided to raise her family and continued making art in Hutchinson.

Pat Potucek was making artwork up to the week of her death in 2011. Her presence continues to be felt in and around Hutchinson, with her artwork decorating people’s homes and the walls of schools, galleries, and other institutions.

This exhibition will is on display in the Main Gallery from July 31st - August 29th, 2026.