Join us for First Friday and tour the Flint Hills through art! Live music will be performed by Tallgrass Express, beer provided by City Barrell Brewing and wine will be available as well! Masks will be required per the KCMO Mask Mandate. We hope to see you from 5pm – 8pm! 13th Annual Visions of the Flint Hills Art Benefit and Sale is a juried exhibition featuring artwork of the remarkable ecosystem that is the Flint Hills. The Flint Hills region contains the largest tallgrass prairie in North America. The beautiful scenes of the prairie inspire artists locally and nationally. All artworks in this exhibition will depict or be derived from the Flint Hills region of Kansas. This exhibit will run from October 1st – December 16, 2021 at Buttonwood Art Space, 3013 Main Street, Kansas City, MO 64108. Art sales benefit Friends of Konza Prairie (FOKP), a friends group of Kansas State University. FOKP promotes educational research and experiences in the Konza Prairie Biological Station, an area of the Flint Hills just south of Manhattan, Kansas. The 8,600 acre Konza Prairie and the surrounding Flint Hills region contain the largest remaining parcels of the Tallgrass Prairie that once covered 140 million acres in North America.