Fisch Haus Inc

Update:  our progress continues!

In early June, our not-for-profit arm, Fisch Bowl Inc., was awarded a $10,000 matching funds grant from the newly-formed Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission (KCAIC).  We are very pleased to have been offered the opportunity to further pursue our goal of ADA compliance (an ADA lift was installed in Spring of 2014, with help from the KCAIC and a generous group of supporters), and are  initiating a large-scale fundraising campaign in order to match the funds we were given.  Please donate what you can, and help us improve our gallery space so we may provide accessible facilities for all of our friends!

Fisch Haus, Inc. (dba Fisch Bowl), is a 501(c)(3) organization that endeavors to promote the arts and offer a wide variety of cultural experiences and resources to the public.  At this time, they present all their programming in the Fisch Haus, a 21,000 s.f. warehouse owned and operated by a five-member artist’s collaborative.  This group has been active since 1990;  for many years, self-producing annual large-scale exhibitions for each of its resident artists. However, limited by a restricted budget and schedule, the full-time artists were not able to open their facility as often or extensively as they wished, so they incorporated as Fisch Bowl in the summer of 2004 and received their not-for-profit status in March of 2005.  Fisch Bowl’s event roster includes an annual Tuesday night Jazz Series in March, a bi-annual women’s art exhibition series entitled XX, music and theatrical performances, lectures, an annual Living Statues collaboration with Ballet Wichita, performance art installations, and several visiting artist exhibitions every year.  Fisch Bowl also participates frequently in the monthly Wichita Final Friday gallery crawl, and is spearheading the Commerce St. Art District initiative.  The organization is growing steadily, following an agenda dictated by the following goals:

• host performances and exhibit work that is unique in the city
• become ADA-Compliant (Americans with Disabilities Act)
• form an endowment fund, for scholarships, and develop a Fisch Bowl local art collection
• offer artists, performers and lecturers a small stipend
• create a space for classes and workshops
• hire a part-time grant-writer/gallery manager/general administrator
• participate in Commerce St. Art District events, such as Final Fridays, street fairs and festivals
• assist in promoting and developing the Commerce St. Art District association