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behind the scenes
Noble House Inn owner
The Decorative Painter magazine is created exclusively for SDP members as one of the many membership benefits. This is a quarterly publication that features SDP artists and the decorative painting industry. We want to take the opportunity to share with you how The Decorative Painter is created. Each issue features
10-13 projects in many mediums for skill levels new to advanced. You also have a variety of articles which include SDP Updates, Chapter Happenings and painting education articles.
For each issue we take submissions for projects by artists. The DP committee, which is made up from SDP members, reviews the submissions and edits the project instructions. SDP staff gathers and writes articles and does the oversight of the magazine as a whole. Our photographer of 26 years, Steve Gehrig, does the photo shoot and editing of the photos and the design team from a local marketing agency, Armstrong Chamberlin, does the design work and off to press it goes! As you can see, many people have a hand in bringing your magazine to your mailbox.
Let’s take a look into this issue. We selected two local locations for the photo shoot for this issue - The Noble House Inn and Old Cowtown Museum - both located in Wichita, Kansas. They can be
visited when you’re at the 2019 SDP
Conference Party in the Heartland.
The Noble House Inn is a beautiful bed and breakfast owned and operated by Tim and JoAnn Pitzer. The Noble House Inn has several common areas featuring beautiful antiques, three bedrooms with full baths,
a large covered front porch, and a gazebo
in the garden area. The Noble House, also known as the Chapman-Noble home, was built in 1888 by William Henry Sternberg (1832-1906). The home was later owned
by Jane and Isobel Noble who were prominent Wichitans known for their many civic, educational and social contributions to the city. John Noble, an internationally known Wichita artist, frequently visited
his cousins in their home. This Sternberg-
Taking photos at Cowtown
Taking photos at the Noble House Inn
designed and built home is recognized by its Queen Anne architecture.
Many cities have museums - only Wichita has the one-and-only, never-to- be-duplicated-again Old Cowtown Museum. Be wowed when you step onto Cowtown’s dirt roads and realize you’ve entered a world off the Chisholm Trail that is frozen in an 1865-1880 loop.
Old Cowtown Museum’s collections reflect aspects of life on the frontier in the late 1860s and 1870s. They include historic structures and their period furnishings, clothing and domestic textiles, tools and machinery, farming equipment and roaming stock.
As you can imagine, the locations made it easy to photograph the beautiful projects selected for this issue. We hope you enjoy each page as much as we enjoyed putting it together.
Miho Halsey and Jennifer Arnold with a Cowtown cowboy
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