Beth Barritt Wiechman
Sedgwick, KS

Beth Barritt Wiechman became a serious student of art as a young child in the early sixties under the keen eye of Wichita artist Wilma Wethington. In 1972, the year that she graduated from high school, she was offered a job at Hallmark Cards in Kansas City, which she accepted. This proved to be an invaluable experience. She left Kansas City a year later for a slower-paced life, marriage and her equally-loved occupation of horticulture.

Beth became a signature member of the Kansas Watercolor Society in the mid-seventies. She has studied at The Kansas City Art Institute and The Wichita Center for the Arts. She attended Wichita State University in the early eighties, working on a double major in linguistics and speech-language pathology with honors. She chose that field of study with the goal of combining that with her background in art to work in creative ways with autistic or otherwise developmentally delayed children. Little did the then yet-to-be-mother realize that she would someday be using the information she had gleaned from her studies at WSU to work with her own child who as a toddler was diagnosed with significant developmental delays.

With more relaxed responsibilities at home now, the re-inspired artist works daily on her artwork. She continues to study and is wholeheartedly dedicated to producing sensitive, high-quality, professional work. Selections from over four decades of Beth's work are on display in private collections throughout the United States.

Beth Barritt Wiechman
PO Box 301
Sedgwick, KS 67135