Two Wichitans who’ve helped shape the city’s cultural scene for decades were honored last month by Gov. Laura Kelly and the Kansas Arts Commission.
Cecil Riney, a musician and former chair of the Friends University Fine Arts Division, and Connie Bonfy, an artist and grant writer/program developer for Ballet Wichita and the Wichita Art Museum, received Arts Legacy Awards.
Riney, a 1953 graduate of Friends, was longtime director of the Singing Quaker Choir at Friends and has also conducted the Wichita Choral Society and the Wichita Symphony Chorus, including a performance in Carnegie Hall.
Bonfy a painter, printmaker and former executive director of the Kansas Rural Center, has raised nearly $50 million for nonprofits throughout her career.
