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  • Grassroots Art Center

    Grassroots Art CenterDuring the twentieth century Lucas, a unique, rural town in north central Kansas, has been a Mecca for Grassroots artists. Grassroots Art is described as individualistic self-taught, often eccentric s...
    Grassroots Art Center
  • Postrock Limestone Courtyard

    Postrock Limestone CourtyardA three million acre formation in central Kansas is known as post rock limestone. Cutting of this post rock grew out of the uniqueness of the land and the needs and inventiveness of early settlers. Fr...
    Postrock Limestone Courtyard
  • Ed Root Sculptures

    Ed Root SculpturesEd Root farmed south of Lucas until an automobile accident forced an early retirement from farming. Over the next twenty years, he energetically occupied himself with the creation of hundreds of co...
    Ed Root Sculptures
  • Florence Deeble's Rock Garden

    Florence Deeble's Rock GardenFlorence Deeble was a child watching with curiosity, when S.P. Dinsmoor was constructing his Garden of Eden in Lucas. When she retired after a career as a high school English and history teacher, s...
    Florence Deeble's Rock Garden
  • Garden of Isis Starclock

    Garden of Isis Starclock"Grassroots art" is a term describing art made by people with no formal artistic training . . . (usually of retirement age)using ordinary materials in an extraordinary way . . . and frequently c...
    Garden of Isis Starclock
  • Bowl Plaza

    The Bowl Plaza idea came about because of the lack of public restrooms for the 10,000 plus visitors that come to visit the Lucas attractions every year. Bowl Plaza is an amazing work of mosaic art th...
    Bowl Plaza

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Ed Root Sculptures

Ed Root farmed south of Lucas until an automobile accident forced an early

Lucas, KS Arts

Florence Deeble's Rock Garden

Florence Deeble was a child watching with curiosity, when S.P. Dinsmoor was constructing his Garden of Eden in Lucas. When she retired after a career as a high school English and history teacher, she began constructing her own grassroots environment of colored concrete scenes around her home.

Lucas, KS Arts

Postrock Limestone Courtyard

A three million acre formation in central Kansas is known as post rock limestone. Cutting of this post rock grew out of the uniqueness of the land and the needs and inventiveness of early settlers. From 1870-1920, limestone was the only building material used in this area. By the mid 1880

Lucas, KS Arts

Grassroots Art Center

During the twentieth century Lucas, a unique, rural town in north central Kansas, has been a Mecca for Grassroots artists. Grassroots Art is described as individualistic self-taught, often eccentric senior citizens, who have a

Lucas, KS Arts

Garden of Eden

Being in a small prairie town in central Kansas, on a quiet residential street, a concrete Adam and Eve greet you;

Lucas, KS One Of A Kinds

Things to do near Lucas, KS

Indian Petroglyphs

These old Indian drawings can be found on the west shoreline of Wilson Lake carved in the Dakota Sandstone. It is impossible ...