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Community Mural Project

Submissions accepted June 2 – August 31

This summer, become part of something colorful, creative, and completely unique! Our temporary community mural is all about you—your imagination, your artistry, and the way you see yourself. We want to know what made you who you are and what’s important to you! 
Draw a self-portrait at home, out in the community, or at our library’s drawing station on the second floor, and we will add it to our evolving display. Need a little inspiration? Grab one of our creative prompt sheets to spark your creativity! Submissions will be accepted from June 2 through August 31, 2025. 
This mural is more than just art—it’s a celebration of self-expression, connection, and the vibrant community we share through books, ideas, and creativity. Every face tells a story, and we want to see yours!
Join us in filling our mural wall—big or small, detailed or abstract, your portrait belongs here. The display will be up through August 2025, so don’t miss your chance to be part of this dynamic, ever-growing masterpiece!
We will follow up this project with a closing reception to celebrate where participants can reflect on the project and connect with other contributors. The date is to be decided.

Summer Programs

Bad Art Night

Thursday, July 31 at 6:00PM

Let Your Inner Artist Run Wild… 

Join us for Bad Art Night, where the goal isn’t to make a masterpiece—it’s to make a hilarious disaster! Forget perfection, technique, or “staying inside the lines.” This is your chance to create gloriously terrible art in the name of creative freedom, laughter, and just plain fun.

We’ll supply the weird materials, you bring your most chaotic imagination. Paint with a spoon? Sure. Glue googly eyes where they don’t belong? Absolutely. The worse it looks, the better your chances of winning a prize—yes, prizes!—for the Worst Art.

No skills? No problem. In fact, that’s kind of the point.

This event is for adults who want to get weird, let go, and laugh a lot. Whether you’re a closet Picasso or haven’t picked up a glue stick since third grade, Bad Art Night is your time to shine.

Registration is required!

Register Here

Author Talk

Bring an appetite for sizzling drama as we discuss New York Times bestselling author of Red, White, and Royal Blue Casey McQuiston’s latest romantic comedy, The Pairing. When two bisexual exes accidentally book the same European food and wine tour, they challenge each other to a hookup competition to prove they’re over each other—except they’re definitely not. Meet the author virtually on Wednesday August 20th at 6 PM CT via digital live-stream in partnership with Hutchinson Public Library!    

Register and ask questions of the author Here

Register and Submit Questions Here

Book Clubs

Humanities Kansas

Important Update: Humanities Kansas TALK Books Discussion program is suspended indefinitely. Due to cuts to federal funding including the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH). Humanities Kansas is forced to scale back or cut grants, programs and operations.

Did you know that our library has been hosting the TALK program since 2007? That’s 18 years! We are so grateful to Humanities Kansas for a partnership that spanned nearly two decades.

The Great Plains Spirit will be our last TALK Books Discussion until further notice.

Join a Book Club

We host five book clubs at the library. Wow! It’s easy to sign up for book club, check out the books at the public service desk!

  • Salt City Readers
    • Adult Fiction
  • For the Record
    • 33 1/3 Books
    • Music
  • Strange New Words
    • Science Fiction
    • Fantasy
  • Mystery Mavens
    • Mystery
    • Thriller
  • Is the Book Always Better?
    • Fiction
    • Movie Adaptations

Email us to be added to a specific book club list for updates and reminders each month.

adult.program.coordinator@hutchpl.org

Each book club focuses on a different literary theme or genre. Attend as many as you want! Book clubs are great for enhancing your critical thinking skills, expanding your social circle, and adding variety to your reading habits.

Hutchinson Public Library Book Clubs

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Mystery Mavens

Hutchinson Public Library 901 N Main St, Hutchinson, KS, United States

6:00 pm Conference Room #2 Mystery Mavens meet on the fourth Tuesday of every month. If you are interested in obtaining a copy of this month’s book and participating in […]

Salt City Readers

Hutchinson Public Library 901 N Main St, Hutchinson, KS, United States

Let’s talk about books! We explore a variety of fiction genres each month!  Salt City Readers meets every third Wednesday each month.  Check out the books at the Public Service […]

Mystery Mavens

Hutchinson Public Library 901 N Main St, Hutchinson, KS, United States

6:00 pm Conference Room #2 Mystery Mavens meet on the fourth Tuesday of every month. If you are interested in obtaining a copy of this month’s book and participating in […]

Salt City Readers

Hutchinson Public Library 901 N Main St, Hutchinson, KS, United States

Let’s talk about books! We explore a variety of fiction genres each month!  Salt City Readers meets every third Wednesday each month.  Check out the books at the Public Service […]

Mystery Mavens

Hutchinson Public Library 901 N Main St, Hutchinson, KS, United States

6:00 pm Conference Room #2 Mystery Mavens meet on the fourth Tuesday of every month. If you are interested in obtaining a copy of this month’s book and participating in […]

Salt City Readers

Hutchinson Public Library 901 N Main St, Hutchinson, KS, United States

Let’s talk about books! We explore a variety of fiction genres each month!  Salt City Readers meets every third Wednesday each month.  Check out the books at the Public Service […]

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Hutchinson Public Library 901 N Main St, Hutchinson, KS, United States

6:00 pm Conference Room #2 Mystery Mavens meet on the fourth Tuesday of every month. If you are interested in obtaining a copy of this month’s book and participating in […]

News

  • Hutchinson Public Library Becomes FamilySearch Affiliate Library 
    Hutchinson, KS—If you want to be part of the popular ancestry search trend, you may not need to look any further than the local library. The Hutchinson Public Library  is now a FamilySearch Affiliate Library, which means it has access to more genealogy resources to help you make more family discoveries. FamilySearch is a world leader in family history.
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    Travel and Adventure The Summer Reading Challenge may be over, but we still have a serious case of wanderlust. Check out these daring tales of solo expeditions, road trips, and captivating discoveries! Whether you’re exploring rugged trails, uncovering hidden gems, or simply daydreaming of your next getaway, these books will satisfy your urge to explore… Read more: Travel Stories
  • What to Read Next
    Our July Choices for Adult Summer Reading We have overfilled our TBR list for July! There are so many new and nearly new titles that we can’t read them all this month. Our list spans the genres we have titles from romance, horror, thrillers, non-fiction, and fiction with direct links to our catalog so you… Read more: What to Read Next
  • Humanities Kansas TALK Series
    Hutchinson Public Library is hosting a three part book series March through May exploring “Ghost Stories.” Ghost stories arouse the same emotion that draws us to mystery fiction: the desire to solve the problem of the past. People tell stories to try to explain what death is, where loved ones go, why the good suffer.… Read more: Humanities Kansas TALK Series
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    We have a wide range of topics for all reading tastes this month! If you’re in the mood for a romance, check out Happiness for Beginners and join the discussion with the Salt City Readers club later this month. If romance has failed you and you find yourself looking for more of a classic slasher,… Read more: Library Lover’s Month Reading List