PRICE CENTER WINS 'BEST OF HAYS HONORS' – AGAIN!

The Price Center & Garden has once again earned the title of Best of Hays, marking its seventh recognition!  The 2025 accolades are for Best Art Gallery/Exhibit and Social Venue, both of which the Center has won over the past several years.

“We are grateful to all who nominated and/or voted for us, said Clay DeStefano, executive director. “The Arts Committee does a spectacular job creating, curating, and overseeing all aspects of our gallery and other arts activities,” he added.

The 2025 win adds to the Center’s past Best of Hays honors in 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, and 2024 for Best Art Gallery,

The Price Center Arts Committee (l-r) Clay DeStefano, Jeanne Garthwaite, Joan Nagel, Garrie Borden, Margaret Adie, and Tracy Weinberg.

Best Community Center,

and Best Social Venue

throughout the years.

“Winning this recognition is very validating to our Arts Committee and their ongoing efforts,” said DeStefano. “Keeping the arts alive and giving a voice to them in our community is an honor and privilege all of us on the Committee take very seriously.”

The Price Center Arts Committee includes Joan Nagel Chair, Margaret Adie, Garrie Borden, DeStefano, Jeanne Garthwaite, and Tracy Weinberg. More than 600 artists have exhibited at the Center since the group began curating shows in 2017.

This Hummingbird Mural was commissioned by the PC Arts Committee last fall to enhance the Comanche St side of the campus.

In addition to the gallery shows, the Committee has overseen several community art projects like the' Together We Soar' wings, and permanent outdoor art installations, including the Hummingbird Mural installed this past September.

The Price Center & Garden is a non-profit visual and performing arts and cultural community center dedicated to the healthy enrichment of lives across generations. Celebrating the arts through hands-on, real-time opportunities continue to routinely draw the Center’s biggest crowds and build the most meaningful social connections between participants.

For more information about any of the activities at the Price Center, please call 512-392-2900, stop by the Center at 222 W. San Antonio St., visit price-center.org or Facebook @ Price Center and Garden or Instagram @smtxpricecenter.

Individual feathers for the 'Together We Soar' wings pictured below were created by more than 200 community members using recycled materials in honor of Earth Day last year.