[1] Kulhanek was a student of Henry Keller at the Cleveland School of Art.

[2] In 1938, Kulhanek was a witness to an incident at Brookside Zoo where Judy Zemnick, another WPA artist, was pulled into a polar bear enclosure and clawed.

Between 1935 and 1942, Kulhanek received Federal Art Project commissions through New Deal Works Progress Administration- sponsored art projects, such as the rendering of several prints of elks, great horned owls,[4] and reindeer, now in the collection of Case Western University.

[5][6] He also painted panels to be installed in the hallways of Collinwood[2] and Lincoln High Schools as well as the Federal Courthouse.

Shortly before Kulhanek's death, the artist painted a portrait of former Cleveland mayor Dennis Kucinich, who actually sat for Kulhanek, although the portrait was never displayed in Cleveland City Hall.