Christel Highland

Christel Highland

Christel Highland is an Artist, Curator, Designer and Realtor/Investor living and working in Kansas City’s Crossroads Arts District who also has the distinct honor of serving on the Municipal Arts Commission as well as the Executive Committee for the new Kansas City International Airport. Her most cherished life’s work is being the Mother to Clive and Otto.

Holiday Guide

Great Ideas, Gifts and Finds from KC Businesses, Merchants, Artists and Designers Belger Crane Yard Gallery Holidays at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery, located at 2011 Tracy, Kansas City, Missouri, feature an incredible array of artworks for purchase through January 4, 2021. This annual tradition includes textiles, ceramics, glass and more. This year’s artists are […]

Creative Fire: Profiles by Christel Highland

The velvety vocals of multi-faceted artist Lonnie McFadden shine in his 2012 album, “I Believe in Music.” Just released in March, “Live at the Green Lady Lounge” is pure, Kansas City jazz at its finest. Swinging, rowdy, live and soul-filled, McFadden’s newest album makes the listener proud to be a Kansas Citian, and proud of our jazz heritage.

Summer Fun Guide

Summer Fun Guide

Heart of America Shakespeare Festival is keeping the heart of Shakespeare alive in the hearts of Kansas City’s youth. Each year, more than 3,000 children ages 5 to 18 benefit from school programs, summer camps, internships, apprenticeships and art contents geared around the works of Shakespeare.

Kansas City’s Art Ambassadors

Kansas City’s Art Ambassadors

Elbert Hubbard famously said, “Art is not a thing, it is a way.” Artists and educators Jessie Fisher and Scott Seebart live a life dedicated to figurative and representational painting. Of her friends and collaborators Misty Gamble says, “There’s a romanticism to the way they work.”

Four Voices in Arts Education

Four Voices in Arts Education

Jill Downen, assistant professor of sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute, is an artist deeply interested in space. There is a construction to the work that plays with the senses in a mysterious, meaningful manner. Downen actively highlights, if not creates, anomalies in the surface of the gallery, celebrating the history of the previous artistic inhabitants of the space.