The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts works year-round to bring together Kansas City youth and the arts through a variety of immersive opportunities. The Open Doors Spotlight on Youth initiative offers a diverse set of activities that connect tomorrow’s artists, art patrons and arts administrators with the Kauffman Center’s staff and stages. Noteworthy Spotlight […]
When Anne Ducey, the Kansas City Public Library’s director of exhibits, got word a couple of years ago that a Pulitzer Prize-winning book on the troubling rise in home evictions had become the inspiration for an immersive exhibition in Washington, D.C., she moved quickly. The book was Matthew Desmond’s Evicted: Poverty & Profit in the […]
Within the collection of the American Jazz Museum are thousands of objects preserving the history of jazz and its significance in American culture. Many of these objects boast historical, cultural, and even monetary value. One object in particular (on loan to the American Jazz Museum from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History) has much […]
Spring is finally here, and the students and faculty of the UMKC Conservatory are celebrating with exciting performances throughout this semester. We have had celebration concerts of Beethoven’s 250th, theatre co-productions with The Coterie and The Unicorn theatres and special presentations of the history of electronic music for piano. There are still a lot of […]
“There was no other place like it. It was a place where all kinds of people came, worked with and accepted each other,” recalled the artist Chaim Koppelman when describing the printmaking workshop that Robert Blackburn launched in 1947 with a single press installed in his Chelsea loft in New York. Born to Jamaican immigrants, […]
The National WWI Museum and Memorial started collecting objects and documents directly from the war in 1920, making it the second oldest collecting institution of World War I material culture in the world. The collection was determined early on to be all-inclusive of every nation actively participating in the war. Regardless of what might happen […]
