For a number of years, the Academy at the UMKC Conservatory has been the bridge between the national reputation and excellence of the Conservatory and the musical needs of our
This summer and fall, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art will install a new Collection Focus area on the second floor of JCCC’s newly renovated Billington Library. This new installation
I remember the first time I saw them. It was a grey November day in 2012. The Indian silver expert Wynyard Wilkinson accompanied me to an art storage facility in
Ephemera – “anything short-lived or transitory.” The heart of a museum is its collection. By collecting, cataloguing, conserving and storing objects, a museum preserves information from the past so that
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
New Event Package Offers More Variety, Community Reach and Low-Cost Tickets Kansas City audiences are eager to hear live performances after COVID-19 concerns placed concerts on hold this spring, and our city’s premier performing arts presenter is more than up to the challenge. The Harriman-Jewell Series’ 56th season schedule of 22 events spans from September […]
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 […]
Discount ticketing is one of the ways that the Kauffman Center connects Kansas City’s many communities to world-class performance experiences. Kauffman Center provides ticket discounts through the Community Tickets program, which is designed to reach children and families as well as students, educators, military personnel and seniors. The program EncoreTix offers young professionals ticket discounts […]
