KC STUDIO

May 31, 2021

How to Make the Best Performance

If you’ve attended a concert of the Kansas City Symphony anytime in the last 29 years, you’ve probably seen her.

May 27, 2021

Kansas City Symphony Jubilantly Welcomes Audience Back to Helzberg Hall

Have you ever been in love? That was kind of what it was like to be in Helzberg Hall at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts Wednesday evening.

May 26, 2021

“Nehemiah Cisneros: Violent by Design (Part II),” Leedy-Voulkos Art Center

In artist Nehemiah Cisneros’s universe, violence is omnipresent.

May 26, 2021

UMKC Libraries Presents ‘The Story of the 1968 Uprising in Kansas City’

An online exhibit presented by UMKC Libraries highlights the eight days following the assassination of Dr. King and its effect on Kansas City.

May 25, 2021

Gallery of the Moment: A Sistine Chapel of Black Joy

In a society that is obsessed with the destruction of Black lives, creating images of Black joy is a militant act of creative resistance.

May 24, 2021

Honors: Andrew Mcilvaine

Viewing Andrew Mcilvaine’s recent work is like walking into a dream. Earlier this year, the Mexican American painter, sculptor and multimedia installation artist had his first one-person show in Kansas City after attracting the attention of Robert Gann, owner of the Habitat Contemporary exhibition space inside Leedy-Voulkos Art Center.

Community News

May 21, 2021

Sound After Silence: KCJO’s Return to the Stage in Fall 2021

“Americans don’t realize how important jazz is. It’s healing for the soul. It should be played everywhere.”

May 19, 2021

Arts News: Healing and Happiness Through Piano

Finding ways to connect with community and grow as an individual are some of the greatest challenges of this pandemic. Pianist Grace Odell wants to introduce people to the piano as a source of healing and connection.

May 18, 2021

Solid, Liquid, and In Between: The Frag Sculptures of Joe Bussell

Joe Bussell: Frags at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art continues the institution’s forward-facing practice of bringing the art of our time into conversation with the ideas and challenges of the same.