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March 2, 2021

Midwest Trust Center Partners with Opus 76 for New ‘Eat, Drink, Play!’ Series

Midwest Trust Center (MTC) at Johnson County Community College announces its first-ever digital artists-in-residence — Kansas City-based Opus 76 Quartet. To launch the partnership, MTC..

March 2, 2021

Passionate Members Keep ART in Their heARTs, Making Us Strong – Together

Art lovers can join four different membership organizations at the Kauffman Center and become part of a family of enthusiastic performing arts devotees. All share..

March 2, 2021

A Consummate Cultural Provocateur

In an era of political paranoia, propaganda and literal armed uprisings, never has it been so essential for the people to have an ally in the arts. And in Kansas City, the people are fortunate to have a champion in artist Don Wilkison.

March 1, 2021

Why Keep That? Now Open at the National WWI Museum and Memorial

Collecting, cataloguing, conserving. The heart of a museum is its collection, but how do museums make decisions, and who gets to answer the question, “Why..

March 1, 2021

‘Our Community Needs to Know’

Junius G. Groves was 19, a former slave from Kentucky looking for a better life, when he walked more than 500 miles as part of the great post-Civil War exodus of African Americans to Kansas. The young freedman found work around Edwardsville as a farmhand.

March 1, 2021

An Orchestra You Can Carry

The guitar is a small orchestra,” the late Andrés Segoviaonce said. “It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.” The acclaimed Spanish musician Segovia is one of many great guitarists who have brought their “orchestras” to Kansas City by invitation from the Harriman-Jewell Series over the years.

March 1, 2021

Jazz and the Black Aesthetic

Connecting Community, Blackness and the Art of Jazz at the American Jazz Museum The American Jazz Museum is proud to partner with Black Space Black..

March 1, 2021

Kansas City Artist Explores Gender Fluidity of Mexico’s Muxe Culture in New Documentary

The legend of the Muxe says that the saint flying around the earth dropping seeds of gender was supposed to distribute men, women and Muxes equally.

February 27, 2021

On the Move: Kansas City Ballet’s New Moves: The Broadcast Series

When the Kansas City Ballet announced that the spring in-person performances were cancelled, one could only hope they would pivot to something innovative and eye catching.