KC STUDIO

May 11, 2020

Artist to Watch: Chris Ortiz

Punk rock shaped Chris Ortiz’s life, and his latest photography project is his love letter to the culture, the people and the scene.

May 11, 2020

Roger Shimomura: From Studio Art to Performance Art Ace

Roger Shimomura, distinguished painter, printmaker and venerable educator, illuminates his uniquely American story of cultural difference in “Staging Shimomura.”

May 7, 2020

Editor’s Letter, May/June 2020

In this time of personal fear and professional peril, Kansas City’s artists and arts organizations have rallied to the challenge. The good news is that..

May 4, 2020

‘An Exciting Page Turn’

For more than 10 years, audiences at the tiny Fishtank Theatre saw experimental theater, mini-musicals, offbeat plays, solo performances, Fringe Festival shows and singular events such as a 24-hour live reading of a memoir by Alaska governor (and failed vice-presidential candidate) Sarah Palin.

April 30, 2020

KC Composer Celebrated in Upcoming PBS Documentary

Walt Disney. Harry S Truman. Most Kansas Citians recognize these native sons. But Virgil Thomson? Blank stare. Actually, Virgil Thomson is the most important KC native most people have never heard of.

April 14, 2020

KCAI Community Responds Creatively to Challenges of COVID-19

Since the Kansas City Art Institute’s closing March 12 and implementation of remote learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the college’s community is responding..

April 8, 2020

Arts News: Intimate Images of a Champion

Gordon Parks, American (1912–2006). Muhammad Ali Interviewed by Reporters, London, England, 1966. Gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 inches. (courtesy of and copyright the Gordon..

April 3, 2020

“Dark Paintings Redux by Jim Sajovic,” Leedy-Voulkos Art Center

Jim Sajovic created his “Dark Paintings,” eight of which now hang like specters in the closed Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, from 1991-95. They were the artist’s..

April 2, 2020

‘Whiteout’: An Artist’s Frank Memoir About His Family’s Racist Past

“My family arose from a line that defines white privilege and power, in a place of authority that has twisted the lives of many. Over generations, my family helped shape the Jim Crow laws in Alabama, convict the innocent and protect the guilty.”