“Peripheral Visions” Exhibition at Kansas City Public Library Aims to Expand Exposure to Talented KC Artists
Ryan Sikes has been making art ever since he could hold a pencil. But by his mid-20s, what started as a hobby had morphed into what looked more like a career.
The Traveling Exhibition “Young at Art” Comes to the Library
Chris Van Allsburg’s black and white illustrations of two siblings watching their home slowly fill with large game animals and natural disasters are not Hollywood flashy, but they’re riveting.
If archival items can be called juicy, the Folly Theater Collection, now housed in the Kansas City Public Library’s Missouri Valley Room, contains quite a few.
Ninety-eight years apart, almost to the day, the marble-columned building at 14 W. 10th Street in Kansas City, Missouri, hosted grand openings. The first was the First National Bank ribbon cutting on April 15, 1906.
Arts News: Pembroke Hill School Unveils Massive “After Nature” Artwork
In the bend where Shawnee Mission Parkway becomes Ward Parkway at State Line, drivers paying close attention will notice some new art just up the hill at the Pembroke Hill School.
Arts News: New Book Traces Architectural History of KCAI
Architectural historian Cydney Millstein agreed to write what would become “The Kansas City Art Institute: Architecture & Innovation 1885-2020” not knowing what she’d uncover in the necessary research.
