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March 21, 2016

Honors: Bridget Lowe

Maybe it is true what folklore says about red hair—it is the color most likely to adorn poets and madmen. Bridget Lowe, with her shimmering auburn hair, holds in esteem the inner workings of both. Perhaps that is why Herbert Leibowitz, publisher and founding editor of Parnassus: Poetry in Review, describes her work as “uncommonly mature.”

March 15, 2016

Harmony Project KC

In 2014, when Scuola Nuova Vita Charter School raised enough money to move into its own building down the street, Northeast Community Center Executive Director Laura Shulz had a problem. “What am I going to do with all this space now?” she recalls thinking. Then she discovered Harmony Project.

March 14, 2016

Cary Esser: A Ceramist for the 21st Century

At 19 Cary Esser flew alone from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to Kansas City, a place she’d never been. “When I got off the plane,” Esser recalled in a recent interview, “I just walked up to somebody and asked, ‘Can you tell me how to get to the Kansas City Art Institute?’ ”

March 11, 2016

Ceramics Finds at the Nelson Store

Watch for a festive display by well-known Kansas City ceramics artist Irma Starr at the Nelson-Atkins Museum store during the NCECA conference. Starr has created..

March 9, 2016

Clay for All

Clay claims the spotlight, fills the frame, dominates the conversation and asserts a commanding presence in KC’s exhibition spaces this season, as the city plays host to the 50th annual conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) from March 16-19.

March 8, 2016

KC Jazz Soars in Sacred Setting

There are a few hidden treasures here in Kansas City. Among them is the Kansas City Jazz Vespers series. The ongoing program at the First..

March 7, 2016

NCECA Conference Will Fire Up KC Ceramics Community

A giant spotlight will shine on the Kansas City area’s ceramics community March 16-19, when the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA)..

March 4, 2016

Goldenburg Duo Celebrates 35th Anniversary

Their fans are hooked on the Goldenberg duo’s twice-yearly concerts at venues around Kansas City. “Quirky, heartfelt and endearing,” is how regular Venne-Richard Londré describes the one-hour free performances featuring pianist William Goldenberg, distinguished professor and chair of the piano department at Northern Illinois University, and his sister, violinist Susan Goldenberg, a longtime member of the Kansas City Symphony.

March 3, 2016

Colorbind

As Kansas City gears up for the 50th annual conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), it seems fitting that the newly named Kansas City Art Institute Gallery is planning an exhibit of works by alumni of its esteemed ceramics department.

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