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April 1, 2016

Artists’ File Initiative Documents Accomplishments of Kansas City Artists

A treasure trove of the work, culture and history of Kansas City’s creative community is being carefully documented—one artist at a time. Marilyn Carbonell, head of Library Services at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, first developed a passion for capturing and preserving the work that artists do when she was in college.

March 28, 2016

Davin Watne Painting Featured in Netflix Drama Master of None

Kansas City artist Davin Watne has been racking up exposure over the past 15 months. In late 2014, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art acquired Watne’s multi-panel painting, Feel Secure, featuring 20 images of armored police vehicles from countries around the world.

March 22, 2016

How Far We’ve Come, How Far We Have to Go…

Blackness has always been a spectacle. It’s always been a groundbreaking news story, movement or piece of art. Photographers such as Danny Lyon and Bruce Davidson made blackness newsworthy, and photographers such as Gordon Parks and Roy DeCarava made it beautiful.

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..

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