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May 14, 2020

Arts News: Dikeman’s “Leaving and Waving” Photos Make Mack Award Shortlist

Kansas City fell in love with photographer Deanna Dikeman’s “Leaving and Waving” series of family portraits almost 30 years ago, when she began showing them in local galleries and competitions.
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May 13, 2020

Building a More Open, Inclusive and Diverse Arts Scene

Since he began collecting art in the early 1990s, Dwight Smith has established himself as one of the leading collectors in Kansas City, specializing in works by women artists and artists of color. Smith is a fixture at art openings and events.
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May 12, 2020

Jarrett Mellenbruch Wins $100,000 Creative Capital Award for Visionary Proposal to Combat Climate Change

Late last year, Kansas City artist Jarrett Mellenbruch was selected to receive a prestigious 2020 Creative Capital Award for "Redwood Preserve."
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May 11, 2020

Arts News: Charlotte Street Renews Commitment to Cutting-Edge Choreography

Making Moves is moving. After a successful establishment year, Charlotte Street Foundation renewed the monthly choreographic showcase for 2020 and is bringing it to the..
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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.
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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.”
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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..
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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.
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American composer and Kansas City native Virgil Thomson is the subject of a forthcoming PBS documentary by veteran filmmakers James Arntz and John Paulson working with KC-based producer Aimee Larrabee. (Carl Van Vechten Photographs Collection at the Library of Congress)K
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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.
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