Arts Consortium – KC STUDIO

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March 2, 2021

Passionate Members Keep ART in Their heARTs, Making Us Strong – Together

Art lovers can join four different membership organizations at the Kauffman Center and become part of a family of enthusiastic performing arts devotees. All share..

March 1, 2021

Why Keep That? Now Open at the National WWI Museum and Memorial

Collecting, cataloguing, conserving. The heart of a museum is its collection, but how do museums make decisions, and who gets to answer the question, “Why..

March 1, 2021

‘Our Community Needs to Know’

Junius G. Groves was 19, a former slave from Kentucky looking for a better life, when he walked more than 500 miles as part of the great post-Civil War exodus of African Americans to Kansas. The young freedman found work around Edwardsville as a farmhand.

March 1, 2021

An Orchestra You Can Carry

The guitar is a small orchestra,” the late Andrés Segoviaonce said. “It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.” The acclaimed Spanish musician Segovia is one of many great guitarists who have brought their “orchestras” to Kansas City by invitation from the Harriman-Jewell Series over the years.

March 1, 2021

Jazz and the Black Aesthetic

Connecting Community, Blackness and the Art of Jazz at the American Jazz Museum The American Jazz Museum is proud to partner with Black Space Black..

January 19, 2021

The Nelson-Atkins Zooms Into Its Mission

When COVID-19 upended the way we do nearly everything, School and Educator Programs at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art was no different. With physical access..

January 19, 2021

The Kauffman Center Finds New Ways to Connect Audiences with the Arts

Grammy-nominated organist Jan Kraybill performs on the Julia Irene Kauffman Casavant Organ, Opus 3875. Some of Kraybill’s recent performances on the pipe organ are featured..

January 19, 2021

‘Community in Color’: Library’s Digital Exhibit Spotlights Historic Northeast Murals

Kansas City Art Institute instructor Hector Casanova, who lives in the Historic Northeast, painted Breach at the Grove Park pool in 2016. (photo courtesy of..

January 18, 2021

The Instrument That Can Sing

Mstislav Rostropovich once said, “When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice — my voice.” It’s the voice-like characteristic of the cello that makes it one of the most heart-melting of instruments.

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