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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.
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March 21, 2016

The Beauty of Storms in Image and Word

Kansas City Public Library exhibit illuminates the poetry in weather. Across Kansas, and oftentimes south to Arkansas and Texas or north to Iowa, Montana and..
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March 21, 2016

Reflecting Class in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer Exhibition

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, February 24-May 29, 2016… In the late 16th century, a small, predominantly Protestant region in northern Europe shrugged off the..
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March 18, 2016

“Desire,” Belger Arts Center

Clay.  It’s pliable, damp, dirty, fun to touch, and we can build beautiful things with it. What’s not to love? Coinciding with the 50th annual..
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March 17, 2016

NCECA 2016 – Makers, Mentors and Milestones

NCECA 2016 – Makers, Mentors and Milestones reflects on the past, present and future of art and learning with clay. NCECA has chosen Kansas City,..
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March 15, 2016

NCECA Hosts 2016 Conference in Kansas City

2016 will be the fourth time in its history that NCECA will host its conference in Kansas City. The organization anticipates drawing more than 5000..
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March 15, 2016

Touch Meets Technology – Clay FabLab

It’s exciting to see how the NCECA conference evolves to meet the needs and desires of its attendees and the field of ceramics.  Premiering a..
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March 14, 2016

National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, March 16-19

The 50th annual conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) gets rolling here in Kansas City, March 16-19, 2016. Events..
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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?’ ”
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