Category: Visual
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Honors: Andrew Mcilvaine
Viewing Andrew Mcilvaine’s recent work is like walking into a dream. Earlier this year, the Mexican American painter, sculptor and multimedia installation artist had his first one-person show in Kansas City after attracting the attention of Robert Gann, owner of the Habitat Contemporary exhibition space inside Leedy-Voulkos Art Center.
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‘Nearest By Air to Everywhere’
Six years after Orville and Wilbur Wright had taken to the air outside the tiny coastal fishing village of Kitty Hawk, N.C., eager spectators ventured out to a field near 79th and Floyd streets in what’s now Overland Park for their own first look at a heavier-than-air flying machine. It was a cold Christmas Eve 1909.