“Our focus is on artists as artists, not artists with disabilities,” says Kansas City artist Jillian Youngbird, community outreach and media coordinator for Imagine That! a creative home for nearly 60 area artists with developmental disabilities.

Life in America is inherently political. Especially so if your heritage is indigenous to this land. The upcoming Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art exhibit “(RE)CLAIM” features..

David Douglas Duncan, a major American photographer, died earlier this year after a long life filled with adventure, travel and an enduring love for his family, friends and hometown of Kansas City. Duncan will be remembered for many distinguished bodies of work. His war photography broke norms with its presentation of soldiers as neither winners nor losers, rather as regular people to whom we could all relate.