african american artists

July 15, 2024

“A Benediction from the Rubble,” Zhou B Art Center

As the inaugural exhibition at Kansas City’s new Zhou B Art Center, “A Benediction from the Rubble” soars like a phoenix arisen from the ashes, a scarred, but resolute, messenger of resilience and hope.

June 3, 2024

A show of intellectual and creative force

Imagination and perspective stretches into fresh forms in his new exhibition, “AnticKS & MOdels + My theater to your eyes: Kahlil Robert Irving,” at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art.

May 7, 2024

Poetry | Melissa Ferrer Civil: ‘I want to see a better world’

A quest for truth drives the first Kansas City Poet Laureate.

April 30, 2024

Arts News: KC Symphony’s first foray into hip hop music will featured acclaimed independent hip hop artist Tech N9ne

Tech N9ne will bring his trademark chopper rhyming style to Kansas City’s Midland Theatre May 4 in a first of its kind collaboration with the Kansas City Symphony.

July 11, 2023

Honors: Sandra Scott-Revelle

The Kansas City textile artist reveals "the lesser-known lights in the vast heavens of Black history.

July 11, 2023

Julius Karash on Business and the Arts: Amid Turbulent Times, KC Artist Commemorates Civil Rights Victory with Brown v. Board of Education Mural

Visitors to the new Washburn University School of Law Building in Topeka, scheduled to open this summer, will be greeted by a mural commemorating one of the most important rulings in U.S. Supreme Court history.

June 8, 2023

“Distinctly Human, portraits by Kwanza Humphrey,” The Gallery at HJ’s Community Center

“Distinctly Human, portraits by Kwanza Humphrey” captures the strong voice of quiet moments through tenderly powerful paintings and drawings.

Community News

January 19, 2023

Art School KC presents an evening of art, poetry, music and food.

salon of the indigenous gods is a visual art exhibition featuring painting and mixed media visual art, music, and spoken word poetry celebrating the culture of Indigenous peoples.

November 30, 2022

Lewis Morrow: Masterful Portraits of Black Life

In the Kansas City playwright's trilogy of the intense family dramas, Blackness is something active.

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