african american artists

December 18, 2024

“Ida’s Journey,” Mid-Continent Public Library’s Story Center

Artist Karen E. Griffin pays tribute to the life and work of African American journalist and activist Ida B. Wells in her exhibit at Mid-Continent Public Library’s Story Center.

December 10, 2024

Michael Brantley: The art of perseverance

Despite challenges posed by a debilitating disease, the talented African American oil painter persists in his mission to uplift the culture of Black America.

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.

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