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June 24, 2022

“So Fresh,” Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center

With his new TV drama “Bel-Air,” filmmaker and Kansas City native Morgan Cooper offers a serious reimagining of the 90s sitcom, “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”
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January 19, 2022

BlkArthouse: A New Model for Supporting, Promoting and Selling the Work of Black Artists

In 2020, with a core collective of six Black artists, Tatiana Rice launched BlkArthouse as a platform for connecting collectors with Black art while promoting and supporting artists through sales, exhibitions and professional development.
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March 3, 2021

Artist to Watch: Clarissa Knighten

Like Billie Holiday’s “Lady in Satin,” the riveting handmade jewelry pieces of local designer Clarissa Knighten resonate with strength and beauty forged under sustained intensity and pressure.
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July 17, 2019

Artist Pages: The Art of Black Hair Braiding

I believe that creativity is the child of want. The emotion-rich blood of humanity’s deep need to simply belong flows through creativity’s veins.
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May 17, 2019

Artist to Watch: Joseph T. Newton

After a lifetime of making art, Joseph T. Newton has had an especially busy schedule of showing his work in recent months.
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August 29, 2018

African American Artists Collective

In 2016, a group of Black artists calling themselves the African American Artists Collective began meeting in Kansas City with the goal of supporting KC’s African American and Black artists on the local, regional and national levels.
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April 30, 2018

Artist Pages: Black Art in Kansas City

This is, quite possibly, the most critical time for Black art since the 1960s.
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March 1, 2017

Kemper Scores a Coup with Rashid Johnson Exhibit

Rashid Johnson is one of the most sought-after artists of his generation. In 2013 “Flash Art” magazine christened him a “post-black flower child” whose work coaxes viewers to come to grips with “complex historical reckoning.”
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