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November 26, 2024

2024 Holiday Events

This holiday season is filled with great concerts, performances and exhibits by local, national and international artists.

November 13, 2024

Arts News: Queer Kansas City mosaic on permanent display at UMKC’s Miller Nichols Library

KCAI graduate Jack Olander Brooks’ 4 x 6-foot mosaic representing historical queer Kansas City moments from 1855 through the early 2010s is on permanent display..

October 23, 2024

In Memoriam | James Brinsfield (1947-2024)

James Brinsfield, one of Kansas City’s leading abstract painters, died Sept. 21, 2024, at the age of 77, with his partner Alice Thorson at his side. The cause of death was cancer.

October 16, 2024

Making it as a full-time artist

Poet Natasha Ria El-Scari explores the strategies, challenges and rewards from the perspective of her own experience and that of three full-time artists.

October 4, 2024

“Material World,” Artspace

“Material World,” on display at H&R Block Artspace, is a cohesive foray into ecological art that goes outside the studio to find its ecology.

September 24, 2024

Artist to Watch: SK Reed

A compelling mix of ecology, queerness, anti-capitalist sentiment and abstraction animates the Kansas City artist's work.

September 23, 2024

In Memoriam: Charlie Egan (1932-2024)

A fierce advocate for the Kansas City Art Institute, he masterminded the institution's financial turnaround in the 1990s.

September 20, 2024

Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art Opening Two Exhibitions in September

The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art will be exhibiting the work of two Kansas City artists beginning Sept. 21.

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May 28, 2024

Artist to Watch: Nathan Ford

Hailing from the Rust Belt of Columbus, Ohio, Nathan Ford wound up in Kansas City to attend the Kansas City Art Institute as a fiber student. The pandemic pushed him into quilting almost as a necessity.

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