Library Kicks Off a Celebration 150 years in the Making
Not quite a century ago, before he’d spawned an American empire, a young Walt Disney boned up on the basics of animation through a book he checked out from the Kansas City Public Library.
“All Modes Are Open to Us,” Guldner Gallery, Kansas City Public Library Central Branch
Take a step back to the 1970s in a women’s separatist colony. Breathe in the freshness, the dirt and the unbridled hope that there can be new ways of living.
KCPL Upgrades Extensive Catalog of Orchestral Music Sets
Over James Murray's decades-long career, the Kansas City-area orchestra conductor has almost accidentally amassed more music than he knows what to do with.
‘Spread the Love’: Library Burnishes its Branches with Art
The Kansas City Public Library has long opened its spaces to art, going back to the opening of the city’s first gallery, the Western Gallery of Art, on the second floor of its old quarters at Ninth and Locust streets in the late 1900s.
Library Celebrates 125th Anniversary of its Landmark Westport Branch
Tucked inside the March 3, 1898, edition of The Kansas City Star was a brief item about the area’s newest library, opened little more than a week earlier in Westport.
“Peripheral Visions” Exhibition at Kansas City Public Library Aims to Expand Exposure to Talented KC Artists
Ryan Sikes has been making art ever since he could hold a pencil. But by his mid-20s, what started as a hobby had morphed into what looked more like a career.
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