Kansas City Public Library

March 6, 2023

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.

January 5, 2023

“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.

November 4, 2022

Ban These Books? Librarians Rally As Challenges Rise

The Kansas City Public Library’s downtown parking garage has been a popular landmark for the better part of two decades.

September 15, 2022

The Traveling Exhibition “Young at Art” Comes to the Library

Chris Van Allsburg’s black and white illustrations of two siblings watching their home slowly fill with large game animals and natural disasters are not Hollywood flashy, but they’re riveting.

July 8, 2022

Library Invites you to Immerse in a Few Good Reads – and Art

Summer reading programs have been around since the late 19th century, launched by libraries — and endorsed by teachers — to encourage kids to continue to read while school was out.

March 10, 2022

Library’s Community-Wide Big Read Spotlights Joy Harjo’s “An American Sunrise”

History will always find you, and wrap you In its thousand arms. Joy Harjo makes the observation early in An American Sunrise, the acclaimed collection of poetry she released in 2019.

March 2, 2022

“An Artist at Home in America: Michael Mardikes’ Photographs of Thomas Hart Benton,” Kansas City Public Library Central Library

A startling discovery was the inspiration for the exhibition, “An Artist at Home in America: Michael Mardikes’ Photographs of Thomas Hart Benton” on view at the Kansas City Public Library Central Library.

January 21, 2022

Rich Past, Rich Lore

Ninety-eight years apart, almost to the day, the marble-columned building at 14 W. 10th Street in Kansas City, Missouri, hosted grand openings. The first was the First National Bank ribbon cutting on April 15, 1906.

November 5, 2021

Global Footprint of Romanian-Born Artist Armin Mühsam Extends to the Kansas City Library

Armin Mühsam’s art has been featured in more than 50 exhibitions across the U.S. and in central and western Europe, but this is a particularly busy — and rewarding — time for the Kansas City-based artist.

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