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December 9, 2025

Artist Pages | Michael Toombs: A plea for spiritual restoration

Kansas City artist Michael Toombs evokes an ominous and searing conflation of existential crisis, spiritual reckoning and celestial transformation in his breakthrough series of new paintings, titled “RTTIN.”
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July 16, 2024

Confluence: Mural collaborators John Raux and J.T. Daniels mount an August exhibition of personal works at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center

At this point in their friendship, John Raux and J.T. Daniels have stood side-by-side on scaffolding and ladders for hundreds of hours, painting murals all over Kansas City.
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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.
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January 19, 2021

‘Community in Color’: Library’s Digital Exhibit Spotlights Historic Northeast Murals

Kansas City Art Institute instructor Hector Casanova, who lives in the Historic Northeast, painted Breach at the Grove Park pool in 2016. (photo courtesy of..
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July 8, 2020

Arts News: Saving a Kansas City Treasure

Talented, sometimes troubled and often ill, Arthur M. Kraft (1922 – 1977) forged a major art career in his native Kansas City, while exhibiting throughout the United States and Europe.
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