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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..
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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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May 27, 2024

Arts News: Nelson-Atkins presents premiere screening of Hugo Ximello-Salido’s ‘Muxe’ documentary

Hugo Ximello-Salido’s much-anticipated documentary, “MUXE,” originally slated for release in 2021, will finally see its premiere in Kansas City June 28, after being delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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May 22, 2024

Honors: Amy June Breesman

The Lawrence-based artist, activist and farmer was named a 2023-2024 National Leaders of Color Fellow.
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September 13, 2023

Honors: Sean Nash

The Kansas City artist fuses painting and sculpture with culinary arts into a unique social practice.
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August 14, 2023

Whim’s ‘Playing on the Periphery’ Is a Tender Celebration of Queer & Questioning Youth

Playing on the Periphery is undoubtedly a children’s show. But there were no children in the audience the evening I saw the play, and it was no less enjoyable for the adults present.
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July 17, 2023

“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.
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July 12, 2023

Combating Injustice With a Uniquely Queer, Athletic Aesthetic

Rage at systemic abuse drives Kansas City fashion designer Dustin Loveland's spring collection.
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December 22, 2022

“The Law for Falling Bodies: A Queer Print Media Exhibit,” Charlotte Street Gallery

Gravity is a force that affects all bodies — tethering and tying us to this mortal plane of existence. In Galileo’s law of falling bodies, all objects fall at exactly the same rate with variances arising only from air resistance.
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