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October 9, 2024

“Hadley Clark: ‘I Made This for You and Me’,” UMKC Gallery of Art

In her first solo exhibition of sculptural garments, “I Made This for You and Me” at UMKC Gallery of Art, Hadley Clark utilizes remnants and repurposed materials to reframe garments as domestic items.

March 26, 2024

Arts News: Influential National Design Portfolio Review, founded by UMKC’s Tom Mardikes, enters its 13th Year

On May 25 the National Design Portfolio Review will be held at New York’s historic Bohemian National Hall.

January 24, 2024

The lonesome legacy of Lottie Beaman, Kansas City’s forgotten Queen of the Blues

A career of brief eminence and a big, woeful, bluesy sound...

December 4, 2023

‘The Kansas City That Never Was’

Miller Nichols Library exhibit highlights 10 development plans that fizzled before fruition.

November 29, 2022

Remembering Kansas City’s Homes to Literary Dreams and Dreamers

"In 2019, I took my pickup to haul from the building that had housed The Writers Place — a grassroots literary organization at 36th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue..."

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October 3, 2022

Events in KC feature Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Raven Chacon

The Nerman Museum, KCAI and UMKC are coming together to host Pulitzer Prize winning artist Raven Chacon for a duo of events in KC.

July 18, 2022

Meet Kansas City’s Emerging Art Curators

Three young talents bring their ideas to bear on the presentation of art from KC and beyond.

June 3, 2022

Bharatanāṭyam Dance at UMKC’s Cockefair Chair Lecture Series

UMKC's Cockefair Chair Lecture Series hosted a vital but all-too-brief demonstration of the Bharatanātyam classical dance of South India.

May 10, 2022

Honors: William Toney

For photographer William Toney, photography is a way of honoring his experience as an African American and artist while engaging wholly with time and place.

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