Galleries

N
Categories
July 14, 2020

Nelson-Atkins Prepares to Welcome Visitors After Closure

We are living in a world that changes from one day to the next, in ways that we previously would not have believed possible. A..
Read More
T
Categories
July 14, 2020

The Challenges of Black Gallery Ownership in Kansas City

Only three of the galleries in Kansas City are owned and operated by African Americans; joining Ron Chaney’s EthnicArt Gallery, two are owned by Black women, who face the double-edged sword of structural racism and structural sexism.
Read More
I
Categories
July 13, 2020

In Person and Online, the Kauffman Center Connects the Community to the Arts

Now more than ever, social media connects Kansas Citians with each other and with the organizations they love, including the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.
Read More
L
Categories
July 13, 2020

Library Takes Stock of its Expansive Collection and Legacy of Art

Kansas City’s embrace of art traces to the late 19th century and, unsurprisingly, William Rockhill Nelson. Intent on instilling cultural refinement in his budding metropolis,..
Read More
A
Categories
July 13, 2020

A Mild-Mannered Professor with a Lasting Legacy

In the mid-1960s, Kansas City was having an arts crisis. Two of its longtime arts presenters were going out of business, and that meant the city was in danger of losing the cultural enrichment of live arts performances.
Read More
S
Categories
July 10, 2020

Soundies: Access Through the Marriage of Talent and Technology

We are in a new era, where museums must maintain a digital presence. The online experience must be equal in quality to visiting the physical..
Read More
The Parliament building in Budapest, Hungary. All the lights on the bridge and both sides of the river come on at the same time each evening and it is spectacular and breathtaking to see. (photo by Anne Siegel)W
Categories
July 10, 2020

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. Thus, we get to see the history book come alive!

In October 2018 a good friend and wonderful travel buddy and I were discussing where we wanted to travel to in 2019.
Read More
Yoga Medicine Therapeutic Specialist Lisa Ash Drackert is the owner and curriculum director of Westport Yoga KC. (Chloe Virginia Photography)L
Categories
July 9, 2020

Lisa Ash Drackert, Founder of Westport Yoga KC

“I don’t like yoga people,” 62-year-old Sharon said when she came into Westport Yoga KC. Lisa Ash Drackert, who founded the studio in Kansas City 12 years ago, didn’t take the comment personally.
Read More
T
Categories
July 9, 2020

The Artful Life of Irma Starr

For decades, highly imaginative designs have poured out of Irma Starr’s Kansas City home studio in artworks reflecting our cultural heritage.
Read More