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Suppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight to Vote is a film for every American concerned about voter suppression and election subversion ahead of the 2024 p...

Blending tradition and history with commentary and aesthetics, the exhibition Going Home is at turns political, personal, satirical, and poignant. Art...

Young Feminist Party Deputy Executive Director Claudia Nachega discusses the state of feminism in America and in the world, and her organization’s eff...

Missouri poet laureate David Harrison and Kansas poet laureate Traci Brimhall talk about their work and their respective roles as leading poets in the...

In her Fictions series, Brooklyn-based artist Andrea Burgay creates sculptural collages out of deconstructed paperbacks – and these reimagined objects...

Do you Fringe? The KC Fringe Festival has provided a non-curated platform for performance, visual, and film artists for 20 years. The two-week extrava...

The 2024 Art in the Loop Project, inspired by a Library talk by urbanist Tommi Laitio, invited artists to share how they practice or observe convivenc...

Four contemporary artists who incorporate miniature art in narrative videos, paintings, and photographs discuss their work on view in Transformations:...

What does it mean to be a “great city”? Since 2018, the Library has hosted public presentations by urban planners and round-table conversations with c...

Russia launched an invasion in Ukraine two years ago, and the delay in weapons delivery from Western allies to Ukraine has opened a door for Russian a...