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Making Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Thursday, January 31, 2019 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Kansas City artist Ben Wills details his outreach to prisoners and how it has affected his approach to his work. The presentation coi...

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Airplanes

January 12, 2019 - March 31, 2019

Central Library

Kansas City artist Benjamin Todd Wills has corresponded with thousands of prisoners over the years. When one sent him a paper airplan...

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Eisenhower's Middle Road

January 23, 2019 - May 22, 2019

Central Library

Dwight D. Eisenhower’s leadership style as president reflected his practical, level-headed Midwestern roots: Work from the middle to accomplish what t...

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Becoming American: The Century of Immigration

Monday, January 14, 2019 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Immigration is a central component of the American narrative. The Library launches a six-week series of film screenings and discussions exploring i...

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Through the Photographer's Lens: Kansas City's African American Community

Sunday, February 10, 2019 2:00pm

Central Library

Powerful imagery of protests and violence helped bring attention to America's civil rights movement. Black photographers of the era broadened the nati...

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Becoming American: Promise and Prejudice

Monday, February 11, 2019 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

The Library continues its examination of immigration, exploring the tension between America’s historical acceptance of newcomers and periodic backlash...

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From Around Here

Thursday, February 21, 2019 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Columbus Junction, Iowa, doesn’t fit the Midwest small-town stereotype. As large agricultural operations and meat processing plants have become pro...

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Echoes of Grant: The Second World War Leadership of Dwight Eisenhower

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

One of the nation’s top military historians, John McManus of the Missouri University of Science and Technology, examines the influenc...

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An Evening With Tyehimba Jess

Wednesday, February 6, 2019 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Pulitzer Prize recipient Tyehimba Jess “is inventive, prophetic, wondrous,” says fellow award-winning poet Nikky Finney. Jess highlig...

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Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective

June 1, 2019 - September 8, 2019

Central Library

Ralph Steadman was the artistic yin to Hunter S. Thompson’s literary yang. (Or maybe it was vice versa.) They were collaborators and friends for 30 ye...

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