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Art Starts at the Library

Friday, February 3, 2017 5:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Gallery exhibits. Kids’ activities. Music. Munchies. The Library again makes a place on First Friday for the entire family....

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Art in Place

Tuesday, February 7, 2017 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Nearly 4½ decades after arriving at the Kansas City Art Institute from his native South Wales, Warren Rosser stands as one of the city’s creative m...

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A Public Conversation with David Hughes

Thursday, February 9, 2017 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

The vitality of Kansas City’s arts community today traces back, in part, to David Hughes’ founding of the Charlotte Street Foundat...

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The Buffalo Soldiers: Their Epic Story and Major Campaigns

Sunday, February 12, 2017 2:00pm

Central Library

In Person

African-Americans have served proudly in every great American war, including the Civil War, where their verve and valor led to the establishment of...

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Sci-Fi Storytellers

Thursday, February 16, 2017 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Marvel Comics’ headline-grabbing move to a female Thor a little more...

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‘To Make a Poet Black, and Bid Him Sing’

Tuesday, February 28, 2017 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Glenn North, the inaugural poet laureate of Kansas City’s 18th & Vine Jazz District, discusses his work as an accompli...

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A Photo Album of Ireland

January 28, 2017 - March 17, 2017

Central Library

Through better than 80 photographs and other images – from scenes of pastoral picnics, holiday celebrations and parlor portraits to images of “the tro...

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Kansas City Project

June 27, 2013 - September 13, 2013

Central Library

Glen Hansen specializes in art inspired by the architecture of cities like Paris, Prague, and Venice. Now he turns his pencils and br...

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New Compositions: The Dance Portraiture of Orval Hixon

June 11, 2011 - June 11, 2011

Central Library

Hixon transformed the field of portrait photography in Kansas City and the surrounding region during a career that spanned more than seven decades...

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Bittersweet Harvest

August 17, 2013 - October 27, 2013

Central Library

Begun in 1942 to address labor needs in agriculture and the railroads, the U.S. government’s bracero program became the largest guest worker program i...

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