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Images of familiar, even mundane environs can carry great intimacy, revealing something true about an individual and affirming life as a deep and comp...

Just a four-minute walk from Kansas City’s old First National Bank – now the home of the Central Library – some of the biggest names in American enter...

There are many people on the streets of Kansas City who go unnoticed and ignored – met routinely by shifted eyes, averted glances, and lowered heads....

The Library’s latest exhibit of the work of Orval Hixon, Kansas City’s early-20th century photographer to the stars, features his images of...

The Library opens a yearlong series of exhibits commemorating the 20th anniversary of the arts-nurturing Charlotte Street Foundation with the work of...

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

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

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

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...

Before and during the Civil War, Confederate guerrillas – men like William Clarke Quantrill, “Bloody Bill” Anderson, and Frank and Jesse James – battl...