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Arts & Culture
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Musician and entertainer Cody Wyoming has been a part of the local, underground music scene for more than 30 years. But he’s also a music historian an...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 19, 2024
6:30pm
In Person
In the tradition of Charles Dickens reading his holiday favorite, A Christmas Carol, performer Park Bucker recites Truman Capote’s tale of holiday rem...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 16, 2024
1:00pm
In Person
Fibers of Being, a curated exhibition honoring the Weaver’s Guild of Kansas City’s 70th anniversary, displays wearable to experimental works, honoring...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
6:00pm
In Person
Art in the Loop, a temporary art exhibition and performance series, invited artists to share how they practice or observe convivencia – inspired by a...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 2, 2024
5:30pm
In Person
The Library celebrates the wide-ranging talents of its staff in this 150th anniversary capstone, a multimedia exhibition of staff artwork and an excha...
Signature Event
Saturday, October 26, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
In the 1980s and ’90s, artists and creatives seeking affordable studio and gallery spaces began moving into old warehouse and storage buildings north...
Signature Event
Saturday, October 12, 2024
11:15am
Online
In Person
Every Taylor Swift album, every music video, every concert, comes with a fashion statement – Sarah Chapelle’s new book includes them all. The style re...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 5, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Blending tradition and history with commentary and aesthetics, the exhibition Going Home is at turns political, personal, satirical, and poignant. Art...
Signature Event
Saturday, August 3, 2024
1:00pm
In Person
In her Fictions series, Brooklyn-based artist Andrea Burgay creates sculptural collages out of deconstructed paperbacks – and these reimagined objects...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 11, 2024
6:00pm
In Person
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...