Events

Shortly after the camera was invented photographers began turning it on native peoples. But rarely were indigenous peoples viewed through the eyes of indigenous photographers. This exhibit features the work of indigenous artists (established and emerging) from North America, Peru, Iraq, and New Zealand.

This exhibit was made possible by the Mid-America Arts Alliance and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) didn’t just design a house. He saw each building as a fully integrated whole and painstakingly designed stained glass windows, furniture, carpeting, and even lighting fixtures to reflect his concept. This exhibit employs high-quality reproductions of Wright’s drawings of interiors, furnishings, and household objects.

Funded by a grant from Richard J. Stern Foundation for the Arts.

Open through the 2012 World Series

Celebrate Kansas City’s All-Star summer with this new exhibit exploring our local baseball heritage.

The newest exhibition of the Orval Hixon Gallery, New Compositions: The Dance Portraiture of Orval Hixon, is on display from June 11, 2011 through 2013 at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St. The exhibit features a rich selection of Hixon’s portraits, including images of some of the best-known dancers of his time.

To most local landscape architects, Hare & Hare is a household name. The firm has left an indelible mark on some of the most iconic and often-visited areas of Kansas City—the Country Club Plaza, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Loose Park, Ward Parkway, and Mission Hills among them.

Learn the fundamentals of Microsoft Word in this 50-minute class. This word processing program is used for letter writing, papers, and other professional documents. Registration is required. Call 701-3488 to register.

Sign up for a free e-mail account and follow along this tutorial teaches the ins and outs of sending and receiving email, as well as how to organize your messages.

Children in kindergarten through eighth grade are encouraged to tap their creative energies and create masterpieces at the Westport Center for the Arts’ Team Up for Art. Artist Brian Stanley Morgan will lead participants to focus on both individual skill building and the completion of a group project by the end of the session. All age and skill levels participate in the final product using recycled and donated materials.

Participants will break from 12:30-1:30 PM for lunch. Parents are asked to provide an age-appropriate lunch for their child.

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October is National Anti-Bullying Awareness Month, making it just the right time for children and their parents to be introduced to the remarkable characters in Edward Hemingway’s new book Bad Apple: A Tale of Friendship.

Mac is an apple living in a world populated by other apples. There’s his Grandmother (a green Granny Smith apple) and a bunch of unpleasant crab apples.

With the 2012 presidential election just around the corner, October is a good time to get in the mood with some movies about politics.

Children in kindergarten through eighth grade are encouraged to tap their creative energies and create masterpieces at the Westport Center for the Arts’ Team Up for Art. Artist Brian Stanley Morgan will lead participants to focus on both individual skill building and the completion of a group project by the end of the session. All age and skill levels participate in the final product using recycled and donated materials.

Participants will break from 12:30-1:30 PM for lunch. Parents are asked to provide an age-appropriate lunch for their child.

Come share poetry you have written, share work from your favorite poet or just come to listen and enjoy. Call Christy at 816-701-3489 or Marcia at Stone Church Ministry at 816-254-2211 for more info.