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Earlier this year, M-AAA welcomed two talented interns from Bethune-Cookman University to our Kansas City offices for the summer as a way to increase awareness of careers in the arts and arts administration. Annetta Henderson and Breya Tyler joined M-AAA…

It became clear when I passed through the doors at the Anita B. Gorman Conservation Discovery Center in Kansas City, Missouri, that this wasn’t a typical natural science display.  The entry hall is covered in stone and wood, and adorned…

Museums are magical places. Through their doors, visitors discover new ideas and stories that have been forgotten, hidden, or overlooked. Each exhibition is a new opportunity to learn, grow, and better understand ourselves and our communities. This alchemy doesn’t happen…

First Friday in the Kansas City Crossroads Mid-America Arts Alliance’s Culture Lab is open on First Friday in Kansas City, Missouri, and will feature a preview of the ExhibitsUSA nationally touring exhibition Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Quiché…

First Friday in the Kansas City Crossroads Mid-America Arts Alliance’s Culture Lab is open on First Friday in Kansas City, Missouri, and will feature the ExhibitsUSA exhibition The Perfect Shot: Walter Iooss Jr. and the Art of Sports Photography. The…

Over his successful photography career, Brad has found himself drawn to water because of its essential need to humanity. In his traveling exhibition with ExhibitsUSA, The State of Water: Our Most Valuable Resource, his photography puts visitors face-to-face with the…

A vintage barber chair might seem like nothing more than a curiosity. But its luxurious red-velvet seat and headrest belie the experience many children had while seated in its lush confines. Upon arrival at off-reservation boarding schools, Native American children…

Beginning in the 1870s, the US government attempted to educate and assimilate American Indians into “civilized” society by placing children—of all ages, from thousands of homes and hundreds of diverse tribes—in distant, residential boarding schools. Many were forcibly taken from…

Designed to evoke and capture a sense of childhood fantasy, A Colorful Dream tells a simple coming-of-age story in rich symbolic language that takes the viewer on a journey through the entire spectrum of the rainbow. A Colorful Dream is a family-friendly, interactive exhibition…

“People keep asking me where the blues started, and all I can say is that when I was a boy, we always was singing in the fields. Not real singing, you know, just hollerin’, but we made up our songs…

Imprinting the West: Manifest Destiny, Real and Imagined Westward expansion was one of the most transformational elements in American life throughout the nineteenth century. Printed imagery played an important role in the dissemination of knowledge and understanding about the West…