Jim Leedy is known as the "founder of the Crossroads Arts District." His gallery, the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center at 20th and Baltimore, was founded in 1985.
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Artist Jim Leedy and seniors in the sculpture department at the Kansas City Art Institute during a critique session, October 2007.
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On the back of Jim Leedy's wheelchair, the words "Leedy's ride." October 2007, Kansas City Art Institute.
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Jim Leedy gave this student work a mixed review. He called the birds "beautiful," but he thought the tree pedestal was "too easy a solution...takes away from the piece." October 2007
The sculpture department at the Kansas City Art Institute. Leedy taught here for 42 years, from 1966 to 2008.
