The Overland Park City Council called an extra meeting for Wednesday night. On the agenda: an executive session to discuss legal issues around controversial statuary at the city’s Arboretum and Botanical Gardens.
In September 2011, the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce announced "the Big 5," ideas the city would champion, ranging from revitalizing the urban core to boosting medical research.
The legendary artist Jim Leedy gives this piece of advice to any budding artist: always be conscious of where you've been when heading in a new direction. Jim Leedy’s known for his many journey's and new directions, now documented in an upcoming film.
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.
