Julie Denesha
Reporter, PhotographerJulie Denesha is a freelance multimedia journalist based in Kansas City. Contact her at julie@kcur.org.
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Artist Vania Soto is a prolific muralist and art teacher who was born in Juarez, Mexico. She now lives and works in Kansas City, Kansas. Lately she’s been making an impact around town — and not just on the walls she paints. -
Artist Irma Starr designs ornaments using a centuries-old technique known as slipware, but she adds a modern twist. The snowflakes, Santas, Christmas trees and menorahs she dreams up decorate homes across the metro.
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Artist Nano Nore hikes the trails in Liberty, Missouri, to capture the colors and shapes of a changing season. She's drawn to the subtle beauty of the late-fall landscape.
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The Kansas City Museum will reopen to the public on Oct. 21, after a $22 million renovation project. The Beaux-Arts style mansion was the scene of a fundraiser last month hosted by the Kansas City Museum Foundation to celebrate its new look.
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After being canceled due to COVID-19 concerns last year, the Plaza Art Fair returns this weekend. The 90th annual event is a celebration that covers nine blocks of the historic shopping center. Three local artists have spent months working in their studios to prepare.
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Internationally known printmaker Hugh Merrill shared some welcome news on Facebook: He was gifting artwork to anyone who showed up at his door. Merrill's work is in collections at the Museum of Modern Art, the Harvard Art Museums, the Cranbrook Museum and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
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Kansas City was one of the stops for Big Boy, the world's largest operating steam locomotive and the train has rolled into Union Station twice during the past few weeks. Photographer Steve Wilson captured the train with a 19th-Century photographic process used to document the American Civil War.
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Kansas City Man Turns Backyard Into 'Jam Session Extraordinaire' For Musicians And Fans During COVIDLast year when local musicians faced months of lost gigs during the pandemic, many concert venues, like the Ship and Lemonade Park, curated outdoor performance spaces. And in the Historic Northeast, one man opened his backyard to musicians and their fans.
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Kansas City Police say an "errant vehicle" destroyed one of seven ceramic sculptures by Jun Kaneko. The work titled “Water Plaza,” was located at the Kansas City Convention Center and funded by the city’s One Percent for Art Program.
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Artists are often the first to move into crumbling neighborhoods and the first to move out when those neighborhoods become trendy and expensive. In one corner of Kansas City, they are trying to disrupt that cycle.
