Art

Nude modeling is a classic component of art education. But when the coronavirus forced art educators to pivot, model Kent Van Dusseldorp had to, too.

Artist Stephonne Singleton says he'd long felt he wasn't "enough." He looked to substances and to other people to soften the feeling, until he found freedom in his own music.

John Pryor's furniture business was just three years old when the pandemic struck. He put away his saws and sandpaper, and enlisted the help of Kansas City's refugee community to produce thousands of masks in the interim.

More than 40 languages are spoken in North Kansas City. The new mural on the wall of an immigration law firm reflects the global perspectives of students at North Kansas City High.

The Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey studio has been online-only since March. Despite the complications, Ailey Camp is continuing to teach area teens dance—along with the social and emotional skills they need to thrive.

Robert "Cowboy" Culbertson owns American Frontier Production, a set where artists can imagine life on the prairie as it once was.

The backstory that led to three Humboldt penguins admiring Monet's "Water Lilies," Caravaggio's "Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness" and other works of fine art.

Kansas lawmakers opt to rein in Gov. Laura Kelly's emergency authorities, the pandemic pushes Kansas City to get creative with its public spaces, and what brought about penguins roaming the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art last week?

"Everything I do is sort of born out of trauma," says Dylan Mortimer, who hopes a new series can "transform something that is seemingly hopeless into something hopeful."

The impacts of social isolation on elders separated from family during COVID-19, political reporters analyze the Missouri General Session, the creator of an art exhibit around masks, and the sounds of one weekly parade lifting a neighborhood's spirits.

A medical veteran of the Ebola and SARS outbreaks analyzes COVID-19's spread, infectious disease experts advise how to stay safe in public, and a teacher delivers art lessons during the pandemic.

KCUR listeners get busy, creative and publicly minded under stay-at-home orders.