Kansas City Art Institute

A world-renowned ceramic artist educated in Kansas City has made a career of injecting activism into the delicate teapots he crafts. Richard Notkin recently returned to the Kansas City Art Institute to teach a masterclass in making art with meaning.

For their final typography class project, students at the Kansas City Art Institute were assigned to use KCUR Studios' award-winning history podcast as inspiration for a public-facing work of art.

Twenty-two Kansas City-based Latino artists spent close to a year curating an exhibit called “A Layered Presence.” It is the third installment of the KC Art Now initiative to display more local work in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

The Kansas City Art Institute’s End-of-Semester Exhibition and Sale starts tonight. It's a chance to tour open studios and buy the work of emerging artists.

The traditional art of printmaking is a process that hasn’t changed much since the 15th century, when Johannes Gutenberg's first printed Bible changed the world. Last week, students at the Kansas City Art Institute used a more modern tool to make prints.

Ky Anderson was a successful working artist in New York, with solo exhibitions of her large-scale, abstract paintings around the country. But after 25 years of painting in cramped studio spaces, she’s back home in Kansas City with a bigger studio — and she’s making new work.

It took local artist Steve Snell 88 days to paddle all 2,341 miles of the Missouri River. Along the way, he recorded video of his journey and painted more than 100 pieces of art.

Indie rock band the Yeah Yeah Yeahs released a music video on June 1 called “Spitting Off the Edge of the World.” It was shot in Kansas City.

Steve Snell will spend this summer paddling from the Missouri River's headwaters in Three Forks, Montana, to St. Louis, Missouri. Along the way, he’ll create paintings and videos that tell the story of his adventures on the Mighty Mo.

Kansas City remembers the life of artist Wilbur Niewald. Niewald taught at the Kansas City Art Institute for more than 40 years and was a fixture at Loose Park, painting outdoors in all kinds of weather.

Artist Wilbur Niewald taught at the Kansas City Art Institute for more than 40 years. These days he’s probably best-known as a plein-air artist — in all kinds of weather.

Charlie Mylie felt relief when the pandemic allowed him to give up his "Pop Up Charlie" performance-drawing routine. Now he's a full-time children's book illustrator who is published by major houses.