Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art

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.

The culture, history and contributions of the Osage, Kaw, Otoe-Missouria, Shawnee, Wyandot and other Native American tribes can be found across the Kansas City region.

A never-before-seen collection of work featuring artists of color collected by the Nerman family is showing at KCAI's gallery through October 17.

In the art world, what makes regular abstraction different from "queer abstraction"?Unlike LGBTQ artists who explore identity through representational…

If someone were to hike deep into the places he paints, says Kansas City artist Jason Needham, "it would be rough going, for sure."As the sun rose one…

"I don't like sanitized spaces," says artist Harold Smith, whose house in Kansas City, Kansas, doubles as his studio.It's about a mile from where he grew…

Segment 1: Missouri native lands first exhibit at the Nerman Museum.Aaron Wrinkle returns to his roots as a painter in the Nerman Museum of Contemporary…

Segment 1: Is the U.S. "locked in" to a two-party system?Independent candidate Greg Orman recieved 6.5 percent of the vote in the Kansas gubernatorial…

Cardboard has a smell.You notice it as soon as you walk into the glass-encased Kansas Focus Gallery at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, where eight…

Philanthropist, trucking industry magnate, and art collector Jerry Nerman died Tuesday morning at the age of 97 after a bout with pneumonia. As his son…

The largest collection of Kansas City artists in the metropolitan area can be found at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community…

A Johnson County journalism professor is obsessed with cacti. And a Los Angeles-based artist is obsessed with the journalism professor's obsession with…