Art at M-AAA

Join us for a trip to Antarctica! Opening April 1, 2022, for Kansas City First Friday, M-AAA will be hosting an exhibition preview of Walking in Antarctica from ExhibitsUSA. Though the building will not be open, the preview includes the artist’s…

New from ExhibitsUSA, Resilience—A Sansei Sense of Legacy Opens March 11, 2022 In 1942, in response to the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law Executive Order 9066. The law ordered the forced…

Nebraska Artist Aaron Badham’s Sculptural Works Premiere for February First Friday IF, THEN, NOW & BECAUSE by Nebraska artist Aaron Badham will be on view at Mid-America Arts Alliance from February 4–March 11, 2022. The works will be visible at…

Join us for the last month of Forgotten Stories with Nebraska poet Christopher Stewart Forgotten Stories is a series featuring poets from the Mid-America Arts Alliance region. Each poet was asked to write about the forgotten stories of places, people,…

Join us this month to hear from Arkansas poet Jacie Andrews Forgotten Stories is a series featuring poets from the Mid-America Arts Alliance region. Each poet was asked to write about the forgotten stories of places, people, or histories from…

Join us this month to hear the poetry of Oklahoma poet Rilla Askew Forgotten Stories is a series featuring poets from the Mid-America Arts Alliance region. Each poet was asked to write about the forgotten stories of places, people, or…

October: Poet Glenn North Forgotten Stories is a series featuring poets from the Mid-America Arts Alliance region. Each poet was asked to write about the forgotten stories of places, people, or histories from their states/regions. This may include people, places,…

September: Poet Megan Kaminski Forgotten Stories is a series featuring poets from the Mid-America Arts Alliance region. Each poet was asked to write about the forgotten stories of places, people, or histories from their states/regions. This may include people, places,…

Forgotten Stories, a poetry series This new series presents new works by poets from Mid-America Arts Alliance’s region. New poems will premiere on the first Friday of each month, playing audibly from 10:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. each day from…

June’s exhibition is from the Saint Louis Story Stitchers. Their work WADE (2020), on view through July 1, is a work from the multi-year project titled, The WHY of MY City. The WHY of MY City captures and documents black history through written word and…

April’s exhibition is from El Paso, Texas artist Xochitl Rodriguez. Grown Without Water is a collective video/oral history project that explores how the US/México border between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez marks and defines perseverance on a twenty-first-century border. Confronting tragedy and…