Exhibitions

First Friday in the Kansas City Crossroads Mid-America Arts Alliance’s Culture Lab is open on First Friday in Kansas City, Missouri, and will feature the artwork of Sukanya Mani. Sukanya Mani is a St. Louis-based, Indian-born interdisciplinary artist whose work…

Celebrating 50 Years of Art with Live Performances and an Art Exhibition Join us Friday, June 2, 2023, 5:30–8:00 p.m. 2018 Baltimore Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri In its 50 years, Mid-America Arts Alliance has awarded more than $51 million in…

Celebrating Earth Day 2023 With Earth Day approaching, it’s a great time to explore ways to feel reinvigorated and rekindle our appreciation for the planet we call home. Earth Day serves as a reminder that our environment requires care, protection,…

Happy Black History Month! All year long, we share the powerful stories of Black Americans and their diasporic culture through M-AAA programs and our touring exhibition program ExhibitsUSA. This month, we’re highlighting a few of those exhibitions and stories of…

Mid-America Arts Alliance presents the exhibition I Spoke Truth and Someone Listened, featuring artworks by Kansas City-based artist Jill Downen. The exhibition is on view September 22–November 11, 2022, at Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA). Artist Jill Downen’s newest series seeks…

KAI COGGIN: FIVE POEMS June 3 through July 15th, from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. each day A video and sound projection, accessible from the sidewalk in front of M-AAA headquarters The five poems are: Izibongo for Black Women (a…

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…

Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) is pleased to present the final artists in its reflect / project series, which features video work projected in person at M-AAA headquarters and through an online gallery with supplementary works chosen by the featured artist…

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…

In winter 2017/18, we collaborated with the UA–Pulaski Tech Center for Humanities and Arts and videographer Ali Bair to bring you a close-up look at one of ExhibitsUSA’s traveling exhibitions. Sign of the Times: The Great American Political Poster 1844–2012 originated…