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First Friday at M-AAA Culture Lab: Through Darkness to Light
Find Out MoreMid-America Arts Alliance’s Culture Lab will be open on First Friday, May 2, 2025, in Kansas City, Missouri, and will feature Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad, photographs by Jeanine Michna-Bales.
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First Friday at M-AAA Culture Lab: Through Darkness to Light
Find Out MoreMid-America Arts Alliance’s Culture Lab will be open on First Friday, May 2, 2025, in Kansas City, Missouri, and will feature Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad, photographs by Jeanine Michna-Bales.
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ExhibitsUSA Explores the Legacy of Kente Cloth in New Exhibition
Find Out MoreMore art for all people—that’s the vision that drives ExhibitsUSA and its touring exhibitions program. At Mid-America Arts Alliance, our ExhibitsUSA program is dedicated to bringing diverse cultural experiences to communities across the United States, rural and urban. Since 1988,…
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ExhibitsUSA’s War Toys: Ukraine at the National World War I Museum and Memorial
Find Out MoreChildren often share their experiences and emotions through indirect methods of communication, such as art and play. As a result, their personal accounts of war frequently go unseen and unheard by the international community. War Toys: Ukraine, a traveling exhibition…
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My Internship Experience: Preparing the Demonstration Exhibition at Mid-America Arts Alliance
Find Out MoreEarlier this year, M-AAA welcomed two talented interns from Bethune-Cookman University to our Kansas City offices for the summer as a way to increase awareness of careers in the arts and arts administration. Annetta Henderson and Breya Tyler joined M-AAA…
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Small Wonders: Insects in Focus–Nature’s Hidden Masterpieces
Find Out MoreIt became clear when I passed through the doors at the Anita B. Gorman Conservation Discovery Center in Kansas City, Missouri, that this wasn’t a typical natural science display. The entry hall is covered in stone and wood, and adorned…
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Powerful Partnership Brings Unique Exhibition to Life—and to Your Community
Find Out MoreMuseums are magical places. Through their doors, visitors discover new ideas and stories that have been forgotten, hidden, or overlooked. Each exhibition is a new opportunity to learn, grow, and better understand ourselves and our communities. This alchemy doesn’t happen…
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Christina Shmigel Exhibition at M-AAA Culture Lab
Find Out MoreMid-America Arts Alliance’s Culture Lab will be open on First Friday, October 4, 2024, in Kansas City, Missouri, and will feature an exhibition, this blasted tender beautiful world, just as it is, by Christina Shmigel. Christina Shmigel (b. 1958) is…
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Christina Shmigel Exhibition at M-AAA Culture Lab
Find Out MoreMid-America Arts Alliance’s Culture Lab will be open on First Friday, September 6, 2024, in Kansas City, Missouri, and will feature an exhibition, this blasted tender beautiful world, just as it is, by Christina Shmigel. Christina Shmigel (b. 1958) is…
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Citizen Artist vanessa german Reflects on Brown v. Board of Education on Its 70th Anniversary
Find Out MoreWhere should a Kansas third grader attend school? That question went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and it changed the nation. Now, citizen artist vanessa german and the Topeka, Kansas, community commemorate the 70th anniversary of Brown…