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April 28, 2025

First Friday at M-AAA Culture Lab: Art of the Wish
Mid-America Arts Alliance’s Culture Lab will be open on First Friday, October 3, 2025, in Kansas City, Missouri, and will feature Art of the Wish.
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April 28, 2025

First Friday at M-AAA Culture Lab: Art of the Wish
Mid-America Arts Alliance’s Culture Lab will be open on First Friday, October 3, 2025, in Kansas City, Missouri, and will feature Art of the Wish.
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April 24, 2025

First Friday at M-AAA Culture Lab: Through Darkness to Light
Mid-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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April 24, 2025

First Friday at M-AAA Culture Lab: Through Darkness to Light
Mid-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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August 8, 2024

Christina Shmigel Exhibition at M-AAA Culture Lab
Mid-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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August 8, 2024
Culture Lab Exhibitions News

M-AAA’s Culture Lab Features Artist Christina Shmigel
Mid-America Arts Alliance’s Culture Lab will be open on First Friday, September 6 and October 4, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri, and will feature an exhibition, this blasted tender beautiful world, just as it is, by Ukrainian-American artist Christina Shmigel.…
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August 6, 2024

Christina Shmigel Exhibition at M-AAA Culture Lab
Mid-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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August 29, 2023
Culture Lab Exhibitions News

Artist Sukanya Mani’s Installation On View at M-AAA
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…
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August 28, 2023

First Friday at M-AAA: Artist Sukanya Mani
Mid-America Arts Alliance will feature the artwork of Sukanya Mani for First Friday in October.
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August 28, 2023

First Friday at M-AAA: Artist Sukanya Mani
Mid-America Arts Alliance will feature the artwork of Sukanya Mani for First Friday in September and October.
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May 4, 2023

Mid-America Arts Alliance 50th Anniversary Block Party
Celebrating Through Art Join us on First Friday for our free anniversary block party on June 2, 2023, 5:30–8:00 p.m. featuring performances by artists Kalyn Fay Barnoski, interdisciplinary artist and musician based in Oklahoma, and Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster, songwriter and…
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July 19, 2021
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Forgotten Stories, a new series
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…
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