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Dr. Villamandos and Dr. Grieco in front of Sancho Panza in the Twentieth Century

UC Berkeley Art Historian To Speak on Historic Haag Murals

Lauren Zoller, Staff Writer
October 30, 2023

  A University of California Berkeley art historian will present her research on Luis Quintanilla, a world-renowned artist whose murals have long had a home in UMKC’s Haag Hall, in early November.   Christine Delia studied the impact that loss, distance and exile had...

Restoration team members from left to right: Alberto Villamandos, Viviana Grieco, Christopher Wolff, Adam Sisk, Victoria Dominguez

Historic Haag Mural Damage Prompts Restoration Project

Rex Stickney, RooTV Co-Executive Producer, Staff Writer
March 17, 2023

  Hundreds of students walk past the artwork on the second floor of Haag Hall, but how many actually stop and notice the priceless patchworks of plaster right in front of their face?   “I don’t know anything about them,” said Karion Jackson, a junior elementary education...

Photo taken by Rex Stickney/RooNews

What to Expect for Kansas City’s First Fridays

Cheeia Vang
September 15, 2022

Taking place on the first Friday of every month, artists, food trucks, and vendors set up at the Crossroads Arts District in Kansas City to participate in “First Fridays” and to celebrate the community.   The event has been a monthly tradition for years, where...

How Art Archives the Revolution

Kayla Wiltfong
September 16, 2020

In April of this year, right before the end of the spring semester, I submitted a piece to UNews about archiving the year. I wrote about a project my sister is doing, where she essentially keeps a journal of embroidery doodles on a massive embroidery hoop, one for each day of...

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