Zachary Fraizer, a professor in the UMKC Department of Media, Art, and Design and owner of Astringent Press, hopes to preserve the core of handmade art with the Midwest Zine Archive.    Located in the UMKC Gallery of Art, the collection emphasizes the permanence of...

  Steve Snell, a KC local and Kansas City Art Institute professor, canoed across the Missouri River and documented his experience through paint.    His exhibit is titled “From the Canoe: A Missouri River Adventure” and it can be seen at the UMKC Gallery of Art.  Snell...

Earlier this month, the Shutz Lecture Series hosted an event titled “Re-Envisioning Native American Identities in Visual Art and Literature,” which featured various Native American artists and guest speakers.  Guest speaker Gregg Deal is a Native American artist...