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  • Kansas City artist, activist and educator, Michael Toombs.
  • With a background in psychology and art, Brittany Noriega draws inspiration from the complex dynamics governing human behavior.
  • {quote}I have a picture in my head of a former slave woman, looking over the Fint Hills with both awe at the beauty, and the fear of the unknown.{quote} -Sandra Scott-Revelle
  • Robert Castillo excelled as a jazz musician, winning fans as a bassist, bandleader, and composer with The Sextet. Their album {quote}Among Friends{quote} drew NPR's attention in 2019 for its fusion of traditional swing and futuristic sounds.
  • When I asked illustrator Thomas Sciacca, whose style knows no bounds of social convention, to take a seat by the cleaning sink in his studio hallway, he laughed and questioned, {quote}What does this imply?{quote} He then mused to himself, {quote}He's clean! He's clean!{quote}
  • In just under 10 years, Kansas City composer Seth Andrew Davis, 28, has turned the role of the traditional musician on its side, combining the roles of performer, composer, improviser, producer, technologist and electric guitarist into one holistic endeavor.
  • Amber {quote}Flutenastiness{quote} Underwood got her moniker during a rehearsal playing Muczynski Sonata. Her two hour performances that she describes as {quote}contemporary soul jazz{quote} involves grooving, dancing and costume changes.
  • There are good years and there are banner years. Harold Smith is having a banner year. And 2022 isn’t over yet.Smith is best known for his dynamic, expressionist, full-frontal portraits of Black men. He increasingly incorporates collage in his powerful, painterly works, inspired by what he describes as “my personal exploration of the complex, chaotic and multi-layered experience of men of color in America.”
  • Amber {quote}Flutenastiness{quote} Underwood got her moniker during a rehearsal playing Muczynski Sonata. Her two hour performances that she describes as {quote}contemporary soul jazz{quote} involves grooving, dancing and costume changes.
  • Smith is best known for his dynamic, expressionist, full-frontal portraits of Black men. He increasingly incorporates collage in his powerful, painterly works, inspired by what he describes as “my personal exploration of the complex, chaotic and multi-layered experience of men of color in America.”
  • Kansas City actress Hillary Clemens with her four-year-old daughter inside their home.
  • Julian (pictured left) may start the day at his job low key from 9-5. After that, Luna Flare comes out to start the party
  • John O’Brien painstakingly renovated the legendary Golden Ox restaurant. The table to the left under the stairs he calls “his mafia table.” O’Brien says, “I can see anyone walk into the restaurant without me being seen.”
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  • Cuban artist Michel Mirabal.
  • Jackie Nguyen is an actress and also a proprietor of a Vietnamese coffee shop, Cafe Cà Phê. It’s been operating as a food truck. Nguyen sits beside her new brick and mortar store that will open in Columbus Park in spring.
  • Harold Smith wrote, {quote}...slowly press the keys until his computer task was completed for the day. If he needed help, he would cough and nod when I looked in his direction. The real magic, however, was after Trey finished his work. He would pull out his drawing supplies out and work.{quote}
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  • Portrait of photographer and artist EG Schempf.
  • Kansas City actress, Vanessa Davis. Since June, Davis has been the emcee for the weekly Monday Night Karaoke at The Black Box in the West Bottoms, as well as the hostess of June’s Karaoke every Thursday night. She delights in seeing participants go from anxious to self-fulfilled and watching friends cheering up troubled companions.
  • Music soprano, Victoria Botero inside her home saying {quote}I bought this fainting couch when I was a grad student and really needed the money for more important things. It's ridiculous. It doesn't fit more than one very small person. It doesn't really match anyting and it's hard to move.{quote} Adding, {quote}I like to journal on it, nap, sun myself like a cat. I nursed my baby while I read books, learned new music and came up with a lot of ideas. The purple velvet is faded, and it's soaked in tears and laughter. I will never willingly part with it!{quote}
  • Composer and pianist Vincent Orsolini. After earning a degree in sound engineering in Marseille, Orsolini set his sights on relocating to America. He's here in Kansas City.
  • Portrait of Kansas City actor, R.H. Wilhoit inside The Black Box in The West Bottoms.
  • A lot of Rodney Thompson's previous film work has focused on the 18th and Vine District. The Kansas City Filmmaker Continues his commitment “To Tell Our Own Stories” with a new film supported by an Artistic Innovations Grant from Mid-America Arts Alliance.
  • Portrait of Raechell Smith who is the founding director and chief curator of the Kansas City Art Institute's H&R Block Artspace.
  • Portrait of American ballerina and educator Karen Brown.
  • Quixotic artist Samantha Mixan premiered the company's {quote}Fire Dress{quote} during a rooftop performance at Weston Crown Center.
  • Portrait of Kansas City actor Keenan Ramos inside the dressing room of Unicorn Theatre.
  • Portrait of actress and director Yetunde Felix-Ukwu, inside the Kansas City Repertory Theatre.
  • Portrait of Stuart Carden, KC Rep's new artistic director sitting inside the Rep’s scene shop.
  • Singer, actress and mom, Krista Eyler inside the Arts Asylum.
  • David Wayne Reed at his family farm near Louisburg, KS. Reed is working on a new documentary about the conservation of the endangered tallgrass prairie and its remnants.
  • Portrait of Robert Powell inside his childhood home on Brooklyn Avenue
  • Executive Director of the Kansas City Library, R. Crosby Kemper III
  • Portrait of jazz musician Marcus Lewis shot inside of Bac Horn Doctor in downtown Kansas City.
  • Portrait of jazz musician Marcus Lewis shot inside of Bac Horn Doctor in downtown Kansas City.
  • Portrait of Kansas City actor, Brian Paulette.
  • Portrait of Shawn Hansen in front of his Rosedale home that was landscaped by Barbara McReery with native perenials. Hansen holds onto his antenenna called “very low frequency” radio antenna which can listen to sounds of the earth’s electro magnetic shield.
  • West 18th Street Fashion Show.
  • West 18th Street Fashion Show.
  • West 18th Street Fashion Show.
  • West 18th Street Fashion Show.
  • Kansas City actress, Katie Karel inside the Green Lady Lounge.
  • Kansas City actress, Katie Karel inside the Green Lady Lounge.
  • Portrait of Gerald Trimble, who performs with the viola da gamba.
  • Ceramics artist, Angelica Sandoval.
  • Portrait of Kansas City Symphony’s principal violist, Christine Grossman.
  • President at AltCap, Ruben Alonso III
  • Portrait of Kansas City performance singer, Julia Haile.
  • Portrait of artist, Ari Fish.
  • Portrait of poet Mercedes Lucero.
  • Portrait of activist and artist, Michael Toombs.
  • Portrait of Aengus Finnan, Executive Director at Folk Alliance International.
  • Portrait of Kansas City, KS. artist, Harold Smith.
  • Portrait of singing performer, Vanessa Thomas of Lawrence, KS.
  • Jason Seber, assistant conductor for the 2016-17 season for the Kansas City Symphony.
  • Portrait of opera singer, Joyce DiDonato
  • Portrait of director, Turner Baietto.
  • Portrait of Aengus Finnan, Executive Director at Folk Alliance International.
  • Portrait of Cheptoo Kositany-Buckner, Director Of American Jazz Museum.
  • Portrait of Kansas City Art Institute President, Tony Jones.
  • Mezzo-soprano, Samantha Gossard
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  • Portrait of ceramics artist, Cary Esser
  • Portrait of Bill Zahner, President and CEO of Zahner architectural metal company in Kansas City
  • Portrait of local artist, Charlie Mylie. photo by JIM BARCUS
  • Portrait of artist Stephen Proski inside his studio at his midtown home.
  • Portrait of poety writer, Bridget Lowe of KCMO. Photo by Jim Barcus
  • Multi-exposure portrait of Stacy Switzer, artistic director at Grand Arts. Switzer poses against one of the giant walls that use to exhibit art. Photo by Jim Barcus
  • Kansas City Dance Festival.
  • Kansas City Dance Festival.
  • Kansas City Dance Festival.
  • Kansas City Dance Festival.
  • Kansas City Dance Festival.
  • Kansas City Dance Festival.
  • Kansas City Dance Festival.
  • Portrait of performing singer Katie Karel.
  • Mag Interview portrait of Jimmy Nielson, goalie for Sporting Kansas City.
  • Portrait of performing singer Lauren Braton.
  • International tenor Vinson Cole, who was born and raised in a working class Kansas City.
  • Portrait of performing singer Lauren Braton.
  • Portrait of New House CEO Jim Bogle
  • Portrait of co-curators of 50/50, Cambria Potter (left) and Hannah Lodwick inside their exhibition space, which is a trailor at 1628 Wyoming in the West Bottoms. photo by JIM BARCUS
  • Carole Brown will sleep in the open air near her cabin in the Flint Hills of Matfield Green, KS.
  • Butterflies on wild flowers near the of Carole Brown.
  • The Marjorie Powell Allen Chapel at Powell Gardens in January, 2013.
  • Portrait of artist, Xu Longsen with his monumental landscape on view in Kirkwood Hall at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art.
  • 2012 Fall Fashion tab for The Kansas City Star.
  • Fall Fashion tab for The Kansas City Star.
  • 2012 Fall Fashion tab for The Kansas City Star.
  • Cover for INK Magazine inside of Pierpont's Restaurant.
  • Laura Jones of Quixotic models for The Kansas City Star, Spring Fashion tab
  • Kansas City Star 2011 Fall Fashion tab.
  • Fall Fashion Tab for The Kansas City Star Magazine inside of Genessee Royale Bistro.
  • Bryan Meisberger (top) and Dennis Todd didn’t let the view from the very top of Liberty Memorial get into the way of progress on a Friday morning. Scaffolding and cable needed to be installed from over 200 feet for stone restoration at the National World War I Museum.
  • Photo of the staircase inside the Brandmeyer Great Hall at the Kauffman Center for Performing Arts.
  • Rain falls upon downtown Kansas City.
  • The demolition derby at the Miami County Fair is the number one draw compared to the rodeo which last two days.
  • Demolition Derby ath the Platte County Fair.
  • The Wyandotte County Fair hosted one night of demolition on July 29th. A driver can invest anywhere from 500 to $10,000 on a car. It's not a total loss on a junked car when if a driver can save the parts on one car and use it on another. {quote}Anybody that thinks they're making any money is probably mistaken,{quote} according to Jack Teegarden who's been derbian for nearly 30 years and isn't sure how many derby cars he presently owns.
  • Fall Fashion Tab for The Kansas City Star.
  • Blizzard at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
  • Monroe City winter.
  • Steve Robbins (right) of Willoughby Design Group works accross from {quote}Chuck.{quote} {quote}He just kind of materialized one day,{quote} Robbins said.
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