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Saturday, January 31, 2026 from 1–3 PM
let’s design protest posters! w/ tyler galloway
from workshop facilitator, tyler galloway:
graphic design can be a powerful tool for social change, whether on a national or individual level. in this brief workshop, i’ll share all of the basic things i know, as both an activist designer and a design educator, about what makes an effective protest poster. we’ll talk briefly about messaging, ideas, images, text, context, materials, and more. as we talk, we’ll quickly put those ideas into practice using a range of readily-available materials so you can try your hand at making your own posters for public use.
Thursday, February 12, 2026 from 6:30–8 PM
Archiving People’s History: A Panel and Conversation
Join us for a discussion on the importance, process, and methods of preserving the histories and memories of marginalized communities in the Kansas City region. Panelists will draw on the experience and lessons from established archival collections, such as the Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America, as well as incipient ones, including the Stand Up KC Community Archive, both housed in the LaBudde Special Collections at the University of Missouri Kansas City. Panelists: Stuart Hinds, Curator of Special Collections and Archives, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Zac Mueller, co-founder of Stand Up KC Community Archive and labor organizer; Tadeo Weiner Davis, Assistant Professor in the School of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas and co-founder of Stand Up KC Community Archive Cover Image: Suzanne Corum-RichWednesdays, February 4, 11, 18; Tuesday, February 24 | 5:30–6:30 PM
Artist Assembly: Deep Dive Sessions
Last December we hosted our Artist Assembly, a bi-annual gathering for anyone in the Kansas City area who identifies as an artist, culture bearer, or artist organizer. Through facilitated conversations and collaborative working sessions, the Assembly surfaces the needs of our creative community and identifies shared resources, strategies, and opportunities. This February, we continue conversations started in the Artist Assembly with four Artist Assembly: Deep Dives. Occurring weekly over the course of the month for one-hour sessions, we invite artists and organizers to engage deeply with specific issues shaping our local arts ecosystem, from exhibition making and arts writing to funding models and community care. Each session stands alone, but together they form a collective inquiry into how we build power, sustainability, and connection in Kansas City’s creative community.Deep Dive 1: Participatory Exhibition
With Elizabeth Spavento, Charlotte Street Co-Director Wednesday, February 4, 2026, 5:30–6 PM During this Deep Dive session, participants are invited to review four exhibition proposals by Charlotte Street Co-Director, Elizabeth Spavento. All participants will vote on the winning proposal which is slated to open in November 2026. The remaining time will be spent collaborating on ideas for public programming to take place throughout the exhibition. RSVP HEREDeep Dive 2: Critical Arts Writing in Kansas City
Moderated by Nyonu Branch-Watkins (Fortresses Magazine) Wednesday, February 11, 2026 This Deep Dive focuses on critical arts writing in Kansas City: how artists and writers talk about art, who gets to participate in those conversations, and how criticism can be more accessible, ethical, and responsive to lived experience. Writers, artists, arts educators, and non-writers are warmly encouraged to attend. Participants will have the opportunity to share perspectives, name challenges, and identify what kinds of mentorship, programming, and support would make engaging in critical and interdisciplinary writing more viable. Outcomes: Shared language, peer connection, and a role in shaping future arts writing resources and programming in Kansas City. RSVP HEREDeep Dive 3: Innovative Funding Beyond Competitive Grants
Wednesday, February 18, 2026 During this Deep Dive session, participants are invited to discuss current funding structures available to working artists in the greater Kansas City area and imagine alternatives to project-based competitive grant cycles that help build sustainable income streams and generational wealth. RSVP HEREDeep Dive 4: Community Care in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Tuesday, February 24, 2026 During this Deep Dive session, participants are invited to discuss current challenges and potential solutions to whole body care within the creative community. Time will be given to discuss the ways that artificial intelligence and surveillance technology impacts well-being. RSVP HereSaturday, February 7, 2026 at 7:30 PM
In(SITE): Endometric
Endometric: Inner world building and the birth of a collective media—presented by The Center for Aesthetic Research (CAR)
Endometric is a multimedia performance that focuses on the concious manifestation of our deep and sometimes unknown inner worlds. We will explore how the practice of externalizing our inner world can be utilized as an imaginative gestures to create and interact with media. Using a multimedia system that includes live sound, image processing, video synthesis, dance, and drawing, a structure is created that allows for spontaneous investigation into how our internal lives are constructed and expressed. The performance presupposes that our inner worlds are vast and autonomous landscapes, which are just as "real" as the external, material world. These worlds have both always existed and are constantly being constructed. Emerging from movement, sound, and video, we undertake the vulnerable and bittersweet task of passing out inner world experience from the private to the public, thus completing a transfer from thoughts and feelings to external media. Once externalized and witnessed by others, our inner lives fade away, forever changed by the effects of expectation and validation, only to reemerge as artistic media. Endometric features the following artists: Kevin Harris (video synthesis and sound) Chad Eivins (image processing) Kalliope Brown (movement and performance) Maureen Keaveny (sound) Alexis Taylor (movement and performance) Bret Schneider (sound) This event is FREE and open to the public—no RSVP is required. Seating is first come, first served.