Vuelven las festividades del Día de Muertos de Mattie Rhodes
Durante la primera semana de noviembre, el Mattie Rhodes Center en Kansas City, Missouri, celebrará nuevamente las vidas de aquellos que ya no están con nosotros.Mattie Rhodes está organizando sus festividades anuales del Día de los Muertos, una tradición del área que lleva más de 20 años e incluye exhibiciones de artistas, comida local, vendedores […]
Mattie Rhodes Day of the Dead festivities return
By Tere Siqueira Through the first week of November, the Mattie Rhodes Center in Kansas City, Missouri, is again celebrating the lives of those who are no longer with us.Mattie Rhodes is staging its annual Day of the Dead festivities – an area tradition for 20-plus years that includes displays by artists, local food, vendors […]
Soto shares how pandemic affected her work as an artist
When the coronavirus pandemic hit, Kansas City area artist Vania Soto saw an opportunity to reinvent her way of doing art.
UGPHD announces school poster contest winners
Story by Angie Baldelomar and photos by Michael AlvaradoOn Sunday (May 16), the Unified Government Department of Public Health (UGPHD) announced the grand prize-winners of the #IHelpedConquerCOVID school poster contest.Held at the James P. Davis Hall at Wyandotte Lake Park, the awards ceremony celebrated the finalists representing each school district in Wyandotte County and the […]
New mural in NEKC brings attention to peripheral artery disease
By Angie Baldelomar A new mural will be unveiled in the Northeast area of Kansas City, Missouri, to help educate and raise awareness about peripheral artery disease.Commonly known as PAD, peripheral artery disease is a vascular disease that causes pain in the legs while walking. It affects 8.5 million Americans over age 40, but only […]
New mural at Kauffman School features work of area artists
By Angie Baldelomar Area artists Isaac Tapia and Rodrigo “Rico” Alvarez have unveiled a new mural at the Ewing Marion Kauffman School in Kansas City, Missouri.The mural — part of a five-mural project commissioned to Spray KC — features Cesar Chavez, Claudette Colvin, Amanda Gorman, Emma Gonzalez and the honorable late Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg.“These […]