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Wednesday, Jun 3, 2009

Featured Exhibitions

Our featured exhibitions bring the Museum’s outstanding collection of art together with magnificent works from private collections and world-renowned art institutions.

There is a charge for the following featured exhibitions. Admission to these exhibitions is on a timed ticket basis. Please click the time you would like to attend to check availability. Tickets are free for Museum Members with a daily limit based on membership level.

Your ticket will allow entrance into these featured exhibitions at your selected time.

From the Land of the Taj Mahal: Paintings for India's Mughal Emperors in the Chester Beatty Library
March 21, 2009—June 14, 2009

George Segal: Street Scenes
May 9, 2009—August 2, 2009

Wednesday, Jun 3, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
1:30 — 2:45 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Wednesday, Jun 3, 2009

Lecture
Drawing the Curtain Back: Reinstalling the American Galleries
6:30 — 8 pm
Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch
Admission is free. Call 816.701.3407 for reservations.

Join curators Margaret C. Conrads and Catherine Futter as they discuss the rewards and challenges of reinstalling the Museum’s collection of American paintings, sculpture, decorative arts and works on ... (Read More)

Thursday, Jun 4, 2009

Featured Exhibitions

Our featured exhibitions bring the Museum’s outstanding collection of art together with magnificent works from private collections and world-renowned art institutions.

There is a charge for the following featured exhibitions. Admission to these exhibitions is on a timed ticket basis. Please click the time you would like to attend to check availability. Tickets are free for Museum Members with a daily limit based on membership level.

Your ticket will allow entrance into these featured exhibitions at your selected time.

From the Land of the Taj Mahal: Paintings for India's Mughal Emperors in the Chester Beatty Library
March 21, 2009—June 14, 2009

George Segal: Street Scenes
May 9, 2009—August 2, 2009

Thursday, Jun 4, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
1:30 — 2:45 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Thursday, Jun 4, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Highlights of American Art
6:30 — 7:15 pm

This 45 minute guided tour will focus on some of the Museum’s most important paintings from the American Art collection. Artist included in the tour are Raphaelle Peale, Thomas Cole, George Caleb Bing ... (Read More)

Thursday, Jun 4, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
7 — 8:15 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Thursday, Jun 4, 2009

Art 101
An Introduction to American Art
7 — 8:15 pm
Atkins Auditorium
Cost is $8 for members, $12 for nonmembers and $4 for students and faculty

Explore the art of the United States from the colonial period through World War II. Learn how major works by American artists and craftsmen were shaped, in part, by events surrounding pivotal years in ... (Read More)

Friday, Jun 5, 2009

Featured Exhibitions

Our featured exhibitions bring the Museum’s outstanding collection of art together with magnificent works from private collections and world-renowned art institutions.

There is a charge for the following featured exhibitions. Admission to these exhibitions is on a timed ticket basis. Please click the time you would like to attend to check availability. Tickets are free for Museum Members with a daily limit based on membership level.

Your ticket will allow entrance into these featured exhibitions at your selected time.

From the Land of the Taj Mahal: Paintings for India's Mughal Emperors in the Chester Beatty Library
March 21, 2009—June 14, 2009

George Segal: Street Scenes
May 9, 2009—August 2, 2009

Friday, Jun 5, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
1:30 — 2:45 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Friday, Jun 5, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Highlights of American Art
6:30 — 7:15 pm

This 45 minute guided tour will focus on some of the Museum’s most important paintings from the American Art collection. Artist included in the tour are Raphaelle Peale, Thomas Cole, George Caleb Bing ... (Read More)

Friday, Jun 5, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
7 — 8:15 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Saturday, Jun 6, 2009

Featured Exhibitions

Our featured exhibitions bring the Museum’s outstanding collection of art together with magnificent works from private collections and world-renowned art institutions.

There is a charge for the following featured exhibitions. Admission to these exhibitions is on a timed ticket basis. Please click the time you would like to attend to check availability. Tickets are free for Museum Members with a daily limit based on membership level.

Your ticket will allow entrance into these featured exhibitions at your selected time.

From the Land of the Taj Mahal: Paintings for India's Mughal Emperors in the Chester Beatty Library
March 21, 2009—June 14, 2009

George Segal: Street Scenes
May 9, 2009—August 2, 2009

Saturday, Jun 6, 2009

Art in Depth Course
If Only They Could Speak: American Portraits
10:30 am — 3:30 pm
Ford Learning Center
Cost is $32 for members and $48 for nonmembers

From the earliest likenesses of Colonial Americans to the Cubist/Expressionist portraits of the World War I era, Americans have enjoyed having their images painted. But what do we know about the sitte ... (Read More)

Saturday, Jun 6, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
11 am — 12:15 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Saturday, Jun 6, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
1:30 — 2:45 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Saturday, Jun 6, 2009

Exhibition Tour
George Segal: Street Scenes
2:30 — 3:45 pm

A ticket for the exhibition is required for this tour. The work of George Segal engages the viewer through both the sense of recognition and ambiguity. Segal’s avid observations of the way in which pe ... (Read More)

Saturday, Jun 6, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Highlights of American Art
2:30 — 3:15 pm

This 45 minute guided tour will focus on some of the Museum’s most important paintings from the American Art collection. Artist included in the tour are Raphaelle Peale, Thomas Cole, George Caleb Bing ... (Read More)

Sunday, Jun 7, 2009

Featured Exhibitions

Our featured exhibitions bring the Museum’s outstanding collection of art together with magnificent works from private collections and world-renowned art institutions.

There is a charge for the following featured exhibitions. Admission to these exhibitions is on a timed ticket basis. Please click the time you would like to attend to check availability. Tickets are free for Museum Members with a daily limit based on membership level.

Your ticket will allow entrance into these featured exhibitions at your selected time.

From the Land of the Taj Mahal: Paintings for India's Mughal Emperors in the Chester Beatty Library
March 21, 2009—June 14, 2009

George Segal: Street Scenes
May 9, 2009—August 2, 2009

Sunday, Jun 7, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
1:30 — 2:45 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Sunday, Jun 7, 2009

Exhibition Tour
George Segal: Street Scenes
2:30 — 3:45 pm

A ticket for the exhibition is required for this tour. The work of George Segal engages the viewer through both the sense of recognition and ambiguity. Segal’s avid observations of the way in which pe ... (Read More)

Sunday, Jun 7, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Highlights of American Art
2:30 — 3:15 pm

This 45 minute guided tour will focus on some of the Museum’s most important paintings from the American Art collection. Artist included in the tour are Raphaelle Peale, Thomas Cole, George Caleb Bing ... (Read More)

Sunday, Jun 7, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
3 — 4:15 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Wednesday, Jun 10, 2009

Featured Exhibitions

Our featured exhibitions bring the Museum’s outstanding collection of art together with magnificent works from private collections and world-renowned art institutions.

There is a charge for the following featured exhibitions. Admission to these exhibitions is on a timed ticket basis. Please click the time you would like to attend to check availability. Tickets are free for Museum Members with a daily limit based on membership level.

Your ticket will allow entrance into these featured exhibitions at your selected time.

From the Land of the Taj Mahal: Paintings for India's Mughal Emperors in the Chester Beatty Library
March 21, 2009—June 14, 2009

George Segal: Street Scenes
May 9, 2009—August 2, 2009

Wednesday, Jun 10, 2009

Art in Depth Course
If Only They Could Speak: American Portraits
Instructor: Ann Wiklund
10:30 am — 12:30 pm
Ford Learning Center
Cost is $32 for members and $48 for nonmembers

Class meets Wed., June 10 and Friday, June 12. From the earliest likenesses of Colonial Americans to the Cubist/Expressionist portraits of the World War I era, Americans have enjoyed having the ... (Read More)

Wednesday, Jun 10, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
1:30 — 2:45 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Thursday, Jun 11, 2009

Featured Exhibitions

Our featured exhibitions bring the Museum’s outstanding collection of art together with magnificent works from private collections and world-renowned art institutions.

There is a charge for the following featured exhibitions. Admission to these exhibitions is on a timed ticket basis. Please click the time you would like to attend to check availability. Tickets are free for Museum Members with a daily limit based on membership level.

Your ticket will allow entrance into these featured exhibitions at your selected time.

From the Land of the Taj Mahal: Paintings for India's Mughal Emperors in the Chester Beatty Library
March 21, 2009—June 14, 2009

George Segal: Street Scenes
May 9, 2009—August 2, 2009

Thursday, Jun 11, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
1:30 — 2:45 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Thursday, Jun 11, 2009

Adult Studio Class
Fabric Design
Instructor: Joleen Goff
6 — 8:30 pm
Ford Learning Center
Cost is $60 for members and $80 for nonmembers

Class meets Thursdays, June 11 to 25. Explore textile printing, dyeing, painting, weaving and stitching. Learn more about textiles in the collection as you visit the galleries to see the variou ... (Read More)

Thursday, Jun 11, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Highlights of American Art
6:30 — 7:15 pm

This 45 minute guided tour will focus on some of the Museum’s most important paintings from the American Art collection. Artist included in the tour are Raphaelle Peale, Thomas Cole, George Caleb Bing ... (Read More)

Thursday, Jun 11, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
7 — 8:15 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Thursday, Jun 11, 2009

Art 101
An Introduction to American Art
7 — 8:15 pm
Atkins Auditorium
Cost is $8 for members, $12 for nonmembers and $4 for students and faculty

Explore the art of the United States from the colonial period through World War II. Learn how major works by American artists and craftsmen were shaped, in part, by events surrounding pivotal years in ... (Read More)

Friday, Jun 12, 2009

Featured Exhibitions

Our featured exhibitions bring the Museum’s outstanding collection of art together with magnificent works from private collections and world-renowned art institutions.

There is a charge for the following featured exhibitions. Admission to these exhibitions is on a timed ticket basis. Please click the time you would like to attend to check availability. Tickets are free for Museum Members with a daily limit based on membership level.

Your ticket will allow entrance into these featured exhibitions at your selected time.

From the Land of the Taj Mahal: Paintings for India's Mughal Emperors in the Chester Beatty Library
March 21, 2009—June 14, 2009

George Segal: Street Scenes
May 9, 2009—August 2, 2009

Friday, Jun 12, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
1:30 — 2:45 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Friday, Jun 12, 2009

Young Friends of Art
Shuttlecocktail Party
6 — 8 pm
East Sculpture Terrace

In 1994, YFAers were young, Grunge was popular, gas was only $1.09 and the Nelson-Atkins installed the Shuttlecocks, now a Kansas City landmark.

YFA celebrates the 15th anniversary of t ... (Read More)

Friday, Jun 12, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Highlights of American Art
6:30 — 7:15 pm

This 45 minute guided tour will focus on some of the Museum’s most important paintings from the American Art collection. Artist included in the tour are Raphaelle Peale, Thomas Cole, George Caleb Bing ... (Read More)

Friday, Jun 12, 2009

The Richer Picture
Celebrate American Art!
6:30 — 8:30 pm
Ford Learning Center
Cost is $15 for members and $20 for nonmembers

Look closer at masterworks by American artists in these one-time informal workshops. After a group discussion in the gallery, experiment with a simple “hands-on” art process that will have you thinkin ... (Read More)

Friday, Jun 12, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
7 — 8:15 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Saturday, Jun 13, 2009

Featured Exhibitions

Our featured exhibitions bring the Museum’s outstanding collection of art together with magnificent works from private collections and world-renowned art institutions.

There is a charge for the following featured exhibitions. Admission to these exhibitions is on a timed ticket basis. Please click the time you would like to attend to check availability. Tickets are free for Museum Members with a daily limit based on membership level.

Your ticket will allow entrance into these featured exhibitions at your selected time.

From the Land of the Taj Mahal: Paintings for India's Mughal Emperors in the Chester Beatty Library
March 21, 2009—June 14, 2009

George Segal: Street Scenes
May 9, 2009—August 2, 2009

Saturday, Jun 13, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
11 am — 12:15 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Saturday, Jun 13, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
1:30 — 2:45 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Saturday, Jun 13, 2009

Exhibition Tour
George Segal: Street Scenes
2:30 — 3:45 pm

A ticket for the exhibition is required for this tour. The work of George Segal engages the viewer through both the sense of recognition and ambiguity. Segal’s avid observations of the way in which pe ... (Read More)

Saturday, Jun 13, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Highlights of American Art
2:30 — 3:15 pm

This 45 minute guided tour will focus on some of the Museum’s most important paintings from the American Art collection. Artist included in the tour are Raphaelle Peale, Thomas Cole, George Caleb Bing ... (Read More)

Sunday, Jun 14, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
1:30 — 2:45 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Sunday, Jun 14, 2009

Print Society Member Event
Annual Meeting
2 — 4 pm
600 Admiral Blvd., Kansas City, MO
Reservations required

Curt and Mary Cutting host the year-end celebration of the Nelson-Atkins Print Society. Enjoy refreshments while reviewing the past year’s activities and outlining plans for the future.

Sunday, Jun 14, 2009

Exhibition Tour
George Segal: Street Scenes
2:30 — 3:45 pm

A ticket for the exhibition is required for this tour. The work of George Segal engages the viewer through both the sense of recognition and ambiguity. Segal’s avid observations of the way in which pe ... (Read More)

Sunday, Jun 14, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Highlights of American Art
2:30 — 3:15 pm

This 45 minute guided tour will focus on some of the Museum’s most important paintings from the American Art collection. Artist included in the tour are Raphaelle Peale, Thomas Cole, George Caleb Bing ... (Read More)

Sunday, Jun 14, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
3 — 4:15 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Tuesday, Jun 16, 2009

Youth Studio Class
Color Capers
Ages 3-4
10 — 11:30 am
Ford Learning Center
Cost is $85 for members and $105 for nonmembers

Class meets June 16 to 19. Lively red, sunny yellow, sky blue – what’s your favorite color? Find colors in the galleries and experiment with mixing and combining colors in your own artwork.

Tuesday, Jun 16, 2009

Youth Studio Class
Step Outside
Ages 5-6
10 am — Noon
Ford Learning Center
Cost is $85 for members and $105 for nonmembers

Class meets June 16 to 19. Venture outside to investigate the world of nature and art that “lives” outdoors in the Kansas City Sculpture Park. Create paintings, collages and sculpture inspired ... (Read More)

Tuesday, Jun 16, 2009

Youth Studio Class
Back to the Future
Ages 7-9
10 am — Noon
Ford Learning Center
Cost is $85 for members and $105 for nonmembers

Class meets June 16 to 19. Travel back in time to see how people lived hundreds of years ago by looking at period rooms in the collection, including the Robert Hooper Room in the new American g ... (Read More)

Tuesday, Jun 16, 2009

Youth Studio Class
Drawing & Painting
Ages 9-13
10 am — Noon
Ford Learning Center
Cost is $85 for members and $105 for nonmembers

Class meets June 16 to 19. Work with graphite, charcoal, watercolor, tempera paint and more to explore the fundamentals of drawing and painting. Lessons will focus on learning about line, colo ... (Read More)

Tuesday, Jun 16, 2009

Youth Studio Class
Road Trip USA
Ages 6-8
10 am — Noon
Ford Learning Center
Cost is $85 for members and $105 for nonmembers

Class meets June 16 to 19. Take an all-American road trip this summer! Visit the galleries to see American landscapes and create drawings, prints and collages inspired by what you see as well ... (Read More)

Tuesday, Jun 16, 2009

Youth Studio Class
Road Trip USA
Ages 6-8
1:30 — 3:30 pm
Ford Learning Center
Cost is $85 for members and $105 for nonmembers

Class meets June 16 to 19. Take an all-American road trip this summer! Visit the galleries to see American landscapes and create drawings, prints and collages inspired by what you see as well ... (Read More)

Tuesday, Jun 16, 2009

Youth Studio Class
Drawing & Painting
Ages 9-13
1:30 — 3:30 pm
Ford Learning Center
Cost is $85 for members and $105 for nonmembers

Class meets June 16 to 19. Work with graphite, charcoal, watercolor, tempera paint and more to explore the fundamentals of drawing and painting. Lessons will focus on learning about line, colo ... (Read More)

Tuesday, Jun 16, 2009

Youth Studio Class
Step Outside
Ages 5-6
1:30 — 3:30 pm
Ford Learning Center
Cost is $85 for members and $105 for nonmembers

Class meets June 16 to 19. Venture outside to investigate the world of nature and art that “lives” outdoors in the Kansas City Sculpture Park. Create paintings, collages and sculpture inspired ... (Read More)

Tuesday, Jun 16, 2009

Youth Studio Class
Color Capers
Ages 3-4
1:30 — 3 pm
Ford Learning Center
Cost is $85 for members and $105 for nonmembers

Class meets June 16 to 19. Lively red, sunny yellow, sky blue – what’s your favorite color? Find colors in the galleries and experiment with mixing and combining colors in your own artwork.

Tuesday, Jun 16, 2009

Youth Studio Class
Jewelry Making
Ages 13-17
1:30 — 3:30 pm
Ford Learning Center
Cost is $125 for members and $160 for nonmembers

Class meets for two weeks Tuesday through Friday, June 16 to 26. Tour the galleries and learn basic jewelry techniques and processes. Work with beads, wire and different metals to create rings ... (Read More)

Wednesday, Jun 17, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
1:30 — 2:45 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Thursday, Jun 18, 2009

Business Council
Breakfast with the Curator
7:30 am — 8:30 pm
Lens 2
Free; Business Council members only

Begin your day with a focused tour of the new American Art Galleries. Margi Conrads, Samuel Sosland Senior Curator of American Art, will highlight works of art that are on view for the first time in m ... (Read More)

Thursday, Jun 18, 2009

Know Your Museum Tour
American Decorative Arts
11 am — Noon
Info Desk
Free; tickets required. Members only.

Early American decorative arts drew on European traditions but also reflected fundamental American ideas—life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. By the mid-19th century, American manufacturers of ... (Read More)

Thursday, Jun 18, 2009

Know Your Museum Tour
American Decorative Arts
1:30 — 2:30 pm
Info Desk
Free; tickets required. Members only.

Early American decorative arts drew on European traditions but also reflected fundamental American ideas—life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. By the mid-19th century, American manufacturers of ... (Read More)

Thursday, Jun 18, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
1:30 — 2:45 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Thursday, Jun 18, 2009

Cultural Cocktails @ the Café
6 — 8 pm

Visit this popular event for an after-work rendezvous or to kick off the weekend. Enjoy a value-priced assortment of savory and sweet bites complimented by a full bar.

Thursday, Jun 18, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Highlights of American Art
6:30 — 7:15 pm

This 45 minute guided tour will focus on some of the Museum’s most important paintings from the American Art collection. Artist included in the tour are Raphaelle Peale, Thomas Cole, George Caleb Bing ... (Read More)

Thursday, Jun 18, 2009

Meet Your Museum
Highlights for New Members
6:30 — 7:30 pm
Free; tickets required. Members only.

As a new member we want to offer you an introduction to your Museum. Join a Museum Guide for the Nelson-Atkins NOW! tour. Afterward, enjoy a complimentary beverage in the Café.

Thursday, Jun 18, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
7 — 8:15 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Friday, Jun 19, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
1:30 — 2:45 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Friday, Jun 19, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Highlights of American Art
6:30 — 7:15 pm

This 45 minute guided tour will focus on some of the Museum’s most important paintings from the American Art collection. Artist included in the tour are Raphaelle Peale, Thomas Cole, George Caleb Bing ... (Read More)

Friday, Jun 19, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
7 — 8:15 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Friday, Jun 19, 2009

The Curator is IN!
Inventing the Shuttlecocks
7 — 8 pm
Gallery L8

Curator Jan Schall discusses the creation of the Shuttlecocks, their challenging fabrication and installation and their reception by critics and citizens of Kansas City. In conjunction with the ... (Read More)

Saturday, Jun 20, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
11 am — 12:15 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Saturday, Jun 20, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
1:30 — 2:45 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Saturday, Jun 20, 2009

Exhibition Tour
George Segal: Street Scenes
2:30 — 3:45 pm

A ticket for the exhibition is required for this tour. The work of George Segal engages the viewer through both the sense of recognition and ambiguity. Segal’s avid observations of the way in which pe ... (Read More)

Saturday, Jun 20, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Highlights of American Art
2:30 — 3:15 pm

This 45 minute guided tour will focus on some of the Museum’s most important paintings from the American Art collection. Artist included in the tour are Raphaelle Peale, Thomas Cole, George Caleb Bing ... (Read More)

Sunday, Jun 21, 2009

Father's Day Barbeque
Noon — 3 pm
Rozzelle Court Restaurant
Cost is $25 for members, $28 for nonmembers and $13.50 for children 12 and under

Reservations will be taken only by phone; please call 816.751.1ART.

Executive Chef Dwight Hawkins fires up the grills to offer KC’s world-famous cuisine in the beautiful courtyard of R ... (Read More)

Sunday, Jun 21, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Highlights of American Art
1:30 — 2:15 pm

This 45 minute guided tour will focus on some of the Museum’s most important paintings from the American Art collection. Artist included in the tour are Raphaelle Peale, Thomas Cole, George Caleb Bing ... (Read More)

Sunday, Jun 21, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
1:30 — 2:45 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Sunday, Jun 21, 2009

Exhibition Tour
George Segal: Street Scenes
2:30 — 3:45 pm

A ticket for the exhibition is required for this tour. The work of George Segal engages the viewer through both the sense of recognition and ambiguity. Segal’s avid observations of the way in which pe ... (Read More)

Sunday, Jun 21, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
3 — 4:15 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2009

Adult Studio Class
American Journeys
Instructor: Linda Nickell
10 am — Noon
Ford Learning Center
Cost is $60 for members and $80 for nonmembers

Class meets daily Tuesday, June 23 to Friday, June 26. Travel the country from coast to coast by exploring landscapes in the American collection. Create drawings, paintings and prints inspired ... (Read More)

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2009

Youth Studio Class
Faces of America
Ages 6-8
10 am — Noon
Ford Learning Center
Cost is $85 for members and $105 for nonmembers

Class meets June 23 to 26. What is a portrait? What do portraits tell you about a person? Meet some of the interesting people depicted in American art and the exhibition George Segal: Stre ... (Read More)

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2009

Youth Studio Class
Human Nature
Ages 9-13
10 am — Noon
Ford Learning Center
Cost is $85 for members and $105 for nonmembers

Class meets June 23 to 26. See how artists have interpreted the human form in sculpture, including the exhibition George Segal: Street Scenes. Create drawings and three-dimensional forms ... (Read More)

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2009

Youth Studio Class
Building Basics
Ages 3-4
10 — 11:30 am
Ford Learning Center
Cost is $85 for members and $105 for nonmembers

Class meets June 23 to 26. Practice constructing, modeling and connecting while creating three-dimensional forms. Gallery visits will explore many types of sculpture, made of everything from s ... (Read More)

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2009

Youth Studio Class
Art Alphabet
Ages 5-6
10 am — Noon
Ford Learning Center
Cost is $85 for members and $105 for nonmembers

Class meets June 23 to 26. A,B, C….See how letters of the alphabet can be related to paintings and sculpture and work with a variety of art materials to explore this connection.

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2009

Youth Studio Class
Art Alphabet
Ages 5-6
1:30 — 3:30 pm
Ford Learning Center
Cost is $85 for members and $105 for nonmembers

Class meets June 23 to 26. A,B, C….See how letters of the alphabet can be related to paintings and sculpture and work with a variety of art materials to explore this connection.

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2009

Youth Studio Class
Building Basics
Ages 3-4
1:30 — 3 pm
Ford Learning Center
Cost is $85 for members and $105 for nonmembers

Class meets June 23 to 26. Practice constructing, modeling and connecting while creating three-dimensional forms. Gallery visits will explore many types of sculpture, made of everything from s ... (Read More)

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2009

Youth Studio Class
Human Nature
Ages 9-13
1:30 — 3:30 pm
Ford Learning Center
Cost is $85 for members and $105 for nonmembers

Class meets June 23 to 26. See how artists have interpreted the human form in sculpture, including the exhibition George Segal: Street Scenes. Create drawings and three-dimensional forms ... (Read More)

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2009

Youth Studio Class
Faces of America
Ages 6-8
1:30 — 3:30 pm
Ford Learning Center
Cost is $85 for members and $105 for nonmembers

Class meets June 23 to 26. What is a portrait? What do portraits tell you about a person? Meet some of the interesting people depicted in American art and the exhibition George Segal: Stre ... (Read More)

Wednesday, Jun 24, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
1:30 — 2:45 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Thursday, Jun 25, 2009

Neoclassics
Art Tour of Wamego, KS
8:30 am — 6:30 pm
Info Desk
Cost is $40

Wamego is home to the Columbian Theater Murals from the 1893 World’s Fair, Swogger Gallery and the historic Ditto-Leach house with beautiful 19th-century Sicilian architecture. After lunch, follow the ... (Read More)

Thursday, Jun 25, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
1:30 — 2:45 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Thursday, Jun 25, 2009

Cultural Cocktails @ the Café
6 — 8 pm

Visit this popular event for an after-work rendezvous or to kick off the weekend. Enjoy a value-priced assortment of savory and sweet bites complimented by a full bar.

Thursday, Jun 25, 2009

Performance
Strike a Pose
6:15 — 6:45 pm
Bloch Building Lobby

Featuring original choreography by artist Paula Weber, a troupe of dancers and musicians come together in a dynamic performance mirroring the ideas of gesture, pose and movement seen in the exhibition ... (Read More)

Thursday, Jun 25, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Highlights of American Art
6:30 — 7:15 pm

This 45 minute guided tour will focus on some of the Museum’s most important paintings from the American Art collection. Artist included in the tour are Raphaelle Peale, Thomas Cole, George Caleb Bing ... (Read More)

Thursday, Jun 25, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
7 — 8:15 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Thursday, Jun 25, 2009

Performance
Strike a Pose
7:30 — 8 pm
Bloch Building Lobby

Featuring original choreography by artist Paula Weber, a troupe of dancers and musicians come together in a dynamic performance mirroring the ideas of gesture, pose and movement seen in the exhibition ... (Read More)

Thursday, Jun 25, 2009

Exhibition Tour
George Segal: Street Scenes
7:30 — 8:45 pm

A ticket for the exhibition is required for this tour. The work of George Segal engages the viewer through both the sense of recognition and ambiguity. Segal’s avid observations of the way in which pe ... (Read More)

Friday, Jun 26, 2009

Member Preview Day
Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
10 am — 9 pm
Gallery L11
Membership card required for admittance.

Museum members are the first to view the poignant and thought-provoking photography of artist and activist Fazal Sheikh.

Friday, Jun 26, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
1:30 — 2:45 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Friday, Jun 26, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Highlights of American Art
6:30 — 7:15 pm

This 45 minute guided tour will focus on some of the Museum’s most important paintings from the American Art collection. Artist included in the tour are Raphaelle Peale, Thomas Cole, George Caleb Bing ... (Read More)

Friday, Jun 26, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
7 — 8:15 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Friday, Jun 26, 2009

Exhibition Tour
George Segal: Street Scenes
7:30 — 8:45 pm

A ticket for the exhibition is required for this tour. The work of George Segal engages the viewer through both the sense of recognition and ambiguity. Segal’s avid observations of the way in which pe ... (Read More)

Saturday, Jun 27, 2009

Youth Studio Workshop
Go Fish
Ages 4-5
10 am — Noon
Ford Learning Center
Cost is $20 for members and $25 for nonmembers

Go “underwater” in the galleries to see fish and other creatures that swim and create your own three-dimensional fish sculpture.

Saturday, Jun 27, 2009

Youth Studio Workshop
Dragons Await!
Ages 6-8
10 am — Noon
Ford Learning Center
Cost is $20 for members and $25 for nonmembers

Search for dragons in the Chinese collection and create a three-dimensional dragon headdress with mixed media.

Saturday, Jun 27, 2009

Youth Studio Class
Eye on the Birdie
Ages 9-13
10 am — Noon
Ford Learning Center
Cost is $20 for members and $25 for nonmembers

Draw from the monumental Shuttlecocks sculptures on the lawn and develop your drawing into a mixed media composition.

Saturday, Jun 27, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
11 am — 12:15 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Saturday, Jun 27, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
1:30 — 2:45 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Saturday, Jun 27, 2009

Exhibition Tour
George Segal: Street Scenes
2:30 — 3:45 pm

A ticket for the exhibition is required for this tour. The work of George Segal engages the viewer through both the sense of recognition and ambiguity. Segal’s avid observations of the way in which pe ... (Read More)

Sunday, Jun 28, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
1:30 — 2:45 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)

Sunday, Jun 28, 2009

Indian Film Series
Water
1:30 — 3:30 pm
Atkins Auditorium
Free; tickets required.

Set in 1938 British Empire India against Mahatma Gandhi's rise to power, follow the travails of eight-year old widow Chuyia. Deposited in an ashram for Hindu widows dedicated to atonement, she struggl ... (Read More)

Sunday, Jun 28, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Highlights of American Art
1:30 — 3:15 pm

This 45 minute guided tour will focus on some of the Museum’s most important paintings from the American Art collection. Artist included in the tour are Raphaelle Peale, Thomas Cole, George Caleb Bing ... (Read More)

Sunday, Jun 28, 2009

Exhibition Tour
George Segal: Street Scenes
2:30 — 3:45 pm

A ticket for the exhibition is required for this tour. The work of George Segal engages the viewer through both the sense of recognition and ambiguity. Segal’s avid observations of the way in which pe ... (Read More)

Sunday, Jun 28, 2009

Walk-In Tour
Making a Masterpiece: 75 Years of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
3 — 4:15 pm

Enjoy a trip down memory lane! Explore the Museum’s history from the founders to the present day. Learn wonderful stories about how works of art entered the collection; key figures in its development; ... (Read More)