Artist talks, special tours, hands-on workshops, films, lectures, and performances are scheduled throughout the year, many in conjunction with exhibitions on display.
Groups of ten or more may schedule free docent-led guided tours of Kemper Museum’s Permanent Collection and special exhibitions; to see more information visit the Museum's Tours page.
Enjoy coffee and a casual conversation about the exhibition with Lora Vogt, curator of education at The National WWI Museum and Memorial, as she talks about monuments and their history.
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Lora Vogt is the Curator of Education at the National World War I Museum and Memorial. Founded in 1926, the Museum holds the most comprehensive collection of Great War artifacts in the world and has been ranked one of the top 25 museums in the country. Under Vogt’s guidance, the Museum has consistently broken records for public program attendance, educational participations and developed internationally recognized curriculum and online exhibitions.
Enjoy coffee and a casual conversation about the exhibition with Dr. Giselle Anatol, professor and director of graduate studies at the University of Kansas, for a discussion of Hew Locke’s work and how it relates to Caribbean diasporic literature.
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Giselle Liza Anatol received her doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania, with a dissertation exploring representations of motherhood in Caribbean women’s writing. As a professor of English at the University of Kansas, she currently teaches classes on Caribbean and African-American literature, as well as classes in multicultural writing for children and young adults. In 2011, Anatol published Bringing Light to Twilight: Perspectives on the Pop Culture Phenomenon, an edited collection featuring analytical essays from an international array of scholars. Her book, The Things That Fly in the Night: Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora (Rutgers 2015) explores folklore and recent literary and popular fiction. Anatol has also published articles on the works of authors such as Jamaica Kincaid, Audre Lorde, Nalo Hopkinson, Derek Walcott, and Langston Hughes.
Kemper Museum hosts trivia night on all things related to international artists and travel with KC poet and quizmaster Glenn North. Complimentary food and two beverage tickets will be provided to each in attendance, courtesy of Café Sebastienne.
This Kemper Museum Trivia night is in celebration of international artist, Hew Locke. This five-round trivia night will include questions about art and artists, travel, and focused locations like the Caribbean and England, which areas related to the artist, and a round of mystery questions to test your skills!
Register your team of 3-6 participants by emailing Jade Powers at jpowers@kemperart.orgwith your team name. The team with the most creative name will also win a prize, in addition to the team that answers the most correct questions. Space is limited.
Sheri “Purpose” Hall is a spoken word poet, author, ordained minister, and activist. She will perform new works created since receiving the Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Award.
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Sheri Purpose Hall is a spoken word artist, author, radio personality, educator, and minister who uses her work to provide perspective and engage conversational empathy. She has published several books of poetry, epistles, and essays including "Black Girl Shattered" (2017); two poetry chapbooks “Mélange du Femme Noir” (2019) and “Chosen for Both” (2015); and a workbook/workshop "Writing Wrongs: Writing to Heal" (2016), which won an award from Bike for the Brain, a non-profit organization that works to reduce mental health stigma.
She is the founder of Arsyn Spit Fire, East of Red ArtHouse, and PenFire Publishing; Interim CEO for Poetry for Personal Power; and provides consulting and assistance for many non-profit, community-based, and arts organizations. Hall is a 2019 Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Awardee and Studios Resident Artist in her 2nd year, a 2019 Art in the Loop grant recipient, a 2019 and 2017 Arts KC Inspiration Grant recipient, and the 2017 ArtsKC Inspiration Breakfast featured artist. She won the Poet and Activist award at the Music and More Foundation Poetry Awards two years in a row, and was nominated for best spoken word artist in the KC People's Choice awards, Pitch Best KC, and the National Spoken Word awards. She has also earned the opportunity to represent Kansas City as an individual competitor at the national Women of the World Poetry slam two years in a row (2017/18) and competed at the National Poetry Slam four years in a row.
Every Saturday from 1:00–2:00 p.m.
FREE | All ages
A casual opportunity for visitors to engage with artwork through informative conversations with Museum docents. Ask questions about the artwork on view and enjoy informative and lively dialogue.
No reservations required, just "drop in" and learn something new!
