Could posters inspire employees to improve their work habits and increase their productivity? Charles Mather, a Chicago-based printer thought so. So did American management.

How did the artist do that? The combinations of techniques and innovations introduced in contemporary printmaking can make the process behind a print mystifying. Simply looking at it may not be enough, even for the most seasoned of printmakers.

On August 6, 1945, a specially-equipped American B-29 Superfortress dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. On August 9, another atomic bomb fell on Nagasaki. For most Americans, the immediate reaction to the atomic bomb was relief: it had ended the war. But as the United States celebrated, it also braced itself for the uncertain future of the Atomic Age. For the next two decades, the looming threat of Atomic war dominated American society.

Mexico celebrates a rich tradition of arte popular that reaches more than 2,000 years into the Mesoamerican past.

Estamos Aquí (We Are Here) features contemporary serigraphs by forty artists who took an opportunity to learn a specialized silkscreen print technique from a collaborative Austin-based residency. Many of the artists are speaking from the Latino/Chicano perspective, and the resulting portfolio of prints expresses their celebrations, sorrows, challenges, popular culture, and personal experiences. 

Jazz musicians have a long-standing relationship with Kansas City. Jazz greats Charlie Parker, Pete Johnson, Joe Turner, Jo Jones, Jimmy Rushing, Mary Lou Williams, and Oran Thaddeus “Hot Lips” Page were familiar presences in the Kansas City jazz scene of the 1920s and 1930s

This exhibition explores the many meanings associated with water through a selection of thirty-two works drawn from the collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

“I believe a house is more a home by being a work of Art.” - Frank Lloyd Wright, The Natural House, 1954 

Inciteful Clay offers an unparalleled overview of an emergent movement in contemporary ceramics dedicated to social commentary. Artists have long used their creations as powerful vehicles to confront society with major problems of the day, expanding from paintings, sculptures, prints, and photographs to installations and electronic media over the last century. Social concern has also become an area of increasing interest in contemporary craft.

Sounds of America’s pastime: the crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd, the cheers of “Atta girl!” While the 1992 film A League of Their Own introduced contemporary audiences to the WWII-era All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, women’s baseball actually began with the creation of the Vassar College team in 1866.