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Julie Farstad, Associate Professor of Painting at the Kansas City Art Institute Born on a farm in the Wisconsin prairie and eventually finding her true home in the semiarid valleys and mesas of New Mexico, Georgia O’Keeffe marveled at the awe she felt in the natural world and spent her life trying to create paintings … Read more

Trey Hock, Assistant Professor of Animation at Kansas City Art Institute Born in 1864, Alfred Stieglitz was just twenty-five years younger than the medium of photography itself. As a young man, Stieglitz was driven by a love of theater, music, as well as the visual arts. It wasn’t until his late teens that he came … Read more