Category: Artwork

KCAI graduate Jack Olander Brooks’ 4 x 6-foot mosaic representing historical queer Kansas City moments from 1855 through the early 2010s is on permanent display inside GLAMA’s reading room on the third floor of UMKC’s Miller Nichols Library.

A Black queer community archive. {B/qKC} was founded through The Kansas City Defender, but is now an independent, fiscally-sponsored archival project. Project creator: Nasir Anthony Montalvo.

The 6th Annual SpraySeeMo Mural Festival commissioned 20 murals through Kansas City’s Crossroads, 18th & Vine, River Market, West Bottoms, and Midtown neighborhoods. These murals focused on themes of mental health awareness and well-being. Mural featuring GLAMA images created by: Gaia.

Artwork inspired by materials from the GLAMA collections. Project creator: Ruben Castillo.

Immersive exhibition on drag performance and Black pageantry. Project creators: Boi Boy (Kansas City, MO), John Brant (Kansas City, MO), Delaney George (Los Angeles, CA), Jackob Graves (Kansas City, MO), Nasir Anthony Montalvo (Kansas City, MO), SunYoung Park (Kansas City, MO), and Trenity Thomas (New Orleans, LA).

2023-2024 artwork installation at the Kemper Art Museum, centering local lesbian and feminist stories from researching GLAMA collections. Project creator: Sarah Zapata.