125 @ KCAI: Celebrate 125 years
Welcome to the Kansas City Art Institute’s 125th anniversary blog!
When a group of Kansas Citians got together in 1885 to start a Sketch Club “to talk over art matters in general and to judge pictures,” they could not know they were creating an institution that would become a distinguished four-year college of art and design – the Kansas City Art Institute – or that in 2010 the entity they founded would be celebrating its 125th anniversary.
“Honoring the past/creating the future” is the theme for the college’s year-long celebration, and with that in mind, we plan to use this blog to share historical anecdotes, alumni memories, news stories and information about anniversary events.
We look forward to posting stories about important people in KCAI’s history, putting up lots of pictures and providing links to news articles. We plan to provide weekly posts while we chronicle the school’s history through the decades, share department memories and lots more.
Check back soon for our first post about KCAI’s start in 1885, but for now we’ll leave you with this image from 1914. From left to right, Mildred Davenport, Florence (Park) Vasconellos, Letha (Churchill) Walker and Margaret (Metzinger) Groener gather around The Saturday Evening Post during noon hour pastime in “life” classroom on a cold November day.
