As the holidays approach, Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) wants to have a perfect family Christmas, so he pesters his wife, Ellen (Beverly D’Angelo), and children, as he tries to make sure everything is in line, including the tree and house decorations. However, things go awry quickly. His hick cousin, Eddie (Randy Quaid), and his family show up unplanned and start living in their camper on the Griswold property. Even worse, Clark’s employers renege on the holiday bonus he needs.

Price: General Admission $3.75
Dates: Nov 21 — 26
Show Times: 12:30pm, 4pm, and 7:30pm

CCA Quarterly Meet & Mingle

Annual Board Elections

DATE: 

Thursday, October 9th

TIME: 

5:30 pm — 7:00 pm

LOCATION: 

Mid-America Arts Alliance

2018 Baltimore

Join members of the Crossroads Community Association for a special night of festivities!

Drink a toast to Mid-America Arts Alliance, celebrating 20 YEARS in the Crossroads Arts District!, meet your neighbors, and catch up with exciting Crossroads Community news, all while enjoying food and drinks provided by Food Pedaler KC! Lots to be excited about!

Members at the Community, Artist, Building Owner, Small Business & Corporate Levels are eligible to vote for the CCA’s Board of Directors. Members at the Friend level are invited to come and enjoy the fun!

Join the Kauffman Center and Premier Partner Saint Luke’s for Yoga at the Kauffman Center on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025. Yoga takes place in Brandmeyer Great Hall with sweeping views of the Kansas City skyline and is designed to be an experience that activates the mind, body and spirit.

Tickets for Yoga at the Kauffman Center include admission to one yoga class and a souvenir gift. Space is limited. Attendees must bring their own yoga mat and will be asked to sign a waiver when they purchase a ticket to this event.

Yoga Instructor: Joni Rauen
Musician: Rick Kloog

8:30 a.m. session: Intermediate Yoga
10:30 a.m. session: Yoga Foundations

11:00am — 12:00pm | open house with light refreshments

12:00 pm | reading with catalog essay writer S. Portico Bowman

Followed by a discussion and gallery talk with participating artists:

Anna Wetzel Artz | Hilary Lorenz | Lily McElroy | Blake Sanders | Hannah Sanders

Laura Berman, Exhibition Curator

S. Portico Bowman, Exhibition Catalog Essayist

The Mother and…Project celebrates motherhood as a source of expansive creative potential and alternative modes of being. 

Focusing specifically on women who identify as both mothers and artists, the project highlights the diversity of their lived experiences. It asserts that artist-mothers are not a monolith, but encompass a wide range of intersectional identities, perspectives, and practices. 

At the heart of the exhibition is the concept of “the ethics of mothering”, the guiding vision through which the artist-mother raises her children and teaches them to engage with the world, emphasizing curiosity, relationality, and care. This ethical framework not only shapes her parenting but also informs her studio practice, defining the methodologies, materials, and narratives she employs, as well as the way she navigates life more broadly. Embedded in both her caregiving and creative work, the ethics of mothering reveals that mother and artist are not divided selves, but one whole body — fluid, intuitive, and evolving. In her life and work, mothering becomes art, and art becomes a kind of mothering. 

The project aspires to build a community centered on collaboration and support among artist-mothers and the broader public. Our programming includes family workshops specifically designed to foster creative exploration and support the development of young artists, affirming the gallery as a space for intergenerational engagement and imaginative growth.

The participating artist-mothers are mid-career, nationally and internationally exhibited artists, carefully selected to represent a range of disciplines, mediums, and cultural contexts. They include: Debbie Barrett-Jones, Rahele Jomepour Bell, Laura Berman, Mona Cliff, Julie Farstad, Nancy Friedemann-Sanchez, Diana Heise, Cory Imig, Sarah Irvin, Priya Kambli, Samantha Krukowski, Linda Lighton, Beili Liu, Sukanya Mani, Adrienne Maples, Amy Meissner, Althea Murphy-Price, and Sonié Joi Thompson Ruffin. 

The Mother and… Project seeks to make visible and celebrate the empowering visual narratives of these artist-mothers. Their contributions will be presented through an exhibition, supported by written essays and visual images in the exhibition catalog and audio interviews in the podcast series. The full scope of the project will be documented and archived online via a dedicated website and social media platforms. The project will contribute to the growing body of feminist and art-historical scholarship at the intersection of artistic practice and motherhood.

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Project team:
Project Manager, co-curator and podcast producer: Eleanor Lim-Midyett
Co-curator and web-designer: Courtney Wasson
Senior consultant: Laura Berman
Gallery manager: Erin Woodworth
Podcast director: Kara Heitz, Clio’s Scroll Productions
Audio engineer and editor: Emily Milner
Graphic designer: Michele Cooper, Cooper Graphic Design

This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, and by an Express Grant from the Missouri Arts Council and was conducted with the support of a Faculty Development grant and the Outstanding Special Project Award at the Kansas City Art Institute. Additional support comes from the Kansas City Artist Coalition, DBACO, and Hotel Indigo.