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Title: Honoring the Past, Creating the Future
Description: Five-page advertising supplement that celebrates the 125th anniversary of the Kansas City Art Institute. Includes an historic timeline, photos, and articles about KCAI students and projects.
Date: 2010-01-10
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: President of KC Art Institute to Retire
Description: The Kansas City Art Institute president Kathleen Collins will retire in June 2011. She arrived at the institute in 1996, and since then the school's endowment doubled and enrollment rose. Collins held the post of president longer than anyone previously in the school's 125-year history.
Date: 2010-03-20
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Kansas City Art Institute Earns 2009 Missouri Arts Award for Arts Education
Description: The Kansas City Art Institute is the winner of the 2009 Missouri Arts Award for arts education. The Missouri Arts Award is the state's highest honor in the arts." The Art Institute began in 1885 and "is the oldest arts organization in the Kansas City area, and is the only institution of higher learning in the seven-state region devoted exclusively to visual arts education. The school is expanding to an additional location called the Northland Campus for Special Programs, in the Briarcliff Professional Plaza, at the junction of Highway 9 and Briarcliff Parkway in Riverside, Missouri.
Date: 2008-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: KCAI Finds Next President in France
Description: Article about Jacqueline Chanda's appointment as Kansas City Art Institute president, succeeding Kathleen Collins who is retiring in June. Chanda is currently the academic dean of the Institute for American Universities and director of Aix-en-Provence in France.
Date: 2011-01
Object Type: Newsletter Article

Title: Beloved Art Professor Reflects on Last 48 Years
Description: Article announces that Richard Mattsson is retiring from the faculty of the Kansas City Art Institute. Former students and friends of Mattsson are interviewed and discuss his impact upon their lives and his contributions to the Kansas City arts community. A brief biography focusing upon his early life and career at KCAI is provided.
Date: 2013-04-26
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: KCAI's New President Says Reshaping Institute's Identity a Top Priority
Description: Article about Dr. Jacqueline Chanda, the newly appointed president of the Kansas City Art Institute. Her vision for the institute "is to help reshape the identity of KCAI in a way that will promote a stronger national identity and local presence through innovative programming, quality academics, diversification of faculty and student body and community engagement."
Date: 2011-04-08
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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