Hank Willis Thomas - Conceptual Artist, Activist

Marion Weiss/Michael Manfredi - Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism

This dynamic couple founded an award-winning, multidisciplinary New York City-based design practice that combines landscape, architecture, infrastructure, and art, and they were chosen to design the upcoming Nelson-Atkins expansion.

Joe Rogers - Art Conservator

An objects technician in the Nelson-Atkins Conservation division, Joe Rogers has been with the museum for 42 years and has been working with the Shuttlecocks since they were nothing more than an idea.

Terry Evans - Photographer

For the past 50 years, photographer Terry Evans has enjoyed national acclaim; she is one of the most important landscape photographers of our time. Her straight-forward but richly complex photographs of the Midwest prairie are familiar yet surprising, encouraging the viewer to see this landscape and the people living there with fresh eyes and new understanding.

MacKenzie Mallon - Provenance Specialist

A specialist in provenance tracks down the history of ownership of each object in a museum’s collection. The Nelson-Atkins vast collection numbers more than 42 thousand, so provenance specialist MacKenzie Mallon is kept very busy tracing the lineage of each one of those objects.

Hank Willis Thomas - Conceptual Artist, Activist

Hank Willis Thomas creates images and symbols that define our time, from advertisements and logos to historical photographs and public monuments. A conceptual artist, an activist, and the co-founder of the organization For Freedom, his projects challenge our perceptions of race, identity, and consumerism.