Holsum Studios & Gallery

Holsum Studios & Gallery is an artist-run studio building and gallery in Kansas City’s historic West Bottoms, in the old Holsum bread building at 1200 W. 12th Street. Founded by Kansas City artist Garry Noland and open since January 2020, it houses multiple floors of working artist studios (about four dozen artists) plus an artist-run gallery, and hosts an annual Open Studios.

Description

Holsum Studios & Gallery is an artist-run creative hub in the West Bottoms, occupying the historic Holsum bread building at 1200 W. 12th Street.¹ Opened in January 2020, it houses multiple floors of working artist studios — roughly four dozen artists — alongside Holsum Gallery, an artist-run exhibition space that is medium-agnostic and attuned to Kansas City’s emerging arts scene.² The building’s concentration of studios anchors an annual Open Studios event and, during the district’s First Fridays, draws arts audiences into the West Bottoms.² The building also hosts other artist-run spaces, including ION Gallery (opened November 2024).²

Ownership and history

Holsum Gallery is the West Bottoms project of Kansas City artist Garry Noland, who established the studios-and-gallery model in the old Holsum building beginning in January 2020 — part of a wave of artist-led adaptive reuse in the district.² It operates as an independent, artist-run space.

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Links

• Instagram (primary web presence): https://www.instagram.com/holsumgallery/

Footnotes

1. Holsum building location, 1200 W. 12th St, West Bottoms (per KCUR + the West Bottoms arts guides). official Holsum Gallery site/URL for a direct citation. ↩

2. KCUR — “In Kansas City’s West Bottoms, Artists Lend An Old Building New Life And Purpose” (2021-01-09, https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2021-01-09/in-kansas-citys-west-bottoms-artists-lend-an-old-building-new-life-and-purpose) and “Kansas City’s artist-run spaces offer havens of creativity and collaboration” (2024-04-20, https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2024-04-20/the-best-artist-run-spaces-in-kansas-city). Confirms: Garry Noland founder; since Jan 2020; ~4 dozen artists; medium-agnostic gallery; ION Gallery in the building (Nov 2024); Open Studios. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴