Art in the Loop

The Art in the Loop Foundation (AILF) is a Kansas City, Missouri 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in late 2004 as a partnership of four institutions — the Kansas City Art Institute, the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, the city’s Municipal Art Commission, and the Downtown Council of Kansas City — to commission public art for outdoor sites in the Downtown Loop.¹ Its original remit was lasting commissions, and between 2005 and 2012 it produced a small number of permanent works.² Since 2014 its principal activity has instead been the Art in the Loop Project, an annual themed exhibition of temporary artwork and live performance chosen by open call, mounted from roughly May through October and staged largely along the KC Streetcar corridor.³⁴ The 2026 season — the thirteenth — carries the theme Home.⁵⁶

This page covers AILF as an organization and the program as an institution. For the year-by-year roster of installations, artists, works and stop locations, see kc-streetcar-public-art, which documents the individual seasons in detail.

The organization

Founding

AILF was founded in late 2004 as a joint undertaking of four Kansas City institutions: the Kansas City Art Institute, the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, the Municipal Art Commission (the city body that administers Kansas City’s One Percent for Art ordinance), and the Downtown Council of Kansas City. A 2007 foundation description states that it was formed “to commission lasting public art projects for select outdoor sites in the Downtown Loop of Kansas City, Missouri,” and that the program “grew from these entities’ shared interests in the downtown area and cultural life of the city, belief in the potential for artists to meaningfully contribute to the public realm and urban revitalization, and desire to leverage each partner’s resources.”¹

The IRS recognized AILF’s tax exemption in May 2005 under section 501(c)(3); its EIN is 20-2468361 and its IRS activity classification is A40 (Visual Arts).⁷ The organization is small: reported annual revenue in the filings available through the IRS extract has generally run between roughly $43,000 and $121,000 across 2011–2023, with total year-end assets in the $100,000–$140,000 range through most of that period.⁷

⚠ The founding date is worth stating precisely because it is frequently misreported. The annual exhibition program began in 2014; the foundation that runs it is roughly a decade older, and its earliest permanent commission was installed in 2005.¹²

Mission and status

AILF states its mission as “to contribute to the visual identity, enrichment, and revitalization of Downtown Kansas City, create new opportunities for artistic development, and expand public interaction with new art of excellence,” and describes itself as “a unique partnership of the Downtown Council of Kansas City.”⁸ Its mailing address, 1000 Walnut, Suite 200, is the Downtown Council’s office, and its executive director also serves as the Downtown Council’s Vice President of Strategic Initiatives — an arrangement that makes AILF operationally a program of the Downtown Council with its own separate nonprofit corporate identity.⁸⁴

Governance

AILF is governed by a volunteer board of directors drawn largely from downtown institutional stakeholders rather than from the arts sector alone. The published 2026 board includes officers or members affiliated with Commerce Bank, the KC Streetcar Authority, the Downtown Council, the law firm Stinson LLP, the commercial real-estate firm Copaken Brooks, the data-center operator QTS, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and the Kansas City Art Institute, alongside a practicing artist and a community volunteer serving as board president.⁸ William (Bill) Dietrich, president and CEO of the Downtown Council, appears on AILF’s board both in 2007 and in 2026 — an unusual span of institutional continuity for an organization of this size.¹⁸

Day-to-day curation is handled by contracted seasonal Art Directors rather than permanent curatorial staff. For the 2025–26 cycle the visual arts director was Khyneesha Edwards and the performance art director Jade Osborne.⁸⁴ The 2014 pilot season was curated by Jessica Borusky.³

”The Loop” — and beyond it

The Loop is the roughly one-square-mile core of Downtown Kansas City encircled by the downtown freeway ring (I-70, I-670, US-71/Bruce R. Watkins, and the north leg above the river bluffs). It is a narrower area than “Downtown” as the Downtown Council formally defines it, which runs from the Missouri River south to 31st Street.⁹ AILF’s name refers to this freeway loop, and its early commissions sat squarely inside it — Oppenstein Brothers Memorial Park at 12th and Walnut, a pedestrian alley off Baltimore between 10th and 11th, and the transit plaza at 10th and Main.²

The program has since outgrown that boundary. As the KC Streetcar extended south and north, AILF’s exhibition sites followed the rails: the 2026 season places work at streetcar shelters as far south as Armour and Southmoreland (43rd & Main) in Midtown and as far north as the Riverfront stop, and stages performances at the City Market in the River Market and at the Kansas City Public Library’s Central Library.⁵ AILF and the KC Streetcar Authority now describe the call as covering “key Downtown and Midtown locations,” not the Loop alone.⁶ The organization’s name has not changed to match.

Two phases of the program

Permanent commissions, 2005–2012

Consistent with the founding remit, AILF’s first phase produced permanent works. Four projects are listed on its permanent-installations page:²

• Uplifted Arms (2005), by Davin Watne and Dylan Mortimer, originally at the 10th and Main transit plaza and relocated in 2020 to the 13th & Charlotte Transit Center
• Celestial Flyways and Star Disk (2008), by Laura DeAngelis with Davison Architecture + Urban Design, at Oppenstein Brothers Memorial Park, 12th and Walnut
• The Commons (2012), by Julia Cole and Leigh Rosser, in the pedestrian alley off Baltimore between 10th and 11th Streets
• ARTwall, a rotating large-format image installation on the Town Pavilion garage at 13th and Grand

Celestial Flyways illustrates the scale and the difficulty of this phase. DeAngelis won the commission in October 2006 through a two-phase competitive selection, and the finished project — a ten-foot interactive star disk charting more than 500 stars visible from Kansas City, etched constellation drawings, embedded steel bird plates, new paving, planters, stairs and rain gardens — amounted to a full redesign of the park rather than an object placed in it.¹¹⁰ The reported total budget, including art, demolition, surveys, permits, contractor fees and insurance, was $475,000, assembled from more than a dozen foundations, corporations and public sources.¹⁰¹ The process took roughly two years from commission to installation and ran through public-space design workshops convened with the Downtown Council.¹⁰

Permanent work of that kind also carries permanent obligations. Revisiting the park in 2022, the Kansas City Star writer who had covered the commission found the site “a little forlorn” and doubted the star disk’s mechanism still functioned, while noting that the bird medallions, ceramic tiles and interpretive signage remained in place.¹⁰ Whether the interactive mechanism is currently operable is not established here.

The 2014 pivot: an annual temporary exhibition

In 2014 AILF mounted the Downtown Kansas City Street Art / Creative Placemaking Pilot Project — twenty artists, murals and projections on existing downtown buildings, and a performance series in Oppenstein Brothers Memorial Park, running roughly August 2014 to January 2015.³ Framed explicitly as a “first iteration” and a demonstration, it established the model AILF has used ever since: temporary work, a single annual theme, a competitive open call restricted to local artists, and a pairing of visual installation with live performance.³

That season is counted as year one. AILF, the Downtown Council and the KC Streetcar Authority all describe 2026 as the thirteenth annual Art in the Loop Project, which places 2024 at the eleventh year and 2025 at the twelfth.⁴⁵⁶ When the streetcar starter line opened in May 2016, the program shifted its centre of gravity onto the rail corridor, where it has stayed. AILF has published an annual catalogue for each season from 2014 onward.⁸

The reason for the pivot from permanent to temporary work is not documented in the sources consulted here.

How the open call works

Each year AILF issues a competitive open call for artists based in the Kansas City area, in two tracks.⁴

Visual artists may propose in six categories: a full KC Streetcar vehicle wrap; artwork within a streetcar shelter frame; a streetcar shelter mural; an Oppenstein Park mural; an Oppenstein Park installation; and a curated film or animation screening. Selected work stays up for a six-month outdoor run.⁴

Performance artists — spoken word, dance, music, improv, social practice — are selected to appear at one of five fixed season events: the kick-off ceremony at the Kansas City Public Library’s Central Library; an evening concert at Oppenstein Park; 816 Day at the City Market; an onboard streetcar ride; and a closing reception back at the Central Library.⁴

Applications are submitted through an online portal and must include a written proposal, a concept, and a narrative describing the applicant’s goals for public engagement. Stipends range from $750 to $2,500 depending on category.⁴ For the 2026 cycle the call opened January 16 and closed February 16.⁴ The composition of the selection panel and the published evaluation criteria live in the annual application guidelines rather than in the public call; the panel’s makeup is not established here.

The stipend range is a useful measure of how far the organization’s model has moved: the annual program’s largest artist stipend is roughly one two-hundredth of the budget of the single 2008 park commission.⁴¹⁰

Themes

The annual theme is set by AILF and published with the call; artists respond to it in their proposals. Themes documented by AILF’s own catalogue archive and season announcements:⁸⁵

Year	Theme
2014	Demonstration / pilot project (no published theme)
2015	No published theme
2016	Connect
2017	Cue!
2018	KC Plays
2019	Make/Believe
2020	No published theme
2021	Resilient
2022	Sustainable
2023	Celebrate
2024	Convivencia
2025	Wonder
2026	Home

The arc runs from prompts about the physical city and its transit connections in the mid-2010s (Connect, KC Plays) toward prompts about community, endurance and belonging in the 2020s (Resilient, Convivencia, Home) — a shift that tracks the pandemic years and the program’s own expansion out of the Loop into residential Midtown. The 2014, 2015 and 2020 catalogues carry no theme in their published titles; whether those seasons were run without a theme or simply titled differently is not established here.

Funding and partners

AILF is funded by a mix of corporate sponsorship, private foundation grants, and public arts money; it does not appear to hold an operating endowment, and its reported annual revenue is modest.⁷ For the 2026 season the published supporter tiers list the KC Streetcar Authority, the Municipal Art Commission, and the City of Kansas City, Missouri Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund as presenting supporters; the Richard J. Stern Foundation for the Arts (Commerce Bank Trustee) and Stinson LLP at platinum; Henderson Engineers at gold; and the Kansas City Art Institute at silver, with the City Market, the Downtown Council and the KC Streetcar named as partners.¹¹ The 2026 call additionally credits Copaken Brooks, the Missouri Arts Council, the Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation and the Francis Family Foundation.⁴ AILF has also received project grants from ArtsKC for the 2022, 2023 and 2024 seasons.¹²

Two features of that list are worth drawing out. First, the Municipal Art Commission — the body that administers Kansas City’s One Percent for Art ordinance, the mechanism that paid for Sky Stations and for the permanent commissions on the streetcar’s Main Street extension — appears here as a sponsor of a private nonprofit’s temporary program, not as its commissioning authority. AILF’s annual project and the city’s percent-for-art commissions are separate funding streams that happen to occupy some of the same ground; the extension’s permanent commissions are covered at kc-streetcar-public-art.¹¹

Second, several of the funders behind the 2008 Celestial Flyways commission — the Stern Foundation, the Kauffman and Francis family foundations, Stinson (then Stinson Morrison Hecker), and Commerce Bank as trustee — are still on the list nearly two decades later.¹⁴

Partner institutions named for 2026 also include the Downtown Community Improvement Districts, the Kansas City Public Library, and Union Station.⁵

Relationship to downtown revitalization

AILF was constituted as a revitalization instrument, not solely as an arts organization: its mission text names “revitalization of Downtown Kansas City” before it names artistic development, and three of its four founding partners — the Downtown Council, the Municipal Art Commission and the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation — are civic rather than artistic bodies.⁸¹ Its formation in late 2004 sits at the front edge of the downtown building boom that produced the Power & Light District, the arena now called T-Mobile Center, and the H&R Block headquarters, all of which rose within a few blocks of its first major commission.¹

The Downtown Council framed the Oppenstein Park project in exactly those terms in 2007, describing it as “a major next step forward in the park’s evolution” that would “add even more momentum to our downtown renaissance,” following the Downtown Community Improvement District’s work to make the park “clean, safe, user-friendly.”¹ This is placemaking language, and it should be read as such: AILF’s public materials are written by and for a downtown business improvement organization, and consistently present public art as an input to property value, foot traffic and district identity. Independent evaluation of the program’s effect on downtown activity was not located.

Status in 2026

The 2026 Art in the Loop Project: Home is the thirteenth season and was running as of July 2026.⁵ The call opened January 16 and closed February 16; the season kicked off with a free public event at the Kansas City Public Library’s Central Library on June 3, 2026, and the closing reception is scheduled there for October 29, 2026, with installations up from late May through November.⁴⁵ Eleven visual artists have work at streetcar shelters, on one streetcar vehicle, and in Oppenstein Brothers Memorial Park; fifteen performing artists appear across five season events.⁵

AILF and the KC Streetcar Authority both note that the 2026 season overlaps with FIFA World Cup matches in Kansas City, and have framed the season’s visibility around that.⁶ Alongside the seasonal project, AILF continues to program ARTwall on the Town Pavilion garage and runs recurring music series including Garment District Grooves and River Market Melodies.²¹³

See also

• kc-streetcar-public-art — the year-by-year roster of Art in the Loop installations, artists, works and stop locations, plus the permanent One Percent for Art commissions on the streetcar’s Main Street extension
• kc-streetcar · downtown-kc · midtown-kc · river-market · city-market · union-station
• sky-stations — the Bartle Hall commission, an earlier and much larger One Percent for Art project
• kansas-city-art-institute — an AILF founding partner and continuing sponsor
• khyneesha-edwards · robert-castillo — artists with Art in the Loop involvement

Sources

Footnotes

1. artdaily — “Art in the Loop Commission at Oppenstein Brothers Memorial Park,” September 22, 2007. https://artdaily.com/news/21777/Art-in-the-Loop-Commission-at-Oppenstein-Brothers-Memorial-Park — asserts: AILF is “a partnership of the Kansas City Art Institute, the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, the Municipal Art Commission and the Downtown Council of Kansas City,” “a 501c3 non profit organization founded in late 2004 to commission lasting public art projects for select outdoor sites in the Downtown Loop of Kansas City, Missouri,” and the rationale quoted in §Founding; Laura DeAngelis awarded the Oppenstein commission in late October 2006 after a competitive two-phase selection, completion expected late November 2007; description of Celestial Flyways (Star Disk, constellation etchings, bird plates, rain gardens, repaving); Bill Dietrich identified as president and CEO of the Downtown Council and an AILF board member, with the “downtown renaissance” and “clean, safe, user-friendly” quotations; Michele Newman of Jackson County Parks and Recreation and the Municipal Art Commission; funder list including the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, City of Kansas City, Oppenstein Brothers Foundation, Richard J. Stern Foundation (Commerce Bank Trustee), Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation, H&R Block Foundation, Francis Family Foundation, Stinson Morrison Hecker and the ArtsKC Fund; park’s proximity to the Power and Light District, Sprint Arena and H&R Block headquarters. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰

2. Art in the Loop Foundation — “Permanent Installations.” https://www.artintheloop.com/permanent-installations/ — asserts: Uplifted Arms, 2005, by Davin Watne and Dylan Mortimer, 10th and Main Transit Plaza, relocated 2020 to the 13th & Charlotte Transit Center; Celestial Flyways and Star Disk, 2008, by Laura DeAngelis with DA+UD (Davison Architecture + Urban Design), 12th and Walnut, Oppenstein Brothers Memorial Park; The Commons, 2012, by Julia Cole + Leigh Rosser, pedestrian alley off Baltimore between 10th and 11th Streets; ARTwall at the Town Pavilion Garage, 13th and Grand, currently showing Woven for the Cosmos by Edwing Mendez (2025-26). ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

3. Art in the Loop Foundation / Downtown Council of Kansas City — “Downtown Kansas City Street Art/Creative Placemaking Pilot Project, 2014” (season summary PDF), curator’s note by Jessica Borusky, October 2014. https://www.downtownkc.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2014DowntownStreetArtSummary2.pdf — asserts: the 2014 season was the “first iteration of Creative Placemaking in downtown Kansas City”; roughly twenty artists; visual works on existing downtown buildings (Bonfils building near 13th & Grand, Cosentino’s parking garage on Walnut between 12th and 13th) and a performance series in Oppenstein Brothers Memorial Park; installation dates running August 2014 into January 2015; curated by Jessica Borusky. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

4. Art in the Loop Foundation — “Art in the Loop 2026 Call for KC Visual, Performing, Dance, Spoken-Word, Musical, Film and Animation Artists,” January 16, 2026. https://www.artintheloop.com/2026/01/16/art-in-the-loop-2026-call-for-kc-visual-performing-dance-spoken-word-musical-film-and-animation-artists/ — asserts: 13th Annual Art in the Loop Project; competitive open-call process selecting local artists to exhibit, create site-specific work or perform along and near the KC Streetcar route and at other Downtown sites, May–October; 2026 theme Home and its prompts; application requires written proposal, concept and public-engagement narrative; stipends $750–$2,500 by category; submission deadline Monday, February 16, 11:59 p.m. CST; six visual categories (streetcar wrap, shelter within-the-frame, shelter mural, Oppenstein Park mural, Oppenstein Park installation, curated film/animation screening); six-month outdoor run; five performance events (Central Library kick-off, Oppenstein Park evening concert, 816 Day at City Market, onboard the streetcar, Central Library closing reception); Visual Arts Director Khyneesha Edwards and Performance Art Director Jade Osborne; supporters KC Streetcar Authority, Henderson Engineers, Stinson LLP, Copaken Brooks and the Kansas City Art Institute, with funding in part from the City of Kansas City, Missouri Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund, Missouri Arts Council, Richard J. Stern Foundation for the Arts (Commerce Bank Trustee), Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation and Francis Family Foundation; Ann Holliday identified as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at the Downtown Council and Executive Director of the Art in the Loop Foundation. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³

5. Downtown Council of Kansas City — “2026 Art in the Loop Project Kicks Off with Opening Reception,” by Ann Holliday. https://www.downtownkc.org/2026-art-in-the-loop-project-kicks-off/ — asserts: the Art in the Loop Project is “a curated outdoor exhibition of temporary artworks and performance series presented in partnership with the KC Streetcar”; 2026 marks the thirteenth year; theme Home; kick-off June 3, 2026, 5:30 p.m. at the Kansas City Public Library Central Library, 14 West 10th Street, free and open to the public; eleven visual artists with works at streetcar shelters, on one streetcar vehicle and in Oppenstein Brothers Memorial Park from the end of May to November 2026, including sites at the Armour Southbound, Southmoreland Northbound, Riverfront, North Loop Southbound, River Market Northbound, River Market West, Library Northbound and Kauffman Southbound stops; five performance events (Central Library kick-off June 3, Oppenstein Park June 18, Art Walk July 21, 816 Day at City Market August 16, Art Ride September 23, Central Library closing reception October 29) with fifteen named performing artists; project partners including the Downtown Council, Downtown Community Improvement Districts, KC Streetcar, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City Art Institute, City Market and Union Station; supporter and funder list. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸

6. KC Streetcar Authority — “Art in the Loop 2026.” https://kcstreetcar.org/art-in-the-loop-2026/ — asserts: AILF in partnership with the KC Streetcar Authority announces the 13th Annual Art in the Loop Project; “through a competitive open-call process, each year AILF selects local artists to exhibit, install, and perform original works along and near the KC Streetcar route and at key Downtown and Midtown locations from May through October”; 2026 theme Home and its framing; the 2026 season coincides with World Cup summer in Kansas City; the streetcar described as a spine connecting the River Market, Downtown, Midtown and the Country Club Plaza. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

7. ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, drawing on the IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File and annual tax-exempt financial extracts — “Art In The Loop Foundation,” EIN 20-2468361. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/202468361 — asserts: EIN 20-2468361; Kansas City, MO; IRS ruling date 1 May 2005; subsection code 3 (501(c)(3)); NTEE code A40 (Visual Arts); filing record with total revenue by tax year (2011 $12,038 · 2012 $43,000 · 2013 $117,771 · 2014 $62,414 · 2015 $46,123 · 2016 $100,447 · 2017 $82,256 · 2018 $96,778 · 2019 $120,893 · 2020 $65,023 · 2021 $58,238 · 2022 $66,662 · 2023 $72,205) and year-end total assets in the same range described. (Retrieved via the ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API 2026-07-31: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/202468361.json) ↩ ↩² ↩³

8. Art in the Loop Foundation — “About.” https://www.artintheloop.com/about/ — asserts: AILF mission statement; 501(c)(3) status; “a unique partnership of the Downtown Council of Kansas City”; 2026 board of directors and members’ institutional affiliations (Commerce Bank, KC Streetcar, Downtown Council, Stinson LLP, QTS, Copaken Brooks, Nelson-Atkins, Kansas City Art Institute, artist member, community-volunteer president, incl. William Dietrich as secretary); 2025-26 Art Directors Khyneesha Edwards and Jade Osborne; annual catalogue archive 2014–2025 with published season titles (2014 Demonstration Project, 2015, 2016 Connect, 2017 Cue!, 2018 KC Plays, 2019 Make/Believe, 2020, 2021 Resilient, 2022 Sustainable, 2023 Celebrate, 2024 Convivencia, 2025 Wonder); mailing address 1000 Walnut, Suite 200, Kansas City, MO 64106; program-director contact at an @downtownkc.org address. (Scraped 2026-07-31.) ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸

9. “Downtown Kansas City” — Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Kansas_City (the source underlying the boundary definition on Downtown Kansas City §Definition and boundaries) — asserts: the Downtown Council defines Downtown as running from the Missouri River south to 31st Street and from the Kansas–Missouri state line east to Bruce R. Watkins Drive, while common local usage reserves “the Loop” for the roughly one-square-mile core encircled by the downtown freeway loop (I-70, I-670, US-71/Bruce R. Watkins, and the north leg above the river bluffs). ↩

10. Steve Paul — “An Idea Takes Flight,” The Kansas City Star Magazine, January 20, 2008; republished by the author as “From the Archives: Remembering Laura DeAngelis,” May 30, 2022. https://www.stevepaulkc.com/blog/2022/5/30/from-the-archives-remembering-laura-deangelis — asserts: DeAngelis won the Art in the Loop competition for Oppenstein Brothers Memorial Park in October 2006; the park is roughly 7,000 square feet at 12th and Walnut; the project’s total budget — art works, site demolition and deconstruction, surveys, permits, contractor fees, signage and insurance — was eventually set at $475,000; DeAngelis was encouraged by Art in the Loop to assemble a design team and selected Dominique Davison; the star disc carries 496 lighted holes and 50 constellation drawings; a two-day public-space workshop led by consultants from the Project for Public Spaces, attended by Downtown Council executive director Bill Dietrich and Art in the Loop’s Kate Hackman; Dietrich’s account of Oppenstein Park cleanup as an early Community Improvement District priority; the author’s May 2022 note that the park “seems a little forlorn,” that he doubted the mechanical star map still worked, and that the bird medallions, ceramic tiles and project signage remained in place. (The 2008 article is reproduced in full on the author’s own site; the original print appearance is not separately linkable.) ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

11. Art in the Loop Foundation — “Supporters.” https://www.artintheloop.com/sponsors/ — asserts: 2026 supporter tiers — Presenting: KC Streetcar, Municipal Art Commission, Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund; Platinum: Richard J. Stern Foundation for the Arts, Stinson; Gold: Henderson; Silver: Kansas City Art Institute; Partners: City Market, Downtown Council, KC Streetcar. ↩ ↩²

12. ArtsKC (Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City) — “Grant Recipients.” https://artskc.org/art-creator/grants/grant-recipients/ — asserts: Art in the Loop Foundation listed as a grant recipient for the 2022 (Sustainable), 2023 (Celebrate) and 2024 (Convivência) Art in the Loop Projects, each described as a curated outdoor art exhibition and multi-genre performance series in Downtown KC with artwork along the KC Streetcar line and one wrapped streetcar vehicle. ↩

13. Art in the Loop Foundation — home page and events listing. https://www.artintheloop.com/ — asserts: the 2026 Art in the Loop Project: Home comprises 26 artists (15 performing, 11 visual); recurring 2026 event series including River Market Melodies and the Garment District Grooves lunchtime music series (third Wednesdays, May through October, at Garment District Place); 816 Day performances at the City Market. (Scraped 2026-07-31.) ↩