Prairie Village Arts Council’s First Ever Public Art & Culture Plan Kicks Off The month of April 2026 marked the beginning of a nine-month community process to develop the City of Prairie Village’s first-ever Public Art & Culture Plan. Fulfilling a years-long goal of the Prairie Village Arts Council, this process will engage community residents, workers, and visitors in a variety of ways to find out: What do we want to see in Prairie Village? The Arts Council (PVAC) and PV De

DJ Matheny in her studio Some things endure. In the long tradition of painting, portraits of people have been one through-line in art history, as proven by the Fayum portraits, spectacularly alive-looking, done in encaustic, and executed as far back as 100 BCE. Those portraits were centered on the identity of the subject. Less so for the contemporary portraits by Kansas City artist DJ Matheny, who paints "narrative portraits," suggesting a more universal exploration of the hu