Committee Membership

Magariel is perfect for the role, even if she modestly claims that she is simply "as right for it as anyone." She holds a Master's degree in Museum Studies and has served stints at regional museums such as the Kansas Museum of History, in Topeka, and the Watkins Museum of History, in Lawrence. She now serves as Educator and Curator of the Michael Klein Collection at The Temple, Congregation B'nai Jehudah, in Overland Park.

In 1951, Anna Belle Campbell was 22 years old and a second-year scholarship student at the Kansas City Art Institute when she heard about Prairie Village’s sculpture contest. The city was inviting art students to submit small-scale models of a sculpture that could be erected at the newly-opened Prairie Village Shopping Center. Twenty entries were received and six were selected for voting by residents. Campbell’s “The Homesteaders” was proclaimed the Prairie Village favorite.

Prairie Village and its Arts Council are dedicated to presenting excellent arts programming for our citizenry — even in these COVID-19 pandemic-ridden times. While the R.G. Endres Gallery remains closed for our normal 2nd Friday art receptions and monthly art shows, we have hung work from our own members and alumni to be enjoyed by visitors to City Hall.

The Prairie Village Arts Council was pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Art of Photography show this month.

Painter Ada Koch, a former member of the Prairie Village Arts Council (PVAC), is currently displaying her work in two dramatic settings.