Bob Bahr is a member of the Prairie Village Arts Council. He has written about visual art for several national magazines. He lives with his family in Prairie Village and paints a variety of subjects. He wishes there was a NYC-style bodega in the Shops.

Bob Bahr was raised in a big family in Kentucky, lived and worked in New York City for 23 years, and moved with his wife and kids to Prairie Village in July of 2020. He has been a writer and editor for most of his career, starting in music criticism before writing feature stories for daily newspapers and magazines, then covering jewelry and gemstones in NYC and abroad, before focusing on visual art starting in 2002. He served as managing editor of American Artist and launched and ran two national magazines spinning off of AA. In 2020 he published a book titled "Taking Root in Rocky Soil: 3,000 Years of Art in the Wind River Mountains." He loves to paint and cook.

"I strongly believe that the arts are crucial to human society and individual fulfillment. Be it theater, visual art, literature, or music, the arts offer a new or stronger lens for seeing and thus understanding the world. The arts come naturally to children, but they also improve the lives of adults in profound ways. Anything I can do that will promote the arts in everyday life, I will try to do."