Claire de Mézerville López welcomes Glenn North, educator, Poet, and Director of Inclusive Learning and Creative Impact at the Kansas City Museum to the Restorative Works! Podcast.

 

Glenn explains how the Kansas City Museum is a space where truth and storytelling are paramount. A place where often untold stories and fractured histories are put on display as whole and true experiences and reflections of their community and its past. The Kansas City Museum has adopted restorative practices as the center of their methodology where they are able to confront harm, conflict, and disinformation. Glenn describes how the museum addresses historical harms by having authentic conversations with community members, creating space for healing in the present.

 

Glenn received an MFA in Creative Writing from UMKC and is the author of City of Song, a collection of poems inspired by Kansas City's rich jazz tradition and the triumphs and tragedies of the African American experience. His ekphrastic and visual poems have appeared in art exhibitions at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the American Jazz Museum, and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. Glenn is also an adjunct English professor at Rockhurst University and is currently filling his appointment as the Poet Laureate of the 18th & Vine Historic Jazz District.

 

Tune in to learn more about Glenn and the Kansas City Museum and visit https://kansascitymuseum.org/ to check out their programing, events, and restorative initiatives!