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Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art

Name: Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Address: 12345 College Boulevard, Overland Park, KS, 66210, US
Telephone: +19134693000
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The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art is an integral part of Johnson County Community College. And as such, it is a public institution governed by the college and its publicly elected Board of Trustees (see Mission). In 2003, Jerry and Margaret Nerman made a pledge (naming opportunity) of $1.5 million to assist in funding the construction of a contemporary art museum on the campus of JCCC. Jerry a

nd Margaret Nerman (along with their son Lewis) were among the area’s most prominent collectors of contemporary art. Jerry Nerman often expressed his collecting philosophy as “the three s’s” – search, secure, and share. And the Nerman family frequently hosts visitors to their homes to view their collection. Construction of the approximately $15 million Nerman Museum was realized through Johnson County Community College funding, with support from the Nerman Family, the M.R. & Evelyn Hudson Foundation, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Marti & Tony Oppenheimer, Richard I. & Jeanne S. Thompson, Irma Starr, Carl & Lee McCaffree, Jim & Mary Tearney, and Joseph & Margery Lichtor. The elegant, minimalist building was designed by architect Kyu Sung Woo and is clad in Kansas limestone. Throughout the museum’s two levels are ten expansive galleries for temporary exhibitions and the permanent collection. Additionally, the museum houses the 200 seat Hudson Auditorium, Café Tempo, two classrooms, a New Media Gallery, and art storage and preparation spaces. The museum boasts two lobbies – the impressive Cantilever Entrance (featuring a dazzling 60,000 white LED installation by artist Leo Villareal) and the glass and metal Atrium Lobby. The museum’s permanent collection is largely comprised of works gifted by Marti and Tony Oppenheimer and the Oppenheimer Brothers Foundation. Art from Johnson County Community College’s Permanent Collection (acquired largely through JCCC’s annual acquisition fund) supplement the Oppenheimer Collection on view in the permanent collection galleries.

08/29/2026

Thank you to Dr. Miksa and all those who attended The Unseen, Curatorial Practicum opening reception. The Unseen is the result of the first Nerman Museum undergraduate curatorial practicum developed throughout the summer of 2026. Each student surveyed and researched the museum’s permanent collection and collectively curated this installation. Selecting Terran Last Gun’s Another Human Being Experience: Return of the Unseen to Offer Guidance as a foundation, the cohort composed a central theme. The works in this exhibition represent the spectrum of humanity and encourage us to ponder the experiences that make us human. Open August 26th 2025 - February 28th 2026!

08/07/2026

‘Cause none of these locales are common.

The new episode of Ted Lasso is a KC smorgasbord. The only thing that’s missing is the arts. 😉
See you on the Battle Bus, Coach Lasso!

07/23/2026

Gather at The Salon on Thursday, July 30, 6-8 p.m., alongside Kansas City poet and local legend Glenn North as he guides a night of sharing personal stories about Summer Vacation. Come ready to share a 5–10-minute story of your own or sit back and listen.

Glenn A. North is an award-winning poet, activist, educator, and arts executive based in Kansas City. He is currently the Director of Inclusive Learning & Creative Impact at the Kansas City Museum. He earned his MFA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. In addition to presenting poetry, Glenn also conducts workshops on Ekphrastic poetry, using poetry to address issues of social justice, and self-empowerment for disenfranchised students through reflective poetry.

This event is free, but space is limited, and RSVP is required. Learn more: https://www.nermanmuseum.org/calendar/events/2026-07-30-salon-storytelling-night.html

Amy Kligman: The Salon for Possible Futures is on view in the Nerman Museum’s Oppenheimer New Media Gallery, Second Floor, through December 22, 2026.

07/22/2026

This is the last week to stop by the Nerman Museum to see the artworks featured in Julie Buffalohead: Stories of Becoming, which closes on Sunday, July 26.

"In accordance with the Indigenous imperative to see the land, animals, and other living beings represented, Julie Buffalohead’s work exhibits a rematriated children’s story with Indigenous morals, highlighting love for beings beyond oneself. As we reframe what we hold dear and what we pass down to our children, Buffalohead recenters the stories we need to hold onto–the ones that tell of the spirits and safeguards still present with us in our contemporary lives, the ones that remind us to care for our community, and the stories of pain that established our long histories of resiliency. Within Stories of Becoming, Buffalohead grounds her depictions in space and a more defined landscape, materializing the reality, authenticity, and validity of Indigenous stories while still leaving room for humor."

—Kendra R. Greendeer, PhD, Ho-Chunk and Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, Ihlenfeld Curator of Collaborative and Community Exhibitions, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN

Buffalohead received her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN and her MFA from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, and Guggenheim Fellowship.

📷: Julie Buffalohead, Becoming Red, 2025, oil on canvas, 60 x 84 x 2 1/2 in. Courtesy of the Artist and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, copyright The Artist. Photo: Rik Sferra

07/16/2026

🎨 CITYarts’s 50 States of Peace Initiative Youth Art Workshop (Ages 12-20) ☮️

🗓️ Wednesday, June 23, 4-6 PM
📍The Salon for Possible Futures, Nerman Museum 2nd floor
✅Free, space is limited; RSVP required (https://www.nermanmuseum.org/calendar/events/2026-07-23-cityarts-youth-workshop.html)

In this peer-led workshop, Kansas and Missouri participants ages 12-20 create 6x6 inch artwork that answers "What does peace look like to me?” Artwork can include paintings, drawings, poems, etc. Participants are encouraged to use mixed media provided at the workshop.

Upon the conclusion of the workshop, participants have the chance to include their artwork in the CITYarts’s Online Exhibition, joining over 12,000 other art pieces from youth internationally.

This workshop will be led by Sheila Njiru. Njiru earned her Associate of Liberal Arts from Johnson County Community College and is working on her Visual Merchandising Certificate through the Fashion Merchandising and Design program at JCCC. She is a current intern at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art.

07/10/2026

Calling all K-12 educators!

Are you an educator looking for a fresh way to connect your students with art this year? Join fellow K-12 educators on July 29 and 30 at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art for the Teacher Summer Institute: Contemporary Connections, an immersive, interactive experience that brings fresh energy to your teaching practice.

Come curious. Leave inspired. Learn more and register at https://www.nermanmuseum.org/calendar/events/2026-07-29-teacher-summer-institute.html

06/24/2026

New exhibitions are now on view! Learn more about these exhibitions on our website: https://www.nermanmuseum.org/exhibitions/index.html

🔹Carlos Rolón: ALL WE HAVE IS RIGHT NOW
📍The Richard I. and Jeanne S. Galamba Lobby, First Floor and The Harrison Jedel Mezzanine, Second Floor

Carlos Rolón’s artworks serve as a meditation on impermanence, survival, and the fragile beauty of the present moment. ALL WE HAVE IS RIGHT NOW explores how histories of migration, colonialism, environmental devastation, and cultural resilience shape both personal and collective identity. Rolón’s sculpture, drawing, painting, and fabric works remind viewers that the present moment may be fleeting, but it is also where resilience, care, and transformation become possible.

📷: Carlos Rolón, Sigue Palante (Keep Going), 2024, laser cut hand painted canvas, embroidered appliques and fabric on repurposed tarpaulin, 49 x 90 in. Courtesy the Artist and Hexton Gallery

🔹Norman Akers Navigates the Space Between
📍Kansas Focus Gallery, First Floor

Norman Akers Navigates the Space Between showcases a series of new paintings featuring the artist’s visual vernacular of landscapes, road maps, and Osage philosophy. Using the elk and the turtle as metaphors for nature, both depicted in distress, the artist asks us to consider our role in the environmental situation we now exist within. This project is part of the initiative Home Is Where We Are: Art of First Americans, spanning institutions across the Great Plains.

📷: Norman Akers, Where Are We Going, 2026, oil on canvas, 75 x 60 1/4 x 2 in. Courtesy the Artist

🔹Sport and Spectator
📍H. Tony and Marti Oppenheimer Gallery; Dean E. Thompson Gallery, First Floor

Sport and Spectator celebrates the dynamic intersection of the visual arts and sports culture, presenting an array of works that transform sports imagery and equipment such as basketballs, helmets, and jerseys into artworks. The exhibition invites viewers to consider how sports shape our society, from their impact on the individual to their broader cultural influences.

This exhibition, originally on view at the McNay Art Museum, was organized by René Paul Barilleaux, Head of Curatorial Aff

06/16/2026

Bring a sketchbook or mobile drawing project with you to The Salon on Saturday, June 20, 2-4 PM, for an afternoon of collective making, hosted by salon artist and organizer, Amy Kligman, and her family - Misha Kligman (Professor of Painting and Drawing at JCCC), Sam (12 years), and Jasper (7 years). Drawing supplies will be provided!

The Salon for Possible Futures is an exhibition organized by Amy Kligman as an interactive space for community gathering and collective imagining. Themes of fostering humanity and relationships, learning from the past, building sustainability, hope, and magic are the underpinnings of the salon’s assembled objects and imagery. Amy Kligman was the Executive Artistic Director at Charlotte Street 2015-2025. Her career and experience as an exhibiting artist and grassroots curator/arts administrator spans 20 years of studio & exhibition work, independent curating and organizing, and artist-run projects.

This event is free, but space is limited, and RSVP is required. RSVP at https://www.nermanmuseum.org/calendar/events/2026-06-20-salon-drawing-party.html

Amy Kligman: The Salon for Possible Futures is on view in the Nerman Museum’s Oppenheimer New Media Gallery, Second Floor, through December 22, 2026.

05/20/2026

Just a few days left to see Trespassers Beware! on the JCCC Campus, which closes on May 24.

Co-directed by the Wyandot Nation of Kansas and Monumenta, in collaboration with lead artists Omakyehstih Collective, Trespassers Beware! Fort Conley and Wyandot Women Warriors is a mobile monument that illuminates the story of the Wyandot Conley sisters who occupied their family's cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas to save it from urban development. While physically defending the burials, Lyda Conley took their fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and became the first Indigenous woman to argue a case before the highest court in the land. The monument reimagines Fort Conley, the small dwelling the sisters built inside the Wyandot National Burying Ground and inhabited for years to defend their family’s graves. Their decades-long activism and legal arguments protected this sacred land, impacting preservation and tribal sovereignty movements.

This multimedia installation is based on a replica of the historic fort and incorporates video, music, writing, interpretation, oral histories, an original performance, and more to share the story.

Learn more about the history behind this special installation in Lyda Conley and the Fight to Preserve Huron Indian Cemetery.

Trespassers Beware! is generously funded by the National Endowment for the Arts/ArtsHERE, in partnership with Mid-America Arts Alliance, the Mellon Foundation, Humanities Kansas, Kansas Studies Institute, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College, the Wyandot Nation of Kansas, the Kansas Arts Commission and individual donors.

📷: Trespassers Beware! Fort Conley and Wyandot Women Warriors installation view, March 24 – May 24, 2026, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas. Photo: EG Schempf

05/18/2026

Café Tempo is closed for the summer. We will reopen the café on August 25, 2026.

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12345 College Boulevard
Overland Park, KS
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Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 8pm
Thursday	10am - 8pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm
Sunday	12pm - 5pm

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+19134693000

Website

http://www.nermanmuseum.org/

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