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Confluence: Where Many Paths Found Home
This heart symbolizes a family's journey to a better life in Kansas City, embracing diverse cultures and honoring the elements of water, air, and earth. The turtle on the back signifies the land and the cycles of renewal. "Confluence" symbolizes the merging of people, ideas, and cultures into a unified family. In Kansas City, we come together, care for each other, and find our home in this place of unity and diversity.
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Artist Spotlight
Jessica Waters
A seventh-generation artist, Jessica is a musician, artist, art educator, and expressive arts therapist working in mixed media, fibers, found objects/recycled art, photography, sculpture, and painting. She has completed mixed media/fine art education at KCAI, Goddard Colleges MFA IA program, and is currently finishing her MFA in Interdisciplinary Media with additional graduate education in art history at Lindenwood University in St. Louis. She typically combines original musical scores with her work.