Explore the Projects


Stories for All brings together over forty community and University of Kansas partner projects. This page enables you to identify partner projects that interest you and takes you to their websites.

You can search and filter projects by topic, partner, or digital genre. Please contact storiesforall@ku.edu if you have any difficulties.
a group of people of BLACKLawrence Project

BLINK!

This documentary storytelling project shows how classical music in urban communities inspires intuitive movement and value. It describes how classical music creates instantaneously powerful movements and leaders through interdisciplinary dialogue around the arts, history and sciences. Interviews and storytelling will illustrate the influence of classical music and fine arts upon past, present and modern movements.
4 people looking at the paintings on wall and discussing

Building Interdisciplinary Stories with the Integrated Arts Research Initiative at the Spencer Museum of Art

Joey Orr


Joey Orr

The Andrew W. Mellon Curator for Research, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas University of Kansas

Ryan Waggoner


Ryan Waggoner

Director of Creative Services, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas University of Kansas
Each academic year, the Arts Research Integration (ARI) at the Spencer Museum of Art organizes an inquiry that encompasses a large spectrum of practitioners across the arts, sciences, and humanities.
A group of people standing beneath a tree

Finding La Yarda: A digital storytelling art installation

Marlo Angell


Marlo Angell

Project Director/ Filmmaker, Lawrence Arts Center Lawrence Arts Center

Peter Jasso


Peter Jasso

Filmmaker, Incomplete Films Incomplete Films

Ben Ahlvers


Ben Ahlvers

Exhibitions Director, Lawrence Arts Center Lawrence Arts Center

Blanca Herrada


Blanca Herrada

Exhibitions Coordinator, Lawrence Arts Center Lawrence Arts Center

Ann Dean


Ann Dean

Photographer, Lawrence Arts Center Lawrence Arts Center
Finding La Yarda is an immersive multimedia art experience recreating a room from La Yarda, the housing unit built for Mexican American railroad workers in Lawrence, Kansas from 1920-51. Using film, sound, art and digital storytelling practices, Finding La Yarda brings oral history to life by taking audiences on a cultural journey through time and place.

Free State Story Slam

Margaret Morris


Margaret Morris

Chief Executive Officer, Lawrence Arts Center Lawrence Arts Center

David Hollond


David Hollond

Founder, Free State Story Slam; Lawrence Arts Center Lawrence Arts Center

Elizabeth Sullivan


Elizabeth Sullivan

Director of Performing Arts, Lawrence Arts Center Lawrence Arts Center
For 11 years, the Free State Story Slam storytelling series has had a home at the Lawrence Arts Center. The monthly Story Slam provides storytellers an opportunity to tell true stories in front of a live audience.

Heartland Makers Collective: Digitizing the Wak’o Mujeres Phu Nu Womxn Mural Project: Stories of Kansas Women of Color

Imani Wadud


Imani Wadud

Heartland Makers Collective Community Project Facilitator and Program Coordinator Heartland Makers Collective
The Wak'o Mujeres Phu Nu Womxn Mural Project: Stories of Kansas Women of Color, nearly eight feet tall and half a city block in length, is a project for women of color, by women of color, to empower women of color. The mural was based on over twenty oral histories conducted by the Women of Color Makers Collective. These oral histories will now be transcribed, digitized, and shared with the public in the form of podcasts and an online digital…
text about BLACK Lawrence.

Police Brutality Song

This music video will tell regional stories of police brutality. The song describes the beautiful life and dreams of a young Black man whose life is taken too soon by police in his neighborhood. It speaks to the resilience, fear, and loss deeply felt by Black people each time a new hashtag is birthed. The content is gentle and sensitive, so that audiences of various ages (3rd grade and up) have enjoyed and understood it.

Showcasing Open Space through Accessible Adventure

38N invites Kansans to tell their stories of adventure in the Sunflower State. Outdoor novices and accomplished adventurers, skilled and unskilled artists, are all welcome to tell their Kansas adventure stories in their own, unique manner. There are three simple guidelines: the adventure must be self-propelled, self-supported, and must take place in Kansas.
group of people holding posters.

The Queer Narratives Festival

Stacy Busch


Stacy Busch

co-founder and executive director No Divide KC
The Queer Narratives Festival is an annual performing and visual arts festival highlighting the Kansas City LGBTQ+ community. By prioritizing the LGBTQ+ community, it offers a safe space for artists and audiences to express themselves fully. The Queer Narratives Festival is one of its kind in presenting the highest quality of LGBTQ+ artists while showcasing art forms that are not often invited in traditional art spaces.
Marla Quilts presentation and quilt

Untold Stories: Former Enslaved Americans Who Sought Freedom in Lawrence, KS

Marla Arna Jackson


Marla Arna Jackson

Director African American Quilt Museum and Textile Academy
“Untold Stories: Former Enslaved Americans Who Sought Freedom in Lawrence, KS” shines a light on explores the often-overlooked reality of life for the previously enslaved, who continued to struggle to achieve equality long after the war.