Kristie Wolferman!

We’re very pleased to welcome Kristie C. Wolferman to this year’s Unbound Book Festival. Kristie will be presenting her beautiful new history of Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, published right here in Columbia bu the University of Missouri Press.

When Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art opened to the public in 1933, it was viewed as a miracle, an oasis of culture in a Midwestern town whose image was still largely one of cowboys and steaks. In an engaging style, Kristie Wolferman tells the history of the Nelson-Atkins from its founding to the present day, a fascinating combination of people, events, and circumstances that culminated in an art museum that now holds its own among the finest in the world.
 
With 100 color and black and white photographs, this book will be treasured by all who love and admire this remarkable institution, one that attracts half a million visitors—from across the city, state, nation, and world—each year.

Kristie C. Wolferman is a fourth generation Kansas Citian. She holds a B.A. in History from Middlebury College and an M.A. in History from the University of Missouri- Kansas City. Wolferman taught middle school History and English for twenty years at Pembroke Hill School in Kansas City and for twelve years at the O’Neal School in Pinehurst, North Carolina. She also was a docent at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art for twenty years. She has two sons and two grandsons and currently lives in Kansas City, Missouri, with her husband and their dog, Nelson. 

Wolferman’s other books include The Osage in Missouri, The Indomitable Mary Easton Sibley, and The Nelson-Atkins Museum: Culture Comes to Kansas City, all of which have been published by the University of Missouri Press. She has also written a children’s cookbook, co-authored with Mary Don Beachy, When Peanut Butter is Not Enough.