David Eulitt

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Bob Marti, an art conservator with Russell-Marti Conservation Services of California, Mo., applied a coat of acrylic lacquer by sprayer to a bronze sculpture of "The Thinker," by Auguste Rodin, in the Kansas City Sculpture Park on the south steps of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo.
  
Paul Dorrell, president of the Leopold Gallery, put the finishing touches to "Enliven," a blown glass and stainless steel sculpture on Tuesday afternoon in the concourse of the Sprint Center. 285 hand-blown glass plates hang off of cables on the southern end of the arena concourse and Dorrell was adding plates to areas that had gaps in the sculpture. The sculpture, donated by University of Kansas Hospital, was created by glass artists Drew Hine, Jason Forck and Tom Bloyd with Tranin Design Associates and Leopold Gallery designing the installation.
   
Molly Wagner, a junior at the UMKC Conservatory of Music dance program, stretched her muscles before a dress rehearsal for "Dance! in Celebration of the 100 Year Anniversary" program at White Concert Hall on the UMKC Campus.
     
  
Members of the Nation of Islam checked the audience at the Metropolitan Spiritual Church of Christ in Kansas City, Mo. prior to Minister Louis Farrakan's speech opening the National Black United Front 26th Annual Convention.
   
Last day of the century, December 31, 1999.
   
Clifton Howard of Kansas City, Mo. made a stop after his workday at House of Flowers to pick up a bouquet of flowers for his wife as a surprise on Valentine's Day. He picked out a vase of lilies and roses for his wife of 19 years. The florist has a large floral mural painted on the side of the store.
     
  
De-Vonte Dace, 11, watches television in his grandmother's south Kansas City, Mo. home while his brother, Malik, 6, looks out the front door on the children's spring break from school this week. Hazel Ward, their grandmother, has raised her two grandchildren since birth and would be directly affected by proposed Missouri state budget cuts by Gov.Matt Blunt. Ward receives $136 a month for caring for Malik and state social security disability for De-Vonte's medical problems. The subsidy for Malik would be eliminated.
   
In the perfect job-appropriate Halloween costume, window washer Mark Rhodes with Pro Window Cleaning Service, Inc. donned a Spiderman costume to clean the east side of Two Pershing Square.
   
Ozhan Gultepe, in black, left, of the Turkish group Whirling Dervishes of Rumi surveyed the swirling performers onstage at the Lyric Theater in Kansas City, Mo. The swirling dance, called a Mevlevi Ritual Dance or Sema in the Islamic religion, was preceded by a Sufi music concert at Lyric Theater.
     
  
The dramatic angular point of the new addition to the Denver Art Museum awaits visitors in advance of the grand opening of the Daniel Libeskind-designed Frederic C. Hamilton Building in downtown Denver, CO. A sculpture in the foreground received a new coat of red paint in preparation for the grand opening.
   
Markus Meinhardt, an employee of Electrical Systems, Inc., glanced towards an art installation while installing traffic signals at the corner of 43rd and Main Street in Kansas City, Mo. The art, created by artist David Shrigley of Glasgow, Scotland, dares the viewer not to notice the installation fixed to the west side of the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art institute.
   
Reflected in the mirror of a shuttle bus, an inflatable gorilla promoting the Kansas City Costume Company hovers over the Kansas City skyline.
     
  
Shane Tumlinson of Architectural Wall Systems worked on attaching a section of a glass panel covering the new Sprint Center in downtown Kansas City, Mo.
   
Students from the Kansas City Art Institute walk in procession to their graduation past the Louise Bourgeois sculpture "Spider, 1997" at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Mo. The students were walking from the Art Institute campus to the Community Christian Church at 4601 Main Street, where the ceremony was held.
   
Sam Washburn, a carnival worker with Evans United Shows, walked through the netted bridges of the "Raiders" carnival attraction during preparations for Friday evening's carvinal in the Kansas Expocentre parking lot. The attraction features the netted bridges and a tube slide to exit.
     
  
A bird chose a musical home in the sign above Barnes & Noble Booksellers at 6130 SW 17th Street in Topeka, Kansas.
   
Chase Wichert balanced himself on an extended ladder to paint the tip of one of the three steel crosses in front of the Wanamaker Woods Church of the Nazarene in Topeka, Kan. The crosses were getting a fresh coat of white paint after 15 years of facing the elements.
   
Hair day, Rossville, Kansas.
     
  
Dustin White, a Smithville, Mo. guitarist with the band Loose Gravel, waited his turn to play at the final Brother Ike's Rural Grit Happy Hour at the Grand Emporium, 3832 Main Street in Kansas City. The show was the final event for owner Roger Naber, who turned the famous club over to new owners the next morning.