fountain project 2026:
A Belger Arts-Powell Gardens collaboration

Belger Arts is pleased to announce a collaboration involving the Belger Glass Annex and Powell Gardens, Kansas City’s Botanical Garden. The project brings together a team of glass artists to create a custom glass installation. The Belger Glass Annex designed a blown glass fountain depicted in the digital renderings shown below.

Conceptual rendering of large-scale design

This project provides glass artists the opportunity to gain valuable experience working with and learning from peers from across the country while completing an ambitious project inspired by Kansas City’s distinction as the “City of Fountains.”

The finished glass fountain will be installed and unveiled at Powell Gardens on May 2, 2026. More details coming soon…

Selected Artists:

Gaffers: Jacqueline Polofka, Keegan O'Brien, Ori Shir

Assistant/Assemblers: Abigail Amundson, Michael Carson, Lauryl Sidwell, Kiani Simms, Brandon Smith, and Tyler Suter

Project Partners:

• Belger Arts is an arts organization with three locations in Kansas City, Missouri’s urban core. The Belger Arts Center exhibits contemporary art from the Belger Collection, and by a rich variety of local, national, and international artists. Belger Crane Yard Studios is an arts complex that provides studio and exhibition space for artists, plus a range of programming in ceramics education. The Belger Glass Annex is a state-of-the-art glass studio that hosts artist demos, provides studio space for artists, and offers educational programs.

• Powell Gardens is a non-profit public garden with a mission to be an experience that embraces the Midwest spirit of place and inspires an appreciation for the importance of plants in our lives. Powell Gardens maintains a vast acreage of lush, rolling hills and windswept meadows, with more than 175 acres and a large collection of plants open to the public for education, exploration, and recreation. Powell Gardens provides meaningful outdoor experiences for the Kansas City community and beyond.