The streets of Kansas City’s historic Westport neighborhood will turn into an open-air gallery this weekend. Art Westport, the metro’s largest and oldest local art fair, will host 140 artists from within an 80-mile radius of Kansas City. Three local artists share their advice for visitors.

Colorful palette knife paintings of black-eyed Susans, tulips and daisies lean against the walls of artist Olivia Michka ’s light-filled Midtown studio. This will be Michka's third year showing at Art Westport , and she’s spent the summer at work on the small canvases and experimental mixed media pieces she plans to bring to the show.

For her day job, Michka teaches art to elementary school students at Académie Lafayette. She started making art in high school, and began painting with oil in c

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