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Artists and athletes arent often associated with one another, but a new exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art hopes to challenge that.

Oftentimes, we think of artists and athletes in two different camps, kind of on one side of the lunchroom table and maybe on the other, not really mixing, said Stephanie Fox Knappe, Nelson-Atkins curator.

But theres more overlap than even artists realize including Tj Templeton, one of the six artists featured in the new Personal Best exhibition that opened Oct. 18.

I don't think of the cycling so much as athletics or sports, Templeton said. I don't think of myself as an athlete, you know.

Yet Templetons contribution titled Come Ride With Me includes a time-lapse of a 40-mile bike ride through Kansas City, surround

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