Explore Kansas City, the City of Fountains
A Memorial Shaped by the Neighborhood
Across the street from Bernard Powell’s childhood home in Spring Valley Park stands a fountain created through years of community effort. The memorial honors a Kansas City activist whose work focused on young people, neighborhood improvement, and the future of the community he called home.
Help Preserve the Bernard Powell Memorial Fountain
A new community effort is helping care for the memorial created in Powell’s honor. Donations will support maintenance and restoration of the fountain along with replacement of plaques surrounding the memorial.
Our History
The City of Fountains Foundation (COFF) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1973 to promote and advocate for public fountains, sculptures and monuments in the Kansas City area. The Foundation assists in the development of public fountain and sculpture projects; and raises funds and holds endowments to help maintain, acquire, construct, relocate and conserve these landmarks for which Kansas City is famous.
Foundation News & Events
Preserving the Legacy of Bernard Powell
Brush Creek: Where Kansas City’s Public Art Meets Today’s Artists
City of Fountains Bus Tours Offer a Better Way to See Kansas City
Bring the City of Fountains Home
Celebrate Kansas City’s fountains, sculptures, and public art beyond your next visit. COFF’s books and puzzle offer new ways to appreciate the stories and landmarks that make the metropolitan area distinctive while helping support the Foundation’s work to promote and advocate for these community treasures.
Experience Kansas City’s fountains and sculptures through the photography of acclaimed local photographer Roy Inman.
See the fountains of the Kansas City area through original drawings created by talented local artists.
Bring one of Kansas City’s distinctive fountains home with this 500-piece puzzle featuring the Meyer Circle Seahorse Fountain.
Sculptures & Monuments
A Landscape Built in Tile
Blue sky, white clouds and gently rolling fields stretch across six concrete columns outside Olathe City Hall.
Created by Phil Epp and Terry Corbett, Reflective Spaces transforms the familiar Kansas countryside into a large-scale ceramic mural inspired by optimism, resilience and the landscape west of Olathe.
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Celebrate Kansas City’s Fountains Through Art
Discover the beauty of Kansas City’s fountains through the Fountain Art Gallery, featuring 84 original artworks inspired by six of the city’s most beloved fountains.
The gallery showcases the six winning pieces from our Spring and Summer Open Capture Call-for-Art alongside dozens of other original works created by local artists.
Each piece makes a meaningful holiday gift for art lovers and Kansas City enthusiasts alike—and 25% of every sale supports the City of Fountains Foundation, helping preserve the fountains and sculptures that define our community.
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Helen S. Boylan Foundation
Mason L. Dean Testamentary Foundation
Estelle S. and Robert A. Long Ellis Foundation
Alex Hamil
Roy Inman
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Made in Kansas City
Rally House
Seen Merch
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ADDRESS:
P.O. Box 8912
Kansas City, MO
64114
PHONE:
816-842-2299