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Michael Toombs (born 1955, in Kansas City, Missouri, USA) is a Kansas City artist, specifically a painter, arts educator, and arts community project director. Toombs is specifically known for his interactive community murals in Kansas City, Missouri. Toombs community contributions have been recognized for bringing together people in a interactive projects promoting diversity, unity, and non-violence. Toombs is the founder of Storytellers Inc., an Artists Collective, that designs and implements work with inner city youth and children in urban communities in Kansas and Missouri.

Works
Several Kansas City, Missouri community projects include: "Harmony on the Vine: Spill Paint Not Blood," dedicated in the atrium of the American Jazz Museum, 18th & Vine-Downtown East, Kansas City Jazz District (November 2016), "Harmony" celebrates the history of Kansas City Jazz ; Because of the murals vast size, fifty people will be able to to paint at one time, for 30 minute segments. " Then and Now," an outdoor mural in the Ivanhoe neighborhood, celebrating four Kansas City women members on the neighborhood from the 1940s to the 1960s, 2015) ; and "Miracle on 39th, a Prospect for Change," 2002. Michael Toombs received a commendation of appreciation for "Miracle," in the form of a Resolution from the City Council of the City of Kansas City, noting that "the Mayor, Council and Citizens of Kansas City for the organization and implementation of the project that will uplift, inspire and transform our community." (Resolution no. 020888, July 25, 2002).

In interviews, Toombs describes himself as growing up in the urban core of Kansas City and the influence of art in his life as a person of color. During his career as a professional artist, he developed art activities programs for teens identified through court programs currently funded by the Mayor of Kansas City and the No Violence Alliance with the Prosecutor's Office, Jackson County, Missouri. Toombs gave a talk at the closing reception for "Traces and Trajectories," an exhibit which featured the work of selected regional artists who have completed Rocket Grants-awarded projects during the first 6 years of the program. During the talk, he spoke about community heroes. Toombs has an artist's file deposited with the Spencer Art Reference Library at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.