KANSAS CITY, Kansas — Prison paintings by Antonio Guerrero, one of the Cuban Five, were a prominent feature here of the July 4 “First Fridays,” a monthly art walk, when galleries host receptions and open houses. The Kansas City Star featured the showing at the Late Show Gallery as its lead article on this month’s event.

The watercolors depict the five Cuban revolutionaries’ time in the “hole” during their first 17 months in prison in Miami. About 100 people visited the gallery during the course of the evening.

“Guerrero created 15 images, accompanied by short texts, that zero in on the indignities of captivity — chains, shakedowns, cockroaches — and the strategies evolved to survive them,” the Star said. The article noted that I Will Die the Way I’ve Lived, a book which reproduces the watercolors, would be available for purchase at the gallery.