The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art is making significant moves to combat a projected downturn in revenue, the Kansas City Star reports.

Director Rachael Blackburn Cozad said the museum is anticipating a nine percent downturn in contributed and earned income, including from rental fees collected for corporate events and weddings held at the museum. The loss necessitates cutting about $340,000 from the $3.8 million budget.

The largest cuts will come in the museum's programming. The museum has canceled a high-cost exhibition by electronic artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer that was to open in the main gallery February 20. It has also suspended temporary exhibitions in a smaller gallery space, which will now display works from the permanent collection, starting with Polly Apfelbaum's crushed-velvet floor work Split (1998), scheduled to be on view for six months.

The main gallery will also hold works from the permanent collection from March 6 through April 26, but a planned Dan Christensen abstraction show is still scheduled to open May 15. The current show, video by Johanna Billing, has been extended to February 15.

Cozad explained that in dealing with the economic hardships, “not losing key museum staff has been our hard-and-fast objective.”

“We’re looking under every single rock,” she added. “Nobody’s traveling this year, including me.”