Archive for February, 2009
Mood for a Saturday: Bernal Koehrsen III at Blue Gallery
Bernal Koehrsen III Abstract Exhibition (group show) 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Blue Gallery 118 Southwest Boulevard Kansas City, MO 816.527.0823 Hours: 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday Runs through: March 3 Artist’s site: http://www.burnknee.com Gallery site: http://www.bluegalleryonline.com I’m kicking myself for not sending you to Blue Gallery earlier. But you still have two days — today and Tuesday [...]
OPPORTUNITY IS KNOCKING
Reminder: check Artist Resources for the latest calls and opportunities Residency at Bemis, consideration for the 2009 New American Paintings, entry of work into the Surface Design Association’s 2009 international conference, getting into upcoming student exhibitions, winning public art commissions — stave off starving-artist-syndrome, get your work out there, and then keep in touch about [...]
FOURTH FRIDAY
Visual arts in Kansas City for the coming week The end of the shortest month brings a performance piece tonight in Kansas City, Missouri, with one of the newest Review Studios artists, Diana Heise, who is a special faculty of digital filmmaking at the Kansas City Art Institute, and a free celebratory civic engagement in [...]
Prepare for Departure: Chris Dahlquist at Dahlquist Studios
Chris Dahlquist 5:30-8 p.m. Dahlquist Studios 1029 E. 5th Kansas City, MO 816.822.1145 Hours: 5:30-8 p.m. Runs through: Tonight. Artist’s site: http://www.chrisdahlquist.com If you don’t visit Chris Dahlquist’s studio to see her new mixed-media photographs tonight, you might well miss some of them forever. She’s taking them on a road trip, and I’m betting a lot [...]
Sticks Shift: Elaine Lierly Jones at Elm Street Gallery
Elaine Lierly Jones 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Elm Street Gallery 105 S. Elm St. Gardner, KS 816.520.2364 913.708.1810 Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday Runs through: Permanent show. Artist’s site: http://www.elainelierlyjones.com Gallery site: http://www.elmstreetgallery.com ARTKC365 is going in a different direction today. That’d be southwest, down Interstate 35 to Gardner, where today’s featured [...]
Medium Range: Heather Reynolds at Westport Coffeehouse
Heather Reynolds 8 a.m.-11 p.m. Westport Coffeehouse 4010 Pennsylvania Kansas City, MO 64111 816.756.3222 Hours: 8 a.m.-11 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-midnight Friday, 10 a.m.-midnight Saturday, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday Runs through: March 30 Artist’s site: http://acrylicinnature.deviantart.com Gallery site: http://www.westportcoffeehouse.com It’s hard to describe acrylic paint’s versatility without stirring a few metaphors into the pigment. Acrylic [...]
Lines, Dancing: Terri Kay Wheeler at Muddy's Coffee Shop
Terri Kay Wheeler Gestures 6:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Muddy’s Coffee Shop 318 E. 51st Kansas City, MO 816.756.3121 Hours: 6:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Monday-Friday Runs through: Feb. 28 Artist’s site: http://www.terriwheeler.com Gallery site: http://www.muddyskc.com Fearfully and wonderfully made though we humans are, we’re not all that complicated in 2-D. Reduced to its component shapes and lines, the [...]
A MIDWESTERN MASTERPIECE
The Des Moines Art Center Celebrates 60 Years by Susan Watts For me, walking into the Des Moines Art Center is like walking into a church. A cool quiet pervades the rooms of stone and wood. There is a certain smell, indescribable, but the same as it was 20 years ago. It must be the [...]
Old Friends, New Style: Erlene E. Flowers at Roeland Park City Hall
Erlene E. Flowers 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Roeland Park City Hall 4600 W. 51st Roeland Park, KS Hours: 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday Runs through: March 6 Artist’s site: http://flowers.myexpose.com Gallery site: Links from Roeland Park’s city page. Asking a prolific artist, “Which of your pieces is your favorite?” is like asking a [...]
The Good of Small Things: Mary Ann Coonrod at JavaNaut Cafe
Mary Ann Coonrod 8 a.m.-8 p.m. JavaNaut Cafe 1615 W 39th St Kansas City, MO 816.716.3657 Hours: 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday, 8 a.m-8 p.m. Sunday Runs through: Feb. 28 Artist’s site: http://www.coonieart.com Mark Twain once wrote to a friend, “If I had had more time, I would have written a shorter [...]
Vegging Out(side): Zachary Meyer at Art in R Park
Zachary Meyer Golden Root 12 a.m.-11:59 p.m. Art in R Park Roe Blvd at 54th St. Roeland Park, KS Hours: 24 hours Runs through: April 30 (work purchased for city’s permanent collection) Art in R Park site: http://www.roelandpark.net/art-in-r-park.html A college friend of mine could never remember the name of a certain well-beloved Christmas film. “You know, that [...]
THIRD FRIDAY
Contemporary visual arts in Kansas City metro area It may still feel like winter, but it’s a hot night for art in the Kansas City metro area. The Kansas City Artist Coalition is hosting its annual auction tonight with more than 200 works of art waiting for a new home. Auction revenue allows the Coalition [...]
Rough Piece, Its Hour Come Round at Last: Rachelle Gardner at Paragraph Gallery
Rachelle Gardner False Idols (Part of Eyes of the World group show) 6-9 p.m. Paragraph Gallery/Urban Culture Project Space 21-23 E. 12th Kansas City, MO 816.221.5115 Hours after Third Friday: Noon-5 p.m., Thursdays and Saturdays Runs through: April 4 Artist’s site: http://www.rmgardner.com Gallery site: http://www.urbancultureproject.org All good artists take pains with their work. Rachelle [...]
PRINT MONDAY
Don’t forget to ‘Print Stuff’ every Monday INKubator PRESS members host a 6-hour open studio and printing session every Monday from 4 to 10 p.m. Drinks and snacks are provided at this weekly event, free to members ($5 at the door for non-members of INKubator PRESS to use the studio). Please bring your own materials [...]
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