FOURTH FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST
New work and an old friend await art-lovers this weekend
A scene from the last Art of the Car Concours at the Kansas City Art Institute: this 1931 Cord L29 Cabriolet, owned by Marshall Miller of Kansas City, Missouri, was one of the fine vintage, specialty and classic vehicles on display. See more than 180 such vehicles on Saturday at the third annual event from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Photo: courtesy of KCAI
Motor vehicles capture our attention with more than their ability to get us from Point A to Point B more quickly than walking. On Saturday, the Kansas City Art Institute hosts its third annual Art of the Car Concours, which includes a vast array of vintage, classic and special interest vehicles belonging to Midwest area collectors. Special this year, a 1911 Stafford car will be displayed for the first time — made in Kansas City.
Marshall V. Miller, a local attorney who is both a car enthusiast and supporter of KCAI, serves as chair for the event. He noted how exciting it was to have the 1911 Stafford car this year.
“The Stafford Motor Car Company was founded by Terry Stafford and began manufacturing automobiles in 1910 and ceased production in 1915," Miller says. "President Harry S. Truman purchased a used Stafford in 1913. The 1911 Stafford car that will be at our event is believed to be the only one that still exists.”
Click 'read more' to see what else is going on in contemporary visual arts this weekend. This time, we can say there's a very strong chance you can see it all.
Openings and events in Kansas City metro area:
Cara and Cabezas Contemporary
218 Delaware, Suite 208
Kansas City, Missouri
816-332-6239
Receptions, open house, and by appointment
Picnic on Art Island
The third in a series of in-studio visits with artists, their work, and cooking by local chefs: Kacy Maddux in Midtown Kanss City, Missouri, with a gourmet meal by local Pavina Tonsavanh. Picnic on Art Island includes a Kansas City Limited Editions print release by the artist. Find out more and make reservations (ticket options include signed edition print, if desired) by clicking the link.
June 27, 6 p.m.
H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute
16 East 43rd Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-561-5563
Noon-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, noon-5 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Black Is, Black Ain’t
Twenty-six black and non-black artists “whose works examine a moment where the cultural production of so-called ‘blackness’ is concurrent with efforts to make race socially and politically irrelevant,” curated by Hamza Walker, associate curator and director of education at The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago; artists include: Terry Adkins, Edgar Arcenaux, Elizabeth Axtman, Jonathan Calm, Paul D’Amato, Deborah Grant, Todd Gray, Shannon Jackson, Thomas Johnson, Jason Lazarus, David Levinthal, Glenn Ligon, David McKenzie, Rodney McMillian, Joshua Mosley, Virginia Nimarkoh, Demetrius Oliver, Sze Lin Pang, Carl Pope, William Pope.L, Robert Pruitt, Randy Regier, Daniel Roth, Joanna Rytel, Andres Serrano, Hank Willis Thomas, Mickalene Thomas
Opening reception: June 26, 6-8 p.m., with DJs Fat Sal and Joc Max
T.N.T. (The Noon Thing) Gallery Talk: June 27, noon, with curator Hazma Walker
June 26 – October 17
Kansas City Art Institute
4415 Warwick Boulevard
Kansas City, Missouri
Usual events contact: 816-802-3423
Kansas City has its own Harley-Davidson plant these days, too, but this 1942 Harley-Davidson WLA (Army) Solo Motorcycle, owned by Alan Bussell, was made elsewhere, of course. It was at last year's Art of the Car Concours. Photo: courtesy of KCAI
Art of the Car Concours
Third annual Art of the Car Concours is a fundraiser for KCAI student scholarships — the largest vintage car show in Kansas City, held on the central green of the Kansas City Art Institute campus at 45th and Oak. $10 admission fee at the door ($8 online in advance; free to children 10 and younger and to staff, students and faculty of KCAI). Be ready to vote for your favorite car on the "People's Choice" ballots! For more information or to volunteer at the event, please click here.
June 27, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Kemper in the Crossroads
33 West 19th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-753-5784
Friday, noon-8 p.m., Saturday, noon-6 p.m.
Whoop Dee Doo Family Days
Jaimie Warren and Matt Roche lead fun-filled (free) summer art-making workshops for families and children of all ages. Learn more about joining them to create fantastical, colorful, and imaginative props and costumes for a Whoop Dee Doo extravaganza (plus upcoming workshops) here.
June 27, 3-5 p.m.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-751-1278
Wednesday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Thursday & Friday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday, noon-5 p.m.
Fazal Sheikh, American (born 1965). "Simran, New Delhi, India," 2007. From Ladli. Carbon Inkjet print on handmade Hahnemuele Photo Rag 308 g/m2 paper — one of approximately 70 works by the artist-activist Sheikh that are part of "Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh," opening at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art June 27. "The exhibition of black-and-white photographs, organized by Princeton University Art Museum and presented at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in a condensed version, unites two projects, 'Moksha' and 'Ladli,' which examine the lives of women in certain sectors of Indian society. Image and quoted text: courtesy of museum
Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
June 27 — September 13
OneVillage a Community Church
5700 Nall Avenue
Overland Park, Kansas
Opening night and by appointment; please contact Andy Houltberg, 913-952-3974, or Steve Brisendine, 646-708-6442
An Evening of Art and Music for a Cause
Seánan Forbes
photography
&
Tabitha Miceli
painting
Tabitha Miceli, "It's All Adding Up," acrylic on canvas, featured in the second "Final Friday" Art and Music for a Cause. Image: courtesy of the artist and Steve Brisendine
Proceeds benefit Kiva and Rose Brooks Center, per artists' choices, respectively
Final Friday opening reception: June 26, 6-10 p.m., with music by Katie Buchanan
June 26 — July 24
Openings and events in Lawrence, Kansas:
Dot Dot Dot Gallery
1910 Haskell Avenue
Lawrence, Kansas
785-766-2932 or 918-261-9451
Hours: Thursday & Friday 2-8 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
The Farewell Show: New and Used Works by Paul Flinders
Opening reception: June 27, 6 p.m., with music by The Calamity Cubes and Miss Allison Olassa & Company
Lawrence Percolator
913 Rhode Island Street
(Under the green awnings in the alley behind Lawrence Arts Center)
Lawrence, Kansas
785-760-2764
Saturday and Sunday, noon-6 p.m., and by appointment
This woodcut by Jack Ozegovic is part of a 20-year retrospective of the artist's "beautiful and often bitingly satirical etchings, woodcuts, and paintings" at the Lawrence Percolator. "From his series on the 'Great God Automobile' to his not so veiled commentary on government interference in free speech, Ozegovic's prints are expertly crafted social/political commentary." The Lawrence Percolator is the project space of the Lawrence Corporation for the Advancement of the Visual Arts — dedicated to bringing new art and cultural events to audiences in Lawrence and Douglas County, Kansas. Image and quoted text: courtesy of LCAVA
Continuing the Search: A retrospective exhibition of the work of Jack Ozegovic
Opening reception: June 27, 7-9 p.m.
June 27 — July 17
Spencer Museum of Art
The University of Kansas
1301 Mississippi Street
785-864-4710
Tuesday-Wednesday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Thursday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Sunday, noon-4 p.m.
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June 27 – October 5
Ongoing and closing soon:
6th Street Gallery at YWCA
1017 North 6th Street
Kansas City, Kansas
913-371-1105
Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., and Second Friday Art Walk
Falun Dafa: The Practice and the Persecution
Uncompromising Courage
A traveling international exhibition of paintings portrays the manifestation of good and evil in the context of the modern human atrocity of the brutal persecution of Falun Dafa led by the Chinese Communist Party
&
Nancy Loo Bjorge: Paper and light
New mixed media
Folding Light
Nancy Loo Bjorge, Jim Jewel, Marty Olson
A collaborative multi-media video piece that includes stop-motion paper folding, LED lights, and audio. The artists encourage the work to be approached as a tool for meditation. Folding Light will be screened through out the summer exhibition in the YWCA Black Box Theatre.
Through August 12
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art
2818 Frederick Avenue
St. Joseph, Missouri
816-233-7003
Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday-Sunday, 1-4 p.m.
Thedinger Gallery:
Theodore Waddell: Angus Anthem
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Campbell Galleries:
John Roush: Rocky Shores and Mountains
Through September 6
American Jazz Museum, Changing Gallery
1616 East 18th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-474-8463
Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sunday, noon-6 p.m.
SOLO
40 quilts by Sonié Ruffin
Through August 2
Arts Incubator, Cocoon Gallery
115 West 18th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-421-2292
First Fridays, 5-9 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., and by appointment
Wendy Weiss and Jay Kreimer: Landscape with Floating Biology
Part of SDA Conference, Off the Grid
Through June 27
Avenue of the Arts
Central Avenue, from 9th to 16th streets
Kansas City, Missouri
Administered in 2009 by the Avenue of the Arts Foundation (360º Architecture and DST Systems Inc.),
in partnership with the City of Kansas City, Mo. Municipal Art Commission
2009 Avenue of the Arts
10th annual temporary public art exhibitionsculptural, installation, and sound art by this year’s artists: Laura DeAngelis,Lori Raye Erickson & Lisa Marie Evans, Reilly Hoffman, Matthew Farley, Alexandra Robinson, Mark Southerland; with works from two 2008 artists (whose work was not exhibited last year): Matthew Burke, Colin Leipelt; and special guest returning artists: Peregrine Honig, Larry Thomas
Through September 2009
studio b
2016 Main Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-994-8995
Gallery hours: First Fridays, 6-10 p.m., First Saturdays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and by appointment
In Stereo: Rachel Kort & Ellie Kort
June 2009
The Base Gallery
2012 Baltimore Avenue
(inside Leedy-Voulkos Art Center)
Kansas City, Missouri
816-398-8109
Wednesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., First Friday 6-9 p.m., and by appointment
I'll Show You Mine: Besty Timmer and Tom Witzofky
Part of SDA Conference, Off the Grid
Through June 30
Belger Arts Center
2100 Walnut Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-474-3250
Wednesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4.p.m., (First Fridays until 9 p.m.), Saturdays, noon-4 p.m., and by appointment
Surface Design Association Conference Exhibitions (5)
Sponsored by the Surface Design Association in conjunction with the SDA’s biannual conference, Off the Grid
Surface Matters
SDA Members’ Show
Through August 15
El Anatsui
&
Small Wonder, Secrets of a Collector
Jennifer Angus
&
A Pause in the Rhythm of Time
Alice Kettle
&
Stitches in Time
Ray Materson
Through September 4
Buttonwood Artspace
3013 Main Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-285-9000
Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and opening events
Drawing the Line
Collection of graphite, colored pencil, pen-and-ink, and other media depicting realism, cartoon, and charicatured images, including featured artists Charlie Podrebarac, Bob Holloway, Lee Judge
Through August 1
Byron Cohen Gallery
2020 Baltimore Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri
816-421-5665
Thursday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., First Fridays 7-9 p.m., and by appointment
Deng Wushu: Through the Eyes of a Child
Premier USA solo exhibition for Chinese painter
Through September 25
On the Curve: New Dimensional Works from Nature's Studio by Regina V. Benson
Part of SDA Conference, Off the Grid
Through July 11
Digital Labrador
125 Southwest Boulevard
(in Missouri Bank building)
Kansas City, Missouri
816-841-9624
Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m.-1 p.m., First Fridays until 8 p.m.
People
Portraits by Clay Enos
Through June 30
Dolphin Gallery
1600 Liberty Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-842-5877
Tuesday-Friday, 9 a.m.- 5 .m., Saturday, noon-5 p.m.
*Please note: 12th Street Bridge closed for repairs through summer 2009; detour signs are posted, but click for more information.
In conjunction with the Surface Design Association Conference, Off the Grid
Asiatica
Vintage Japanese textiles from the collection of Elizabeth Wilson and Fifi White
&
Ke-Sook Lee: Thread Whisper
Installation
&
Anne Lindberg: Parallel 12
New works (drawings)
&
Debra Smith: Transition to Blue
New works (fabric collage)
Through July 3
Eljay's River Market Coffee Bar
412 B Delaware Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-472-5552
Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.-6 p.m. (First Fridays until 10 p.m.), Saturday & Sunday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Paul Andrews: New Photography
Through June 30
Frame Gallery
1415 Westport Road
Kansas City, Missouri
816-756-3341
Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Saturday, noon-5 p.m., and by appointment on Monday
An Extended Play: New Work by Jorge García Almodóvar
Through August 1
Grand Arts
1819 Grand Boulevard
Kansas City, Missouri
816-421-6887
Thursday & Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., and by appointment
The Juvenal Players: Pablo Helguera
Through July 25
Hilliard Gallery
Celebrating 35th anniversary in 2009
404 East 18th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-561-2956
Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., First Fridays, 6-9 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Points of Departure
International Student Show
Part of SDA Conference, Off the Grid
Through June 30
The Kansas City Jewish Museum
Epsten Gallery at Village Shalom
5500 West 123rd Street
Overland Park, Kansas
913-266-8413
L'CHAIM (To Life)
Lynne Hodgman
&
Dolls of Democracy: The Jewish Community Archives of Greater Kansas City, Jewish
Women International Collection
Through June 30
Dream Bodies: Transformative Figures
A group exhibition of video, drawing, printmaking, installation and sculpture by Joseph Ayers, James Drake, Peregrine Honig, Chris Johanson, Kacy Maddux, Jim Sajovic and E. Spencer Schubert
Through August 16
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
4420 Warwick Boulevard
Kansas City, Missouri
816-753-5784
Tuesday-Thursday, 10 a.m-4 p.m., Friday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Main gallery:
Dan Christensen: Forty Years of Painting
Through August 30
Polly Apfelbaum: Split
Through August 9
Gestures, Fields, and Rising Suns
Though April 11, 2010
The Poetics of Space
Through March 14, 2010
Kemper East: 200 East 44th Street
Interchange
Through December 4 (2009)
Kemper in the Crossroads
33 West 19th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-753-5784
Friday, noon-8 p.m., Saturday, noon-6 p.m.
Jaimie Warren: You Are So Beautiful in the Face
Through October 3
la Esquina
1000 West 25th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-221-5115
Thursday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m. and by appointment
In conjuction with Azteca de Greater Kansas City:
ComUNIDAD/ CommUNITY
2nd annual exhibition, curated by Jenny Mendez; artists include:Alexander Austin, Eddie Bernal, Jason Biggers, Robin Case, Tara Croft, Dan Dakotas, Miriam Feingold, Alisha Gambino, Israel Garcia, Luis Garcia, Gear, Angela Guzman, Erin Holliday, Jessica Manco, Adolfo Martinez, Heather Marton, Colleen Maynard, Gabriella Mendez-Delgado, John Moreno, Sue Moreno, Alex Morales, Laura Munoz, Dominic Murillo, Joey Rocha, Luke Rocha, Pat Rocha, Pat Rocha Jr., Sonie Ruffin, Bonnie Tolsen, Arzelyn Umali, Rocky Varela, Jacob Weller, Elaina Wendt, Emiliano Zapata
Read the Urban Culture Project release here.
Through June 27
The Late Show
1600 Cherry Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-474-1300
Wednesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., First Fridays until 10 p.m. and by appointment
Doug Schwietert: New Tomorrow
Assemblage
&
Margaret Ramberg: Fresh Work
Mixed media
Through June 28
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center
2012 Baltimore Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri
816-474-1919
Wednesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., First Fridays, 6-9 p.m., and by appointment
Jerry Bleem: Repeated Gestures
Part of SDA Conference, Off the Grid
Through July 18
Mary Beth Yates: Finding Home
&
Memory Cloths: Leslee Nelson
Through July 25
Shirley Luke Schnell: Subaqueous Notations
New abstract paintings
Through June 27
MCC-Longview Cultural Arts Center
500 Southwest Longview Road
MCC-Longview campus
Lee’s Summit, Missouri
816-672-2050
Thursday-Saturday, noon-4 p.m.
Is What You Know What You See?
Paintings, photography, and maquettes by Amanda Bowles, Andrew Cimelli, Luke Kralik, Andrew Lyles, Jacob Schildknecht, Alexandra Ponca Stock, Whitney Wood
Through July 25
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-751-1278
Wednesday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Thursday & Friday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday, noon-5 p.m.
George Segal: Street Scenes
Through August 2
Reinventing the Shuttlecocks
15th anniversary exhibition of the Shuttlecocks by husband-and-wife artist team Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
Through August 16
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Johnson County Community College
12345 College Boulevard
Overland Park, Kansas
913-469-3000
Tuesday-Thursday, Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Friday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Sunday, noon-5 p.m. (Closed on school holidays; please see site for details.)
NewNow: Building the Museum Collection
Ongoing
Second floor galleries:
Resonate
Through August 7
Paragraph
23 East 12th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-221-5115
Thursday & Saturday, noon-5 p.m., opening Fridays, 6-9 p.m.
Information is Incidental
New and collaborative work by Emily Sall and Rebecca Ward
More information here (Charlotte Street Foundation press release.)
Through August 8
Park Place Gallery of Fine Art
11560 Ash Street
Leawood, Kansas
913-469-8001
Open Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.- 6 p.m.
Anthony High
Collagraphs and oil paintings
Through June 30
Pi Art Gallery
419 East 18th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-210-6534
Tuesday, 7:30 a.m.-noon; Wednesday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. (until 9 p.m. on First Fridays); Saturday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Sunday, 8 a.m.-2 p.m.
BREAK: Rhythmized Textiles from the African Diaspora
Curated by Marion Coleman and Wini McQueen
Part of SDA Conference, Off the Grid
Through June 29
Red Star Studios
821 West 17th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-474-7316
Thursday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., First Fridays 6-9 p.m.
The Prolific Potter Ryan Greenheck
Through June 27
The Rice Gallery of Fine Art
11535 Ash Street
(north of 117th and Nall)
Leawood, Kansas
913-685-8889
Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and by appointment
Life on the Prairie: New Works from Zak Barnes
Through June 30
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art
2004 Baltimore Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri
816-221-2626
Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., First Fridays, 7-9 p.m.
Valerie Beller: Nature & Memory
paintings
&
Bean Gilsdorf: Like Magic
textiles (part of the Surface Design Association's sponsored juried exhibitions, which take place during the SDA's conference activities May 23 —June 5)
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Ixchel: A Collection of Fine Guatemalan Weaving
textiles
Through June 27
UMKC Gallery of Art
The Department of Art and Art History
203 Fine Arts Building, University of Missouri - Kansas City
5100 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, Missouri
816-235-1501
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
2009 UMKC Student ArtExhibition
Juried by Anne Austin Pearce and featuring work by: Matt Castilleja, Jimmy Courtice, Craig DeMoss,Nicole Elwood, Lynley Farris, Joshua Hancock, Alison Harper, Dennis Helsel, Nic Hutchinson, Lindsey Ketterling, Whitney Kinnison, Sarah Kraly, Corey Light, Colleen Lucas, Meredith McGrade, Margaret Meadows, Amanda Monson, Eusebio Ochoa, Emily Orr, Brendan O'Shaughnessy, Erin Pearce, Jewell Reeves, Crystal Rice, Cory Robertson, Carolina Rodriguez, Abby Rufkahr, Daniel Smith, Jacob Stapleton, Ryan Tenney, Adam Windle
Through July 18
Urban Culture Project Space
21 East 12th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-221-5115
Thursday & Saturday, noon-5 p.m. (and opening Fridays)
Time Passes, Time Passes By
Site-specific installation by Alexandra Robinson
More information here (Charlotte Street Foundation press release.)
Through August 8
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