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Amy Kephart, "One Apple, Two Apple, Three Apple, Four?," earthenware, glaze, 16 1/8" x 17" x 8 1/2", is featured in this year's "Beyond Bounds: GLOW" art auction benefiting the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. The event is Saturday, October 24, and in honor of the 40th anniversary of Johnson County Community College (home of the museum), 119 prominent artists have created works using a ruby medium — whether it be in pastel, ceramic underglaze, oil paint or textiles. Completed, signed works will be sold via live and silent auction, with returning guest auctioneer, Bill Shapiro, a Kansas City attorney, art collector and music historian and host of "Cypress Avenue" on KCUR-FM. Image: courtesy of the museum

Today and tonight:

Crosstown Station
1522 McGee Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-471-1522

Pecha Kucha Nights
October 22, 8:20-9:51 p.m. Kansas City Volume #7, featuring Tracy Abeln; John Bennetts, Janette Crawford, blogger; artist/cartoonist; Kenny Kuniyuki, major, US Army; Linda Netzel, forensic scientist, KCPD Crime Lab; Angelica Sandoval, sculptor/product designer; Mark Shapiro, architect; Gavin Snider, cartoonist; Grant Snider, poster maker/architect. Free / no cover charge, doors open at 7:30.
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Gallery of Art & Design
University of Central Missouri
217 Clark Street, Art Center Building
Warrensburg, Missouri
660-543-4498
Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. (until 8 p.m. on Thursdays), Saturday, noon-4 p.m., and by appointment

A&D Thursdays: extended gallery hours starting in fall semester 2009 and featuring lectures, receptions, films, fashion shows, and other gallery-sponsored events

October 22, 3 p.m. Jen McLean of Tula Pink will "lecture on her career as a textile designer and illustrator. Hailing from Stewartsville, Missouri, Tula Pink is one of those rare birds of contrasting interests and talents. Trained as a graphic designer at Otis College of Art & Design, Ms. Pink decided to flip the ratio and dedicate her life to what she loved most, fabric." This free lecture completes the fall series, in conjunction with Design Chicago 2010: Sustainability, Responsibility, Play, and Social Practice, on exhibition through November 6.
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Kansas City Art Institute
4415 Warwick Boulevard
Kansas City, Missouri
Usual events contact: 816-802-3423

Current Perspectives Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Held in Epperson Auditorium in Vanderslice Hall on the KCAI campus; free

October 22, 7 p.m. Tracy Templeton teaches printmaking at Southern Oregon University, and before joining the department in 2001, she taught at the University of Alberta, the University of Regina and Illinois State University. Her work has been shown in Canada, the United States, Mexico, England, France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Poland, Russia, Japan and South Korea, and she has received several awards including honorary mention at the Seoul Print Biennial, third place in the Great Canadian Printmaking Competition and several purchase prizes. Specializing in photographic etching, she has lectured extensively on the technique at Anchor Graphics, Chicago; Black Hills State University, South Dakota; and Lane Community College in Oregon; among others. Templeton’s work chronicles several years among abandoned, rural homesteads where she grew up on the prairies.

Northland Campus for Special Programs
1801 NW Platte Road, Suite 275
Riverside, Missouri
Call to RSVP for this event: 816-505-1443

October 22, 7 p.m. Milton Katz, Ph.D., professor in the School of Liberal Arts at KCAI, presents 'Creative Defiance: The Art of the Holocaust.' "Art of the Holocaust demands answers to questions that arrest the heart and soul and challenge our basic assumptions about ourselves and the human experience. Focusing primarily on the art produced by the prisoners of the ghettos and concentration camps from 1940–1945 under impossible conditions, often at the risk of their lives, Katz will present a slide lecture discussing 50 evocative works created by 25 international artists from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Germany, France, Holland, Italy and the Soviet Union. In this lecture Katz explores how Holocaust art functions not only as witness but also as a means of spiritual and psychological resistance, an assertion of humanity and an affirmation of life. The lecture is free and open to the public."
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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.)

Third Thursdays Visiting Artists Presentations
Free and held in Hudson audiorium; no RSVP is necessary
October 22, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Jaimie Warren and Robin Case
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Salina Art Center
242 South Santa Fe
Salina, Kansas
785-827-1431
Gallery: Wednesday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m., Sunday, 1-5 p.m.

The Storyteller
Opening reception: October 22, 5-7 p.m.
October 23, 2009 — January 3, 2010
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Tivoli Manor Cinemas
Westport Manor Square
4050 Pennsylvania Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri
913-383-7756 (showtimes); 816-561-5222 (tickets)

2009-2010 Community Cinema Program
Copyright Criminals
Kick-off of Community Cinema Program: October 22, 7 p.m., includes discussion with executive director Kembrew McLeod. Tickets are $4 or free to those with UMKC student/staff ID. The UMKC Communication Program in conjunction with ITVS and the Plaza Library continue the series on the second Saturday of the month at the Plaza Library, starting November 14. Click for more information about Copyright Criminals, which premeiered on the closing night of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.

Fourth Friday openings and events:

Kemper in the Crossroads
33 West 19th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-753-5784
Friday, noon-8 p.m., Saturday, noon-6 p.m.

Keltie Ferris: Man Eaters
October 23, 2009  — February 13, 2010
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la Esquina
1000 West 25th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-221-5115
Thursday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m. and by appointment

Installation Operettas: Moon Bears and Sister Wives
By Mark Southerland, with numerous other artitsts; Moon Bears and Sister Wives "is an experimental, narrative-driven, two-part multimedia extravaganza that will blur the boundaries between genres and disciplines, showcase technical brilliance, challenge perceptions of jazz music, and create an immersive real-time experience." Doors open at 7 p.m.; tickets are $10 . Read more from the Charlotte Street Foundation.
October 23, 8 p.m. Moon Bears and Sister Wives: Dream Arc, with special guests Helen Gillet and Sait Arat
November 6, 8 p.m. Moon Bears and Sister Wives: Banquet Boat, with special guests Brian Haas and Annie Elicott
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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.

October 23 —25 Potters Council Expressive Surfaces workshop, hosted at Red Star and formatted for intimate class size, hands-on learning for three full days. Techniques presented by two internationally renowned ceramic artists, LornaMeaden and Mark Peters, who will provide demonstrations and projects that will address any questions you may have regarding their surface techniques. (See also Lorna Meaden and Mark Peters: Expressive Surfaces, October 2 — 31).
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Signs of Life Gallery
722 Massachusetts Street
Lawrence, Kansas
785-830-8030

The White Show
Juried exhibition with artists from across the country responding to the notion of "white"
Artist recption: October 23, 7-10 p.m.

Saturday and beyond:

Historic Northeast Cultural Arts Commission

October 24, 6-10 p.m. Scarecrows in Scarritt live auction and masked ball (costumes are optional) at 3500 Gladstone Boulevard, historic home of the Scarritts' descendants in Historic Northeast. Tickets include "goulish" appetizers, live entertainment and discounts on costumes at Kansas City Costume Company. Northeast Arts supports visual and performaing arts events for adults and children. For more information, please see the Historic Northeast Cultural Arts Commission site.
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Kansas City Artists Coalition
201 Wyandotte Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri
816-421-5222
Wednesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; also open October 18 and 25, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Artists Studios:KC Preview Exhibition
Work by artists who are participating in the 2009 open studios event
Closes October 25

Artists Studios:KC
Open studios of working artists in the metro area; click here to see who, where, and more.
Continues October 24, 25
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Kansas City Art Institute
4415 Warwick Boulevard
Kansas City, Missouri
Usual events contact: 816-802-3423

Northland Campus for Special Programs
1801 NW Platte Road, Suite 275
Riverside, Missouri
Call to RSVP for this event: 816-505-1443

Current Perspectives Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Held in Epperson Auditorium in Vanderslice Hall on the KCAI campus; free

October 29, 7 p.m. Chris Martin is an abstract painter who was born in 1954 in Washington, D.C. He lives and works in Brooklyn, N.Y. He received his B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in 1992 and attended Yale University from 1972 to 1975. He has exhibited work in solo shows in New York, Boston and Los Angeles, including gecent group shows: Abstract America at the Saatchi Gallery in London, Painting as Fact — Fact as Fiction at de Pury & Luxembourg in Zurich, Switzerland, and The Painted World at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, New York. Martin received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in 1990 and 1993, and he also has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Pollack-Krasner Foundation and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is represented by Mitchell-Innes & Nash.
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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.)

Beyond Bounds: GLOW
Benefit exhibition featuring work that uses ruby red mediums by more than 110 prominent artists for silent and live auctions; more information and ticket purchases can be found at the Nerman's site.
October 24, 7 p.m.
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Unit 5 Gallery
1920 Wyandotte Avenue, #5
Kansas City, Missouri
816-841-5500
Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., First Fridays, 6-9 p.m., and by appointment

October 24, 3-4:30 p.m. Special lecture and meditation on "Chenrezig, The Buddha of Compassion" presented by Prof. Stephanie Nuria Sabato, in conjucntion with Buddhist Art from the Himalayas and Southeast Asia, on exhibition through October 24. More information here.
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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.

Private Print Presentation from Universal Limited Art Editions
Gallery talk and print presentation: October 29, 7-9 p.m. Please join us in welcoming Bill Goldston, master printmaker from ULAE, as he introduces new and recent prints from artists Enrique Chagoya, Carol Dunham, Jasper Johns, Kiki Smith, Robert Rauchenberg, Richard Tutte and others. He will be at the gallery for individual print consultation October 30, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and October 31, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
October 29 — 31
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Spencer Museum of Art
The University of Kansas
1301 Mississippi Street
785-864-4710
Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Thursday until 8 p.m., Sunday, noon-4 p.m.

Reviving the Past: Antiquity & Antiquarianism in East Asian Art
October 25, 2008 — 2010

Extra/Ordinary
Video art from Asia
October 24, 2009 — February 14, 2010

Closing soon:

Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery
401 North First Street
Lindsborg, Kansas
785-227-2220

The Wonder of Watercolor, Capturing the Glow
by Ardythe Bernette Jolliff, guest artist from Edgewater, Maryland
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Ranch Girls
Photographs by Barbara Van Cleve of Big Timber, Montana
Gallery reception: October 4, 2-4 p.m.
Close October 25
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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

BOY
A new film by Ssion, written and directed by by Cody Critcheloe
Closes October 24
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Unit 5 Gallery
1920 Wyandotte Avenue, #5
Kansas City, Missouri
816-841-5500
Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., First Fridays, 6-9 p.m., and by appointment

Buddhist Art from the Himalayas and Southeast Asia
In collaboration with Drake Fine Art, work from the 19th and 20th centuries (some may be older) in gilt and bronze wooden Buddhas, from Tibet, Nepal, Laos, Thailand, Burma, Cambodia and China
Closes October 24

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