Review

January 27 & 28

Samantha Persons, "Foundation of Communication," mixed media, 148" x 192" x 192", 2010, is part of "Commodity, Commotion, Communication," on view at the Urban Culture Project Space through February 6. Click the image to read a new review of the exhibition. Image: photo Jared Panick, courtesy of the Charlotte Street Foundation

Join Samantha Persons for a tea party discussion tonight at the Urban Culture Project Space, a gallery supported by the Charlotte Street Foundation. Besides running three galleries and providing studio space for dozens of Kansas City artists, the Charlotte Street Foundation is well-known for its awards to visual (and now generative performing) artists. The 2010 Visual Artist Award Fellows are being announced tonight at a private reception — Review will bring back the news soon. Meanwhile, don't miss the 2009 awards exhibition on view at the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute through March 27, with work by Dylan Mortimer, Jaimie Warren and Andrzej Zielinski.

There are other openings and events happening tonight and tomorrow, including an exhibition of striking new paintings by Steve Rimmer at the Corridor Art Space in Midtown.

Wednesday:

The Kansas City Public Library — Central
14 West 10th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-701-3400
Monday-Wednesday, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Thursday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Friday, 9 a.m.- 5 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday, 1-5 p.m.; free parking is available in the Library District Parking Garage at 10th and Baltimore (limited hours)

January 27, 6:30 p.m. Opening presentation of New Orval Hixon Gallery and Shooting Stars: The Celebrity Photography of Orval Hixon. Author and photography expert David Shields, Ph.D., talks about Hixon's work following a reception at 6 p.m. Both are free open to all, but please call to RSVP: 816-701-3407. Hixon's studios in the Brady Building (11th and Main) and then in the Baltimore Hotel welcomed thousands of patrons in the 1910s and 1920s in Kansas City. Learn how he transformed the field of portrait photography and celebrate the new gallery at the library made possible by the Hixon family, Richard J. Stern Foundation for the Arts-Commerce Bank Trustee. More information from the library is here.
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Oklahoma City Museum of Art
415 Couch Drive
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
405-236-3100
Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Thursday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. (May-October; only on final Thursday of the month January-April), Sunday, noon-5 p.m. Closed Mondays, New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day

January 27, 6-8 p.m. Exhibition preview and lecture for Jason Peters: Anti.Gravity.Material.Light, with artist's talk at 5:30 p.m., in conjunction with New Frontiers: Series for Contemporary Art in the auditorium; seating is limited to 250, first-come, first-served basis (free and open to the public). Additional special events include Family Day, February 27, noon-4 p.m., and Last Call Thursday, April 8, 5-10 p.m. The exhibition is on view through April 11.
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Urban Culture Project Space
21 East 12th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-221-5115
Thursday & Saturday, noon-5 p.m., opening Fridays, 6-9 p.m.

January 27, 7 p.m. Public program and tea party-conversation An open dialogue with Sammy Persons, Kurt Flecksing, Lynley Farris, and Robert Heishman in conjunction with the installation by Samantha Persons, Commodity, Commotion, Communication, on view through February 6; read full release from the Charlotte Street Foundation here.

Thursday:

Corridor Art Space
Office of Gould Evans Associates
4041 Mill Street
(Westport Road and Pennsylvania)
Kansas City, Missouri
Art is visible when Manor Square (which also houses the Tivoli Theatre) is open, daily 8 a.m.-10 p.m. To request a private showing, please contact Julie Hendrix at 816-931-6655.

January 28, 5-7 p.m. Opening reception for Sticks and Stones by Steve Rimmer, which is on view through March 9. Please join the artist and others for this reception open to all.
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Kansas City Art Institute
4415 Warwick Boulevard
Kansas City, Missouri
Usual events contact: 816-802-3423

January 28, 11:30 a.m. Learn to Teach: Community Arts Artists, learn how to teach and share what you know. This public lecture series is part of a course at KCAI (in which each student will design, plan, and teach a short workshop at the Southeast Community Center in Swope Park, Kansas City, Missouri) and begins on January 28 with considerations of different learning patterns and teaching methods, by Kriss Miller. The overall goal is to teach artists how to be excellent teachers in a community setting, though some lectures will focus on more general classroom basics). These Thursday sessions are open to the public, so all artists are encouraged to learn about sharing their talents with the community at large. More information about the course's instructors is posted the week of their lectures here on the KCAI site. All lectures are free and take place on Thursdays at 11:30 a.m. in the Epperson Auditorium of Vanderslice Hall on the KCAI campus (except for February 11th's lecture, which will be at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art). Funded by a KCAI Outstanding Project Award and an ArtsKC Fund Inspiration Grant.
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Lawrence Art Center
940 New Hampshire Street
Lawrence, Kansas
785-843-2787
Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Friday-Sunday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

January 28, 7 p.m. Gallery Talk Shawn Bitters speaks about his work in To and From, on display at the Lawrence Art Center through February 6.
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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.

True Grit
Features the work of five American artists with exceptionally long and productive (50+ year) careers who continue to make thought-provoking work: Judith K. Brodsky, Peter Campus, Warrington Colescott, Larry Edwards, and Lee Friedlander
Opening reception: January 28, 5-7 p.m.
Curator conversation: January 29, noon, with John Salvest (artist and independent curator) and Les Christensen (aritst and director of Bradbury Gallery at Arkansas State University, where this exhibition will travel to next), who will facilitate a discussion with Larry Edwards. Free and open to all
January 28 — April 18

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