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Snow problems? Art goes on!

January's end brings a host of exhibitions in snowy Wichita, Kansas, tonight — which are being cancelled left and right. The Steckline Gallery has confirmed they are open (early, as of 4:30 p.m.) and we're listing what we know as we hear word; calling any gallery in Wichita you are considering visiting in the snowfall is a good idea.

Starting Friday, this weekend shows work in the local Kansas City area (including film festival in KCK on Saturday!), including Lawrence. Sunday is the Fresh and Local art auction by Guerilla Curating at Room 39. We recommend you check that out and help some great causes, including the ArtsKC Fund, which kicks off its annual workplace giving campaign on Monday. Review is one of their many beneficiaries, and we encourage you to consider hosting a campaign where you work or just making a donation.

Finally, if you happen to be out in sunny Oakland, California, drop in at the Swarm Gallery where Review Studios Artist and UMKC instructor Barry Anderson is showing Ectoplasmic Response, a video installation originally created for the Intermissions project at Light Work in Syracuse, New York for this 25-channel, 55-speaker HD video projection with surrounding sound. There is an opening reception Saturday, January 30, from 6 to 8 p.m., and the exhibition, which includes Dis/Integrations by Sonya Blesofsky and Stock Up On Heal and Mana Potions by Casey Jex Smith, is up through March 14.

Fifth/Final Friday openings and events, KC metro area:

ARTichokes Gallery
10557 Mission Road
Leawood, Kansas
913-322-9481
Tuesday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Friday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m.-3 p.m., and Sunday and Monday by appointment

January 29, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday open studio with live painting, and with music by Ken Zans
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OneVillage a Community Church
5700 Nall Avenue
Overland Park, Kansas
Opening night and by appointment; please contact Andy Houltberg, 913-952-3974 or or Steve Brisendine, 646-708-6442

An Evening of Art and Music for a Cause
Steve Larson
&
Tommy Creach
A portion of the proceeds from art sold is donated to non-profits of the artists' choice; drop by for an evening of art and live music
Final Friday opening reception: January 29, 6-10 p.m., with live music by Cory Stecker
January 29 — February 21
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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.
First Thursday Art Rush: February 4, 5-7 p.m.
January 28 — April 18

Art Center Cinema
January 22 — 28 Paris
January 29 — February 4 The Messenger
February 5 — 11 The Young Victoria
February 12 — 18 Me and Orson Welles

Final Friday in Wichita, Kansas:

Artists at Old Town and Upfront Gallery
412 East Douglas, Suite C
Wichita, Kansas
316-262-2435

Vince Micelli, Ed Pointer, Thelma Van Schioack, and Don Vine
Final Friday Grand Reopening for AAOT gallery and artist's reception: January 29, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
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Beadazzled Art Glass Studio
307 North Mead
Old Town Square
Wichita, Kansas
316-265-0667
Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Friday & Saturday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.

Alan Fullrich
Final Friday: January 29,  5 p.m.-9 p.m. RESCHEDULED due to weather to February 5, 6-9 p.m.
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Bruce Ward Photos
239 South Pattie
Wichita, Kansas
316-250-4479
Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. and Final Friday events

Photographs of Highlights of the 2009 Tallgrass Film Festival
Final Friday opening: January 29, 7-10 p.m., with live music by Raleigh Hinman and Nick Wagner OPEN DESPITE WEATHER
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Center Gallery
111 Ellis
Wichita, Kansas

January 29, 7-10 p.m. Silent Auction benefitting development of 2010 programming of new Midwest Center for Photography workshop series. EXTENDED due to weather to February 5, noon-8 p.m.
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Fisch Haus Studios
514 South Commerce
Wichita, Kansas
316-263-6770
Last Friday of every month, September to May, 7-10 p.m. and by appointment

Living Statues
Annual live-drawing/interpretive dance collaboration with Ballet Wichita
Final Friday opening reception: January 29, 7-10 p.m. POSTPONED due to weather, to February 26 Visitors are invited to draw, paint, photograph, or otherwise document a group of Ballet Wichita dancers, who will strike a series of 3-5 minute poses inspired by a soundtrack composed specifically for the event by KMUW host Jedd Beaudoin. Basic drawing materials will be provided, courtesy of Ryan Drake, but please feel free to bring your own as well.
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Gallery XII
412 East Douglas Street
Wichita, Kansas
316-267-5915
Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

New Works by Featured Artist Sally Cobb with guest artist Brandon Smith
Final Friday opening reception: January 29, 6-10 p.m.
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Jones Gallery
PositiveDirections
414 South Commerce Street
Wichita, Kansas
316-263-2214, ext. 109
Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday by appointment only

Final Friday Show
Audrey Kellenbarger, Ellie Shore, Sondra Alexander and Rocky Hardware Jewelry
Final Friday opening reception: January 29 CANCELLED due to weather
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Mead Street Gallery & Gifts
121 North Mead Street, Suite 107
Wichita, Kansas
316-262-5192
Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.  Saturday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Color Splashed
acrylic paintings by Jerry Calkins
Final Friday opening reception: January 29 6:30-10 p.m. RESCHEDULED due to weather to February 5, 6:30-10 p.m.
January 29 — February 21
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Riney Fine Arts Center, Friends University
2100 West University Street
Wichita, Kansas
316-295-5877

Lori Wright
Final Friday reception: January 29, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
December 22, 2009 — February 21, 2010
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Shift Space
800 East. 3 Rd Street North
Wichita, Kansas
Thursday and Friday, 4-7 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Shape Shifters: An exploration of Paintings and Prints
Kat Eastman, Joel Escarpita, Abram Howell, Megan St. Clair
Final Friday opening reception: January 29, 6-10 p.m.
January 29 — February 18
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Shopkeeper’s Gallery
228 North Market Street, 2nd Floor
(above Hewitt's Antiques and Splendid Stuff)
Wichita, Kansas
316-264-2450

What's Luv Got To Do Wit It?
Wichita teens are joining forces with Youth United for Positive Action (YUPA) and their “Our Voices” project, USD 259, and various Wichita Organizations to produce works of art inviting awareness and conversations promoting healthy relationships. Live performances of local drama troupes performing theme-related theater improvs.
Final Friday opening reception: January 29, 6-10 p.m. OPEN DESPITE WEATHER
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Steckline Art Gallery
Newman University
3100 McCormick
Wichita, Kansas
316-942-4291
Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and by appointment

Two Girls, Four Shoes, One Guy
an exhibition of works in mixed media by Mary Werner and Brenda Jones
Final Friday opening reception: January 29, 5-7 p.m. OPEN DESPITE WEATHER, starting early, 4:30 p.m.
Art for Lunch lecture: February 2, noon-1 p.m. Professor Werner will be available to answer questions about the exhibit at a lecture that is free and open to the public, with a box lunch available to the first 20 guests.
January 29 — February 19
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Tangent Lab
Old Town Farm and Art Market
Rock Island Market Building
143 North Rock Island
Wichita, Kansas

Third Annual Tangent Lab Juried Photography Contest
Final Friday closing reception: January 29, 7-11 p.m.
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United County Real Estate & Auction Services
509 East Douglas Street
Wichita, Kansas
316-239-3100
Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Final Friday Art Crawl: Amy Bohannan and Lillian Bridges
Final Friday opening reception: January 29, 6-9 p.m.

Saturday in Kansas City, Mo., KCK and Lawrence, Kansas:

6th Street Gallery at YWCA of Greater Kansas City
1017 North 6th Street
Kansas City, Kansas
913-371-1105
Monday- Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and Second Friday Art Walk and events

January 30, 2-5 p.m. Second annual KCK Film Fest Filmmakers will be on hand to discuss their work, which includes: Anthony Ladesich (owner/director of Mile Deep Film and Television), Studio A, Be It Ever So Humble, Crate Diggers, and Such Subtle Beauty; Brian Kille (recently returned to Kansas City after several years in Arizona),  The Dumb Bum (made for the Independent Filmmakers Coalition’s 3-5-7 Festival. John Bonifacio Moreno (local muralist presenting a mystic journey in a 40-minute documentary), Un Mejor Mañana (A Better Tomorrow); Patrick Rea (Lawrence-based filmmaker who specializes in horror), Next Caller, Now That You’re Dead, Do Not Disturb, and Mrs. Brumett’s Garden; Daven Gee and his UMKC film students (collaborating on a documentary short about a KCK after-school program that failed), Ravens; James Schweers (shooting with Super 9 film stock), Knitting Gets Your Mind Off Your Problems; Julia Vering-Young (uses stop-motion to depict the landfill/playground in KCK's Argentine mines), We Are Undermined; and Bill McDevitt (KCK-based fine arts photographer), Steve Curtis: A Photographer’s Journey. Admission is $5.
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Lawrence Percolator
913 Rhode Island Street
(Under the green awnings in the alley behind Lawrence Arts Center)
Lawrence, Kansas
785-760-2764
Sunday, February 1, noon-8 p.m., February 2-5, 6-8 p.m.

S.O.S. Save Our Schools
Exhibition preview: January 30, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. (preview the show and make things in support of our local schools)
Reception and party for SOS exhibition: January 30, 6-8 p.m.
January 30 — February 5
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Pi Art Gallery
419 East 18th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-210-6534
First Fridays, 6-9 p.m., Saturday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Sunday, 8 a.m.-2 p.m.

January 30 & 31, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Moving Sale Kitchen and housewares, books, office supplies, rugs, etc. (Richard Van Cleave's Retro exhibition is up through January 30.)
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Wonder Fair: Art Gallery
803 Massachusetts Street (below Casbah Market)
Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday-Sunday, noon-6 p.m., and by appointment

WHY RETHINK
A traveling exhibition of Art, Music & Inspiration, featuring interpretations of the Capital City by Topeka-based artist Justin Marable
Opening reception: January 30, 6-9 p.m., with Topeka-centered poetry readings by Matt Porubsky, Leah Sewell, Eric McHenry, and Jeff Fouquet; live music by Topeka band Interior Sea; and discussions about Topeka as inspiration for local artists, musicians, writers and performers. Learn more about ReThink Topeka.
January 28 — February 7

Sunday:

Room 39
1719 West 39th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-753-3939
Monday-Saturday, 7 a.m.-10 p.m.

January 31, 3-9 p.m. Fresh and Local Reception and silent auction Guerilla Curating and Room 39 present a show highlighting Kansas City's art community and benefitting local charities. Commissions from this show will be donated to Harvesters and the ArtsKC Fund. Artists: Eric Bashor, Jon Bidwell, Tate Buck, John Davis Carroll, Kat Dison, Suze Ford, Dan Frueh, Anne Gagel, Joe Hoskins, Steph Kates, Erin McAllister, Erin Miller-Arnold, Josephine Pearl Morrison, Jenny Pierson, Robert Quackenbush, Josh Rizer, George Rousis, Joel Schlotterer, Larry Thomas, Cheryl Toh, Heinrich Toh, Bernadette Torres, Kati Toivanen, Sarah Vandersall, Desiree Warren, and Wade Williamson. Work will be up from January 2 through February 28. For more information, e-mail.

Upcoming week:

February 1 — 5 Kansas City Design Week , with competitions, lectures, design-related night-life and more. Read more about the daily events at kcdesignweek.org
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Crosstown Station
1522 McGee Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-471-1522
Bar and event hours

Pecha Kucha Nights
February 4, 8:20 p.m. Kansas City Volume #8 Part of Kansas City Design Week; doors open at 7:30 p.m.
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Kansas City Art Institute
4415 Warwick Boulevard
Kansas City, Missouri
Usual events contact: 816-802-3423

February 4, 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). 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. This week's topic: Diverse communities and how difference influences classroom motivation.

Current Perspectives Lecture Series
In honor of the college’s 125th anniversary, most of the speakers selected for the spring 2010 series are alumni of KCAI. Unless otherwise noted, all lectures are free and will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursdays in Epperson Auditorium in Vanderslice Hall, 4415 Warwick Boulevard.

February 4 A presentation will be given by the 2009 Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artist Award fellows Dylan Mortimer (’02 painting), Jaimie Warren (’02 printmaking) and Andrzej Zielinski, whose work is featured in an exhibition at the H&R Block Artspace through March 27. Mortimer has merged the iconographies and vocabularies of Christianity and hip-hop culture in an investigation of how religious beliefs, popular culture and social norms do and do not comfortably relate. Warren is a photographer, curator and performance artist who makes theatrical, humorous self-portraits in different scenarios and locations. Zielinski’s current work consists of paintings of laptops, paper shredders and ATM machines.
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Gladstone Community Center Gallery
6901 North Holmes Avenue
Gladstone, Missouri
816-423-4200
Center hours: Monday-Friday, 5:30 a.m.-9 p.m., Saturday, 7 a.m.-7 p.m., Sunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

artist | teacher
an exhibition of artworks by North Kansas City Schools' art teachers
Opening reception: February 2, 6-8 p.m.
February 2 — March 8
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Kansas City Public Library — Plaza Branch
4801 Main Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-701-3481
Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sunday, 1-6 p.m.

February 2, 6:30 p.m. Design Week Lecture Sol Sender, identity designer, discusses his role in developing the Barack Obama campaign logo and "political brand." A reception precedes this free public event at 6 p.m. and is sponsored in part by the American Institute of Architects-Kansas City. Please RSVP online or by calling 816-701-3407.
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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.

February 4, 6-8 p.m. Reception & Gallery Talk Join Tanya Hartman, whose Ryhming the Lines is on view through February 7. The talk will be at 7 p.m.

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