Review

Tuesday evening reception, Obama media creation, Thursday events

Mark Alan Anderson, "Midsummer Night's Dream," from a series of digital collages, giclee print on d'Arches watercolor paper, 20" x 30". Anderson is intrigued by the narrative aspects of William Shakespeare's plays — their emphasis upon performance and the 'play within a play' concept. "The idea of performance as a work of visual art has great appeal to me and has influenced other works I've created in mixed and new medias. I've been experimenting with merging elements of cultural ephemera, magazines, junk mail, etc., along with textiles and painted textures that I photograph or scan to a very large size and then use a computer program to chop up into discreet shapes" Image and quoted text: courtesy of the artist

Today:

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.

This 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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Kansas City Artists Coalition
201 Wyandotte Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri
816-421-5222
Wednesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; closed December 20, 2009-January 1, 2010

27th Annual Art Auction
Preview exhibition dates: February 3-6, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., February 7, 1-4 p.m., February 8-12, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
Reception: February 10, 7-9 p.m.
February 13, 6 p.m. (silent auction); live auction begins at 8 p.m.

Thursday:

Blue Gallery
118 Southwest Boulevard
Kansas City, Missouri
816-527-0823
Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., and First Fridays until 9 p.m.

Lisa Lala: Lists
solo exhibition
&
The List Wall
a special exhibition of a public art project of 1,000 lists
Preview and artist talk: February 4, 6-8 p.m.
First Friday opening reception: February 5, 6-9 p.m.
February 5 — March 2
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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, with Ah’Lee Robinson.

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, 7 p.m. 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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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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