Review

June 9 — 16

June 9 — 12: 35th Smoky Hill River Festival 2011:

Oakdale Park is the place to be this weekend, especially if you already live in central Kansas, but Salina is only three hours from the Kansas City metro region. Artists, craftspeople, musicians, and performers from all over the region draw 75,000 festival-goers from Kansas, Missouri, and beyond for a unique and enriching time at the annual Smoky Hill River Festival, a project of Salina Arts & Humanities, a department of the City of Salina. There is something for everyone, including a whole tent of free arts activities for children (those 11 years old and younger are admitted to the park/festival for free; adults can come and go as they please all weekend with a festival button, which is $15 at the gate or was $10 in advance). More than 150 fine art and craft exhibitors are on site for the juried Fine Art Show and Four Rivers Craft Market, while three stages of music play a variety of styles all weekend long (including children's theatre, puppet shows, and storytelling), artists and craftspeople do demonstrations, and Artists in Action sculpt sand mountains, paint murals, and more. Artists include: Chad Fonfara (Kearney, Nebraska), whose Glass Imaginarium is installed at the riverbank near Kenwood Bridge; Bill Godfrey (Tarentum, Pennsylvania), who has installed Dream Dragon Bridge at Fourth Street's bridge; Ann Arkebauer (Salina, Kansas), who presents Just Another Pipe Dream, a series of abstract, interlocking, undulating sculptural statements; Gear (Kansas City, Missouri), who brings the Art of Lettering, a demonstration of how words in graffiti are more like abstract art pieces; and Juniper TJ Tangpuz (Kansas City, Missouri) adds to his Flower Animals garden. A complete list of Artists in Action can be found here. Musicians include: Joe's Pet Project, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Annie Up, Turbine, Buffalo Rome, The Good Lovelies, Bill Harley, The John Jorgenson Quintet, Love Canon String Band, and Chris McCarty & Band. More details about the line-up can be found here, where you can also download a PDF of the full festival schedule and learn about the Art Patron Program, the pre-fesival jam, Festival Fitness Foot Race, Big Band Dance, and more. The Smoky Hill River Festival is ADA accessible. More information is available online or by calling 785-309-5770. The Festival is open at 4 p.m. on Thurdsay for the Festival Jam. Gates open at 9 a.m. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and activities run from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

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Also in Salina:

Salina Art Center
242 South Santa Fe
Salina, Kansas
785-827-1431
Gallery: Wednesday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m., Sunday, 1-5 p.m.

June 10-12 robbinschilds New York-based performance company, robbinschilds, is the Salina Art Center’s 2011 Smoky Hill River Festival Artist. Come enjoy the performance of Instruction Construction at the Festival. This work is a series of recordings that lead participants through detailed movement-based scores responding to a specific environment. Festival-goers are encouraged to listen to the recordings and respond to the directives – create your own spontaneous choreography. MP3 players with recordings are provided. Experience the Movement! For more information about robbbinschilds visit robbinschilds.com.

At the Art Center:

Adam Pendleton: Radio (ONE)
March 3 – July 11

Nearby (on the way west from Kansas City):

Beach Museum of Art
Kansas State University
701 Beach Lane
Manhattan, Kansas
785-532-7718
Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday, noon-5 p.m. (office is open Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.)

Around the World in 88 Days: Selections from the Permanent Collection
June 1 — August 28

Makers Framed: Photographic Portraits by George Kren
June 17 — October 16

Lines Traveling Through Space: Ghosts and Shadows, Minimal Sculptures by Tal Streeter
April 8 — October 30

Teresa Schmidt 2011 Friends of the Beach Museum of Art Gift Print Artist
April 15 — August 28

Second Friday Art Walk, KCK:

Downtown Kansas City Kansas welcomes more galleries and artists to get involved in Second Friday Art Walk; if you would like to participate, opening your doors and showing work, contact Ed Linnebur at 913-371-0705 or at ed@downtownkck.org.

Kaw Valley Arts and Humanities
Kaw Valley Arts Gallery
756 Armstrong
Kansas City, Kansas
913-371-0024
Second Friday Art Walk and Tuesday-Friday by appointment

Art on 8th
student photography; the community is encouraged to attend and lend their support to KCK youth
Second Friday Artwalk: June 10, 5-8 p.m.
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Pressroom Studios
75o Armstrong Avenue
Kansas City, Kansas
Rental information: 913-371-5200

June 10, 5-8 p.m. Be the Artist All the supplies you need are provided for you to paint; see your creativity come alive and realize the artist in you. Come ready to paint, and please bring $5 to help cover costs (your $5 donation helps fund future community art classes and upcoming youth programming.)

June 10, 5-8 p.m. Second Friday Art Walk Open Studios: Stop by and discuss work and enjoy refreshments with Michael Brantley, Kent Davis, Kim Eichler-Messmer, José Faus, Carol Kariotis, Isaac Meek, George Morris, Andrew Pollack, Ada Shakir-Mahmud, and Jennifer Wagner. (Enter from ramp entrance, east side of building; parking is free after 5 p.m.)
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Tomasic & Rehorn
419 North 6th Street
Kansas City, Kansas
913-371-5750
Second Friday Art Walk, March-October

Marcia Douglas
dog portraits
Second Friday Art Walk: June 10, 5-8 p.m.

June 10, Lawrence, Kansas:

Lawrence Arts 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., openings, and Final Friday hours during exhibitions

If You Say So
printmaking artist-in-residence Nicolette Ross; this body of work was created during Ross’s year-long residency at the Lawrence Arts Center’s John Talleur Print Studio. From the artist:“If You Say So is an installation of hand carved illustrations symbolizing the incessant dialog between mind, body, and environment. Each illustration has been carefully selected to represent a particular memory, object, word, symptom, sound, or sensation related to my own afflictions with anxiety disorder, as well as the loss of personal relationships through time, circumstance, and communicational misunderstanding. I have made the choice to exhibit these carvings as sculptural objects, as they display the marks of individuality and movement — clues of my intimate and laborious engagement between my body and the material.”

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Object: Affection
photographs and text from Daniel Coburn's body of work; from the gallery: "This project investigates the physical/psychological condition one experiences through the process of self-objectification. Coburn explores concepts related to the person as object and the photograph as object: the sitter as commodity and the print/media as the vehicle for distribution. In addition, this work illustrates the direct connection between an individual’s material possessions and that individual’s personal identity. The model is asked to participate in a photo shoot, and to approach the situation with the intent of making a photograph for a lover, significant other, or an ideal mate. Coburn’s long-term goal for this project is to study a widely diverse cross-section of people in an effort to understand how age, race, gender, sexual orientation and varying social/economic backgrounds affect a person’s approach and reaction to the process of self-objectification. Personal narratives from Coburn’s subjects accompany the photographs."
Opening reception: June 10, 7-9 p.m.
June 10 — July 11

Closing soon at LAC:
The New Old San Antonio: Tales from the Little Big Town
building on the budding visual arts connection between San Antonio and Lawrence that began with The White Show in 2009 and presented in memory of Chuck Ramirez and Marcia Gygli King, works by 33 artists who have deep San Antonio roots and are in various career-stages; curated and produced by Rex Hausmann of the Hausmann Millworks: A Creative Community studio program and by Darin M. White of the Lawrence-based b.a.l.m. art collective. Includes the work of: David Alcantar
, David Almaguer, 
Arturo Almeida, 
Joseph Alamendares
, Fernando Andrade
, Avi Avalos, 
Kim Bishop
, Rolando Briseño, 
Victoria Campbell, 
Jimmy James Canales, 
Danville Chadbourne, 
Jonathan Cowan
, John Davis
, Bill FitzGibbons, 
Aaron Hans Forland, 
Mark Gelatt
, Larry Graeber, 
Jimmy Kuehnle, 
Marilyn Lanfear
, Jayne Lawrence
, Pedro Lujan
, Kyle Martin
, Jung Hee Mun
, Chuck Ramirez, 
Kevin Rayhons, 
Ángel Rodríguez-Díaz, 
Morgan Santander, 
Ansen Seale, 
Ethel Shipton
, Russell Stephenson, 
Gary Sweeney, 
Louis Vega Treviño
, and Marc Weigand
April 29 — June 17

June 10, St. Louis:

Hoffman LaChance Contemporary
2713 Sutton Boulevard
St. Louis, Missouri
314-960-5322
Friday-Saturday, noon-3 p.m. and openings

Michael Hoffman
new abstract paintings in the artist's first solo exhibition in St. Louis in seven years
Opening reception: June 10, 6-10 p.m.
June 10 — July 2

Recently opened in St. Louis:

Atrium Gallery
4729 McPherson Avenue
St. Louis, Missouri
314-367-1076
Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sunday, noon-4 p.m., and Tuesday by appointment

Down to Earth
photograph series and sculpture by Gregg Louis
June 3 — July 24
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Isolation Room/Gallery Kit
5723 Dewey Avenue
St. Louis, Missouri
Receptions and appointment only; please contact gallerykit@gmail.com to reserve a time

Pablo Helguera: Artoons
"‘Artoons’ capture the alien yet alluring art scene by holding up a mirror to some of the most absurd art world characters including: the overbearing curator, pretentious theorist, money grubbing gallerist, failed artist, pathetic wannabe, ignorant expert and last but not least the beloved but clueless ‘gallerina.’"
June 3 — July 7

Saturday, June 11, Kansas City metro (including Lawrence):

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.; free parking in Lot 91 after 5 p.m. weekdays and all weekends (except during home football games); parking garage adjacent to Kansas Union is $1 per hour; admission to the museum is free

20/21 Gallery Conversation Wall:
Pomp up the Jam: Splendor, Pageantry, and Performance in Art
presented by the 2010-2011 SMA Student Interns program: Denise Giannino, Jordan Jacobson, Chassica Kirchhoff, Meredith Moore, Ellen Raimond, Sarah C. Schroeder, Natalie Svacina, and Amanda Wright
June 11 — September 4

Ongoing at the Spencer:
New Media Gallery:
NetWorks: Art and Artists from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
first exhibition of the museum's signature gift of minimalist and conceptual art from New York collectors Herb and Dorothy Vogel
March 31 — July 24

Central Court:
It Came from the Sky
newly commissioned installation by Freeman Foundation International Artist-in-Residence Jin Shan
April 15 — August
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West 18th Street Fashion Show
West 18th Street, between Wyandotte and Baltimore
Kansas City, Missouri
Annually, second Saturday in June

June 11, dusk (approx. 8 p.m.) 11th annual West 18th Street Fashion Show: Summer in Spain Presented by Birdies and the Pitch and hosted by the merchants of West 18th Street, this free annual outdoor event shows 18 collections produced around a central theme; designers were selected from a pool of more than 50 applicants and have created five custom looks for the show that premiere on June 11: Cheryl Eve Acosta, Tonia Barksdale, Birdies, Eli Borrowman, Katie Coble & Jennifer Hunt, Ari Fish, Kaylin Hertel, Dominique Karwoski & Steven Chau, Tara Kloeppel, Nataliya Meyer, Christian Micheal, Lindsay Rae Miller, Tricia Rock, Spool, Maegan Stracy, Yulie Urano, Michael Wiehe, and Chi Hiu Yim. This is a Kansas City must-see event that draws more than 2,000 spectators and uses the talents of 100 models plus crew members, volunteers, and stylists. Stage design this year includes work by Darin M. White; the muscial director is Mark Southerland, and the production crew includes Ryan Gove, Peregrine Honig, Danielle Meister, and Sarah Snodgrass.

New at the Walker Art Center:

Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota
612-375-7600
Free on Target Free Thursday Nights, 5-9 p.m. and the first Saturday of the month, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; open Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Thursday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.

Absentee Landlord
John Waters's devious intervention into the Walker exhibition, Event Horizon, which opened in 2009 and featured highlights from the museum's collection: "Event Horizon was designed to change over time, with new curators adding to and subtracting from the existing layout. Incorporating a new set of works from the Walker’s collection, plus works from other collections and pieces he created himself, Waters will imbue the galleries with his trademark blend of subversion and insight."
Performance of This Filthy World: June 10, 7:30 p.m., in the William and Nadine McGuire Theater; "This Filthy World, part memoir, part lecture, is a “vaudeville” act that celebrates the film career and obsessional tastes of the man William Burroughs once called “The Pope of Trash.” Focusing in on Waters’s early negative artistic influences and his fascination with true crime, exploitation films, fashion lunacy, and the extremes of the contemporary art world, this joyously devious monologue elevates all that is trashy in life into a call to arms to “filth followers” everywhere. This Filthy World is presented by the Walker’s film/video department. Tickets are $45 and go on sale to Walker members on May 3, 2011, and to the general public on May 10, 2011. Tickets are available at walkerart.org/tickets or 612.375.7600. Following the performance, Waters will sign copies of his book Role Models (available for sale in the Walker Shop)."
June 11, 2011 — March 4, 2012

Upcoming; Thursday, June 16:

Lawrence Arts 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., openings, and Final Friday hours during exhibitions

June 16, 2:30-5 p.m. Kansas Citizens for the Arts Strategy Session Join Kansas Citizens for the Arts, artists and arts advocates, in planning for the next phase of arts and arts funding in Kansas, in the wake of the governor's line-item veto of all funding for the Kansas Arts Commission, effective July 1, 2011. The session will begin by discussing  successes and challenges over the past months and how to start the process of building a strategic plan for arts advocacy in Kansas. Also, discussion about ways to keeps arts supporters engaged going forward will be included. "Please RSVP through the Kansas Citizens for the Arts Facebook page by clicking here or send an email to kansascitizens@gmail.com. We need to make sure that we've got enough chairs (and cookies) for everyone!"

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