THIRD FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, JUNE 2011
June 16 — 23
Shane Fowler, "Beautifully Unfortunate," mat board, spray paint, acrylic, and gunpowder on reclaimed shelf, 19" x 24", part of "campain," showing at the Trap Gallery June 17 from 6 to 9 p.m. From the gallery: " Shane Fowler, an architect by day/artist by night, focuses on the conveniently avoidable in his newest series 'campain,' which considers the concept of battle as defined as 'any conflict between two or more subjects'. His work is a conscious effort to dive into the emotional, consequential and contrastive aspects that are reflective of interactions between two entities. The intention of Shane's work is to deliver a product that removes the audience from their understanding of the typical routine and spark curiosities regarding the world outside of our adopted comforts." Image: courtesy of the gallery and artist
Wednesday, June 15:
Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
pARTnership Place
906 Grand Avenue 10th Floor, Suite 10B
Kansas City, Missouri
816-994-9226
Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; please call ahead to 816-221-1777 to check viewing availability of Now Showing
June 15, 6:45 p.m. ArtsKC Fund Campaign Results Announcement Learn about the fifth annual ArtsKC Fund Campaign's success as the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City announces this year's results on the main stage at The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival in Southmoreland Park, before the performance of Macbeth. (If the show is declared a rain-out, the announcement moves to Thursday, June 16.)
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!"
Third Friday, June 17:
BNIM
10@BNIM
106 West 14th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-783-1500
Site of 10 streetfront display windows "to provide opportunities for the public to connect with the arts and enliven the streets of the urban core."
John Raux, "Curiosity's untiring battle with the exhaustion of unknowing," acrylic on paper stretched on both sides of maple drum shells. Paintings are periodically flipped, varying the interior and exterior view. Image: photo T. Abeln
WHOLES
new paintings by John Raux
Closing reception and presentation: June 17, 7-9 p.m. "Creativity and Sustainability"
May 6 – June 17
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Charlotte Street Foundation
Office: 1000 West 25 Street
(Mail: PO Box 10263, Kansas City, Missouri 64171)
Kansas City, Missouri
816-221-5115
Downtown galleries:
Paragraph
a CSF Urban Culture Project venue
23 East 12th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-221-5115
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, noon-5 p.m., Thursday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., opening Fridays, 6-9 p.m.
Plenty of Action, No Control
new and collaborative work by Miguel Rodriguez and Phil Shafer
Open Third Friday: June 17, 6-9 p.m.
May 20 — July 2
Urban Culture Project Space
a Charlotte Street Foundation Urban Culture Project venue
21 East 12th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-221-5115
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, noon-5 p.m., Thursday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., opening Fridays, 6-9 p.m.
Swailing
new and recent drawings and paper works by Lee Emma Running
Open Third Friday: June 17, 6-9 p.m.
May 20 — July 2
Studios:
pARTnership Place
a CSF Urban Culture Project studios space
906 Grand, 13th floor
Kansas City, Missouri
June 17, 6-9 p.m. Third Friday Open Studios Visit the studios of visual artists Katie Ford (new), Erika Lynn Hansen, Cory Imig, Paul Anthony Smith, Nicholas Naughton, Julie Malen, and Luke Rocha
UCP Performing Studios at City Center Square
a CSF Urban Culture Project studios space
1100 Main Street, 5th Floor (enter at 12th & Main)
Kansas City, Missouri
June 17, 6-9 p.m. Third Friday Open Studios Visit the studios of visual artists Anthony Baab, Terry Campbell, John Davis Carroll, Christina Dostaler, Andrew Erdrich (new), Misha Kligman, Jenni Mc (new), Carmen Moreno, Frank Norfleet, David Overholt (new), Clinton Ricketts (new), Sean Starowitz, and Cheryl Toh; hear/see live performances by composer/musician Matt Otto and guests who are presenting original compositions at 8 p.m. and by choreographer/dancer Leralee Whittle, who is presenting excerpts from her new work, PARTS, at 9 p.m.
UCP Studios at Town Pavillion
a Charlotte Street Foundation Urban Culture Project studios space
1100 Walnut Street, 6th Floor
Kansas City, Missouri
June 17, 6-9 p.m. Third Friday Open Studios Visit the studios of visual artists Brandon Barr, Diane Burchett, Luke Firle (new) Andrew Lyles (new), Katherine O’Hara, Phil Shafer, Jeff Tackett (whose new multi-media installation, Flutter, will be on view), Neil Thrun (new), and Waseem Touma (new).
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The Kansas City Club
918 Baltimore Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri
Contact for art events and to RSVP: Kathy Drungilas, 816-285-9000
"Famous Kansans," an example of artwork in the Kansas Lottery second chance drawing for the original paintings; prints are available at the reception. Image: courtesy of the organizers
Happy 150th, Kansas
the Kansas Lottery Event; original paintings by 10 artists commemorating the Kansas sesquicentennial
Third Friday reception: June 17, 5:30-9 p.m., with the artists, who are available to sign prints, too
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The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-751-1278
Wednesday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Thursday & Friday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday, noon-5 p.m.
admission to main building and Bloch Building are free, though some exhibitions require paid tickets; parking is free for members and $5 to the general public, in the underground garage, entrance on west side of museum; the museum's calendar has more events than are listed here.
Heavens: Photographs of the Sky & Cosmos
The Curator is IN!: June 17, 7-8 p.m. Join curator Jane. L. Aspinwall in Gallery L11 for an informal overview of how photographers have interpreted and incorporated the sun, moon, stars, clouds and space into their work from 1865 to the present.
June 15 — November 13
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The Trap
525 Gillis Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri
816-510-6557
Third Fridays, 6-9 p.m. and by appointment
campain
new work by Shane Fowler
Third Friday opening reception: June 17, 6-9 p.m.
June 17 — July 10
Friday & Saturday:
Historic Downtown Overland Park
Santa Fe Drive, between 79th and 80th streets
Overland Park, Kansas
Clock Tower Art & Music Festival
Festival reception: June 17, 6-9 p.m. Hosted on the clock tower patio in conjunction with downtown merchants’ Third Friday Art Market, a monthly event during which downtown merchants stay open late, some with entertainment and specials. Adult beverages will be available on the patio for the evening, and the jazz group, Firehouse4, will perform on the clock tower patio (6-9 p.m.).
Vendor Show: June 18, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. The art and craft show is open to the public while the
Jjazz group, BongoTini, performs (10-11:30 a.m.) and the jazz fusion group, Heat Index, performs (noon-4 p.m.), both on the clock tower patio. The selection process for artisans and high-end crafters was to deliver an elevated caliber of offerings to this year’s festival (no resale of retail goods; all works are original).
June 17 —18
Saturday:
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center
2012 Baltimore Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri
816-474-1919
Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., First Fridays, 6-9 p.m., events and by appointment
June 18, 2-4 p.m. Community Event Hands-on art activities inspired by the AIDS memorial quilts on display at the art center in NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt through June 25, with AIDS-prevention education provided by the Kansas City Free Health Clinic (bilingual event in English and Spanish; free and open to all)
Saturday & Sunday:
Crown Center
2450 Grand Boulevard
Kansas City, Missouri
816-274-8444
June 18, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. & June 19, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Kansas City Chalk and Walk Festival Artists start with empty squares of asphalt and by the end of the weekend, these squares will be transformed into magnificent pieces of artwork. Admission is free; come and watch the streets turn colorful, play in the children's creative corner, and more.
Ongoing:
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.
Studio Quilts Drawn from Nature
fiber arts and photography by Chris Wolf Edmonds
May 26 — July 19
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H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute
16 East 43rd Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-561-5563
Noon-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, noon-5 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and by appointment during academic semester
Answers to Questions: John Wood and Paul Harrison
June 4 — September 24
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Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
4420 Warwick Boulevard
Kansas City, Missouri
816-753-5784
Tuesday-Thursday, 10 a.m-4 p.m., Friday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Acquisitions in Context: Eric Forstmann
April 29 — August 14
The Abstract Autograph
March 9 — November 20
Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski
This exhibition features more than 30 significant paintings from public and private collections and highlights important periods and themes from Olitski’s career. This is the first overview of the artist’s paintings since his death in 2007. The exhibition is scheduled to travel in 2012 to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio; and the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC and was organized by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and curated by art historians E. A. Carmean Jr., Alison de Lima Greene, and Karen Wilkin.
May 20 — August 28
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UMKC Gallery of Art
Department of Art and Art History
University of Missouri - Kansas City
203 Fine Arts Building (between Nichols library and main student center)
5100 Rockhill Road / 5015 Holmes Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-235-1502
Summer 2011 hours: Tuesday, 10 a.m.-noon, Thursday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Annual UMKC Student Art Exhibition
juried by Cara Megan Lewis (of Cara and Cabezas Contemporary), featuring 37 artists
May 5 — July 30
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The Writers Place
3607 Pennsylvania Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri
816-753-1090
For writing and reading events, receptions and by appointment (see website for contact information)
And Modern Man Screamed with Fear
Doug Schwietert
April 8 — June 24
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