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WE WERE SYNAESTHETIC!(1)
August 2, 2010 —
The “We Are Synaesthetic” event, July 16, 2010, was a great success! With 16 artists and three bands, Review Publishing and Midwest Music Foundation managed to pull off a show that benefited both organizations and provided an evening of great art and entertainment for those in attendance. Whether or not you missed the event, please read on to see images of artists’ works and from the event itself.
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DESIGNS ON DISPLAY
Local and national fashion designers show their diverse collections at the West 18th Street Fashion Show on June 12. Read about the 10th annual event, browse a slide-show of featured designs, and weigh in on the state of fashion in Kansas City.
THE SHOW MUST GO ON!
Mel Chin’s Fundred Dollar Bill Project addresses the appropriation and alteration of currency imagery not only for art education, but to highlight social injustice. This national project is large and ambitious in its scale, as well as its scope. It is all at once about environmental health, lead awareness, social conscience, collaboration, and the creation of community.
CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES 2010 ARTIST AWARD WINNERS
The 2010 Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Arts Awards Fellows were announced January 27; congratulations to Ari Fish, Sonié Ruffin and Caleb Taylor. The annual award for Kansas City artists is in its 13th year. Always an unrestricted grant and currently worth $10,000, the CSF Visual Artist Awards has provided $487,000 in grants to date.
IMAGES FOURTH FRIDAY PREVIEW
Mel Chin is in Lawrence, Kansas, January 22 and 23 at the Lawrence Art Center, and Signs of Life in Lawrence is opening a new exhibition, January 22, too. See a few images of what to expect there and in Wichita.
THIRD FRIDAY IMAGES PREVIEW
Third Friday is really a whole week’s worth of daily visual arts exhibition openings, events and closings. Take a look at some of what is offered January 14 through 20.
IMAGES SECOND FRIDAY PREVIEW
Art is better in person, but here’s a preview to get you motivated to get out for Second Friday.
TRASH TRADE IMAGE
“Garbage Dreams” will be screened at la Esquina January 6. From the gallery: “Filmed over four years, ‘Garbage Dreams’ follows three teenage boys — Adham, a bright precocious 17-year-old; Osama, a charming impish 16-year-old; Nabil, a shy artistic 18-year-old — born into the trash trade and growing up in the world’s largest garbage village, a ghetto located on the outskirts of Cairo. It is a world folded onto itself, an impenetrable labyrinth of narrow roadways camouflaged by trash; it is home to 60,000 Zaballeen (or Zabbaleen), Egypt’s ‘garbage people.’”
MAGI IMAGE
Girolamo da Carpi’s “The Adoration of the Magi” is among The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art permanent collection, which includes numerous Renaissance artworks relating to the Christmas tradition.
IMAGES FIRST FRIDAY PREVIEW
See images of artists’ work in shows opening December 2 through 6; all images link to artists’ or galleries’ sites and correspond to Events listings for First Friday December 4.
IMAGES THIRD FRIDAY PREVIEW
Images of new and highlighted work for Third Friday, November 20, in conjuction with Review’s weekly visual arts calendar digest.
IMAGES SECOND FRIDAY PREVIEW NOVEMBER
Images of artists’ work from exhibitions opening November 13 — 19, 2009. Click the title or image at left to see more.
IMAGES FIRST FRIDAY PREVIEW NOVEMBER
See what you want to go see; images from exhibitions opening or open First Friday November 6. Click the image at left to see more.
FIFTH FRIDAY ARTS DIGEST
Of course Halloween is in the air, and First Friday is on the horizon — but first, Final Friday opens new exhibitions in St. Louis and celebrates new and continuing ones in Wichita; closer to Review’s home, Final Friday brings a shadow puppet play and opening at telephonebooth; an exhibition of paintings by two artists with very different histories at OneVillage; and a few other surprises — including one-time events in Lawrence, Kansas.