Event Calendar 
THIRD FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST(1)
November 18, 2011 —
Third Friday brings a new exhibition at Plug Projects, graffiti-inspired photographs at The Trap, the ArtsKC Fall Happy Hour, a talk at Kemper Museum (including Barry Anderson), and more. Don’t forget that BREAD! KC celebrates a year of micro-granting this Saturday with a special Thanksgiving Gala. It’s also lecture day at City Arts Project and opening night for “The Voice That Reaches You IV” at Cara and Cabezas Contemporary.
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FINAL FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, OCTOBER 2011
Updated for November 3rd events; look for new listings for First Friday, November 4 soon.
THIRD FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, OCTOBER 2011
Third Friday brings two new group exhibitions full of large, local and even international talent: “LOVE RUST” at The Trap Gallery in Columbus Park and “Celestial Terrestrials” at Greenlease Gallery on the Rockhurst University campus, curated by Dan Freuh and Elisabeth Kirsch, respectively. It is also Third Friday at The Kansas City Club, and tomorrow evening is the highly anticipated annual benefit auction exhibition for The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, “Beyond Bounds: BRILLIANT.”
SECOND FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, OCTOBER 2011
New work at the H&R Block Artspace by KCAI faculty opens tonight, while the first-ever Second Friday Troost Art Hop goes on a few blocks to the east; Paul Flinders has a new solo exhibition of work opening in Lawrence at Wink, and it’s the final Mission Art Walk of the season. Monsters of Design is presenting all that’s new and cutting-edge from the younger set of our local design community, tonight, too. Saturday is “Urban/Suburban,” and Sunday is BreadKC! and a closing picnic and talk at the “IOU/USA” sculpture by John Salvest.
FIRST FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, OCTOBER 2011
First Friday brings new work at Spraybooth, Windhorse, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Plenum, Kemper in the Crossroads, VALA, Hilliard, and more. Red Star Studios and Belger Arts Center present a new expansive exhibition of Richard Notkin’s ceramics. Saturday events are listed together; galleries are in alphabetical order. See you out there!
FOURTH FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, SEPTEMBER 2011
Tonight, the first exhibition at Plug Projects and “The Big Reveal” at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. It’s Plaza Art Fair weekend, where museums and organizations like ArtsKC have booths; come down and see Heinrich Toh and other local favorites. Saturday, the Wichita Art Museum is part of Smithsonian Day, and Sunday, BREAD! comes to City Arts, home of la Cucaracha Press.
THIRD FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, SEPTEMBER 2011
Join Nicole Emanuel for an opening of her work at the UMKC Dean’s Gallery Wednesday, come learn about PLUG Projects at the Nerman’s Third Thursday lecture, and prepare for Third Friday in Columbus Park, downtown at the Charlotte Street Foundation’s Urban Culture Project Space and Paragraph Gallery, at the Kansas City Club, and at Images in Johnson County.
SECOND FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, SEPTEMBER 2011
New tonight: Cara and Cabezas Contemporary (photography reflecting Cuba), the Nerman Museum (Charlotte Street awards), Corridor Art Space (George Rousis), The Studios Inc (Marcie Miller Gross), and Kemper Museum (June Ahrens). Tomorrow, the Dolphin opens two solo exhibitions (Jim Leedy and Philip Heying), the Spencer Museum starts one of two companion exhibitions about Native America, and workshops and artists’ talks continue.
FIRST FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, SEPTEMBER 2011
Even though it’s a holiday weekend, Kansas City’s galleries are not taking a break for First Friday: besides Salvest’s “New Cornucopia / IOU” installations through Grand Arts, there is a big solo exhibition by Jun Kaneko at Sherry Leedy, three new solo exhibitions at KCAC, the first CSF Biennial of Regional BFA/MFA candidates at la Esquina, Michael Allen Lowe in from CA at Leedy-Voulkos, the next installment of Rocket Grant-funded “Johnny America” at Hammerpress, an open house at City Arts, and much more.
FOURTH/FINAL FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, AUGUST 2011
Lawrence Final Friday celebrates its first anniversary tonight, with a special addition of a KU campus art walk and a Mobile Gallery Project convening at the Spencer Museum of Art between 4 and 6 p.m. Walk, bike, or cruise down Ninth Street to the galleries along Mass. and New Hampshire streets afterward. In KC, Greenlease opens its “Between Thee & Me,” and on Saturday, the benefit for Joplin artists is on at Leedy-Voulkos Art Center; come “Twist & Shout” at a great auction that reclaims tornado debris for a good cause.
THIRD FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, AUGUST 2011
The newly renovated Gallery of Art & Design at the University of Central Missouri hosts its first exhibition opening in conjunction with “3rdsdays in the ‘Burg” Main Street celebration, with work by Rita Blitt, Anne Lindbergh, and the Society of Illustrators. Michael Waddell opens a solo exhibition that evening in KC, too; read more about Third Friday, with ArtsKC, BNIM, the KC Club, la Esquina, and the Trap all vying for your attention with quality presentations.
SECOND FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, AUGUST 2011
Second Friday reveals the much-publicized “Shuttlecarts” mobile sculptures at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and there is a new exhibition about leaving and coming back home at the Lawrence Percolator opening on Saturday. We look ahead to Third Friday (and Thursday), with new exhibitions at All Souls, the Gallery of Art & Design at UCM, BNIM and The Trap.
FIRST FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, AUGUST 2011
Crossroads First Friday highlights are here! A few other exhibitions and events are downtown, in Johnson County, at 18th & Vine, and Midtown (where it’s the final weekend for Monet’s united “Water Lilies”). Image at left is by Scott Anderson, part of a sweeping exhibition of 30 print artists confronting the affects and implications of the US-Mexico border wall, opening at Spray Booth Gallery tonight.
FOURTH FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, JULY 2011
Next Friday is full of Lawrence and Witchia exhibition openings (Final Friday), and this week in Kansas City, filmmaker Jeremy Collins presents “The Wolf & The Medallion,” a live animation/music performance story. Another round of BREAD! and the latest exhibition opening at The Kansas City Jewish Museum of Contemporary Art/Epsten Gallery are Sunday, July 24th.