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Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
906 Grand Avenue 10th Floor
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

Now Showing: Aaron Dougherty's photographs of architecture are well known, but he shares from his Junk Yard series, which had a showing at Plenum Space last year.

Avenue of the Arts
Central Avenue, from 9th to 16th streets
Kansas City, Missouri
Administered in 2009 by the Avenue of the Arts Foundation (360º Architecture and DST Systems Inc.), in partnership with the City of Kansas City, Mo. Municipal Art Commission

Avenue of the Arts
Download a PDF of the 10th anniversary catalog (produced by Review Publishing) at the city's Municipal Art Commission site
Annually, May — September

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."

Recent  Works
by Clare Doveton
Opening reception: February 19, 5-8 p.m.
February 19 — March 26

Bonfils (an Urban Culture Project Studio)
125 East 12th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
(one block east of Paragraph and Urban Culture Project Space galleries)

The Central Exchange
1020 Central Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri
816-471-7560

Arts & Issues: The Kansas City Art Institute: 125 Years of Cultivating a Creative Community
Arts & Issues is a bi-monthly networking and educational luncheon that is designed to broaden awareness of the arts and cultural history, policies, and issues, presented in partnership with The Central Exchange, The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, and the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City. Free to Central Exchange members; registration for others $20. Please call or visit the Central Exchange site to RSVP.

City Center Square (an Urban Culture Project Studio)
1100 Main Street
Kansas City, Missouri

North-facing window installation:
Adolfo Martinez: Post Office Sofa
October 16, 2009 — September 2010

Downtown Neon Gallery
1921 East Truman Road
Kansas City, Missouri

HNTB Architecture
Stairway Art Space
715 Kirk Drive
Kansas City, Missouri
816-472-1201
Open for receptions and by appointment

Onion Skins and Armor
paintings by Joel Sager
First Friday opening reception: March 5, 5-7 p.m.
March 2010

Jenkins (an Urban Culture Project Space)
1217 Walnut Street
Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City Design Center
KCDC Gallery
1018 Baltimore Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri
816-421-5232

The Kansas City Public Library — Central
14 West 10th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-701-3400
Monday-Wednesday, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Thursday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Friday, 9 a.m.- 5 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday, 1-5 p.m.; free parking is available in the Library District Parking Garage at 10th and Baltimore (limited hours)

Bound for Glory: America in Color
Farm Security Administration and Office of War Administration photographs, including work by John Bachon, Jack Delano and Marion Post Wolcott; more information from the library here.
March 13 — June 6

Pitty Patt(rn)
Garry Noland and Cory Imig; curated by Sean Kelley
Artists' talk: March 16, 6:30 p.m. Imig and Noland discuss how they use mundane events and things (like magazines and receipts) to reveal beauty and meaning. Admission is free and open to all. RSVP by calling 816-701-3407 or at this link. More information from the library here.
February 21 — March 28

Opening of new Orval Hixon Gallery
Shooting Stars: The Celebrity Photography of Orval Hixon
Opening presentation: January 27, 6:30 p.m., with author and photography expert David Shields, Ph.D.; reception at 6 p.m. is open to all (please call to RSVP: 816-701-3407). Hixon's studios in the Brady Building (11th and Main) and then in the Baltimore Hotel welcomed thousands of patrons in the 1910s and 1920s in Kansas City. Learn how he transformed the field of portrait photography and celebrate the new gallery at the library made possible by the Hixon family, Richard J. Stern Foundation for the Arts-Commerce Bank Trustee. More information here.
January 27 — July 31

Paragraph & Urban Culture Project Space
21-23 East 12th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-221-5115
Thursday & Saturday, noon-5 p.m., opening Fridays, 6-9 p.m.

YOU’RE SUCH A GOOD SPORT
Artwork and performances about sports and sports culture by Miki Baird,  Shelley Buffalo, Matt Dehaemers, Chris Doyle, Megan Gallant,  Robert Heishman, Pablo Helguera, Adriane Herman, Mike Hill, Megan Mantia, Pellom McDaniels,  Ray Noland, Phil Peterson, Brian Reeves, Brett Reif, and Linda Trunzo, and materials borrowed from the Kansas City Museum and the Negro League Baseball Museum. Engaging traffic on 12th Street, Kansas City artist Alexander Austin will be creating a mural on gallery windows of local and national sports figures. The exhibition represents both sport and art as deeply rooted into our definitions of ourselves, individually and culturally and invites viewers and participants to discover commonalities within the meanings of gamesmanship and art-making. Click here for more details.
Third Friday opening reception: March 19, 6-9 p.m., featuring a performance by Rah! Booty and an appearance by the Kansas City Roller Warriors
Gallery Tour: April 3, noon, with curator Michael Schonhoff and art historian Milton Katz
WHB 810 Sports Radio live broadcast: April 9, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at the gallery
Urban Connections, 90.1 KKFI: April 17, 4 p.m., with Donna Wolfe and Michael Schonhoff, with artist Pellom McDaniels
March 19 — May 6

Paragraph
23 East 12th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-221-5115
Thursday & Saturday, noon-5 p.m., opening Fridays, 6-9 p.m.

Urban Culture Project Space
21 East 12th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-221-5115
Thursday & Saturday, noon-5 p.m., opening Fridays, 6-9 p.m.

The Training Room
With performances related to YOU'RE SUCH A GOOD SPORT, such as "Calvin Ball," bicycle-made prints ("Printcycle"), interactive training sessions, and an overnight gallery camp-out. See the Charlotte Street Foundation press release for performace times and details.
60wrd/min art critic project: April 15-17, with Chicago-based art critic/historian Lori Waxman, who travels the country to deliver rapid-fire, on-the-spot written art reviews to artists in need, on a first-come, first-served basis.
March 19, 20 & April 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30

pARTnership Place (an Urban Culture Project Studio)
906 Grand, 13th floor
Kansas City, Missouri