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October 14, 6-10 p.m. Troost Art Hop The first celebration of art and culture along the Troost corridor; businesses up and down Troost will be opening their doors and offering their parking lots to host the first Troost Art Hop, 31st through 51st Streets. Activities include: live painting, spoken word, drumming, sidewalk chalk art, dance and music performances, workshops, and visits to green businesses and art galleries. Participants include: Atlas Art Studio (3219), Telephone Booth gallery (3321), RevolveKC Bike Shop (5100), Freak's Tattoo (4101), Firehouse (4818), Emerald City (4334), and many more. For a list and link to map, please click here. All day bus passes on the KC Metro Troost MAX line are $3, so you can enjoy more.

2631 Gallery
2631 Holmes Road
Kansas City, Missouri
816-777-6838
First Fridays, and by appointment

All Souls Universalist Church
4501 Walnut Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-531-2131
gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Saturday, 9-11 a.m., Sunday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

“…a small world view”
Michael Waddell
Opening reception: August 18, 7-9 p.m.
August 18 —

Aquarius Books & Vulcan's Forge
3936 Broadway Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-931-6303
Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Sunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; closed Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, New Year's Day

Barbershop Gallery
33rd Street at Gillham Road
Kansas City, Missouri
816-665-8118
Openings and by appointment

Blue Koi
1803 West 39th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-561-5003
Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m., Saturday 12 p.m.-10:30 p.m.

Boiler Room / Monarch Gallery
3829 Main Street
Kansas City, Missouri
By appointment; contact Ryan@breadandglitter.com

Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center
3700 Blue Parkway
Kansas City, Missouri
816-513-0700
Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Buttonwood Art Space
3013 Main Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-285-9000
Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and opening events

Carter Art Center
Penn Valley Community College
3201 Southwest Trafficway
Kansas City, Missouri
816-604-4278
Tuesday-Friday, 1-5 p.m., Saturday, noon-3 p.m.

First Faculty Art Exhibition
First Friday opening reception: September 2, 6-9 p.m., beginning with artists' talk
September 2 — 16

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.

Fe, Phi, Faux, Fum
ironwork by George Rousis
Opening reception: September 9, 5-7 p.m.
Closing reception: November 3, 5-7 p.m., with Cheri Lu Woods, "Words-Spoken and Sung"
September 9 — November 4

September 23, 5-10 p.m.; September 24, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. & September 25, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. The Country Club Plaza
80th Annual Plaza Art Fair on the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri, features 240 artists selling their work, three live music stages, a kids art workshop, the Kemper Street Museum, Experience ArtsKC, and free admission. Click the links for more information.

Dharma Gallery
3954 Central Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri
816-363-4124
First Fridays, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., First Saturdays, 5-9 p.m., First Sundays, noon-5 p.m.

Dream Studio
711 East 31st Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-304-9513

Eva Reynolds Fine Art, Gallery II
Sheraton Country Club Plaza
770 West 47th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
913-681-8002
Open daily, 8 a.m.-10 p.m.

Babe Atha
recent works
March 21 — May 20

The Firehouse
4518 Troost Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri
Studio; open for events

Frame Gallery
1415 Westport Road
Kansas City, Missouri
816-756-3341
Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Saturday, noon-5 p.m., and by appointment on Monday

Greenlease Gallery
Rockhurst University
1100 Rockhurst Road
(gallery between Van Ackeren and Sedgewick Halls; entrance to campus parking lot at 5400 Troost Avenue)
Kansas City, Missouri
816-501-4407
Thursday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m., reception Friday until 9 p.m., and by appointment (during academic year)

Celestial Terrestrials: Between Heaven and Earth
group multi-media exhibition of contemporary artists dealing with the subject of supernatural intermediaries, curated by Elisabeth J. Kirsch, including work by Marcus Cain, Russell Easterwood, Gear, Tanya Hartman, Diane Henk, Jessica Kincaid, Ke Sook Lee, Christopher Leitch, Linda Lighton, Kim Lindaberry, Richard Montoya, Dylan Mortimer, Nora Othic, Jason Pollen, John Sandbach, Ron Slowinski, Sun Smith-Foret, Renee Stout, Vivian Torrence, Richard Welnowski, and Dan Younger
Opening reception beginning with gallery talk by the curator: October 20, 5:30-9 p.m.
October 20 — December 3

Halls Plaza
211 Nichols Road
Kansas City, Missouri
816-274-3230

Healing Arts Gallery
Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill
2301 Holmes Street
First Floor, in hall leading to and across glassed bridge over Charlotte Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-404-0035
Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.-6 p.m. or by appointment through calling Caleb Fey at the number above; visitors can park in the main visitor’s parking lot off Holmes Street and enter through the main hospital entrance; gallery is straight down the hall and left (before elevator bank); alternatively, street parking is in Charlotte, a floor below (turn right at pharmacy, go down long hall to elevators)

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

Narrow Margins
recent work by Kansas City Art Institute faculty, including: Corey Antis, Tim Brown, Kelly Clark, Maura Cluthe, Kim Eichler-Messmer, Cary Esser, Julie Farstad, John Ferry, Jessie Fisher, Tyler Galloway, Misty Gamble, Jamie Gray, Erika Hanson, Diana Heise, Asma Kazmi, Michael Kidwell, Marty Maxwell Lane, Tom Lewis, Richard Mattsson, Steve Mayse, Karen McCoy, Cyan Meeks, David Overholt, Brett Reif, Daniel Reneau, Miguel Rivera, Warren Rosser, Kate Sage-Lindholm, Jim Sajovic, Scott Seebart, Gary Sutton, Caleb Taylor, Liz Van Verth, Pauline Verbeek-Cowart, and Michael Wickerson
Opening reception: October 14, 6-8 p.m.
October 14 — December 14

Artspace Project Wall:
Dan Perjovschi
Beginning April, 2011

hOOp dOg studiO
3308 Troost
Kansas City, Missouri
816-769-8994

Jan Weiner Studio
4800 Liberty Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-550-1188
Open by appointment

Kansas City Art Institute
4415 Warwick Boulevard
Kansas City, Missouri
Usual events contact: 816-802-3423

November 3, 7 p.m. Current Perspectives Thursday free lectures in Vanderslice Hall continue; this week, Julián Zugazagoitia, the fifth director of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, will speak. Born in Mexico and educated at the Sorbonne Paris IV in France, he is fluent in six languages and has worked in the Americas, Europe and Africa. For the past seven years, Zugazagoitia has been the director/CEO of El Museo del Barrio in New York. He led the institution through a $44 million renovation project that resulted in new gallery spaces, a refurbished facility and a popular restaurant. He is known for his collaborations with other institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, the National Portrait Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Before leading El Museo, Zugazagoitia worked at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York as executive assistant to the director. As a consultant and curator, he also worked with UNESCO and the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles, organizing exhibitions, events and conferences internationally. He also curated exhibitions for the international art fair ARCO 2005, the 25th Sao Paulo Biennale in Brazil in 2002 and as director of visual arts with the Spoleto Festival in Italy.

October 16, 7-10 p.m. BREAD! KC Sunday Soup Day Bread! is a public dinner designed to use community-driven financial support to democratically fund new and emerging projects. At each Bread! event, participants pay an entrance fee of $10 and receive a ballot; after a hearty dinner of homemade soups and Farm to Market bread, diners vote on projects presented by artists in person. The artist who receives the most votes receives the door money (less seed money for the next dinner) and speaks at a future Bread! to update about their project. To RSVP for Bread!, pleaes write to breadkc@gmail.com (Sean Starowitz et al).

June 26, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Art of the Car Concours® The fifth annual fundraising show dedicated to what makes automobiles lovely in design features more than 180 vintage, classic, and special-interest vehicles on display at the art institute campus. Vehicles include cars, trucks, racing cars, and vintage motorcycles belonging to collectors from eight states (Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina, and Oklahoma), and all proceeds benefit the student scholarship fund at KCAI. Save $3 when purchasing tickets online at www.artofthecarconcours.com. Children 10 years of age and younger and active duty military (with identification) with be admitted free.

KCAI Student Gallery
106 East 43 Street (next to H&R Block Artspace)
Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City Public Library — Plaza Branch
4801 Main Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-701-3481
Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sunday, 1-6 p.m.

Century of Legendary Places: The Legacy of Kansas City's Hare & Hare
March 31, 2011 — March 2012

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.

September 23 —25 Kemper at The Plaza Art Fair Join the Kemper Street Museum at the 80th annual Plaza Art Fair at the Country Club Plaza, where you can take a spin on the Art Wheel and win a prize or bring your kids to take part in a hands-on activity, related to Petah Coyne's work in The Big Reveal.

The Big Reveal
an exhibition highlighting new acquisitions to the museum's collection, including a major installation by Petah Coyne Untitled #1336 (Scalapino Nu Shu) made of apple trees and stuffed peacocks, as well as two works by Barry Anderson, Pigeon and Janus
Opening reception: September 23, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Artist talk: September 23, 6:30 p.m. in the Meeting Room with Petah Coyne
Artist talk: September 24, 1 p.m. in the Meeting Room with Susanne Kühn
Double Vision Lecture Series: November 18, 6 p.m. Totems and Taxidermy In this series of lectures featuring an artist and an expert, hear The Big Reveal's Barry Anderson and participatory author Melissa Milgrom speak. Anderson channels our media-saturated psyches in his digital dioramas, and Milgrom, author of Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy, reveals the origins of taxidermy in natural history museums, its revival in contemporary art, and her own experience participating in the World Taxidermy Championships. Seating is first come, first served in the museum meeting room. Cash bar opens at 5 p.m.
September 23, 2011 — April 15, 2012

September 11, 2 p.m. Objects and Memory Free screening in the meeting room, this film follows people driven to preserve meaningful objects in the aftermath of 9/11 and other upheavals: "Without the objects, the stories lack vibrancy; without the stories the objects lack significance."

September 10, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. A Community of Memories: Adult Workshop with June Ahrens Create memory vessels with artist June Ahrens in this free workshop (held in the meeting room). Work through exercises to recall and write about memories then transform and encapsulate their written pieces using glass containers and personal effects associated with their memories. The vessels will be assembled into a temporary installation. Register at 816-457-6134 or reservations@kemperart.org. A list of required materials will be provided.

Acquisitions in Context: June Ahrens
September 9 — December 24

The Abstract Autograph
March 9 — November 20

Start with Art Fridays
A monthly free public event on the second Friday of the month, hosted at the Kemper Museum. Make it an evening by winding down at Café Sebastienne's Happy Hour that begins at 5 p.m., or enjoy dinner after the program.

InFocus
Education Ambassadors provide free gallery walk and talk, discussing aspects of artwork currently on view, Sundays from 2 to 3 p.m.

Create Your Own Reality
Activity night that brings people together to make new connections and share creative ideas to jump-start ideas and projects they have; "work on any type of project and still be social." Some materials are provided, but participants are encouraged to bring their own project materials, too. Free, but registration is required.

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art — Kemper East
200 East 44th Street
(to the northeast of the main museum, north of KCAI campus)
Kansas City, Missouri
816-753-5784
Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Leopold Gallery
324 West 63rd Street (Brookside)
Kansas City, Missouri
816-333-3111
Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m-6 p.m.

My Body, My Canvas
KCAI 2011 Photography & Digital Filmmaking Senior Thesis Exhibition of Alicia (Tweetie) Foster
April 22 — May 7

Lester Goldman Studio
37 West 57th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-444-9074

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.

To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s
October 15, 2011 — January 8, 2012

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

Bingham@200
A bicentennial exhibition of the life of artist George Caleb Bingham, an artist who depicted Missouri frontier life including portraits and paintings of fur traders, Native American life, political processes, and everyday life.
March 9 — October 2

P1 Studios
31oo Gillham Street
Kansas City, Missouri

October 14, 5:30-9:30 p.m. 2011 Monsters of Design Competition Awards Party Young Architects Forum invite everyone to the Monsters of Design awards at Gillham Plaza @ P1 Studio in Martini Corner. The Monsters of Design awards are given each year for young architects and/or designers from or near the Kansas City metro area (250-mile radius) in recognition of good design, regardless of scale, budget, or genre. Questions? Please contact us at mod@monstersofdesign.com or call AIA KC at 816-221-3485.

Pi Art Barn
3030 McGee Street (in the barn in back)
Kansas City, Missouri
816-210-6534
Openings and by appointment

Hot of the Damns and the Cornagrams
new work by Lori Raye Erickson and Doug Schwietert; new sculptures by Stan Silverman
Opening reception: September 23, 6-9 p.m
September 23 —

Poptopia
4126 Pennsylvania Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri
816-931-9800
Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Sunday, noon-5 p.m.

April 30, 4-8 p.m. Adoption Time for Froliklz Alisa Ross releases a new line of limited edition new, hand-made plush creatures, captured in three different stages of their life. Meet-and-greet with the artist and also her husband, Donald "Scribe" Ross, who will be available to do sketches.

Prospero's Bookstore
1800 West 39 Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-531-9673

Room 39
1719 West 39th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-753-3939
Monday-Saturday, 7 a.m.-10 p.m.; hosts artwork through Guerilla Curating

Scott Fitness Center
3600 Broadway
(Next to Uptown Theatre; parking and entrance to building on west side, lower level)
Kansas City, Missouri
816-960-0520

Subterranean Gallery
4124 Warwick Boulevard, Apartment B
Kansas City, Missouri
309-230-7115 or email
Open for receptions, scheduled tours and by appointment

telephonebooth
3319 Troost Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri
816-582-9812 (call ahead)
openings and by appointment

Tivoli Cinemas
Westport Manor Square
4050 Pennsylvania Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri
913-383-7756 (showtimes); 816-561-5222 (tickets)

Earthwork
Special screening with the artist and filmmaker: May 13, 7:15 p.m. (Stan Herd and Chris Ordal will also be at the 5 p.m. showing May 14 at the Glenwood Arts Theater in Overland Park, Kansas). Read more about the film in Rapp Sheet — 9-8-10.
May 13 — 19

Toy and Miniature Museum of Kansas City
5235 Oak Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-333-9328
Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Sunday, 1-4 p.m.

Unity Temple on the Plaza
707 West 47th Street (at Jefferson)
Kansas City, Missouri
816-561-4466
Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Sunday, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.; hosts artwork

UMKC Dean's Gallery
University of Missouri - Kansas City
Miller Nichols Library
Second Floor
800 East 51st Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-235-1526 (exhibition opening information: 816-235-1557; umkcwc.org)
Semester hours: Monday-Thursday, 7:30 a.m.-11 p.m., Friday, 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday, 1-11 p.m.

ArtWork by Nicole Emanuel
Opening reception: September 14, 4:30-6:30 p.m., sponsored by the UMKC Women's Council
September 14 — December 20

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
Spring 2011 semester hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 1-5 p.m., Thursday, 1-7 p.m., receptions and by appointment
Summer 2011 hours: Tuesday, 10 a.m.-noon, Thursday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Hand Print Press's UMKC National Print Exhibition
Opening reception: September 8 5, 5-7 p.m.
September 8 — October 29

Ward & Ward Custom Picture Framing
6213 Oak Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-333-6459

Alphonse Mucha
March 21 — April 2

Westport Roanoke Community Center
3601 Roanoke Road
Kansas City, Missouri
816-784-5200
Monday & Saturday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Tuesday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.-9 p.m.

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)

September 3, 7-9 p.m. A Celebration of Music, Dance and the Literary Word is part of a 5-event series, Celebrating Voices, exploring the literary, performance and visual arts of various ethnic and social groups.The first installment includes poets Stan banks, Maria Boyd, William Trowbridge, and Susan Whitmore, with the River Cow Orchestra and Kacico Dance company. Funded by the Missouri Arts Council, the series continues November 4, February 17, March 16, and June 15.

Extreme 3-D Interactive Blog
an exhibition of zines and art by Eve Englezos, Brigette Poniewaz, and Alex Schubert: "It could be argued that blogs, with their ability to fulfill much the same role of personal expression, have made zines obsolete. It is our thought, however, that the products of the small presses have simply become that much more precious and personal. Zines have been embraced by a new generation of crafters and do-it-yourselfers." More information and images at the Extreme3-DInteractive Blog here.
Opening reception: July 2, 6-9 p.m., with 'zines available for sale and trade
July 2 — September 30

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