Review

2631 Gallery
2631 Holmes Road
Kansas City, Missouri
816-777-6838
By appointment Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., First Fridays

Young Turks: Recent Graduates of the Kansas City Art Institute
Featuring Dane Bonner, Nathan Davies, Heather Lamnano, Daniel Lough, and Thomas Woodward; curated by Thomas Woodward
First Friday opening reception: September 3, 5-10 p.m., with sponsorship by Corporate Caterers and Weston Brewing Company; live music
September 3 — 27

All Souls Universalist Church
4501 Walnut Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-531-2131

New Work by Jason Sierra
Opening reception: August 29, noon-3 p.m.

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

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

Inner Workings, An Examination of the Machine through Painting and Sculpture
Mixed media: trompe l'oiel paintings on high-relief wood sculptures by Marie McKenzie
First Friday opening reception: August 6, 6-9 p.m. (free and open to the public, with complimentary hors d'oeuvres and beverages
Exhibition continues: August 7, noon-3 p.m.
August 6 — 7

Animal Magnetism
Ceramic creatures by Liz Burns, Jim Hasselle, Madeline Joiley, Calder Kamin, Megan McKamy, and Jason Milford
"Furry Friday" opening reception: May 21, 6-9 p.m., with snacks and beverages (free and open to all)
Exhibition continues: May 22, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

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.

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

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

Director's Choice Invitational
August 5 — September 23

Carter Art Center
Penn Valley Community College
3201 Southwest Trafficway
Kansas City, Missouri
816-759-4278
Tuesday-Friday, 1-5 p.m., Saturday, noon-3 p.m.

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.

Reading the Grain
Scott George Beattie
Opening reception: September 10, 5-7 p.m., as part of the 31st annual Art Westport artist fair
September 10 — November 2

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

Eva Reynolds Fine Arts, Inc. III
Sheraton Country Club Plaza
770 West 47th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
913-681-8002
Open daily, 8 a.m.-9 p.m.

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 is 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)

ART-TEST
Curated by Sean Kelley and including Scott George Beattie, Brock DeBoer, Jocelyn Himes, and Lynus Young, who are each presenting work that is a prototype to inform future solo exhibitions
Fourth Friday opening reception: August 27, 7-9 p.m., with a gallery talk by Sean Kelley at 6:30 p.m.
Additional gallery talk: August 28, 2 p.m. with the curator and artists
August 27 — October 2

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)

Fisk University Carl Van Vechten Gallery Exhibition of African-American Printmaking
Includes 12 works including linoleum block, woodcut, screen print, stone lithographs, and etchings ranging from 1933 to 1983, such as by students of Charles Alston and James Lesene Wells (Harlem Art Workshop of NY Public Library's 135th Street branch / Harlem Renaissance: Michael D. Atkins, Romare Bearden, David C. Driskell, Manuel Hughes, Sam Middleton, Stephanie Pogue, Vincent Smith and James Lesesne Wells)
July 6 — October 31

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

2010 Kansas City Flatfile
Third Friday opening reception: June 18, 6-8 p.m., with the Fundred Dollar Bill Project by Mel Chin in the Artspace Studio Space, in partnership with Chameleon. Also from noon to 5 p.m. on June 19. Read more about the project here in Review.
June 19 — September 25

Additional related event:
September 11, noon-5 p.m. The Big Draw A day-long event offering drawing sessions for all ages, held in the Artspace Studio Space.

Artspace Project Wall: Relax (by David Ford; outdoors, facing west)
November 13, 2009 —

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

Current Perspectives Lecture Series:
September 16, 7 p.m. Visiting artist Michael J. Byron, in Epperson Auditorium, Vanderslice Hall. Free and open to the public.

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.

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: Marc Swanson
The first in a three-part series, smaller-sized focused exhibitions featuring a recent addition to the museum's collection: Swanson's Descent of Civilization (Bison Memorial) public art commission is being installed at Ninth and Broadway downtown as the third DST Systems-Kemper Museum alliance sculpture placement.
August 20 — December 5

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.

Mythic Architectures: Works from the Kemper Museum Collection
March 16 — September 3

Leopold Gallery
324 West 63rd Street (Brookside)
Kansas City, Missouri
816-333-3111
Monday-Friday, 10a.m.-6p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m -5 p.m.

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.

Free walk-in tours: Highlights for American Indian Art, Saturday & Sunday, 2:30 p.m., Thursday & Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Nelson-Atkins NOW!, Wednesday-Friday, 1:30 p.m., Thursday & Friday, 7 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m., Sunday, 3 p.m.

Featured exhibitions (in addition to permanent collection and other exhibitions):
Thinking Photography: Five Decades at the Kansas City Art Institute
Curated by April M. Watson and Keith F. Davis
July 24, 2010 — January 2, 2011

Eyeing the Extraordinary: A Selection of Masterworks in The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
March 3 — September 5

American Art on Paper: Souvenirs
May 5 – October 17

Solitary: Alienation in Modern Life
July 12, 2010 — January 17, 2011

Pi Art Barn
(new location/rendition of Pi gallery formerly in the Crossroads)
3030 McGee Street (in the barn in back)
Kansas City, Missouri
816-210-6534

Susan Taber Avila (California fiber artist)
&
Laura Setchfield (St. Louis-based ceramicist)
&
others "hometown favorites"
Fourth Friday opening reception: August 27, 6-9 p.m.
Additional gallery hours: August 28 & 29, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

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

Suze Ford Hernandez: All Dressed Up
June 28 — September 11

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

telephonebooth
3319 Troost Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri
816-582-9812 (call ahead)
Saturday, noon-5 p.m., openings, and by appointment; closed for winter, next show TBA

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

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 Gallery of Art
The Department of Art and Art History
University of Missouri - Kansas City
203 Fine Arts Building (between library and main student center)
5100 Rockhill Road / 5051 Holmes Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-235-1501
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 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)

Floodplain Refugee Housing, Kansas City 2050-2100
Tim Brown
Opening reception: August 7, 6-9 p.m.
July 7 — September 27