First Friday @1739gallery in the Crossroads Art District! We are among the amazing galleries who showcase the most phenomenal artist’s in Kansas City… We are ecstatic to have the incomparable @emiiilyjacobsen live painting at 1739 this Friday 6/2. She will be among some of the most talented artist’s showcasing their work for you to visually enjoy and select a piece to take home or hang in your office! You also get a chance to shop with and support local small businesses! See you Friday!!!

Cultivating partnerships and fostering healthy, thriving relationships is our ultimate goal! Come check out some of the most incredible art from @kid_lane @artistjblee @saint_leon_art@leonardledouxjrart @afkaduddy and more.

6 – 10pm
Free
1739 Walnut St

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ART OPENING RECEPTION — Open Studio/Gallery – FIRST FRIDAY – JUNE 2nd -
Landscape Paintings by Anne Garney with live music by Jeff Porter
5PM– 8PM
1920 Wyandotte St., Unit 5, KCMO 64108 (entrance — NW corner of the building)
Hope you can stop by!
www.annegarneypaintings.com

Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral at 13^th & Broadway will be hosting a First Friday event June 2 from 5 – 9 p.m. We will have on display volumes of The Saint John’s Bible, offer tours of the Nave (stained glass windows and liturgical art), as well as secular visual art and music. Appetizers and wine will be available as well.

About The Saint John’s Bible — In 1998, Saint John’s Abbey and University commissioned renowned calligrapher Donald Jackson to produce a hand-written, hand-illuminated Bible. We invite you to explore this work of art that unites an ancient Benedictine tradition with the technology and vision of today, illuminating the Word of God for a new millennium.

Beggars Snapshots: First Friday Hang ????
????️ June 2, 6 – 9 pm
???? 2010 Baltimore Ave, Kansas City Crossroads

Join us for a night of art, music, snacks, wine, and good company at Beggars Snapshots! Immerse yourself in community art projects, enjoy live music, and indulge in tasty treats and wine. Don’t miss this unforgettable event!

Belger Crane Yard Gallery presents Milestones: Belger Arts’ Tenth Annual Resident Artist Exhibition opening Friday, June 2, 2023, at 2011 Tracy Avenue, Kansas City, MO 64108. The public is invited to view the work and meet the artists from 6 to 8 pm. The exhibition includes work by Cindy Leung, Sun Young Park, Gina Pisto, Adams Puryear, Meredith Smith, and Nicole Woodard.

This year Belger Arts celebrates a significant milestone: the tenth year of its Artists in Residence program. The program originated at Red Star Studios, a long-time Kansas City ceramics gallery and studio. After its closing the program found a permanent home in May 2013 when Belger Crane Yard Studios opened. Belger Crane Yard Studios continues to host national and international artists through the program, providing ceramic artists the opportunity to expand their body of work or create a special project that may be outside of the scope of their routine studio practice.

The group exhibition, with its range of styles, themes, and techniques, also marks a milestone for the six artists, as it is the culmination of their time in the residency program. Through porcelain, a ceramic material originating from the East and popularized by the West, Cindy Leung facilitates conversations around topics such as consumerism, colonization, and cultural hybridity. Sun Young Park combines clay and non-clay materials to create large, abstract sculptures that reflect how she processes and translates her reality and explores the duality of the material and the conceptual. Adams Puryear documents pop and internet culture, combining traditional techniques and contemporary imagery inspired by the internet’s “anti- filter.” Curio as a site within the domestic, plays a major role in Gina Pisto’s work that explores the ritual of collecting and preservation as an act of desire. Meredith Smith uses clay, figurative sketching, poetry, and various other aspects of her work to relay an array of experiences across the human condition. Nicole Woodard’s work currently focuses on exploring the vulnerability and trauma of the body from the perspective of a woman.