Join us at the Belger Glass Annex (1219. East 19th St.) this first Friday, July 1 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm for a free glassblowing demonstration featuring the Belger Glass Annex glassblowers.
Watch the team heat and shape hot glass into a work of art. This demonstration is an open-house-style event, so stay for as long as you’d like. Enjoy live music, food, and fun, too! Also, don’t forget to pop over to Belger Crane Yard Studios for the raku firing demo.
Raku firing is back on first Friday, July 1 at Belger Crane Yard Studios (2011 Tracy Avenue, KCMO)! Join us for an evening of food, drink, and a raku demonstration, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm.
There’s no cost to watch the demo, but if you’re interested in having your work fired on July 1, limited spots will be available for a fee.
Imprint is a two-person exhibition featuring ceramic works by Sarah Gross and fiber works by Mary Anne Jordan.
Sarah Gross uses pattern and repetition to engage the viewer’s eye, using multiples and repetition to build pattern and complexity. Her imprint is evident in the labor-intensive surface decoration of her vessels and in her installation titled Consumption, a 36-foot-long carpet of red-glazed ceramic tiles. The texture of each tile was created by a cast of the artist’s finger.
Mary Anne Jordan uses nontraditional quilting processes to create hand-dyed, quilted, and stitched works. Creating pattern using bold colors and intensive hand-stitching, she allows her dyes to run and smear to reveal the artist’s imprint and a humanness to the work. These visual statements allude to domesticity and daily life, while referencing current events and contemporary culture.
Imprint is a two-person exhibition featuring ceramic works by Sarah Gross and fiber works by Mary Anne Jordan.
Sarah Gross uses pattern and repetition to engage the viewer’s eye, using multiples and repetition to build pattern and complexity. Her imprint is evident in the labor-intensive surface decoration of her vessels and in her installation titled Consumption, a 36-foot-long carpet of red-glazed ceramic tiles. The texture of each tile was created by a cast of the artist’s finger.
Mary Anne Jordan uses nontraditional quilting processes to create hand-dyed, quilted, and stitched works. Creating pattern using bold colors and intensive hand-stitching, she allows her dyes to run and smear to reveal the artist’s imprint and a humanness to the work. These visual statements allude to domesticity and daily life, while referencing current events and contemporary culture.
“I paint and draw things, but I do not work from life. Although I begin with the object, I paint and draw from measurement and memory. I choose objects with little meaning or narrative attached. They are anonymous utilitarian objects; a fan, a spring, a tire. I choose them for their formal qualities, their shape, color and geometry.
I begin by measuring the object; it’s height, width and depth. Once the dimensions are determined, I place the framework in the center of the page, adjust the drawing, establish the space, and invent the light. Then I begin to draw, and the drawing takes on a life of it’s own.
I draw and erase. Things appear and vanish. The process is one of searching, not knowing. The certainty and doubt is in the history of the surface. And the work takes on a new meaning and the subject becomes the work itself.”
-Andrew Watel
Andrew Watel grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He received an undergraduate degree in Painting from San Francisco State University in 1977 and a Master of Fine Art from Yale University in 1983. Upon graduating from Yale, he moved to New York City where he independently pursued painting and teaching. In 1993, as a founding member, he established and developed The Painting Center, an independent non-profit artist run space. He curated several shows there, including the work of such ‘painter’s painters’ as Albert York and Jake Berthot. Twenty-eight years later, The Center remains viable today and offers artists alternative exhibition space. From 2006 until 2017 he taught as an Adjunct Professor of Painting and Illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. Here he developed his own curricula for beginning and advanced painting and drawing, led seminars and supervised independent projects.
In 2018 he moved from New York to Kansas City to pursue painting full time.
