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Marn Jensen + Andy Newcom: Art of the Wish

April 27, 2022 By Leedy-Voulkos Art Center

Artists Andy Newcom and Marn Jensen have been friends and creative co-workers for over 35 years and share a love for older people. As Hallmark Barbara Marshall Award co-winners in 2018, they were given the opportunity to work on a passion-led project. Together they chose to interview over 200 elders across the country — to gather their wishes for themselves, their families and for the world. Based on those wishes to the world, Newcom and Jensen created artwork in a poignant and memorable way. The event was met with great enthusiasm and success, so they continued their mission to give voice to those who are not always heard.

This exhibit comprises a range of mediums — from photographic to sculptural, textile to encaustic, mixed media to painting — allowing the “wish” to inspire the direction of each art piece. The artists were intentional about the materials used, often incorporating repurposed, found objects that had once been discarded and tossed aside. “Breathing new life into these objects is a perfect metaphor for appreciating the potential and beauty in old things,” they explained.

Experienced in both writing and visual art, Newcom and Jensen bring both aspects to this exhibit. “We have a love for story-telling as well as the visual work. It was important for us both to give each piece a slice of context to set the stage,” Newcom says. The artists’ wish is that this body of work inspires people to reach out and have a conversation with an elder. They promise, “it will not only make their day, but it will make your day, too.”

Art of the Wish Story

Common Thread

April 27, 2022 By ccruz@belger.net

Common Thread brings together the work of five ceramic artists who are inspired by textiles and textile processes. While the artists’ inspirations and representations vary, each incorporates fibers or fiber techniques in their process.

Shae Bishop explores the relationship between ceramics and textiles by making connections between each medium’s cultural history, pattern-making systems, and interactions with the human body. His work includes wearable garment sculptures made of interlaced ceramic tiles. Jeremy Brooks crochets, knits, and weaves strands of elastic clay to create forms that are inspired by traditional vessel making, mundane objects, and the queer experience. April Felipe’s collaged works blend ceramics, fiber, and wood and reference her childhood home, themes of identity, and the desire to belong. Inspired by ancient Italian and Lithuanian techniques, Anna Valenti’s woven and pinched clay vessels highlight shared traditions, human interaction, connectivity, and empathy. Casey Whittier’s work examines the systems of construction adopted from historical craft disciplines. Linking forms such as ceramic coils and beads she creates ceramic quilts, flowers, and other objects used in daily life.

The artists in Common Thread demonstrate a mastery of craft, a profound understanding of human connection, and share a playful and experimental approach to clay materials and processes.

First Friday: Bảo Ơi by Hùng Lê

April 25, 2022 By kellyk@christcommunitykc.org

Each year, the Four Chapter Gallery partners with the Kansas City Art Institute Fiber Department to present the work of an outstanding graduating senior.

This year, we are excited to invite you to view the work of Hùng Lê, a Vietnamese-American artist. In his exhibit, Bảo Ơi, the artist considers the liminal space he occupies as an inheritor of two counties. Utilizing fabric, photographs, and found objects in combination with laser engraving and woodworking, Lê excavates memory and history to better understand himself and provide a methodology to help him navigate through larger cultural ideas and established structures such as society or family. 

14th Annual Visions of the Flint Hills First Friday

April 25, 2022 By jon@buttonwoodartspace.com

EXHIBITION DATES: OCTOBER 3 — DECEMBER 14, 2022

FIRST FRIDAY RECEPTION: OCTOBER 7, 2022, 5PM — 8PM 

14th Annual Visions of the Flint Hills Art Benefit and Sale is a juried exhibition featuring artwork of the remarkable ecosystem that is the Flint Hills. The Flint Hills region contains the largest tallgrass prairie in North America. The beautiful scenes of the prairie inspire artists locally and nationally.

Join us for live music, drinks, and tons of great art on October 7th! From 5 – 8pm, explore the Flint Hills region of Kansas right here in Kansas City through the artwork of amazing artists.

All artworks in this exhibition will depict or be derived from the Flint Hills region of Kansas. This exhibit will run from October 3rd — December 14th, 2022 at Buttonwood Art Space, 3013 Main Street, Kansas City, MO 64108.

Art sales benefit Friends of Konza Prairie (FOKP), a friends group of Kansas State University. FOKP promotes educational research and experiences in the Konza Prairie Biological Station, an area of the Flint Hills just south of Manhattan, Kansas. The 8,600 acre Konza Prairie and the surrounding Flint Hills region contain the largest remaining parcels of the Tallgrass Prairie that once covered 140 million acres in North America.

Each purchase of beautiful artwork will benefit FOKP with 50% of net sales going to the organization and the remaining 50% going directly to artists.

OPEN STUDIO — FIRST FRIDAY — MAY 6

April 20, 2022 By anne@annegarneypaintings.com

Art Opening Reception w/ Live Music
Landscape Paintings by Anne Garney

Friday May 6th — 5PM — 9PM

1920 Wyandotte St., Unit 5
KCMO 64108(The entrance is at the NW corner of the building)

& Live Music from 8pm-9pm
Royal Scanlon & Gary Paredes w/ special guest Rick Huyett

Hope you can stop by!

https://www.annegarneypaintings.com

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