Come join us for the last First Friday of 2025 at the Bunker Center for the Arts with the opening reception of Mike Lyon | Kwanza Humphrey | TJ Templeton : Selected Works. There’s free parking, light refreshments, and a chance to meet the artists.

Welcome to our December Art Gallery Show!
Show runs thru December 31st.
First Friday hours on December 5th. are from 5 till 8pm.
Regular Gallery hours are from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Closed Sunday.
All are welcome and always free to visit, thanks!
Jones Gallery 1717 Walnut, KCMO. 64108
816 – 421‑2111
https://jonesgallerykc.com/ 

Join us on Friday, December 5th, for a Holiday First Friday Pop-up at Green Dirt on Oak in the East Crossroads. We’ll have some great local holidy shopping, including samples of Green Dirt Farm sheep milk hot chocolate and our new yogurt. We’ll also be featuring Fair Share Farm ferments and pickles along with other local vendors.

I create paintings that merge bold surface design with implied narratives. These sculptural forms play with light, shadow, and negative space. Recurring characters — rabbits, foxes, crows, snakes, and the figure of Pinocchio — suggest familiar stories but remain open to personal interpretation. I strive to balance whimsy and depth, offering playful, mischievous vignettes that leave room for viewers to imagine their own stories.

Gentry Mullen is a Kansas City – based artist and graphic designer with a career spanning nearly four decades. He refined his aesthetic and developed the craft of visual storytelling at The Kansas City Star, where he produced thousands of graphics, illustrations, and page layouts each year.

A graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, Mullen now paints in his home studio, where his background in design informs his exploration of form, pattern, and narrative suggestion. His work often features a cast of recurring animal and figurative motifs — part fable, part folklore — through which he playfully examines truth, transformation, and imagination.

In Earth Symphony, artist Rita Blitt elevates simple, everyday experiences with trees and gardens into poetic reflections upon line, movement, color, and harmony. Her use of water-based media allows colors to gently drift and pool across the surfaces of canvas and paper, resulting in a radiant visual connection with nature. 

The works featured in Earth’s Symphony are characterized by flowing rhythm and unfolding movement, reminiscent of musical patterns. Through these new creations, Blitt shares her deep appreciation for nature and her wonder at witnessing its continual growth.

- Connie Gibbons, Curator

Rita Blitt is an American contemporary painter, sculptor, and film collaborator based in both the San Francisco Bay Area and Leawood, Kansas. Her work is distinguished by abstract, organic lines and shapes that draw inspiration from nature, music, and dance. Blitt’s artistic repertoire includes dynamic black line and pastel oval paintings as well as large-scale sculptures.

Her art has been showcased in over 70 solo exhibitions. The Mulvane Museum at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, houses the Rita Blitt Legacy Collection. Blitt’s works are part of numerous museum and private collections, including the Mulvane Art Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Beach Museum of Art, John F. Kennedy Library, National Museum of Singapore, Spencer Museum of Art, Nevada Museum of Art, Spertus Institute, Skirball Cultural Center, and the Kennedy Museum of American Art. Her monumental sculptures are installed in Australia, Israel, Japan, Singapore, and the United States.