Join us at Cheryl Eve Acosta’s Sculptural Jewelry for our First Friday’s Artist’s Pop-Up. Come meet and support our creative community at this monthly event located at the heart of the Kansas City Crossroads Arts District! Artist Cheryl Eve will open her storefront studio located at 217 West 19th Ter. KC, MO 64108. Our second curated pop-up-style event will be held Friday, August 6th from 5 – 8:30 pm.

To artists, designers, and makers who are interested in participating in First Fridays, you may visit this link to apply:

https://www.cheryleve.com/kc/events/popup/application

Casual Animal Brewing Company stands for “laid back beers that tap into your wild side”. Come check out our newly expanded taproom in the Beer Conservatory with an eclectic vibe of live plants, original wall murals, and of course, KC-crafted beer!

This First Friday we are also featuring 3 local pop-up shops: Barley and Hops Craft Candles, @Janellabeestudio, and Tall Tale Vintage from 4:30 – 9PM.

Meighan Morrison was born in Chicago in 1966 and studied fine art at Boston University before transferring to Parsons School of Design in NYC, now The New School. She currently lives and maintains a studio in Bridgeport, CT.

She spent the last decade devolving from representational art into a simple abstract language. She works on the floor (which adds a physicality to her process) on oversized rolls of linen or paper. While dominant forms and basic composition are generally pre- determined she is relaxed with the brush, inviting the accident and then rerouting course to accommodate it.

Her interest in opposites, how they meet and determine each other – black/white, large/small, past/future – remains a constant in her work. The large scale of her stretched paintings amplify the relief found in simplification. The basic nature of the materials and a limited palette speak to the essential.

She hopes that her work might serve as a temporary panacea for the exponential convolution that is our modern lives and perhaps also as a small rebellion against it.

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Blue Gallery is thrilled to present Meighan Morrison’s solo exhibition, REMEMBER THE FUTURE?. Please stop by the gallery to see this stunning exhibition in person.

If you wish to set up an appointment to view the exhibition, either in the gallery or via FaceTime, please give us a call at #816.527.0823, or email kellyk@bluegalleryonline.com

Hope to see you soon!

Kelly + David

Beautiful, defined as pleasing the senses or mind aesthetically. So what is beautiful then? For some beautiful might be seen as derogatory when used professionally to mean trite and shallow. For most however, beautiful as an artistic perspective is more complex and faceted for which a single answer does not exist. Beauty is physically everywhere and everything, however something being beautiful is not always about the physical features, rather it can be more towards a state of existence. It is a exploration into the aesthetics of pleasing the mind. However, a common thread does appear when viewing the work from the submissions for this show. It does not simplify the answer but it clearly shows that different cultures seem to have some similarities when it comes to seeing and describing what is beautiful. This exhibition will examine the question of what is beautiful by displaying artworks selected from Nationally submitted works by contemporary artists in a juried exhibition that attempts to portray just what is beautiful.

At the Threshold
KU Graduate Arts Association
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Group Exhibition
June 3 — August 14, 2021

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Featured Artists

Dora Agbas
Debbie Barrett-Jones
Mark ‘Fitz’ Fitzsimmons
Sadie Goll
Tiana Nanayo Kuuleialoha Honda
Allison Ice
Hannah Lindo
Tristan Lindo
Dillen Peace
Sarah Pickett
Sophia Reed
Kirsten Taylor
Jenny Welden

“Thresholds are dangerous places, neither here nor there, and walking across one is like stepping off the edge of a cliff in the naïve faith that you’ll sprout wings halfway down. You can’t hesitate or doubt. You can’t fear the in-between.”― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January