It’s 1st Friday!! Come and get your haircut, have a drink, shop with our multiple vendors (that vary EVERY week) as well as unwind from your busy work week!
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As we slowly ease back into the swing of things The Hilliard Gallery will be open tonight displaying an eclectic mix of art work from various artist represented by the gallery.
We are adhering to the cities covid requirements.
Next month we will start our season of shows with the opening of An Exhibition of Things Called Art.
Open till 9 pm
The Belger Crane Yard Studios Gallery presents After Hours: Belger Arts Employee Exhibition, which opens Friday, March 5, and remains on view through June 5, 2021.
After Hours showcases the artistic talents of the artists who are members of the Belger Arts staff. While Belger Arts (comprised of Belger Arts Center, Belger Crane Yard Studios and Crane Yard Clay) is known for its ceramics exhibitions and programs, the artists who work here represent a range of media, including glass, wood, mixed media and ceramics. The works on view also reflect a diversity of approaches, techniques and themes.
Executive Director Evelyn Craft Belger said, “The artists in After Hours not only creatively problem-solve on a daily basis as Belger Arts employees, they are dynamic artists, as well. The exhibition provides the public an opportunity to see work by a new generation of contemporary artists who also contribute to a thriving arts community.”
Jessie Fisher
Melanie Johnson
Kathy Liao
Christopher Lowrance
Michael McCaffrey
Scott Seebart
“In a world myriad as ours, the gaze is a singular act: to look at something is to fill your whole life with it, if only briefly.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
MATERIALIST II features new paintings, drawings, and sculptures by six artists; Jessie Fisher, Melanie Johnson, Kathy Liao, Christopher Lowrance, Michael McCaffrey, and Scott Seebart are all local artists and educators devoted to perceptual painting, material exploration, and the physicality of their media. Collectively, the members of this group explore the phenomenological and the material while simultaneously employing the practice of making as a responsive vehicle for invention and a forum for reflection.
The work in this exhibition highlights each artist’s respective devotion to sustaining a poetic mediation between the directly observed, the recounted, and the re-presented, often via painstakingly meticulous, labor-intensive, or counterintuitive approaches. Close inspection of the work reveals individual methodologies that are far from direct, indicative of conscious parameters concretized while engaging with the meditative process of making.
Choices of subject are deliberate; the psychological, the familial, the ecological and the overlooked come together as icons signifying each artist’s insight whose full impact is revealed to viewers willing to spend time unpacking process as a function of meaning. The making of the subject is the subject’s personification. This devotion is emblematic of a specific kind of intimacy, demonstrated through the artists’ engagement with material and subject simultaneously, hinting at a proxy for intellectual and emotional connections rather than material as a mere means of representation.
LVAC COVID-19 Safety Procedures:
We are making sure to follow all the safety measures during this pandemic that have been issued by Kansas City, Missouri such as: social distancing, proper and hygiene and frequently disinfecting high traffic areas and surfaces.
We will be wearing masks at all times and we ask that you do as well. We have disposable face masks available along with hand sanitizer to use upon entry/exit.
Please do not come to the gallery if you are exhibiting symptoms, such as fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, muscle or body aches, a new loss of taste or smell, sore throat, nausea, vomiting or diarrhea.
Dress Code: Black Only celebrates resilience reserved for the Black student body at Kansas City Art Institute. The work in this exhibition showcases intersections of the Black consciousness, interior, and internet spaces. As critical political conversations have moved from the streets to online platforms, there has been a rise of the fetishization of Black suffering supporting agendas detrimental to the Black community.
The Black Student Union requires participants to steer away from violent themes to rectify the misrepresentation of the Black body in the media. Grasping this extraordinary time of isolation and rest as a guide to self-reflection, we claim a new reality that embraces discovery and representation through the inherent need for creativity. Each artist in this exhibition demonstrates a response to history through various mediums to revel in the present and prosper to remarkable, unimaginable Black futures.
