Join us for First Friday and tour the Flint Hills through art! Live music will be performed by Tallgrass Express, beer provided by City Barrell Brewing and light snacks will be available as well! (Subject to change dependent upon CDC recommendations). We hope to see you from 5pm — 8pm!

13th 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.

All artworks in this exhibition will depict or be derived from the Flint Hills region of Kansas. This exhibit will run from October 1st — December 16, 2021 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.

We are sorry. This event is canceled. However, you may find me this Sept at…

BROOKSIDE ART ANNUAL ‑Sept 17th-19th

PLAZA ART FAIR ‑Sept 24th-26th

Stay tuned for October’s FF!

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

Green Dirt Farms is setting up shop in the taproom for First Fridays starting at 5:30pm to delight with their selection of artisanal local cheeses! Sample some, buy some, pair some with any of our beers on tap! Come celebrate August and First Fridays with us.

Torn Label is your one stop shop for beer, food, and art. Our brand new Public House will be serving food and beer until 10:00 and you can walk down the hall from there to view the exhibitions at Studios Inc gallery. We have plenty of free parking and are a short walk from all the Crossroads has to offer on First Friday.

Every unit depends on every other unit. I have so much to say and an inadequate relationship with language. My work is an outlet for me to ask questions or hold ideas that I have no other place for.

The repeated circular units and repetitive processes that I build with are symbols of these repeated thoughts and unanswered questions. Eventually, these units come together to create other forms, define interior and exterior spaces, or create patterns and imagery. Adapted and adopted from other historical craft disciplines, the techniques of linking and looping or weaving units together are physical reminders of the power of many and the agency of one. Even with thousands of units, one broken link or one frayed thread reshapes the whole.

Unlike the mantras or the slogans we shout and post to align ourselves with social groups or ideologies, the questions that consume me are full of contradictions and confusion. They are powerful, present, quiet, persistent. In a Whisper, With a Word brings together works that embody seemingly dichotomous physical and emotional truths — that we can be both strong and fragile, simple and complicated, long-lasting and fleeting, vague and specific, concise and discursive.