Tap into your wild side at Casual Animal Brewing Company where local beer, plants, and art intersect! Our taproom brims with floor to ceiling greenhouse vibes and graphic design. Enjoy a pint or flight of our 11 rotating taps, including our Local Motive beer where $2 of every pint is donated to a different KC non-profit every two months. This month, every pint of the Local Motive Fruited Sour benefits Zen Donkey Experience.

THIS WEEKEND join us for STOUTERDAYS, a dark beer tap takeover in our Original Taproom! This dark beer festival will feature 11 dark beers from local, Kansas City microbreweries. Don’t miss our special beer/candy pairings in curated flights. This is as much a celebration of dark beer season as it is about celebrating our beer community, and rekindling those warm and fuzzy feelings from the days in our Original Taproom at 1725 McGee Street.

Participating breweries include: Alma Mader, Big Rip, Border, Casual Animal, Cinder Block, City Barrel, River Bluff, Strange Days, Stockyards, Torn Label, and Vine Street.

Beer + Candy Flight pairings served all day

6 pm : Free Tarot Readings: Lady MOG will offer three-card spreads to explore what lies in the darkness. Monetary donations appreciated.

Join us tomorrow, November 1, 2024, for our Annual Client Appreciation Happy Hour plus FIRST FRIDAY SHOWING of J.R. Hamil Artwork in the KC Crossroads District! We’re excited to welcome our Kansas City attorney clients and judges for an evening of great company, drinks, food, and live music by d.box! 🎶

This event is not only our way of saying “thank you,” but also a great opportunity to hang with our talented staff, court reporters, and videographers, network with colleagues, and enjoy that fantastic First Friday’s energy.

📅 Date: Friday, November 1, 2024
⏰ Time: 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
📍 Location: Our Kansas City office at 1608 Locust St.

Hope you can join us.

ART OPENING RECEPTION — Open Studio/Gallery – FIRST FRIDAY – NOVEMBER 1ST

- Landscape Paintings by Anne Garney – 5PM– 8PM — 1920 Wyandotte St., Unit 5, KCMO 64108 (entrance — NW corner of the building) Hope you can stop by!

www.annegarneypaintings.com

You are invited to our Jones Gallery November Art Show!
First Friday November 1st., opening from 5pm till 8pm.
Show also runs thru December 5th.
All welcome and always free, thanks!
Regular Gallery hours are by appointment,
from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Closed Sunday
Jones Gallery 1717 Walnut, KCMO. 64108
816 – 421‑2111
https://jonesgallerykc.com/ 

As I have been in the process of simplifying my work, I find that there is much more going on that is unseen. I believe painting is a series of adjustments no matter what the subject matter or lack thereof.

Continuous change occurs until the painting says we are done. My job as artist is to know when to stop.

Take time to look…there is more than first meets the eye.

The process of abstract art does not translate easily to words. I am not as comfortable talking about my art as I am in making it. I listen to jazz when I paint. Jazz is an improvisation on a theme, a blend of elements in the space of time. My art is like that. My paintings always begin with drawing nonobjective shapes, the use of line to define area and to push the limits of real and abstract. I can’t imagine painting something exactly as it is. That’s what a camera is for. For me, color and my own emotions play the themes, blending the elements in the space of the canvas.

I require nothing special of the observer… Each viewer may see and feel what they see and feel, and play their own themes and improvisations…That way we can both be surprised.

Rainey received he first art award 54 years ago and since has attended Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO and the Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts, Masters Program. Represented exclusively by Blue Gallery since 2000, William Rainey’s paintings can be found in private and corporate collections worldwide. Select corporate collectors include; Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, MO, Data Systems International, Kansas City, MO, Restaurant Management Company, Wichita, KS, Missouri Bank, Kansas City, MO, Lanard Toys Ltd., Hong Kong, and The Conafay Group, Washington, DC.