DONATIONS APPRECIATED!!!

Join us at The Bird every First Friday for a night of comedy & art, featuring some of the best comedy acts & artists from right here in Kansas City.

Come & go as you please, have a beverage & LAUGH dammit.

Donations appreciated. Free AF.

Follow us on the internet for monthly lineups!

Only at The Bird.

The Bird Comedy Theater is Kansas City’s Best Comedy Club. Featuring Improv, Sketch, Stand-Up & More, Give Your Week The Bird every week in the Crossroads Arts District!
Full Bar, Soft Drinks, & Popcorn available at our in house bar!
Street parking available! Located a block and a half from the 19th Street Street Car stop!
Recommended for ages 17+
103 W. 19th St. STE B Kansas City, MO 64108 | 816 – 929-4383 | www.TheBirdKC.com

DONATIONS APPRECIATED!!!

Join us at The Bird every First Friday for a night of comedy & art, featuring some of the best comedy acts & artists from right here in Kansas City.

Come & go as you please, have a beverage & LAUGH dammit.

Donations appreciated. Free AF.

Follow us on the internet for monthly lineups!

Only at The Bird.

The Bird Comedy Theater is Kansas City’s Best Comedy Club. Featuring Improv, Sketch, Stand-Up & More, Give Your Week The Bird every week in the Crossroads Arts District!
Full Bar, Soft Drinks, & Popcorn available at our in house bar!
Street parking available! Located a block and a half from the 19th Street Street Car stop!
Recommended for ages 17+
103 W. 19th St. STE B Kansas City, MO 64108 | 816 – 929-4383 | www.TheBirdKC.com

Join Studios Inc for a full evening of events on November’s First Friday!

In the Exhibition Hall:

Please join us for the opening reception of

“Dr. Blackenstein’s Blacktacular Black Shack of Arts and Sciences”

A solo exhibition and experience from Harold Smith

In Studios.Gallery:

“Riding the Rails”

Over 200 posters, ephemera and album covers by Peregrine Honig

Curated by Sean Kelly and assistant curator Emily Loubser

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 Hopped Lager benefits Hope House KC.

Clements’ installation titled Blue Hydrangea references historical wallpaper and ornamental architecture. Her work explores the ambiguity of style and its capacity for imitation and distinction; its juxtaposition of the artificial and the natural; and its intersection with class, modernity, and taste. The fragility of the glass becomes metaphorical for the impermanence of beauty, the fleetingness of taste, and the constant pursuit to grasp and possess them.

Clements’ distinctive technique uses finely pulverized glass (frit) to create intricate patterns that get fused in a kiln and installed on walls or hanging in space. The wafer-thin panels reference naturalistic designs and floral motifs that explore ideas of beauty, taste, and impermanence.

Kate Clements received her MFA in Glass from the Tyler School of Art & Architecture in Philadelphia and her BFA in Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute. She has been awarded residencies at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, Pilchuck Glass School, S12 Gallery in Bergen, Norway, and the Charlotte Street Foundation. She has exhibited nationally, and her work can be found in private and public collections including, the Chris and Angie Long Collection at CPKC KC CURRENT Stadium, Kansas City, MO and Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI. Clements’ work has received numerous awards including, Best in Show in the Heartland 6 exhibition in 2024 at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery. Her work has also been featured in Italian Vogue Gioiello, American Craft Magazine, and New Glass Review 36,37,38, 42, and 43.