During the weekend of September 13th-15th, 2024, Brush Creek Art Walk will celebrated it’s 13th Anniversary with a 3‑day weekend of Outdoor Painting. 40 pre-registered artists participated in the weekend event with three $500 (sponsored) Quick Paint Events offering Purchase Awards. At the conclusion of the event, artists submitted up to three original ‘framed’ works for judging.

Works have been on display since October’s Awards and Sale traveling from The Discovery Center (4750 Troost) to Lexitas Legal Services (1608 Locust) to their final location at ArtsKC (106 Southwest Boulevard) in the Kansas City Crossroads.

To find out more of our about our event, go to our website: https://www.bcawfoundation.org/ The public was encouraged to come by and see artists at work and the results of their efforts, and they certainly did. Remaining works are for sale online via the Buttonwood Art Space and our website.

Come down to the Crossroads for First Fridays and meet local creators Baldemar Rivas and Jordan Kroeger at Crossroads Comics and Art! 

Crossroads Comics and Art

1830 Charlotte St. KCMO, 64108

Event time: June 7, 2024 4pm-8pm (store opens at 11am)

Baldemar and Jordan will be hanging out in the animation gallery so you can come and say ”Hey”, have something signed, buy some of their art and/or comics, and hang out for a bit.
You may even be able to pick up a quick sketch or order a commission! These are talented and skilled people that are working hard to make art happen and they are both really chill, amazing guys. 

We will also have some great sales and specials in-store for comics, animation art and jewelry, including bringing back the “blind box pick”- there are still some GEMS in there and some new added in as well!

Check out our Facebook page for more event info and for more details about our guests!

My paintings have always been about landscape. Over the years the work has changed, both in content and imagery. One series of paintings leads to another. A gradual refinement from vast panoramas to the specific. For the past six years my paintings have been based on gardens. Gardens are the “tended to” aspects of landscape. The space, the color, shape, texture and space are key elements in landscape and in my work.

The primary influence of my work comes from a philosophy, which suggests the primacy of a personal response and the interpretation rather than the copy of nature. The paintings straddle the line between abstraction and realism, what is seen and what is imagined. This sensibility, both aesthetically and philosophically, expressed in this duality of approaches is an interpretive, personal response to the visual world.

-Fred Nelson

Fred Nelson’s paintings are human scale, intimate, contemplative, and poetic. He builds them through multiple layers of paint that resonate with the layers one finds in nature. Close examination reveals color subtly shining under or beside other unexpected color shapes, creating atmosphere, space and light. In addition, the visual movement of the paintings echoes the way one physically moves through the landscape. Nelson’s paintings occupy that territory between recognizable imagery and abstraction, hovering back and forth, each quality strengthening the other.

FEATURED ARTISTS

Colleen Bailey

Zen Echo

Lucy Hodges

Sophia Gaeun Lee

Angela Lim

Lu Lu

Lucas Nguyen

Yash Singh

Thanat Singhirunnusorn

There exists a genetic predisposition to perfect pitch caused by the prevalence of tonal language in many Asian cultures. However, the societal expectation for English fluency overwhelms that internal resonance. While the skill is exercised through music lessons and familial translation, the root of the sound is lost to an environment that sees little use for the ability day-to-day. With pressures to conform and, at times, performing to forget, how does one create harmony from opposing voices? Dissonance expresses the conflict Asians in America experience between the sounds they live and the ones they leave behind.

FEATURED ARTISTS 

Gabrielle Akins

Paige Bennett

Junior Brown 

Zhakia Foster

Carly Henley 

Bella Lusk

Janelle Manns

Veronica Parks

Cherline Philogene

Shawn Roundtree

Fern Scott

Aerie Tobias

Elan Warren

Camarie Whayne

Lavender Yang

Roots: A Reclamation is an exhibition featuring current members of the Kansas City Art Institute’s Black Student Union. As the title suggests, each artist addresses Roots as a metaphor for unpacking and reclaiming a collective and individual relationship with Black identity. Alienation within our community, storytelling /oral histories, confronting injustices, music, and black excellence are all themes that converge under the umbrella of this showcasing. Through a diverse body of works we ask the viewer to look deeper into all the universes that make up a community and how each story represents a voice within a chorus of voices that make up the black experience.