Crossroads Arts District

Kansas City's Creative Neighborhood

Tap Into Your Wild Side! + Tamaleon KC Food Truck

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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.

PLUS: Tamaleon KC food truck will be onsite 5 – 9pm with their homemade tamales, birria quesadillas, and more!

This month, every pint of the Local Motive Kolsch benefits Thelma’s Kitchen, providing social & mental health services and reducing food insecurity for KC neighbors in need. Meet some Thelma’s Kitchen representatives onsite 5 – 8pm to learn more about the organization, volunteer opportunities, and upcoming events.

We’re also the site for Journey to New Life’s Vintage Sale 4 – 8pm. All proceeds from this sale go to removing roadblocks and restoring opportunities to those re-entering life after prison.

Jones Gallery July First Friday Art Show

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Jones Gallery July Art Show!
First Friday opening, July 7th.
Artist reception is from 5 till 9pm.
All welcome and always free.
Also with 150 pieces on display, both local and national Artists
Show runs thru July 27th.
Also open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Closed Sunday
Jones Gallery 1717 Walnut, KCMO. 64108
816 – 421-2111
https://jonesgallerykc.com/

Summer Invitational

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Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art presents “Summer Invitational”. This 2023 summer, SLCA will be exhibiting new artworks by 10 different artists.

Calder Kamin, Nicole McLaughlin, Ky Anderson, Barry Anderson, Harold Smith, Jeff Robinson, Rain Harris, Tom Hück, Carol Stewart, and Andrew Watel.

First Friday Glass Demo with Katie Burkett

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Katie Burkett is a glass and mixed media sculptor from a small farming town in Northeast, Ohio. She is inspired by nature, anatomy, and the human psyche and uses glass to articulate the ideas that grow from these curiosities. Burkett earned her Masters Degree is Studio Arts with a focus in Glass at Kent State University in the summer of 2021. Recently, Burkett moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma to become a full-time studio technician and instructor at the Tulsa Glassblowing School.
“The sculptural work I make is an exploration of themes surrounding gender, sex, fertility, mortality, grief, and beauty. These works act as an abstract self-portrait: Individually, they encapsulate moments in time and feelings surrounding them, distilling them into tangible objects — all of which embody some aspect of living with and within the anatomy that I exist in. Through manipulating malleable materials such as glass I can conceive something that conceptually reflects a part of the body or an event that surrounds that anatomy. I think that these works reflect on the importance placed on the body and how it literally acts as a vessel of consumption, a vessel in which life is brought forth through, a vessel in which all our thoughts and feelings are created within.” — Burkett

Kerry Smith: OFF THE RECORD

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OFF THE RECORD is a series of music-based paintings including record labels, ticket stubs, set lists, journal pages, and flyers which combine St. Louis artist Kerry Smith’s love for album art, graphic design and contemporary art. The series of gouache and oil stick paintings of LP and 45 rmp record labels was inspired by Beck’s 2015 Grammy Award for best album and combines Smith’s love for album art, graphic design and fine art.
Smith is an art director, graphic designer and painter. His work has been featured in the international publications of PRINT magazine, How, Logo Lounge and 1,000 Dog Portraits. Smith’s fine art has recently appeared in London, Chicago, Austin, St. Louis and Kansas City. His work is also featured in The Loft, Wilco’s Chicago Recording Studio. And staying true to his roots, Smith has been an active member of various art organizations throughout the American Midwest including The Gogh-Getters and Edwardsville Arts Center. He is currently co-founder and curator of The Gogh-Getters in Edwardsville, IL.
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