You are invited to our May Art Show!
Show runs thru June 5th.
First Friday is May 2nd. from 5 till 8pm.
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/ 

The curtain is up on kinetic thinking! Leap into a world where science and performance come to life. Our movement-based activities invite visitors of all ages to explore how your body balances, reacts, and performs while stepping into imaginative scenarios that make science feel like an adventure. In these high-energy, interactive sessions, we’ll explore the art of movement through dramatic play, character creation, and storytelling. Whether you’re acting out a scene, building your own hero moves, or solving a movement puzzle, it’s all about learning through play. Discover how bodies communicate, how motion tells a story, and how fun it is to become someone — or something—else for a moment!

Saturdays at 11:00 am & 11:30 am

Tapped Out Classroom (Haverty Family Yards weather permitting)

Studios Inc and Misha Kligman present “Seen/Unseen: Survey of Misha Kligman’s Work”, an exhibition opening May 2nd, 2025. Studios Inc will host an opening reception on Friday, May 2nd from 5 – 8 pm, with an Artist Talk on Saturday, May 3rd from 12 – 1 pm. 

“Seen/Unseen: Survey of Misha Kligman’s Work” reaches into different periods and bodies of work spanning the last 18 years of the artist’s evolving creative practice. The show examines the origins and continued engagement with ideas such as landscape and figure contaminated by history, absence/presence of spirit in the world, model of artist as a mystic, as well as journeys both physical and emotional. The show includes several of most recent paintings where histories fracture and collapse, and private lives unfold amidst conflict both internal and external.

Launched to serve mid-career artists, Studios Inc is Kansas City’s only nonprofit arts organization offering pivotal three-year residencies to mid-career artists who are poised to significantly expand their careers. Studios Inc offers a unique immersion experience for resident artists, who use their studio and exhibition space to produce and exhibit work, network and learn from one another, and attract and cultivate relationships with art patrons, collectors, and arts professionals.

“Seen/Unseen: Survey of Misha Kligman’s Work” will be on view in the Studios Inc Exhibition Hall through June 14th, 2025. Exhibition hours are Wednesday thru Friday 10am-4pm and Saturday 12 – 4pm.

Featured image: “The Stranger” Misha Kligman, Oil on linen, 2023

How We Cope is a three-artist examination of what motivates an artist to continue creating in the face of tragedy, adversity, and the challenges that life throws at us. How do we remain resilient and continue to create when the world pulls the rug out from under you? How does one continue to create in the face of loss?

Taking the concept of art therapy to the extreme, three artists come together to share their creative coping mechanisms and the creative output inspired by their recent struggles.

Gallery Hours are 12 – 6 p.m. everyday except Monday and Tuesday

Encased in mounds of wool and moss, And So She Sees You is a reclamation of the female form. Exploring themes of identity and ecofeminism, Sybl’s sculptural works uproot pre existing definitions of female autonomy. 

Within the art world, the nude female is often presented to elicit voyeuristic pleasure from a male audience, and these nudes often exist without a gaze to confront their viewer. And So She Sees You is a response to this lack of identity, existing as an antithesis to this patriarchal practice. These sculptures’ implied bodies are shielded from objectification as they peer out from the soft safety of their woolen mounds. Instead this series of sculptures reveal their full facial identity, confronting the audience with their gaze, emotions, and histories. 

Artist Statement:

I am a Kansas City-based artist pursuing a BFA degree as a double major in Sculpture and Art History at the Kansas City Art Institute. My studio practice is rooted in the tenderness of empathy toward people, animals, and nature, through which I explore the human experience and beyond.

Placing my attention on the cyclical element of nature, I also explore the natural world and reflect on my position within that cycle. My practice investigates the intersections of identity, ecology, feminism, and connection, exploring my personal experiences and position as a queer woman within the crossroads of these greater experiences. As a multidisciplinary artist, my work engages a variety of materials, including glass, ceramics, fibers, and discarded ephemera, and in doing so, I extend care toward the overlooked and the underappreciated; remembering that which would otherwise be forgotten. 

Through this act of remembering, I transform the ephemeral into the eternal, celebrating the inherent beauty and life present in small elements of the everyday and the within the greater cycle of nature. In my series of works, which I call my Immortal Works, I create pieces of ceramic food that will not rot, glass flowers that will not wilt, and undying cast metal memories that are monuments to the transient essence of memory. I invite tender care toward the neglected present moment while also reflecting on the forgotten past. I view my art as a way to reflect upon our impact on the world and each other, inviting understanding and care.

Artist Bio:

Hailey Sybl Slaughter is a Kansas City-based artist with a double major BFA in Sculpture and Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute. Through a multidisciplinary sculptural practice spanning ceramics, wool, glass, and more, Sybl explores the intersections of feminism, queerness, and ecology. Rooted in the tenderness of empathy and drawing from nature as both material and metaphor, Sybl’s work invites reflection on how we relate to the world and each other. Investigating how patriarchal structures have disconnected humanity from nature, she explores themes of transformation, memory, and care — recognizing both the overlooked and the ephemeral. Her work has been exhibited at The Instituto Allende, in San Miguel de Allende, as well as at the Kansas City Art Institute’s Volker Gallery Group Exhibition. Her artwork was published in literary arts magazines Bear Review, and Elementia, and is included in private collections.