“CRAFTED WORLDS –

BETWEEN LIGHT AND SHADOW”

Mixed Media Works on Paper by

Golfam Jozdani

April – May ’25

Golfam Jozdani’s series is inspired by the game Minecraft. In this game, each player can create their parallel world with extraterrestrial forces and unlimited resources. This world features many positive and negative characters. Her passion for depicting this world and its characters through art led to the creation of this series.

Her constant concern for creating a parallel world, one that her inner self is always seeking, fueled this excitement and passion. If she cannot protect the pure and positive characters or defeat evil in reality, she can create their characters side by side through her art.

This creation aims to bring about peace, turn inequality into equality and justice, and transform every wickedness into beauty. Golfam aspires to create peace and equality in her parallel world and show people that instead of being bad, we can be good, accept differences, and live with love.

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The Week of the Young Child takes place April 5th — 11th in Science City, an annual celebration sponsored by the National Association for the Education of Young Children focusing public attention on young children’s and their families’ needs and recognizing the early childhood programs and services that meet those needs. Join Science City to celebrate the kick-off of Week of the Young Child on Saturday, April 5th with the opportunity for our little explorers to do age-appropriate science experiments in the PNC Learning Lab at 11 AM!

Our schedule of special activities:

Saturday, April 5: Kick-off Saturday
All new Lil’ Explorers! Our earliest learners will have the chance to be little scientists and do age-appropriate science experiments in the PNC at 11 AM – 1 PM!

Monday, April 7: Music Monday
Science City is closed. Watch for special video content on our social page!

Tuesday, April 8: Tasty Tuesday
Join us on Tuesday for Tasty Tuesday! Explore different textures of food through a series of demonstrations and discussions involving fruit dissection. Demonstrations will take place in the PNC at 11 AM — 1 PM!

Wednesday, April 9: Work Together Wednesday
Today is all about how animals work together during their hibernation periods. Learn about hibernation through movement and play by using a series of costumes and creating their own animal masks.

Thursday, April 10: Artsy Thursday
Join us for a Baby Art Crawl from 11 AM – 12 PM! The PNC Learning Lab will be transformed into a blank canvas for our youngest artists to unleash their creativity, explore with their senses and get messy. Babies and toddlers (18 months and younger) can strip down to their diapers and create with (non-toxic) paint. Parent attendance and participation is required.

Friday, April 11: Family Friday

The whole family is invited to circle time in the PNC at 11 AM – 1 PM. Read books about different types of families and talk about roles each family member has. To finish the circle time, we encourage young children to make a chore chart for themselves and family members.

All activities are included with daily Science City admission or free for members.

Jerry Kunkel’s paintings speak to our individual appetite for self-reflection, born of a collective and universal desire to comprehend, both physically and emotionally, the world around us. He often weaved narratives in a poetic or humorous fashion, sometimes constructing the work with no apparent end in sight, allowing the consequent juxtapositions of images to create a story. His work superimposes original and found imagery with the addition of text as an attitudinal descriptor, or an extra, content-specific image. In addition, the frequent incorporation of the illusion of plywood or other non-precious surfaces adds the element of the everyday and has pervaded his work for years.

Jerry was interested in our momentary reaction to everyday stimuli, that moment that summons a private response – a response that we may not feel compelled to share for a variety of reasons; perhaps because it doesn’t seem important, that our response is not fully formed, or we simply don’t care to think about why we really don’t care. In the end, whatever it is, he would say “trust what emerges and embrace uncertainty.”

Kathy Liao is known for her large figurative works that translate her lived experience and history into colorful, luminous, multi-layered compositions, that often portray herself and family. During the isolation of the pandemic, Liao’s paintings revealed the loneliness and distance of that experience and made it tangible.

In Liao’s newest work, We Met in a Dream, the intimacy of story is mirrored by the intimacy of scale. Liao uses the immediacy of working in a small size to summon stories from her memories, or the trance of a dream, to the poetry of painting and collage. These explorations are full of movement, leaving clues and pointing the way.

“I woke up one day from a dream where my little sister turned into a fly. I reached and grasped for her, to protect her, to keep her safe. I felt deep panic, guilt, and dread. In the moments before waking, I cupped three dead flies and I couldn’t tell which one was her.

I started a dream journaling practice a year ago. Each drawing is a strange affirmation and quiet unraveling of the human drama in my mind. My work exists in the fluid state between experience, memory, dream, and place. In an attempt to translate the fleeting and subconscious, at the intersection of history and time, the drawings shapeshift and settle into allegories of their own.” -Kathy Liao

Biography

As a Taiwanese American artist, Kathy Liao looks for patterns and repetitions that weave through the immigrant families’ experience in her mixed-media work. She is the recipient of various recognitions, including the 2023 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, 2022 21c KC Artadia Award, 2020 Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artist Award, and a public art commission for the new Kansas City International Airport. Her work was shown in galleries and museums in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Kansas City, and many other cities nationally and internationally. As a mentor and educator, Liao lectured and presented at multiple institutions and conferences nationwide. Formerly, Liao was Director of the Painting and Printmaking department at Missouri Western State University. She was nominated “Most Influential Professor” in 2019. She is currently the organizational services program officer at Mid-America Arts Alliance.

For the past ten years, Four Chapter Gallery has enjoyed a partnership with the Kansas City Art Institute Fiber Department, and each May exhibit the work of a graduating senior.

Visit the gallery to join us in this wonderful opportunity to celebrate and support a young artist who is on the cusp of transition into a new phase of life.

In Prepare a Table, artist Erica Alexander focuses on slow, repetitive processes like hand stitching and natural dye that invite both the artist and viewer to pay attention. Her intricate fiber works and sculptures deal with themes of community, reciprocity with nature, and traditional craft that is passed down from mother to daughter through generations.

There will be an artist talk on Friday, May 2 at 6:30pm.