DATE:
Thursday, January 12th
TIME:
5:30 pm — 7:00 pm
LOCATION:
The Truman
601 E. Truman Road
Whether you’re new to the neighborhood or have been around for years, there’s no better place to ring in the New Year and connect with your neighbors than at the CCA’s Quarterly Meet + Mingle!
Meet new friends, enjoy food & drink, and enjoy discovering The Truman, one of the hottest music venues in town!
Studios INC presents “Mind the Gap”, a solo exhibition by Kathy Liao. The exhibition is a culmination of her 5‑year residency at Studios INC.
Through her work, Liao engages in rituals to keep memories alive. As a Taiwanese American artist, she looks for patterns and repetitions woven through the immigrant family experience in her mixed media work. As families separate and migrate, she recognizes the invariable loss and the struggle to justify and
reconcile the distance (gap) in between.
In our collective psyche and especially through the recent pandemic, we rely more on virtual means to stay in touch with distant loved ones, the wall of the digital screen blinds us to those close by and makes us lose touch with reality. This translates into Liao’s work as she touches, wipes, rubs, peels, and caresses her surfaces — giving the figures skin and weight. With each piece she is constantly re-establishing
her relationship to family, being conscientious of her distance from them physically and emotionally. Her recent paintings, sculptural works, and wall drawing installations document the fluid state between experience, memory, and place. Like well-worn film negatives, she revisits images, snapshots, and memories through iterations, until they begin to morph, overlap, and degrade. The result may be an invitation to enter into an overwhelming yet familiar space, or only a flat wall with traces of history left visible.
For more information about the artist, please visit http://www.kathyliao.com/
Studios INC presents “Mind the Gap”, a solo exhibition by Kathy Liao. The exhibition is a culmination of her 5‑year residency at Studios INC.
Through her work, Liao engages in rituals to keep memories alive. As a Taiwanese American artist, she looks for patterns and repetitions woven through the immigrant family experience in her mixed media work. As families separate and migrate, she recognizes the invariable loss and the struggle to justify and
reconcile the distance (gap) in between.
In our collective psyche and especially through the recent pandemic, we rely more on virtual means to stay in touch with distant loved ones, the wall of the digital screen blinds us to those close by and makes us lose touch with reality. This translates into Liao’s work as she touches, wipes, rubs, peels, and caresses her surfaces — giving the figures skin and weight. With each piece she is constantly re-establishing
her relationship to family, being conscientious of her distance from them physically and emotionally. Her recent paintings, sculptural works, and wall drawing installations document the fluid state between experience, memory, and place. Like well-worn film negatives, she revisits images, snapshots, and memories through iterations, until they begin to morph, overlap, and degrade. The result may be an invitation to enter into an overwhelming yet familiar space, or only a flat wall with traces of history left visible.
For more information about the artist, please visit http://www.kathyliao.com/
A reminder of the upcoming CCA Infrastructure Committee Meeting on Monday, December 19th, 12PM via Google Meet.
The meeting call-in information is the following:
Meeting ID
meet.google.com/frp-gneq-zme
or,
(US)+1 929 – 373‑3640
PIN: 156 557 525#
On the meeting agenda: Crossroads Priorities Update, Officer Andrew Hamil to provide a crime update and Matthew Muckenthaler, KCMO Parking Division Manager, to discuss proposed parking meters for the Crossroads.
The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train will headline a special event on Sunday, Dec. 4, at Kansas City Union Station to benefit the Harvesters food bank. The free event will take place from 6 – 7:45 p.m.
A pre-show, from 6 – 6:45, will feature performances by the Snow Globes and an autograph-signing
event with five Kansas City Current players in the Haverty Family Yards. At 6:45, the CP Holiday
Train will arrive, with performances by Lindsay Ell and Jojo Mason from 7 – 7:45.
All donations raised at the Kansas City event will go to Harvesters to help those in need in the
Kansas City area. CP strongly encourages attendees to bring cash donations since local food banks
have agreements to purchase food from suppliers at a discount.
Signing autographs at the pre-show will be Current players Alex Loera, Addisyn Merrick, Cassie
Miller, Hailie Mace and Mallory Weber.
For more information on the CP Holiday Train program and to follow the progress of the CP Holiday
train via our live train tracker, visit cpr.ca/holidaytrain.
About the CP Holiday Train
The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train tours Canada and the U.S. in November and December raising
money, food and awareness for the important work that food banks do in their communities.
Professional musicians play free half-hour concerts from the brightly decorated train’s stage. CP
makes a donation to the local food shelf at each stop and encourages attendees to also donate.
Since its inception in 1999, the Holiday Train has raised more than $20 million and 5 million pounds
