SEPTEMBER 25 -OCTOBER 16, 2011
Kansas City International Artists Residency Program at the Artists Coalition

ALICIA CANDIANI
MALLIN GALLERY
September 1 – 22, 2011

Alicia is also the founder and current director of Proyecto’ace, an international art center focused on printmaking and its interfaces with photography, design and digital media.  Kansas City Art Institute’s (KCAI) Chair of Printmaking, Miguel Rivera, has recently returned from visiting Alicia’s residency, with aid from the Lighton International Artists Exchange Program (LIAEP) a project of KCAC.  Miguel’s experience with Alicia led him to embark on a journey in order to bring Alicia and her talents here to Kansas City artists and art enthusiasts.  With the assistance of KCAI and KCAC, Miguel’s vision has been achieved, and Alicia will be arriving here in the United States on October 1, 2011.

During her stay here in Kansas City, Alicia will be working with KCAI’s junior class, where she will impart her vast knowledge of printmaking on the undergraduate students.  She will also be working on her own art at the KCAI facilities, where she will produce a series of work that will then be on display at the galleries in KCAC October 14 – November 18, 2011.

The International Artists Residency Program is a new program of KCAC which offers dedicated individuals a supportive environment in which to further their creative development.  The program provides a resource of time and space for artists to create their best work. For more information please visit our site at: www.kansascityartistscoalition.org.

The Studios Inc Exhibition Space is pleased to present Concentrations, an exhibition by Marcie Miller Gross, on view from 9.9.11 to 10.21.11, with an opening reception, Friday, 9.9.11, 6 - 9 PM.

Concentrations is an exhibition of drawings and sculpture that examine elemental, abstract form. Through an accumulative means of building with industrial felt, this work explores the visceral, visual relationship of physicality and weight, of balanced measure and subtle form.  These solids are poetic and repetitious, animal and mineral, dark and absorbing. 
 
Miller Gross has exhibited her work extensively including: Dolphin Gallery, CranbrookArt Museum, Byron Cohen Gallery of Contemporary Art, SalinaArtCenter, and a solo exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Collections include: American Institute of Architects/Kansas City, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Missouri Bank, Helix Architecture and Design and many others.  Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, Sculpture, Art Papers, I. D Magazine, Review, and Kansas City Star, and received many awards including the Charlotte Street Foundation Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, and Arts KCFund Inspiration Grant.  She received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and has held academic appointments at the Kansas City Art Institute and Universityof Kansas.

Concentrations
Marcie Miller Gross
9.9.11 - 10.21.11

Opening Reception
9.9.11 from 6 - 9 PM

Gallery Talk
Saturday 9.10.11 12:00 PM
 
Gallery Hours
Tues - Friday 10 - 4 PM
Saturday      12 – 4 PM

Location:
1708 Campbell Street
Kansas City, MO 64108

 
Wednesday, September 21st  

Hand Print Press National Print Exhibition at

The UMKC Gallery of Art 

 &

August: Osage County at

The Kansas City Repertory Theatre 

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The Scoop 

                   5:15PM Pre-Event: The UMKC Gallery of Art 

                              -  5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110

           7:00 PM Main Event: The Kansas City Repertory Theatre 

                  - In the Spencer Theatre  

                  - 4949 Cherry Street, Kansas City, MO 64110          

                  - Free Parking available in lots to the East of the UMKC   

                     Performing Arts Center as well as in the covered garage West  

                     of the theatre at 50th & Oak. Although signs indicate a faculty  

                     permit is required, this is NOT SO during Rep performances.  

September 2 - October 29, 2011

Untitled Dango #11-05-14

2011 glazed ceramic

69"x37.5"x20"

*if you would like a higher resolution images, let us know!

 Gallery Hours:  Tuesday - Saturday, 11 - 5 p.m. & by appointment

 SHERRY LEEDY CONTEMPORARY ART

2004 Baltimore Avenue

Kansas City, MO 64108

816-221-2626

www.sherryleedy.com

If you are around a week from this Saturday on August 27th please come to the Twist and Shout--Joplin Art benefit I have been working on the last two months.  Approximately 90 KC artists have enlisted to make new works of art from a debris pile that a number of us have gathered on two trips to Joplin.  We will have a silent and live auction of all the work that night.  There will be some light appetizers, drink and music.  We have Johnny Rowlands MCing the event.  We also have a bus load of people coming up from Joplin. Admission is a suggested art material that will be used for art therapy sessions in Joplin to help children and adults cope with their tough experiences otherwise a suggested $5 donation.

100% of the proceeds from the art auction will go to a special fund through the Spiva Arts Center of Joplin in which local Joplin artists who have lost their homes, studios, art materials will be able to apply for mini-grants to help them get restarted.

If you are from out of town and you can't come and would like to still support the project you can go online to our project website or you can send a check made out to the Spiva Arts Center  with a memo line "Project Reclamation"--send directly to the Spiva Center for the Arts 222 W. 3rd Street Joplin, MO. 64801.  Our project website is  www.kcartists4joplin.com  There is a great variety of working painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, works made with light and neon, etc....

the project was featured recently in the KC Star Arts Preview by Alice Thorson  KC STAR ARTICLE LINK

I have attached a flyer that I would appreciate you forwarding on to other friends you think would love to support the project through a donation and/or have fun evening out.  There will be a number of people from Joplin coming up to support the event--I hope for the art lovers of KC to come out an show their support.

I have attached an image of the first of two works of art I have created incorporating Joplin debris. One I made use of a wooden children's chair and tree branches...

thank you,
Matt

Matthew Dehaemers
Artist Website www.matthewdehaemers.com

Grand Arts is pleased to announce the upcoming installation of sculptor John Salvest’s IOU/USA, a major public artwork to be sited in Memorial Hill/Penn Valley Park.

IOU/USA will transform the ubiquitous material of cargo shipping containers into a giant, temporary public sculpture. One hundred and five containers will be stacked seven high to create a massive wall with embedded text on both sides. The containers will spell out “I O U” on one side and “U S A” on the other.

The site for the project—in close proximity to the Federal Reserve Bank, Liberty Memorial, and WWI Museum—is intended to imbue the work with many possibilities for interpretation. The project deliberately resists polarities of left and right, liberal and conservative, though, and takes no ʻsides.ʼ Instead, it inhabits an allusive poetics of the familiar, utilizing language and materials that are simple but evocative to suggest the shared weight of our individual and collective debts.

Says Salvest, “The placement of the project near a regional branch of the Federal Reserve Bank, one of the main components of national fiscal and monetary policy, comes at a time when concern about the United States’ ballooning federal budget and foreign trade deficits is a major part of the national conversation. Its location between the Fed and the Pioneer Mother Memorial is also fitting in that, whereas the permanent public monument rightfully celebrates America’s and Kansas City’s triumphant past, the temporary public sculpture may generate meaningful discussion about where we, as a nation, are heading.”

Installation in the Park will begin August 15, 2011, and IOU/USA will open to the public on Friday, September 2 at 6pm. Thereafter, the installation will be accessible to visitors 24 hours a day, seven days a week through October 16, 2011.

Grand Arts will convene several public programs and workshops in connection with the project. For more information, please see <<grandarts.com>>.