River Market Regional Exhibition Opening Reception Tonight

July 9, 2010 · No Comments

Contact:Janet Simpson, Executive Director
The Kansas City Artists Coalition
201 Wyandotte Kansas City, MO 64105816.421.5222
janetsimpson@kansascityartistscoalition.org

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© July 7, 2010 Kansas City Artists Coalition

:River Market Regional Exhibition
Opening Reception Tonight

Friday, July 9th - 5-9 pm
Juror: Barbara O'Brien, Curator, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, will speak at 6:30pm.

53 works of art by 31 artists are in the MALLIN AND CHARNO GALLERIES.

Ken Konche, Building Arrangments, Photography, in the UNDERGROUND GALLERY.

Please join us in celebration of the 28th year for this much anticipated show.

Marydorsey Wanless Joe Bussell Jean Wender Eric Nichols

Artists from Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, and Oklahoma were eligible to enter.

(Images are of this year's award winners)

UNDERGROUND GALLERY

Ken Konchel

Learn more about the Coalition and the running of a gallery. Volunteer for a couple hours on a Saturday. Check out the City Market while you are down here. Pick a day and give us a call! 816-421-5222.

We need volunteers for the River Market Regional Exhibition: Install and take in artwork, and help the night of the reception - Friday, July 9th.

The Artists Residency Program space is finally in progress! Walls are going up, doors are being hung, windows are going in. So we need help. See the new space take shape. Volunteer to paint, clean, install and polish. Any help is appreciated! Call the Artists Coalition:816-421-5222.

: ABOUT THE KANSAS CITY ARTISTS COALITION

The Kansas City Artists Coalition (KCAC), an artist-centered, artist-run alternative space, presents a variety of contemporary visual art exhibitions in its Mallin Gallery, Jacqueline B. Charno Gallery and the Underground. The Artists Coalition provides many programs and services for artists and the community. In our three galleries we produce approximately twenty-one exhibitions annually of work by emerging and mid-career artists. Other projects include: the Lighton International Artists Exchange Program and Money for Artists Promotion grants; Open Studios; and www.kansascityartistscoalition.org. We also publish Artists Directories and catalogs for our Open Studios events, mostly recently ARTNOW. In addition, we sponsor lectures and performance art and conduct Artists’ Toolkits, (professional development workshops for visual artists). In just a few months we will open the Kansas City International Artists Residency Program.

Kansas City Artists Coalition is a Warhol Initiative recipient. This project of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is to strengthen artist-centered organizations. KCAC was one of nine organizations to receive this award in 2002. The Initiative was granted to the Artists Coalition because of our strong programming and our commitment to artists.

The Kansas City Artists Coalition the region’s largest and oldest artist centered organization. We take pride in promoting contemporary visual arts in Kansas City and the surrounding region. FMI: visit www.KansasCityArtistsCoalition.org The Artists Coalition was created to change the lives of Kansas City visual artists and to promote visual arts awareness and artistic culture in the Midwest and the surrounding region.