Alice Thorson

Alice Thorson

Alice Thorson is the editor of KC Studio. She has written about the visual arts for numerous publications locally and nationally.

Gallery Glance: Works by Kahlil Irving at Epsten Gallery

Gallery Glance: Works by Kahlil Irving at Epsten Gallery

Although he moved to St. Louis after earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Kansas City Art Institute in 2015, ceramic artist Kahlil Irving continues to be a fixture of the Kansas City art scene, with appearances in the Kansas City Art Institute Crossroads Gallery’s “Chromophilia | Chromophobia” exhibit in 2016, and the Nerman […]

Arts News: Have Grant, Will Travel

Arts News: Have Grant, Will Travel

Germany, Sweden, Iceland and the Netherlands are just some of the destinations for this year’s round of grant recipients from the Lighton International Artists Exchange Program. The 10 winners of the program’s up to $6,000 travel grants include three artists from Kansas City and one each from Topeka, St. Louis, Chicago, New York and Maine. […]

2018 Kansas City Flatfile & Digitalfile

2018 Kansas City Flatfile & Digitalfile

It’s a hands-on exhibit, put on by Block Artspace for the ninth time in 18 years. The biennial Kansas City Flatfile & Digitalfile is a Kansas City tradition, where viewers don white gloves before perusing hundreds of works housed in big flatfile cabinets, pulling a folder of an artist that interests them and having a […]

Editor’s Letter, July/August 2018

The arts are now in summer mode. As the Ballet, the Symphony and the Opera take a much-needed break to recharge for next year, many cultural offerings move outdoors and strike a note of informality. How about the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s “Puppies & Pints” mixer, where guests were invited to bring their dogs to […]

Gallery Glance: New Works by Kathy Liao at Studios Inc.

Gallery Glance: New Works by Kathy Liao at Studios Inc.

Since moving to Kansas City in 2014 for a post as assistant professor of art at Missouri Western State University, Seattle transplant Kathy Liao has found her niche in the city’s art community. From 2016 to 2017 Liao was a Charlotte Street Foundation Studio Resident. She was recently awarded a three-year residency at Studios Inc, […]

For KC Arts, A Decade to Remember

For KC Arts, A Decade to Remember

As “KC Studio” marks its 10th anniversary with the May/June 2018 issue, we look back on an extraordinary decade for the arts in Kansas City. It began in the depths of a recession, following a 2007 that saw the opening of the new Bloch Building at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the addition of […]