Alice Thorson

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

Artist Pages – Deanna Dikeman: “Sprinklers, Birdbaths and Puddles”

Deanna Dikeman has always found the real to be more fascinating than the ideal. Over her 30-year career in photography, she has focused her lens on the ordinary and familiar, from suburban landscapes and thrift store offerings to family members and lost pets, delighting in personality more than perfection. Years ago, this was driven home […]

September 10, 2018
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Gallery Glance – “ᎠᏍᎦᏯ ᎦᏅᎯᏓ (Long Men): the native streams and rivers of the land” by Joseph Erb (Cherokee) at Travois

Contemporary American Indian art has become a regular part of Crossroads First Fridays thanks to Travois, a Crossroads-based consulting firm specializing in housing and economic development in Native American communities. Last year the firm decided to expand the area’s art offerings by launching an exhibition program. It convened a panel of experts to select top […]

August 31, 2018
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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 […]

July 12, 2018
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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. […]

July 3, 2018
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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 […]

July 2, 2018
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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 […]

June 29, 2018
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