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: 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 […]

Editor’s Letter, March/April 2018

Nothing keeps a city’s arts scene more vibrant than a constant infusion of new talent — but it must be attracted and supported. One program that does an exemplary job on both scores is the Charlotte Street Foundation Studio Residency program, which annually selects roughly 30 artists from varied disciplines, backgrounds and geographic locations to […]

Christopher Leitch — “chance diaries: dream things” at KCAI Crossroads Gallery

Kansas City artist Christopher Leitch is well known for his illustrated dream journals filled with funny, scary, bittersweet and personally revealing words and pictures. (KC Studio featured a selection of them in our July/August 2016 Artist Pages.) Coming up: Leitch will unveil a new twist on the dream journals concept in the exhibit, “chance diaries: dream things,” beginning Jan. 23 at the KCAI Crossroads Gallery.

Daiana Oneto: ‘Bodies as Landscape’

Daiana Oneto: ‘Bodies as Landscape’

Many people from Argentina are still haunted by the Dirty War that raged through the 1970s and ’80s. “The military took over the government, and anyone who was a threat was abducted, tortured, got rid of,” said Daiana Oneto, an Argentinian-born artist whose abstractions of bodies in the landscape revisit the fate of the 30,000 […]