Over 200 pieces of stunning original artwork donated from alumni, faculty and friends of KCAI will be auctioned at the Art & Design Auction on June 3. View and bid on the art and enjoy festive food and drink when you join us for an amazing evening that benefits students scholarships and programs at KCAI. Tickets for this fabulous evening start at just $125. Buy Tickets at https://donate.kcai.edu/auction.
Artwork is valued from $75 to upwards of $25,000. Here is sneak peek into some of the artwork and select profiles of the artists who have generously donated pieces.
Star Artist Keith Jacobshagen
Keith Jacobshagen is a Midwestern painter motivated by the land around him. By combining intimate reflections with a deep understanding and respect for nature, he celebrates landscape in a manner reminiscent of the early Dutch masters. Through their landmark low horizons and wide dominant skies, his paintings elicit a variety of emotions inspired by the Midwestern countryside. His paintings are part of the collection at Spencer Museum of Art, Kemper Museum of Art, Museum of Nebraska Art, Joslyn Art Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and many more museums.
Lauren Mabry
Lauren Mabry is a Philadephia- based artist who makes sculpture that she sees as three dimensional paintings of ceramic and glaze. The clay forms she produces are elemental, like cylinders, which allow the highly pigmented glazes to clash and resound with a kind of musical timbre, flowing with movement, creating rich, hypnotic tones and textures. She has work in the permanent collections of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, the Sheldon Museum of Art and others.
