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Collector’s Corner: Barbara Gordon
Barbara Gordon fell in love with folk art more than 20 years ago. She began buying it, drawn to the aesthetics, craftsmanship and unique visions of artists with little or no formal training. And after discovering that many of the great collectors of American folk art have been women, she determined to join their ranks.
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Artist to Watch: Rodolfo Marron III
Rodolfo Marron III’s mixed-media collages have been getting a lot of exposure lately, including a limited edition print offer in The Hand Magazine and a March exhibit at The Late Show gallery.Beginning May 28, they will be featured in the exhibit, “Rodolfo Marron III: A Poke Ghost and the Garden of Tearz” at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, marking Marron’s first showing in a museum.
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Honors: Don Kottmann
Insiders in Kansas City’s art world know and appreciate painter Don Kottmann’s work, and thanks to a major grant that he received recently, his work will surely be known more widely soon. Kottmann splits his time between Kansas City and Calgary, Alberta, where he teaches at the Alberta College of Art Design.
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Kansas City Dance Season Closes with Enticing Performances
The 2014-2015 Kansas City dance season is winding down, but the coming months continue to offer an array of high-caliber dance performances. This past season featured many plot-based balletic works, but the finale performances concentrate primarily on non-narrative pieces, highlighting movement, choreographic invention and performance ingenuity.
