Visual – KC STUDIO

March 3, 2020

KCI Airport Art Project Moves Ahead Led by Public Art Consultant Community Arts International

Representatives of the recently chosen public art consultant for the KCI single terminal project introduced themselves and asked for input at a Feb. 3 meeting of the city’s Municipal Art Commission. “We are in the process of reaching out,” said Elsa Cameron, president and chief curator of Community Arts International (CAI), a San Francisco-based nonprofit.

February 28, 2020

Artist Pages | Matthew Day Jackson: ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’

Many museums around the region have closed in response to the COVID-19/coronavirus threat. The Spencer Museum of Art’s galleries are closed through May 15. View..

February 27, 2020

Gallery Glance: “Staging Shimomura” at the Spencer Museum of Art

Many museums around the region have closed in response to the COVID-19/ coronavirus threat. The Spencer Museum of Art’s galleries are closed through March 31...

February 24, 2020

“Summer Wheat: Blood, Sweat, and Tears,” Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

I can’t remember ever having left an exhibition of paintings and subsequently thinking much about how they were created.

February 20, 2020

‘The Vietnam War: 1945-1975’

2019/2020 marks the 50th anniversary of both the peak of American involvement in the Vietnam War and its turning point. A traveling exhibit at the National World War I Museum and Memorial makes recognition of both unescapable, although its scope is considerably broader.

January 24, 2020

Gallery Glance: “Sonya Clark: Monumental Cloth, The Flag We Should Know” H&R Block Artspace

What better way to address the state of a divided nation than with a symbol of truce? Internationally known fiber artist Sonya Clark, whose unraveled..

January 22, 2020

Arts News: KC Comics Master Launches New Miniseries

David Dastmalchian grew up in Overland Park devouring superhero comic books and dreaming of being in the sort of fantasy, science-fiction and horror movies that enraptured him.

January 20, 2020

queer abstraction

This past summer I organized queer abstraction at the Des Moines Art Center — a landmark exhibition that featured the work of 15 contemporary artists..