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“Judy Onofrio: Unearth” and “Nicolas Dhervillers: Retrospective Works,” Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art + “Nicolas Dhervillers: Retrospective Works,” Cerbera Gallery
Life, death and memory are the domain of the arts. Sherry Leedy often thematically links the shows in her gallery, and although the work of..
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Megan Leong, Featured Artist for Summit Art Festival
Each year, the Art Festival Director chooses a featured artist to create a piece of artwork to use in promotional material for the Art Festival. Leong was chosen this year because of her artistic talent, her creative piece of artwork she chose to make for the feature, and her love of Lee’s Summit. “I grew up in Lee’s Summit, so it is where many [of my] memories and growing experiences took place,” said Leong. “It is a place that I feel very cared for and supported.”
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Aspiring Inventors Gather at KCAI for Make48 Inventathon
From September 28-30, the Kansas City Art Institute will play host to the fifth Make48 Inventathon, reprising their role last year as host to the fourth Inventathon, when 17 teams crowded into the David T. Beals III Studios for Art and Technology, the school’s new high-tech digital fabrication shop. They were there to compete for a chance to star in a reality TV show and get their inventions to market.
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American Portraiture at Kemper Museum
Visiting a portrait show can be like standing in a room full of people you don’t know. But with prolonged contact, artworks, like people, reveal themselves. A fascination with portraits led Virginia Outwin Boochever (1920 – 2005), a docent at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, to endow a portrait competition at the museum where she led tours for almost 20 years.