Visual – KC STUDIO

May 29, 2017

Cristina Muñiz: “The Powers of Overcoming”

Although she completed her B.F.A. at the Kansas City Art Institute just three years ago, Cristina Muñiz has been making art for more than 20 years. It shows in the mature personal vocabulary she has evolved, fired by memories of growing up in a big Mexican-American family in San Antonio, but reaching out to encompass the broader realm of human experience. “What I push my work towards is to a point where it doesn’t exclude anybody,” Muñiz says.

May 25, 2017

Innovative Housing: Nurturing Artists and Neighborhoods

All too often, artists who breathe life back into comatose old neighborhoods are forced out when the revival spawns high rents. Some Kansas City artists have fallen victim to this cycle in the Crossroads and West Bottoms. Kansas City is working on several fronts to solve this problem, such as [...]

May 23, 2017

“PAINTALLICA: Worst Show Yet,” Leedy-Voulkos Art Center

“Worst Show Yet” is a junkyard orgy of collaborative art. Paintallica, an artist collective made up of more than 20 painters and sculptors, have transformed..

May 18, 2017

Emperors, Scholars and Temples: Tastemakers of China’s Ming and Qing Dynasties

Brilliant porcelains, temples in mist-shrouded landscapes, a scholar in his studio, elegant ladies decked out in fine silks — these are some of the images conjured up by the Ming (1368 – 1644) and Qing (1644 – 1911) dynasties, the period when the arts of China reached full maturity. The primary driving forces behind this artistic creativity were three distinct yet interconnected cultural milieus: the imperial court, the scholar or literati class and Buddhism.

May 18, 2017

Lights, Camera, Hixon!

Just a four-minute walk from Kansas City’s old First National Bank at Baltimore and 10th Streets —now the home of the downtown Central Library — some of the biggest names in American entertainment once made their way to a small photography studio and a man they trusted to cast them in just the right light. Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor. Fanny Brice and a local ingénue named Billie Cassin (who’d eventually become Joan Crawford).

May 17, 2017

KCAI Hosts a Festive Evening of Art, Food and Fun at the Art & Design Auction June 3

Proceeds Benefit Student Scholarships and Programs Kansas City Art Institute’s newest studios and The Rowland Commons will be the epicenter for a fabulous evening of..

May 17, 2017

Arts News: Nelson-Atkins Celebrates 2017 Juneteenth with Day of Free Events

The most newsworthy aspect of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s involvement in this year’s city-wide Juneteenth festival is not just its participation. Rather, it is..

May 16, 2017

ArtsKC-Supported Artists Produce Thought-Provoking Work

From a short documentary film depicting music as an immigrant because of the way it assimilates into the musical landscape of countries, to sculptures that..

May 12, 2017

KCAI Faculty’s Generosity and Artwork Will Shine at Art & Design Auction

To help students realize their dream of attending the Kansas City Art Institute, dozens of faculty members have stepped up to the easel, the kiln..

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