Launched in 2012 in celebration of Charlotte Street Foundation’s 15th Anniversary, Charlotte Street and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art are proud to the continue the series of gallery tours and talks by local artists recognized as Best Gallery Tour by the Pitch 2012 Best of Kansas City. During Artists’ Walks events Charlotte Street Awards Fellows engage participants in the museum’s spaces and highlight works that speak to their artistic sensibilities, then discuss their personal art through presentations in Lens 2.
“We are excited to continue the Artists’ Walks through our partnership with the Nelson-Atkins,” said Kate Hackman, Co-Director of Charlotte Street Foundation. “Art patrons will enjoy this unique opportunity to hear Kansas City’s own successful artists sharing their thoughts and passion for the collections in the Nelson-Atkins.”
The 2013 Artists’ Walks featured artists are:
Jan. 11– Mike Sinclair, visit www.charlottestreet.org/initiatives/visual/recipients/mike-sinclair/
March 8 – Peggy Noland, visit www.charlottestreet.org/initiatives/visual/recipients/peggy-noland/
April 12 – Glenn North, visit www.charlottestreet.org/initiatives/performance/recipients/glenn-north/
May 10 – Ke-Sook Lee, visit www.charlottestreet.org/initiatives/visual/recipients/ke-sook-lee/
The event is free; however, tickets are required. Go to the Nelson-Atkins online calendar at nelson-atkins.org to register. The tours will be repeated twice each evening and all participants will enjoy a presentation on the artists’ own work. The programs coincide with Young Friends of Art Happy Hours.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Mike Sinclair – Kansas City-based architectural and fine art photographer Mike Sinclair was recently featured in The New York Times and Time Magazine. His fine art photography, which is part of several public collections, explores the American experience, his beloved Kansas City, and more. Mike is a 1999 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award Fellow.
Peggy Noland – A self-taught budding darling of the avant-garde fashion world who was introduced to the fashion world as a Production Manager for a clothing line in New Delhi, India, Peggy Noland opened her boutique Peggy Noland Kansas City several years ago. Art scenesters, out-of-towners and suburbanites flock to Noland’s itty-bitty Crossroads retail space. Her signature wacky spandex bodysuits and leggings have charmed art and culture rags like WGSN, WWD, NY Times, Japanese Elle, British Elle, Brazilian Vogue, Nylon, Japanese Nylon, Dazed & Confused. Peggy is a 2011 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award Fellow.
Glenn North – Glenn North is currently serving as the Poet-in-Residence of the American Jazz Museum while pursuing an MFA at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. He is a Cave Canem fellow, a Callaloo creative writing fellow and a 2011 recipient of the Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist award. His ekphrastic poetry has been exhibited in several art exhibitions including The Color of Jazz, Reflections of Jazz, and Ella Fitzgerald: The First Lady of Song. As a spoken word artist, Glenn has shared the stage with many legendary African American poets including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, and Sonia Sanchez. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kansas City Star, One Shot Deal, The Sixth Surface, Caper Literary Journal, Platte Valley Review, Cave Canem Anthology XII and The African American Review.
Ke-Sook Lee – Ke-Sook Lee’s art begins by being autobiographical, informed by her early life in Korea and her days as a homemaker before studying at the Kansas City Art Institute. When Lee was growing up in Korea, all the clothes were made by women, without benefit of sewing machines. In homage, instead of canvas as the backdrop for her art, Lee uses cloth in various domesticated forms—doilies, handkerchiefs, pillowcases, dishtowels, and cheesecloth. She stitches a variety of organic shapes onto the different fabrics using the thread as a mark-making device to create her simple hand embroidered drawings, personal symbols, and transfigured images of women from her experiences as mother, wife, homemaker and an individual artist. Her work is represented in galleries in New York, Los Angeles, and throughout the Midwest. She also exhibits abroad. Ke-Sook Lee is a 1999 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award Fellow.
