The weekend is almost here! Time for some weekend calendar picks from our arts calendar from KC Studio editor Alice Thorson. This afternoon, artists Gloria Baker Feinstein and Nate Fors will be speaking about their work at the Nerman Museum, and tonight Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre premieres The Skin of Our Teeth. Tomorrow night, The Friends of Chamber Music present Richard Goode at the Folly, and Saturday you can see paper dolls at the National Museum of Toys and Miniatures or can bid on art at the 33rd Annual KCAC benefit auction. For more ideas this weekend, visit Kansas City’s most comprehensive arts calendar at kcstudio.org/events. We hope to see you out!
Gloria Baker Feinstein and Nate Fors
February 18 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Free
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Gloria Baker Feinstein began photographing as a young child in Lexington, KY. She received her M.A. in Photography and Graphic Design and a B.A. in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin, and then opened a Kansas City gallery devoted to fine art photography. The Baker Gallery was a center for photographic activity during the 1980’s. At the age of 40, Feinstein decided to take up her own camera once again and has been passionately involved in making pictures ever since. Her beautiful and sensitive images often portray people and places that are remote and impoverished.
Sprinkler is part of the collection the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and is from her Toy Camera series. Other series include Uganda, Twins, Appalachia, and Shredding. Feinstein is also the founding director of a non-profit organization called Change the Truth, which since 2007 has provided assistance and opportunities to Ugandan children affected by war, poverty and disease. Feinstein’s work has been exhibited widely and can be found in the collections of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Center for Creative Photography, and the High Museum, among others.
Nate Fors creates paintings, sculptures and installations in a wide range of media, but is perhaps best known for his vibrantly colored, abstract sculptural paintings, some of which feature unconventional materials, such as inner tubes and plastic. Fors’ B.A. degree English literature from the University of Kansas, along with his humor and interest in cinema, are all incorporated into his work and serve to inform visual and verbal puns.
Fors is a past recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Charlotte Street Foundation Award, an Avenue of the Arts Foundation Award and a Missouri Visual Artists Biennial Fellowship. His paintings are in the collections of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Kemper Museum of Art and the Spencer Museum as well as numerous other public and private collections. Since 2008, Fors has collaborated on contemporary dance performances with the Owen/Cox Dance Group creating video, costumes and sets for the company. The Nerman owns his 1996 mixed media painting Re(Evolver) on view in the Carlsen Center 1st floor collection focus area, and Star Spangled to Death (2006).
THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH
February 18 – March 6
Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre
By Thornton Wilder, Winner 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Meet George and Maggie Antrobus of Excelsior, New Jersey, a suburban, commuter-town couple (married for 5,000 years), who bear more than a casual resemblance to that first husband and wife, Adam and Eve: the two Antrobus children, Gladys and Henry (who likes to throw rocks); and their garrulous maid, Sabina.
Whether he is inventing the alphabet or merely saving the world from apocalypse, George and his redoubtable family somehow manage to survive–by the skin of their teeth.
Richard Goode – Pianist
February 19 @ 8:00 pm | $15 – $35
Folly Theater
American pianist Richard Goode has been hailed for music-making of tremendous emotional power, depth and expressiveness, and has been acknowledged worldwide as one of today’s leading interpreters of Classical and Romantic music. In regular performances with the major orchestras, recitals in the world’s music capitals, and through his extensive and acclaimed Nonesuch recordings, he has won a large and devoted following.
A native of New York, Richard Goode studied with Elvira Szigeti and Claude Frank, with Nadia Reisenberg at the Mannes College of Music, and with Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute. His numerous prizes over the years include the Young Concert Artists Award, First Prize in the Clara Haskil Competition, the Avery Fisher Prize, and a Grammy award for his recording of the Brahms Sonatas with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman.
His first public performances of the complete cycle of Beethoven sonatas at Kansas City’s Folly Theater and New York’s 92Y in 1987-88 brought him to international attention being hailed by The New York Times as “among the season’s most important and memorable events.” It was later performed with great success at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1994 and 1995.
An exclusive Nonesuch recording artist, Mr. Goode has made more than two dozen recordings over the years, ranging from solo and chamber works to lieder and concertos. His latest recording of the five Beethoven concertos with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer was released in 2009 to exceptional critical acclaim, described as “a landmark recording” by the Financial Times and nominated for a Grammy award. His 10-CD set of the complete Beethoven sonatas cycle, the first-ever by an American-born pianist, was nominated for a Grammy and has been ranked among the most distinguished recordings of this repertoire. Other recording highlights include a series of Bach Partitas, a duo recording with Dawn Upshaw, and Mozart piano concertos with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
In addition to his solo career, Mr. Goode is also a consummate chamber musician. He was a founding member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and is a frequent participant at the Spoleto Festival. He served, together with Mitsuko Uchida, as co-Artistic Director of the Marlboro Music School and Festival in Marlboro, Vermont from 1999 through 2013.
Richard Goode regularly appears with all of the major American orchestras, and in recent years in Europe with the Orchestre de Paris, Berlin Radio Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, among many others. He appears regularly at the Edinburgh International Festival and BBC Proms.
Stereotypes to Civil Rights: Black Paper Dolls in America
February 20 – August 21
The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures
Featuring the private collection of noted author, lecturer, and collector Arabella Grayson, explore the 150-year evolution of cultural images of African Americans in paper dolls from Little Black Sambo and Aunt Jemima to Jackie Robinson and Missy Elliott. Learn more about the exhibit in the press kit.
33rd Annual Benefit Art Auction
February 20 @ 6:00 pm
Kansas City Artists Coalition
On Saturday, February 20, the Kansas City Artists Coalition is hosting the 33rd Annual Benefit Art Auction.
Collectors, art enthusiasts, and friends of the Artists Coalition know it’s the best place to buy art from up-and-coming and established Kansas City artists. The quality and quantity of the art makes it one of the not-to-be-missed art events of the year.
The Kansas City Artists Coalition’s Art Auction is KCAC’s largest fundraising event, and provides the funds that allow the organization to engage local artists and our art-loving community and continue producing exhibitions and programs— including the International Residency. We are planning a great Auction. Please join with us and be a part of the Artists Coalition’s future. Your donation of art, time, and money helps sustain the visual arts in Kansas City.
Now in its 40th year the Artists Coalition is honored to have the support of members, including KCAC’s founding members, and the community.
