KC STUDIO

March 7, 2018

Artist to Watch: Jillian Youngbird

Jillian Youngbird had a big year in 2017. Her comical sculptures of animal people, made from cardboard and covered in cut-up paint samples, were on display in Kansas City and as far away as Alaska. Youngbird’s humorous sculptures are all about environmentalism, and they attempt to make the topic approachable and interesting. Inspired by a childhood “in the Ozarks among the hillbillies” and her great-grandmother Mable, Youngbird seeks to unite her art with her Native American heritage and environmentalist beliefs.

March 6, 2018

Celebration in Dance

Kansas City Ballet completed 2017 in high style. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts invited the company to Washington, D.C., to perform Devon Carney’s “The Nutcracker” over Thanksgiving weekend. “This is a particularly satisfying fantasy,” wrote Sarah L. Kaufman for “The Washington Post,” which “positively oozes charm.” High praise from a Pulitzer Prize-winning dance critic.

KC Studio Kids

March 5, 2018

Kids Giving Back: Youth Symphony of Kansas City

Each year, the Youth Symphony of Kansas City is comprised of approximately 450 students grades 5 through 12 from 120 schools on both sides of the state line.

KC Studio Kids

March 5, 2018

Kids Giving Back: Awesome Ambitions

“Having a strong community is what everyone wants. It benefits everyone.” That’s what Ashtin Holman, sophomore at Winnetonka High School, said as she went about..

KC Studio Kids

March 5, 2018

Kids Giving Back: Kansas City Ballet School

Where Hurricane Maria left devastation, the Kansas City Ballet School (KCBS) wants to bring hope of a bright future.

KC Studio Kids

March 5, 2018

Teen Council: The Nelson-Atkins Museum Of Art

image provided by the Nelson-Atkins museum of Art Fifteen teens from across the Kansas City Metro band together each year with one mission — to..

March 5, 2018

Emerging Artists in the Spotlight – Glyneisha Johnson: Collage as Metaphor

Artist Glyneisha Johnson, a May 2017 graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, has received several honors in very short order. In September 2017 she landed a studio residency from the Charlotte Street Foundation, and in January 2018 she had a solo exhibition at The Writers Place, where seven poets created works in response to her collages. Bruce Hartman, executive director of the Nerman Museum, purchased one of the collages from the show for the museum collection.

March 5, 2018

Honors: Armin Mühsam

On the heels of an exhibit of small collages at Haw Contemporary last November, Kansas City artist Armin Mühsam is poised to open a solo museum show. “Armin Mühsam: Archipeinture” opens March 23 at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph. The exhibit, of small sculptures and paintings on paper populated by geometric motifs, was organized by the museum’s executive director, Brett Knappe.

March 5, 2018

Emerging Artists in the Spotlight – Let Your Freak Flag Fly at Alter: Art Space

It’s been called Big Fun Art and it’s making major waves throughout the art world. Kansas City has a fresh new venue for this multidisciplinary ain’t-nothin’-but-a-party art movement — that is, if you can find it. Enter Alter: Art Space, quite literally birthed last summer in the West Bottoms by recent Kansas City Art Institute graduates, Boi Boy and Bo Hubbard, who proudly refer to themselves as its “moms.”