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“Sincerely Yours” (2008) is part of her Keltie Ferris’ one-person show, “Man Eaters,” at Kemper at the Crossroads.
New York artist Keltie Ferris makes vibrant, layered paintings fired with youthful optimism and a sense of possibility. Eleven of them are on display in a new exhibit at Kemper at the Crossroads, the last show organized by curator Chris Cook before he left the museum to take a job at the Salina Art Center.
A year ago, Kansas City Art Institute professor Hal Wert showed his collection of Barack Obama street posters at the school’s H&R Block Artspace. Now the posters have been assembled into a 188-page book, “Hope: A Collection of Obama Posters and Prints.”
Winners of the 2009 Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artist Awards show off their recent accomplishments Friday, in an exhibit opening with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Kansas City Art Institute’s Block Artspace.
We’re all familiar with totem poles and beaded moccasins, feathered headdresses and kachina dolls, but these well-known art forms don’t begin to encompass the richness of American Indians’ contributions to American art history. Kansas Citians and other visitors will have access to a fuller, more detailed picture of the art produced on this continent when the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art opens its new American Indian galleries on Nov. 11.
A highlight of the new American Indian galleries at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, which will open to the public Nov. 11, is a gift of 34 objects from the collection of longtime museum patrons Morton and Estelle Sosland.
As a culture, we’re fascinated with childhood, perhaps because many people attribute the scars they carry as adults to the way they were brought up. Modern parents, determined not to repeat the “mistakes” they suffered as children, find themselves barraged with conflicting advice that keeps them in a perpetual state of guilt.
