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Ten years ago Block Artspace director Raechell Smith (right) and then-mayor Kay Barnes helped cut the ribbon opening the gallery.
Block Artspace celebrates its 10th anniversary this month — and a stimulating and productive decade it has been.
Topical, intelligent and good-looking, the 2009 Charlotte Street Foundation Awards exhibition is one of the best in the program’s history. The featured artists — Jaimie Warren, Dylan Mortimer and Andrzej Zielinski — are young, but they have blown past the “emerging” label. All three have actively exhibited in Kansas City and already have received exposure in New York.
Buying art is the favorite pastime of Bruce Hartman, director of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. On Thursday, he learned he can pick up the pace, thanks to a million-dollar gift from Johnson County philanthropist and art collector Mary Cohen. The funds, given to the Johnson County Community College Foundation, will be used to establish the Barton P. and Mary D. Cohen Art Acquisition Endowment, named for the donor and her late husband, a Johnson County banker.
It’s the start of a busy weekend at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, including the opening of a show and a celebration of two new permanent installations.
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.
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.
