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2017 UMKC Student Exhibition

Thursday, April 27 – Thursday, July 27, 2017
Opening Reception: Thursday April 27, 2017, 5—7PM
Free Parking in the Cherry St. garage, levels 5 & 6

The UMKC Gallery of Art announces the 2017 UMKC Student Art Exhibition, which runs Thursday, April 27 – Thursday, July 27. It features the work of 18 graduate and undergraduate artists. All currently enrolled students at UMKC were eligible to submit work across a variety of media, including painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, graphic design, and video. An opening reception will be from 5 – 7 p.m., Thursday April 27. Scholarship awards will be presented during the opening reception at 6 p.m.

Lynnette Miranda served as the juror for the 2017 UMKC Art Exhibition. Miranda, currently the Curator-in-Residence for Charlotte Street Foundation, is a Latinx artist, curator, and writer from Miami, FL.

Miranda received a Masters of Art in Visual Arts Administration with an emphasis in Curatorial Studies from New York University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art with an emphasis in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has curated intimate group exhibitions in partnership with nonprofit organizations, including: Shifting Impressions: City Souvenirs at Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space (New York, NY), Fragile States and Futile Divide at ACRE Projects (Chicago, IL), and Make Space @ MDW during MDW Fair 2012 at Mana Contemporary (Chicago, IL).

Call for Art – UMKC Student Art Exhibition

Call for Art – 2017 Annual UMKC Student Exhibition

Guest Juror: Artist Lynnette Miranda
Deadline for submission: April 7, 2017 at 11:59pm
Information and instructions for submission are located here.

The UMKC Gallery of Art is currently requesting submissions for the 2017 Annual UMKC Student Exhibition. This opportunity is open to any student currently enrolled in classes at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Each artist may submit up to three works for review. Any type of artwork (painting, photography, sculpture, prints, 2D, 3D, graphic design, video, motion graphics) is eligible.

Cash awards will be given to top submissions in the following categories: Best of Show, 1st Place (Undergraduate), 2nd Place (Undergraduate), Honorable Mention (Undergrad), 1st Place (Graduate), Honorable Mention (Graduate).

NEW PRIZES JUST ANNOUNCED!
– Hand Print Press will once again be giving a $500 award for best print in show.
– Artist & Craftsman in the Crossroads will sponsor an award as well. They will give $500 in supplies catered specifically to the winner, along with a solo exhibition at their gallery space.

Exhibition Timeline:

•Art Student League Exhibition Prep Pizza Party
Tuesday, March 21, at 11:30am in Fine Arts Building Room 108. Elijah Gowin and Andy Julo will talk about photographing work for submissions and provide tips on framing.

•Submission Deadline
All entries must be submitted via Google Drive by April 7, 2017 at 11:59PM

•Show is Juried
Guest juror Lynnette Miranda will select which works submitted will be included in the 2017 UMKC Student Art Exhibition. You can find information about Lynnette on her website: www.lynnettemiranda.com

•Notification of Acceptance
All students will be notified whether or not their work has been accepted for exhibition by April 11, 2017

•Art Drop Off
All work must be delivered between April 17—21, 2017 during normal gallery hours: Monday: 9-5, Tuesday: 9-2, Wednesday: 9-5, Thursday: 9-2, Friday: 12-4.

*The UMKC Gallery of Art reserves the right to reject any artwork not presented in a professional manner and/or not ready to hang. Framing is highly preferred, though professional mounting can also be accepted. For installation-based and video works, the Gallery must be notified in the applicant’s submission each entry’s spatial requirements.

•Opening Reception
A public reception with awards announced will be held Thursday, April 27, 2017 from 5-7PM

•Exhibition Closes
July 27, 2017

•Pick Up Work
Times and dates for artists to retrieve their work will be announced through email.

Instructions for submission are here. For additional information on the submission process, contact umkcgallery@umkc.edu

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Hotrods & Handguns | Mr. Realistic

Shamus Clisset | Mr. Realistic

Chris Kienke | Hotrods & Handguns

Thursday, November 10 – Friday, December 9

Opening Reception: Thursday March 16, 5—7PM
Free Parking in the Cherry St. garage, levels 5 & 6

Artist Reception for Chris Kienke on Friday, April 7, 4-6pm

Shamus Clisset (aka FakeShamus) is a New York based artist working with 3D media, including modeling, rendering, and animation. His pictures reflect a mash-up of pop culture imagery, frontier iconography, objects and environments culled from American suburbia, and his own personal history and obsessions. Themes of violence, manifest destiny, and the contemporary wasteland are all refracted through the prism of digital culture.

Hotrods and Handguns co-opts the shiny veneer of American patriotism and Hollywood action films: the flag, fireworks, stars and stripes, red, white and blue, explosions, hot rods and handguns in a very literal manner. The “over the top” nature of this Hotrods and Handguns project is both a celebration of this great nation and a critique of nationalistic attitudes about patriotism, which influences current debates ranging from ideas about freedom and citizenship to how we as a society respond to gun violence.

*Images shown Above: Bang Bang (detail), 2015 and Manifest Destinaut (detail) 2010

Sam Gould

Sgt. Kroll and Other Stories from Red76 & Beyond Repair: An Artist talk by Sam Gould

Thursday, November 3, 6-8pm
UMKC Gallery of Art

Sam Gould is the co-founder and editor of Red76, an experimental publication platform. Established in Portland, Oregon in January of 2000, Red76 often works towards forming publics through print and other methods like meals and public projects that open space to discuss social, educational, and political life in America today.

Gould has taught within the graduate department for Social Practice at the California College of the Arts and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has written, as well as lectured extensively within the United States and abroad.

As a Red76 project, Gould currently runs the bookstore and publishing site, Beyond Repair, in the 9th Ward of Minneapolis, MN. The project will be in operation from 2016 – 2019 and holds space to help formulate publics and publications to amplify the questions and desires of neighbors in proximity to the shop, located in the Midtown Global Market.

Layers of Time: Longview Farm Memories

Ron Anderson – MA Thesis Show

Opening Reception: Thursday November 10, 2016, 5—7PM
Free Parking in the Cherry St. garage, levels 5 & 6

Exhibition: Thursday, November 10 – Friday, December 9

Layers of Time: Longview Farm Memories is a photographic exhibition immersed in the concept of time, as it exists in layers rather than a linear progression.

Taking as its subject, Longview Farm was built in 1914 by Kansas City lumber baron R.A. Long, and was called “The World’s Most Beautiful Farm.”

By blending historic and contemporary photos, through the use of various printing techniques, Ron Anderson is able to bridge past and present, resurrecting the aura of this significant Kansas City landmark.

ronanderson_layersoftime_low-res — Ron Anderson, *Longview Farm Office Safe*, 2016

Ron Anderson_TV_FA — Ron Anderson, *Longview Farm Office Building*, 1916 and 2016

Arterial Echoes: Three Generations of Creative Mentoring

Opening Reception:
Thursday, September 8, 5-7pm
Free Parking in the Cherry St. garage, all levels

Exhibition dates:
Thursday, September 8 – Friday, October 28, 2016

Arterial Echoes features seven UMKC Studio Art Faculty members each shown alongside an artist who mentored them and an artist to whom they have mentored. The mentor/mentee relationship reverberates throughout the space, highlighting the threads that are strengthened between these bonds. One can consider the ways in which these contemporary artists’ practices overlap with one another, yet how their generational differences become evident.

Artists Featured:

– Ricky Allman, Hyunmee Lee (mentor), and Sopearb Touch (mentee)
– Barry Anderson, Lawrence McFarland (mentor), and Sunny Stanila (mentee)
– Elijah Gowin, Patrick Nagatani (mentor), and Leonor Jurado (mentee)
– Hyeyoung Shin, Adele Henderson (mentor), and Andy Julo (mentee)
– Kati Toivanen, Stephen DiRado (mentor), and Sarah Kraly (mentee)
– Paul Tosh, Ollie Fancher (mentor), and Danny Staton (mentee)
– Davin Watne, Timothy App (mentor), and Andrew McIlvaine (mentee)

2016 Student Art Exhibition

2016 Annual Student Art Exhibition

Opening Reception:
Thursday, April 28, 5-7pm
Free Parking in the Cherry St. garage, all levels

Exhibition dates:
April 28 through July 29, 2016

We are pleased to announce the 2016 UMKC Student Art Exhibition, featuring works by 24 graduate and undergraduate artists. All currently enrolled students at UMKC were eligible to submit work across a variety of media, including painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, graphic design, video, and performance. Scholarship awards will be presented during the opening reception, Thursday, April 28 at 6pm.

Michael Schonhoff served as the juror for the 2016 UMKC Student Exhibition. Schonhoff’s creative practice includes artist, curator, musician, and arts professional. He earned his MFA in Visual Art at the State University of New York at Buffalo and his BFA from Iowa State University where he was awarded the Helen Breseford/Frances Seeds Scholarship in Art. Currently, he serves as Assistant Curator, Community Outreach and Exhibition Management, at the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute.

Andrew McIlvaine, Putting Up Walls, Oil on Board Mounted to Wood

Stacey Sharpe, Osage Landscape, Wool, nylon, cotton, beads, and wood

Andy Julo: Trip the Light Fantastic

Opening Reception:
Thursday, April 7, 5-7pm
Free Parking in the Cherry St. garage, levels 5 & 6

Exhibition Dates:
April 4 – April 22, 2016

Trip the Light Fantastic offers images that oscillate between realms of presence and absence, night and day, belief and unbelief, sacred and profane. Julo’s work weaves together the symbolic content, codes, ritual and multi-sensorial dramas of Roman Catholicism with contemporary cultural themes. This multimedia exhibition features a range of works that explore how objects are created or selected, imbued with meaning, and ultimately inform our perceptions. The collapsing of both organic and synthetic forms creates a realm for viewers to expand their own definitions of sacred space, time and movement.

Research for Trip the Light Fantastic was funded in part by the UMKC School of Graduate Studies Grant Program.

Piviale_Dorato_Julo — Andy Julo, *Piviale Dorato*

12933086_10153652936548160_6878899266769197806_n — Andy Julo, *Light from Light*, Digital Photograph,plaster, Honey Locust thorns, silk flowers, and enamel, 2015

981152_10153652936563160_7501525286820027862_o — Andy Julo, *PAX*, Cyanotype, 2016 *Palm and Cellophane Triptych*, Cyanotype, 2015-2016

Ingrid Bachmann & Jennifer Poole

Visiting Artist Lecture: Ingrid Bachmann & Jennifer Poole – Hybrid Bodies

Tuesday, March 22, 6:00-7:00pm
UMKC Gallery of Art

What transpires when a heart is transplanted from one person to another? A team of scientists, medical researchers, and artists sought to uncover the psychological and ontological effects of heart transplantation from the perspective of organ recipients. The result is Hybrid Bodies, an interdisciplinary research study and series of artworks that connects organ recipients’ experiences and cultural views about transplantation to the notion of embodiment.

Join Montreal-based artist Ingrid Bachmann and Toronto-based social scientist Jennifer Poole for a discussion of their collaborative process and discoveries, as well as their preliminary research for Hybrid Bodies II, now underway, which approaches issues of transplantation from the perspective of donor families.

Visitor parking is available on the UMKC campus at coin meters in lot 4OS, and dollar/coin meters in lot 43, and on level 5 of the Cherry Street Garage at an hourly rate of $1.25.

This is a Spencer Museum At Large program, organized in partnership with the UMKC Department of Art and Art History. Support for this program is generously provided by the Richard J. Stern Foundation for the Arts-Commerce Bank, Trustee.

Image: Ingrid Bachmann, The Gift, multi-channel video installation for Hybrid Bodies

NCECA 2016: Man and Made

Monday, March 7 – Saturday, March 19, 2016
UMKC Gallery of Art, Fine Arts Building 203
5015 Holmes St, KCMO 64110
Free parking in the Cherry Street garage, levels 5 & 6

The UMKC Gallery of Art is proud to host two exhibitions as a part of the 2016 National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference this year hosted in Kansas City. Now in its fiftieth year, NCECA promotes and improves the ceramic arts through education, community building, research, and creative inspiration. Each exhibition features talented ceramics artists whose work challenges the boundaries regarding how ceramics are created and how they inform us.

Man and Made

Opening reception: Thursday, March 17 from 5:00-7:00pm

They say we are a product of our environment. But couldn’t it be said that the reverse is also true? While the world in which we grow shapes us as individuals, we are continuously constructing, manipulating, and reforming it so that it better suits our needs. Therefore, the influence we have on our surroundings comes full circle, impacting us in the end.

MAN and MADE features a broad spectrum of contemporary ceramic sculptors whose work bridges the worlds of anatomy and architecture. This exhibition features work by: Brian Harper, Peter Christian Johnson, Lindsay Pichaske, Mallory Wetherell, Tyler Lotz, Matt Ziemke, Amanda Salov, and Lauren Gallaspy. MAN and MADE was curated by Mallory Wetherell, Assistant Professor of Ceramics and Sculpture at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.