LEEDY-VOULKOS ART CENTER AUGUST FIRST FRIDAY August 3, 2018 6pm - 9pm |
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SECOND NATURE Troy Swangstu July 12 - September 1, 2018 Main Gallery Troy Swangstu is a local artist currently based out of Paola, Kansas and is originally from Bettendorf, Iowa. Troy received formal training in painting at the Kansas City Art Institute. Shortly after, he continued to gain relevant experience exhibiting with other professional artists and by working closely with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. In the years since he continues to gain recognition as a prolific exhibitor at local and regional galleries. As well as his career as an artist, Swangstu has since relocated to Paola, KS to embrace a rural life of grazing cattle. Drawing upon his passion for regenerative farming practices, Swangstu employs the imagery of his daily life, his livestock and the surrounding landscape, as the primary visual subject of these paintings. Each painting created exclusively for this exhibition features abstracted grazing animals; most notably, cattle, bulls, and rams. ...read more... |
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VISIONS OF SUMMER Wes Benson July 12 - September 1, 2018 Front Gallery Wes Benson is a Kansas City-based painter and Illustrator. Wes has a masters degree in illustration from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and a bachelor's degree in art history from the University of Kansas. His work is colorful, representational and full of contemporary imagery. Wes paints what he wants to paint. His artistic philosophy is guided exclusively by the daily visual input of his own life. His work is autobiographical, euphoric, luminous, self-referential. |
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CLEVER LAYER Courtney Starrett August 3 - September 29, 2018 Opie Gallery Clever Layer is a collection of recent works by New York-based artist Courtney Starrett. The works in this exhibition were created utilizing a process Starrett coined “Data Materialization.”
Data materialization is a workflow to create 3D objects from data-informed designs. Building upon traditional metalwork and craft, and new technology’s data visualization with generative art, this workflow expresses conceptually relevant data through 3D forms which are fabricated in traditional media. The process allows for the subtle application of data in visual art, allowing the aesthetic allure of the art object or installation to inspire intellectual intrigue. Drawing on the concepts of gender roles, consumer marketing, and material science this exhibition invites the viewer to experience the artwork in multiple ways, catching the eye and sparking curiosity. ...read more... |
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FACES AFTER SUICIDE Lindsey Doolittle August 3 - September 28, 2018 Back Gallery Postvention is Prevention
On April 22nd, 2015 the artist’s husband, Sgt. Brett Doolittle of the Kansas City, Kansas police department, lost all hope and ended his life. Lindsey joined the support group SASS (Suicide Awareness Survivor Support) who helped show her that she wasn’t alone, to not be ashamed, and it wasn’t her fault.
During group sessions, she kept her herself calm by drawing other loss survivors, capturing the emotional repercussions their loved one’s suicide unknowingly left behind. Never intending to place her artworks on display, she decided it was time for the public to see the gauntlet of grief that suicide creates, which is unlike any other death. Loss survivors are conflicted with the thought that the person who murdered their loved one, was their loved one. Where mourners are met with compassion and sympathy; suicide loss survivors are faced with blame, judgment and exclusion. Despair, rage, torture, longing, confusion, agony, or recalling happy memories are some of the expressions you will see on the blind-contour ink drawings. To keep everyone’s anonymity, all artworks are titled by who that group member lost to suicide, with the exception of the creators of SASS.
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e2: Twice Exceptional Eric Justin Grimes July 6 - August 25, 2018 Featuring photographs and sculptures created by Eric Grimes between 1998 and 2018 |
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Bell Street Pottery POP-UP SHOP Featuring Work by Steph Kates August 3, 2018 | 6pm - 9pm & August 4, 2018 | 11am - 5pm
Make sure to stop by our Shop this First Friday in August and meet ceramic artist, Steph Kates of Bell Street Pottery. Steph brings her love of stories to her ceramics in her Story Bowls - Illustrated pottery inspired by mythology, fairy tales, and folktales. Each piece is hand built by either pinching the clay or rolling and manipulating soft slabs of clay. Steph creates her surface designs using a process called sgraffito: before the clay fully dries, she paints on layers of underglaze, then hand carves her unique designs. She fires the clay, applies glaze and fires again. Each piece is one-of-a-kind. Steph received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and works from her home studio in Kansas City. |
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Last Chance to Donate to Operation Breakthrough We are happy to announce that we have extended the deadline to Saturday, August 4th for you to donate a new toy for Operation Breakthrough's Birthday Closet. Cora Jones of We Are Going to France Designs will be outside the art center collecting toys and selling some of her crafts to raise money for the Toy Drive. Donate a new toy for a child (ages 6 months - 12 yrs old) and receive 20% off your entire purchase in our Shop that night! |
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The Leedy-Voulkos Art Center now offers Art Money, the new, easier way to buy art! Payments are spread over 10 months. No interest. No fees. Pay a minimum 10% deposit, and take your artwork home. Art Money is available from $1,000 to $50,000 Apply Now! |
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