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"Road
To The Festival"
Activities Bring
Literary Focus
To The Corridor
The
second Kansas City Literary Festival (KCLF) scheduled Saturday,
May 17, on the Country Club Plaza promises to be bigger and better
this year.
This
year, the festival and a number of Brush Creek Community Partner
members will be sponsoring several literary focused events in advance
of the festival to which the public is invited. Corridor activities
include:
Exhibition:
Deb Sokolow creates diagrammatic drawings
that read like graphic novels
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
4420 Warwick
Through June 15
www.kemperart.org
Display:
Books written by Kansas City Art Institute faculty members
Kansas City Art Institute, Jannes Library
4538 Warwick Blvd.
April 15 through May 13
www.kcai.edu
Exhibition:
Ice: A Victorian Romance - an exhibition of rare books from the
History of Science Collection
Linda Hall Library Exhibition Gallery
5109 Cherry
May 1 through September 13
Lecture about the exhibition
Thursday, May 1, 5:30 pm
www.lindahall.org
Reading:
Hans Christian Andersen's
The Princess and the Pea
Children can explore the gallery and
write their own fairy tale books
Toy & Miniature Museum
5235 Oak Dr.
Saturday, May 3, 11:00 am
Adults - $6, seniors/students - $5,
children (5-12) - $4
www.umkc.edu/tmm
Book
Discussion: Books on sustainable design Symbiosis and Nuture will
be discussed by the authors BNIM Architects Steve McDowell and Mark
Shapiro
Kansas City Public Library - Plaza Branch
4801 Main St.
Thursday, May 8, 7:00 pm
www.kclibrary.org
BFA
Exhibition Reading: Seniors read
a compilation of work
Kansas City Art Institute
4415 Warwick Blvd.
Friday, May 16, Noon;
call 816-892-3426 after May 1 for exact location
www.kcai.edu
Check
out www.kansascitylitfest.org
for a complete list of Road to the Literary Festival activities
that your family can enjoy.
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Kemper
Museum
of Contemporary Art
RubberMade:
Sculpture by
Chakaia Booker
June 6 –
August 17
Chakaia Booker, Sugar in my Bowl, 2003; rubber tire
and steel, 95 x 110 x 57 3/4 inches; Courtesy of the artist and Marlborough
Gallery, New York
Since
the early 1990s, Chakaia Booker has worked almost exclusively with recycled
tires. Through a physically demanding process of twisting, slicing, and
weaving found rubber tires (primarily from bikes, cars, and farm equipment),
she forms dynamic, whimsical sculptures that fuse ecological concerns
with questions about racial and economic differences, globalization, and
existing sociopolitical power structures. Featuring more than twenty sculptures,
this exhibition surveys the past seven years of production by one of today’s
leading African-American artists.
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Kansas
City
Art Institute
Art
of the Car Concours
June 28
The
second annual Art of the Car Concours, featuring a wide variety of vintage,
classic and special interest vehicles belonging to Kansas City and Midwest
area collectors — will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 28
on the campus of the Kansas City Art Institute, 4415 Warwick Blvd. On
view for the first time this year will be vintage motorcycles, race cars
and fire trucks.
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Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art
Sparks!
The William T. Kemper Collecting Initiative
May 3 –
July 20
Bloch Building, Gallery L13, L14
Pat Steir, American, (b. 1938). Double Waterfall for a Simple Afternoon,
1990. Oil on canvas. Purchase: acquired through the generosity of the
William T. Kemper Foundation--Commerce Bank, Trustee.
This
featured exhibition will be ticketed.
Human/Nature:
Recent European Landscape Photography
June 28 –
October 5
Bloch Building, Gallery L11
Bart Michiels, Verdun 1916, Le Mort Homme, 2001. Chromogenic
print. Image: 60 x 72 inches. Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, 2007.21.20.
Free
admission, no exhibition tickets required.
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Brush
Creek Corridor Cultural Trail Map
What's
New In The Brush Creek Corridor?
www.bccp.org
Kemper
Museum
of Contemporary Art
Julia
Oschatz: Where Else
April 4
- July 6
Julia Oschatz, untitled (122-07), 2007; oil, acrylic,
spray paint on canvas, 21 5/8 x 29 1/8 inches; Courtesy of the artist
and Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects , New York
Julia
Oschatz’s room-size installations, comprising paintings, drawings,
and videos housed in cardboard constructions, chart the eternal odyssey
of a fictitious protagonist this German artist’s ongoing narrative.
Part animal and part human, this wayward being stars in short, looping
videos that blend performance, animation, and painted imagery, and in
muted, enigmatic landscape paintings. Whether dancing to German pop
music or meandering through an unearthly terrain, Oschatz’s benign,
and at times comical, character embodies the existential quest for meaning
and transcendence.
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