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The Scout

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The Scout (1910) | KC Outdoor Sculpture

Kansas City has many beautiful outdoor public sculptures that complement our City of Fountains. The Scout is a famous statue by Cyrus E. Dallin that stands east of Southwest Trafficway in Penn Valley Park, which is south of downtown Kansas City. The Scout is more than 10 feet tall, and depicts a Sioux Indian on horseback surveying the landscape. The quiet tree-lined streets of our Kansas City neighborhoods and our nationally recognized boulevards showcase hundreds of magnificent and unique works of art. Many were donated by our citizens, others were purchased by developers, and some were added by the city for enjoyment of all. In 1994, local volunteers working with the national Save Outdoor Sculpture project cataloged more than 200 public fountains, monuments, memorials, ornaments, and sculptures in the greater Kansas City area. Visit them all!

Our other favorite KC Outdoor Sculpture and another piece by the artist Cyrus E. Dallin is Massasoit. Such a beautiful sculpture!

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Mini Vinnie Bini

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Image courtesy of Blanket Undercover, photos taken by Thomas Mason

Mini Vinnie Bini | Best Deal KC “Korean Pavilion”
Blanket Undercover, Oct. 1, 2015 – Jan. 1, 2016

Created by the artist duo Blanket Undercover and funded by the Rocket Grant Program, the Mini Vinnie Bini was a city-wide performance recreation of the 56th Annual Venice Biennale in Kansas City, MO and KCK that existed for three months from Oct. 1 2015 – Jan. 1 2016. While most of it has been de-installed or stolen (which is cool!) The Korean Pavilion installation at Best Deal KC on Troost and Lynwood will be up permanently. Go check it out before the building is sold! For more information on this crazy ambitious project that you might have missed visit the Mini Vinnie Bini, and Blanket Undercover online.

Blanket Undercover, new artists in KCMO.

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Cry Now Free Video Library

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Cry Now Free Video Library image created by Kendell Harbin

Cry Now Free Video Library | Kendell Harbin

Kendell Harbin’s Cry Now Free Video Library is truly a Kansas City Destination. Cry Now is a free service (still in beta mode, which means VHS tapes y’all!) that aims to operate on an honor-based lending system. Cry Now is not accessible online and is only known through word of mouth. It is as public as you believe a home to be, and as private as a corporation presupposes it is. The Cry Now library is located in Harbin’s bedroom. She describes this choice of location on an x-y Plane: x.) because it allows for the utmost autonomy and y.) because the bedroom space is a place for identity experimentation (getting dressed), creative play (sex), and recovering from the impact of daily life (sleep). Harbin can think of no better place for this library to exist. And is this art? Is it an installation/performance? Harbin playfully created the Cry now library with Claes Oldenburg as inspiration, and we at ArtsKC think, “why can’t it be art?”

Feel free to email Kendell Harbin for tours of the Cry Now Free Video Library.

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Clueless-ness

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Clueless-ness | Late Night Theatre
Theater at Missie B’S, 805 West 39th Street, Kansas City, MO.
Opening May 6th and running thru June 18th

Late Night Theatre is punking the 90’s! This parody of the cult classic Clueless from 1995 will have you “rollin’ with the homeys!” Written by the talented Ron Megee, and featuring a late night theater ensemble cast: Spencer Brown, Jessica Dressler, Ryan Gove, Stephonne Singleton, and the wild card Shannon Michalski! If you’ve never seen a Late Night Theatre production, then you are not a true Kansas Citian. It is a mystical, mythical theatre, that has been producing off the cuff shows with a band of misfit actors, techies, and drag queens since 1997, and it only exists in Kansas City.

Get your tickets now!

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The Chicano Arts Festival

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Chicano Voice | The Chicano Arts Festival
Mattie Rhodes Art Gallery, May 7th 2016, 1pm – 6pm
Free to the public.

What does Chicano mean? Chicano refers to a person who is born in the United States but whose family originated in Mexico. The term became widely used during the Chicano Movement, mainly among Mexican Americans, who wanted to express an identity, of cultural, ethnic and community pride. The first ever Chicano Arts Festival in KC will represent and promote the Chicano art movement by bringing awareness and education as well as highlight Chicano artists who celebrate the meaning and the experience of being Chicano. The VOICE of the Chicano is a voice of struggle, pain, beauty, strength, fight, connecting, family, heart, and history. The Chicano Arts festival welcomes all of us to join the artists’ journeys as they walk us through their worlds, their culture, and their personal path in the struggle for acceptance by American art galleries and museums.

Mattie Rhodes Art Center is an ArtsKC Catalyst Grant Recipient.

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StoneLion Puppet Theatre

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StoneLion Puppet Theatre
10th Annual Mother’s Day for Mother Earth GIANT Puppet Celebration
Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, MO 64111,
Sun, May 8, 2pm – 3pm, free the public.

What are you doing for Mother’s day!? Join StoneLion Puppet Theatre – on the south lawn of the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art for their 10th Annual Mother’s Day for Mother Earth GIANT Puppet Celebration. Ten years and counting, the StoneLion Puppet Theatre has celebrated Mother’s Day with Kansas City’s largest community arts project and giant puppet show, Mother’s Day for Mother Earth. Larger than life puppets, professional actors, dancers, community participants and you will celebrate on the lawn of The Nelson-Atkins. This year’s theme is all about water. The Mermaid’s Tail (Tale) follows the journey of a giant plastic water bottle down a storm drain and eventually out to sea. This is the perfect destination to visit the museum’s incredible collection, get outside and celebrate spring!

StoneLion Puppet Theatre is an ArtsKC Catalyst Grant Recipient.

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