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Area company is a shining example of what it means to be a civic community leader

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JE Dunn
Making a Difference…in our communities

From painters to performers, JE Dunn is a proud supporter of the arts in Kansas City and a generous contributor to ArtsKC.  Giving back to the communities in which we live and work is one of the fundamental principles of JE Dunn since its inception.  Annually, JE Dunn Construction commits 10% of its pre-tax earnings to charitable organizations that provide support for the arts, those with disabilities, civic initiatives, education, healthcare, minorities, religion, seniors, and youth. Thank you JE Dunn for being a civic community leader.

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Local quilting community keeps the combination of function and fine art thriving

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Quilts!
The Quilt Guild of Kansas City

Imagine the technical skills required to create the incredible quilt patterns. Quilt design is at its core, function and fine art which is a thrilling contradicting combination that works. Quilting combines methods that are sculptural, painterly, modern design, country craft, conceptual, mathematical, and family heritage all at the same time. We would like to showcase the Quilt Guild of Kansas City, which is just one of many quilting communities that have continued to experiment with the art of quilting. You too can become a member. Meetings are the 2nd Tuesday of each month at First Lutheran Church, 6400 State Line Rd., Mission Hills, Ks 66208. Social Time starts at 9AM, and the meeting begins at 9:45.

Follow the Quilt Guild of Kansas City on Facebook.

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Artist brings important social issues to the forefront in work

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Max Adrian
Plays and Penalties

Max Adrian is an artist with a diverse studio practice that involves sculpture, installation, and writing, among other disciplines. Greatly influenced by history and the art of storytelling, Adrian is concerned with ways in which humans engage with one another among such issues as social rights, sexuality, and cultural traditions. His work, oftentimes bordering a line between playful and sinister, tends to imply a state of activity while taking the guise of toys, tools, or relics of an unknown ritual. Questions arise as to how such objects have been or are supposed to be interacted with. Adrian was awarded a Windgate Fellowship, an apprenticeship with Redmoon Theater in Chicago, IL, he was a resident of the New York Studio Residency Program, and is a current resident of the 2015/2016 Charlotte Street Studio Residency.

Charlotte Street is an ArtsKC Catalyst Grant recipient.

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An intertwining mixture of fine art and fashion highlight local artist’s work

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Paige Beltowski | Diving the Museum
May 2015, Kansas City Museum

Paige Beltowski is currently a graduate student in the theater department at UMKC. She is also a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute. In 2014, she traveled to London to study Fashion Print at Central Saint Martins. Beltowski has studied in both the fine arts and fashion. Her work often reflects a balance between the two. Much of the influence in her work stems from the environment surrounding her, from the American Midwest to the city of London. To continue working with this idea, Beltowski curated Divining the Museum with Max Adrian, which was an exhibition that combined contemporary artwork inspired by and displayed alongside original furnishings and artifacts from the Kansas City Museum’s collection.

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Area artist’s vintage textile work acts as poetry in motion

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Debra Smith
Color, 2005-2006

Debra Smith was born in Kansas City and raised in Hannibal, Missouri. Here is a quote from Smith that we love, “I am not a poet or someone who draws, but I feel that my use of vintage textiles as a medium brings a history, a weight, a poetry to the work before I even begin to cut, sew, and piece the work back together. Allowing the work to intuitively flow through me the end result is similar to a drawing or poetry.” Smith’s work has been shown internationally over the past two decades, and after living in Brooklyn, NY, for over a decade, she returned to Kansas City in 2004. We’re thrilled to watch Smith’s poetry progress!

Debra Smith is a Studios Inc. Resident. Studios Inc. is an ArtsKC Catalyst Grant recipient.

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Nature and textiles play pivotal role in KC-area artist’s work

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Rochelle Brickner | The Fifth Kingdom, Nutrient Cycle
The Silent Type, 2015, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Lower Level Gallery

Rochelle Brickner is a Kansas City based mixed-media artist. Her work investigates living organisms through the use of natural and synthetic materials such as wool and plastic bags. Brickner is also known for her fine art / utilitarian textiles line created by using up-cycled materials known as Repurpose Me. For the past two years, Brickner has been creating abstract bio-morphic forms that are inspired by the textures, colors, and life cycles characteristic of various species of fungi. Brickner refers to these fungi species as the silent type. Too often, fungi go unnoticed as they quietly exist. Through her work Brickner wants to inspire people to notice and perhaps look at nature in a different way.

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Local artist navigates through seas of creativity with various mediums

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Ari Fish | High Seas Low Planes
2012, La Esquina

Ari Fish is a gem in our Kansas City artists community. She has been a ceramicist, a painter, performer, sculptor, mother, musician, and fiber artist. The Kansas City Art Institute is lucky enough to have her as its academic advising and career services coordinator. Fish has been on tour, on TV, and she is in our city! High Seas Low Planes was intended to serve as a “temporary temple,” a sacred space for people of all kinds to congregate. Groups and individuals were invited and encouraged to use the space as they wished, including for such activities as a class, performance, sermon, meditation, spiritual practice, ritual, or conversation.

Keep up to date with Ari Fish by following her on Instagram, Facebook, Native American Clothing, and on KC Live Friday Mornings.

Ari Fish received an ArtsKC Inspiration Grant for the High Seas Low Planes installation.

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