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KC area couple to show Fifth Annual Juried Art Exhibition this summer

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$72,000 in Monopoly money, 2013. by Chris Bell. Photo credit: Megan Mantia.

MONEY: A Juried Exhibition Sponsored by P&M Artworks
Leedy – Voulkos April 2013

P&M Artworks is Patricia B. Glenn and Michael J. Pronko, MD. Together, the couple has been organizing group exhibitions that are juried under specific one word themes. With the help of Kansas City artist and producer Megan Mantia, these shows have been some of our favorite group shows in Kansas City. The Money themed exhibition in 2013 featured art that covered all mediums, and gave the audience reason to laugh and cry over capitalism. P&M Artworks is keen on showing emerging artists and have pop-up shows twice a year to do just that. Their Fifth Annual Juried Art Exhibition will be this summer at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center. The word for this year is: MEMORY. Submission Deadline: Friday April 1, 2016.

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Local artist uses physical limitations artistically to process and understand recent diagnosis

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Digital Still from the video ARMOR for FLOWERS for URGES for BEING HERE, 2016 photo courtesy of Plug Projects

Ben Gould
ARMOR for FLOWERS for URGES for BEING HERE

ARMOR for FLOWERS for URGES for BEING HERE explores Ben Gould‘s processing and understanding of his recent diagnosis with Tourette’s Syndrome. Due to the circumstances of his condition and treatment, certain limits have transformed his everyday life; he cannot lift over 10 pounds, he cannot use power tools, he cannot run, and he cannot climb. His current body of work utilizes these limits as constructive tools in learning how to navigate this new and different way of living.

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Area artist uses discovery to define metaphorical and physical boundaries

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Documentary portrait of Charlie Mylie during Walking The Border. Photo: Fountain City Frequency

Charlie Mylie
Walking The Border

Artist Charlie Mylie took an adventure into the wilderness of our city by walking the border of Kansas City to discover himself and what lies at our literal and metaphorical boundaries. It took him 15 days. He camped in obscure places, and saw the borders that not only separate us, but also define us. What he discovered is something beyond the literal. Creating an identity means defining what you are in relation to what you are not. You can listen to this story on the Paris of the Plains podcast as told by Mylie himself, and journalist Esther Honig. You can also read more about it in Flatland KCPT’s digital magazine.

Paris of the Plains Podcast is made here in Kansas City and is broadcast on KKFI Community Radio.

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Natural Earth processes and response are the focal point for KC area artist’s craft

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Peter and the Wolf set design, for the Lawrence Art Center, 2016. Photo courtesy of Neil Goss

Neil Goss
Charlotte Street Foundation artist-in-resident

Neil Goss concentrates his work around natural Earth processes while responding to human impacts upon those processes. Goss has focused the last five years of his life on researching and practicing sustainable arts processes such as natural dyeing, weaving, utilizing hand dug clay, and foraging art materials. His set design for Peter and the Wolf at the Lawrence Art Center was made using these sustainable materials and processes. Goss has taught workshops, completed public art installations, and done artist talks throughout the United States. He is an artist-in-residence at the Charlotte Street Foundation and teaches pottery and natural dyeing at the Lawrence Arts Center.

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Kansas City artist brings a St. Patrick’s tale to life through etching series

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Snake Milk from the Feral Imprint series, 2014. #8 from the Máscaras de Madres Suite of 5 etchings with Chine Colle for Landfall Press, 2013

Peregrine Honig
Feral Imprint | Máscaras de Madres

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day here are two works by Peregrine Honig. In Christianity, snakes are the embodiment of jealousy, greed, and bad intentions. In the tale of St. Patrick and the snakes, they are actually a metaphor for the Christians fear of the godless population of Ireland (i.e. pagans with unpredictable morals). Honig’s use of the snake imagery gives us an ominous feeling. Perhaps in Honig’s tale, the snakes in Feral Imprint and Máscaras de Madres are a representation of motherhood gone awry.

Peregrine Honig lives and works in Kansas City, Mo. and is an ArtsKC Inspiration Grant recipient.

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Local fashion designer takes discarded rags and makes them into riches

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Only Perfect in an Empty Room Part 2. Photo credit : Liana Wears

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Fashion Designer

For over a year, Hadley Anne Johnson has specifically been working with fabric that is soiled, stained, and torn. Johnson’s current work is made from the silk and cotton material that other artists and designers literally had in their trash. She collages these discarded pieces together to build new yardage that she in turn makes into the womenswear sold in her KC Showroom. A graduate from Parsons Paris in 2010 with a degree in Fashion Design, Johnson is seeking to create her design practice around her relationship to her customers, and being conscious of the love and intuition that is created when a connection is made. Johnson makes fashion that doesn’t focus on seasons and buyers, but rather producing heirloom designs that are unique and can be passed down.

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