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"A Pause in the Rhythm of Time"
Dates: May 29-Sept. 4 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Belger Arts Center, 2100 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo.
Alice Kettle of the United Kingdom describes the work she brings to the Belger Arts Center this summer as "a collection of work which evokes moments in our lives. Here are people and glimpses of stories marking themes of our very existence. Reminisc...
Type: Exhibits
"Art on Paper: Highlights from the American Collection"
Dates: Apr. 22-Oct. 11 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is internationally recognized for its outstanding collection of more than 33,500 objects. From ancient times to modern day, this encyclopedic museum is one of the best in the country, offering visitors the opportunity...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"Asian Influence on American Ceramics"
Dates: Jun. 9, 2009-Jan. 24, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is internationally recognized for its outstanding collection of more than 33,500 objects. From ancient times to modern day, this encyclopedic museum is one of the best in the country, offering visitors the opportunity...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"Beatles Revisited"
Dates: Jul. 1-31 | Location: East | Venue: Bingham-Waggoner Estate, 313 W Pacific Ave, Independence, Mo.
Collection of memorabilia from the Fab Four....
Admission: $5 adults, $4.50 seniors, $2 children 6-16
Type: Exhibits
"Dan Christensen: Forty Years of Painting"
Dates: May 15-Aug. 30 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.
This survey of paintings by the late Dan Christensen (1942–2007) documents his never-ending quest to understand the possibilities of color, paint, and pictorial space. Though long associated with the Color Field movement, Christensen's relentless ex...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"Decorative Designs, Decorative Landscapes and Still Life"
Dates: Apr. 28-Nov. 8 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is internationally recognized for its outstanding collection of more than 33,500 objects. From ancient times to modern day, this encyclopedic museum is one of the best in the country, offering visitors the opportunity...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"Dream Bodies: Transformative Figures"
Dates: Jul. 5-Aug. 18 | Location: Southwest | Venue: Epsten Gallery at Village Shalom, 5500 W 123rd St., Overland Park, Kan.
In Dream Bodies, Joseph Ayers, James Drake, Peregrine Honig, Chris Johanson, Kacy Maddux, Jim Sajovic and E. Spencer Schubert each take differing yet poetic points of view on the subject of the figure and its transformative potential. A group exhib...
Type: Exhibits
"El Anatsui"
Dates: May 29-Sept. 4 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Belger Arts Center, 2100 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo.
El Anatsui has artworks in the permanent collections of the Nelson-Atkins Musuem of Art and the Nerman Museum in the Kansas City area. His pieces can also be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Smithsonia...
Type: Exhibits
"Grand Canyon Adventure"
Dates: Jul. 3-Dec. 30 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: Union Station, City Extreme Screen, 30 W. Pershing Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
Set against the immense backdrop of the majestic Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon Adventure will take audiences on an exhilarating river-rafting adventure down the Colorado River in the company of a team of explorers who are committed to bringing awarenes...
Admission: $6.50 per person.
Type: Theatre
"How to Eat Like a Child"
Dates: Jul. 9-Aug. 2 | Location: Southwest | Venue: Chestnut Fine Arts Theatre, 234 N Chestnut St., Olathe, Kan.
The sparkly musical, "How to Eat Like a Child," is a guide to the art of being a child - told strictly from a child's point of view. The kids will teach you how to torture your sister, how to laugh hysterically, and how to act after being sent to y...
Admission: $18 adults, $17 seniors, $13 children.
Type: Theatre
"Inventing the Shuttlecocks"
Dates: May 9-Aug. 16 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.
The 15th anniversary exhibition of this remarkable work offers a rare opportunity to enter the artists' minds as they invented Shuttlecocks. Assembled here are preparatory sketches, drawings, collages, and models that reveal Oldenburg's and van Brug...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"It’s Big: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the National Archives and Records Administration"
Dates: May 22, 2009-Jan. 23, 2010 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: The National Archives, 400 W Pershing Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
This exhibition will feature big documents, big events, big personalities, and big ideas from the region's history. Organized by the National Archives at Kansas City, "It's Big" features pieces of American history including: audio clips from the FB...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"Jaimie Warren: You Are So Beautiful in the Face"
Dates: Jun. 5-Oct. 3 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: Kemper at the Crossroads, 33 W, 19th St., Kansas City, Mo.
For photographer Jaimie Warren, life is a performance and the world is her stage. Through a pseudo-documentary lens, she frames the world almost indiscriminately, capturing the quirky personalities, places, and oddball moments that shape her life. M...
Type: Exhibits
"Jerry Bleem"
Dates: Jun. 5-Jul. 25 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, 2012 Baltimore Ave., Kansas City, Mo.
From a distance, Jerry Bleem's sculptures are elegant, curved shapes. Possessing various degrees of formal complexity, these works sit quietly, Zen-like, and, as the viewer approaches, gradually reveal their elaborate surfaces. At first appearing st...
Type: Exhibits
"Kansas-Nebraska Act"
Dates: Jul. 6, 2009-Jan. 23, 2010 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: National Archives, 400 W Pershing Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act which examines the "Bleeding Kansas" era between 1854 and 1861 and the approach of the Civil War. The exhibit will feature the original Act, on loan from Washington, D.C. for a limited time.
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Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"KidScape"
Dates: Jan. 2, 2009-Jan. 2, 2011 | Location: West | Venue: Johnson County Museum of History, 6305 Lackman Rd., Shawnee, Kan.
Welcome to KidScape, the museum's newest hands-on exhibit for kids ages 3-9. Designed to look like a suburban streetscape, KidScape immerses children into a colorful, exciting environment where they can learn about community and meet some of Johnson...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"Laborer, Craftsman, Artist: 300 Years of Fine Tools"
Dates: May 20-Aug. 30 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Toy & Miniature Museum, 5235 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo.
More than practical devices, specialized tools reflect the artistry and exceptional quality of work that fine craftsmen strive to create. Explore 300 years of precision tools, including elaborate presentation pieces, handmade specialty implements, ...
Admission: $6 adults, $5 seniors and students, $4 for children 5-12.
Type: Exhibits
"Lynne Hodgman: L'CHAIM (To Life)"
Dates: May 3-Aug. 16 | Location: Southwest | Venue: Epsten Gallery and Social Hall at Village Shalom, 5500 West 123rd St., Overland Park, Kan.
What does a life lived look like? What evidence may we find of someone's imprint upon the earth? Kansas City-based artist Lynne Hodgman addresses these questions and more, while celebrating life's interconnectedness in her solo exhibition, L'CHAIM. ...
Type: Exhibits
"Mary Beth Yates"
Dates: Jun. 5-Jul. 25 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, 2012 Baltimore Ave., Kansas City, Mo.
"My new body of work concentrates on the themes of growth and movement. In my first group of work, I use heavily embroidered surfaces to produce dimensional landscapes. By using multiple thread colors, several layers of stitching and directional ...
Type: Exhibits
"Memory Cloths"
Dates: Jun. 5-Jul. 25 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, 2012 Baltimore Ave., Kansas City, Mo.
"In December 2005 I saw an exhibit, the Art of War, which included Memory Cloths from South Africa . These brightly colored fabrics had embroidered images from the maker's memory. Accompanying them were narrative paragraphs, the maker telling the ...
Type: Exhibits
"Polly Apfelbaum: Split"
Dates: Feb. 6-Aug. 9 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.
Since the early 1990s, American artist Polly Apfelbaum has been absorbed by staining—pouring and dripping fabric dye onto cotton sheeting and synthetic velvet. By “blotting” the fabric, she creates organic, rather than gestural, fields and patterns ...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"Small Wonder, Secrets of a Collector"
Dates: May 29-Sept. 4 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Belger Arts Center, 2100 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo.
Jennifer Angus is a native of Canada who currently teaches at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Jennifer tells us "for the past eight years I have been creating installations composed of insects pinned directly to a wall in repeating patterns w...
Type: Exhibits
"Solo"
Dates: May 22-Aug. 2 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: American Jazz Museum, 1616 E 18th St, Kansas City, Mo.
Featuring 40 dazzling quilts designed by artist Sonié Joi Ruffin, this exhibit celebrates the visual majesty of African-American quilts and also explores the African-American social experience in the Historic 12th and 18th & Vine Districts - and jaz...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"Starr Miniature Collection: The Fashionable Sitter"
Dates: Jun. 13, 2009-Jan.10, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is internationally recognized for its outstanding collection of more than 33,500 objects. From ancient times to modern day, this encyclopedic museum is one of the best in the country, offering visitors the opportunity...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"Still Life: 19th and 20th Century Prints and Drawings"
Dates: Jun. 13, 2009-Jan. 10, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is internationally recognized for its outstanding collection of more than 33,500 objects. From ancient times to modern day, this encyclopedic museum is one of the best in the country, offering visitors the opportunity...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits