Happy 4th of July!
Kemper Museum, Café Sebastienne, and Kemper at the Crossroads closed for the holiday.
5:30–6:30 p.m.
Slideshow at the Kemper Museum
Kemper Museum, Meeting Room
Robert Heishman, Charlie Mylie and Paul Shortt
Slideshow introduces and promotes the talented artists in Greater Kansas City and the innovative works they make. Take time out to learn more about Kansas City’s art and artists.
Saturday, July 18
3:00–5:00 p.m.
Whoop Dee Doo Family Days!
Kemper at the Crossroads
Costume-making, synchronized dancing workshops, and much more!
Get your whoop on for Whoop Dee Doo! Artists and collaborators, Jaimie Warren and Matt Roche, will lead fun-filled summer art-making workshops for families and children of all ages. Join them to create fantastical, colorful, and imaginative props and costumes for a Whoop Dee Doo extravaganza that brings together performance and the community for a fun-filled afternoon of talent skits!
Free, but reservations suggested for each event. Contact Beth Harris at bharris (at) kemperart (dot) org or 816-457-6134.
Photo: Ailecia Ruscin
Wednesday, August 12
5:30–6:30 p.m.
Slideshow at the Kemper Museum
Kemper Museum, Meeting Room
Jonah Criswell, Amanda Gehin, Lee Piechocki
Slideshow introduces and promotes the talented artists in Greater Kansas City and the innovative works they make. Take time out to learn more about Kansas City’s art and artists.
Saturday, August 15
2:00–3:00 p.m.
Family Tour Hour at the Kemper Museum
Kemper Museum
The third Saturday of each month is reserved for families and their children to learn about special exhibitions at the Museum. A take-home activity will be provided to participants!
Join a Kemper Museum docent for a tour of The Poetics of Space, featuring photographs of interior and exterior architectural spaces. Learn about light and photography on this guided tour. The take-home activity includes photosensitive paper to make a photo exposure using natural light and objects.
FREE, but registration is required. Contact Beth Harris at 816-457-6134 or bharris@kemperart.org to enroll.
Saturday, August 29
3:00–5:00 p.m.
Whoop Dee Doo Family Days!
Kemper at the Crossroads
Performance day!
Get your whoop on for Whoop Dee Doo! Artists and collaborators, Jaimie Warren and Matt Roche, will lead fun-filled summer art-making workshops for families and children of all ages. Join them to create fantastical, colorful, and imaginative props and costumes for a Whoop Dee Doo extravaganza that brings together performance and the community for a fun-filled afternoon of talent skits!
Free, but reservations suggested for each event. Contact Beth Harris at bharris (at) kemperart (dot) org or 816-457-6134.
Photo: Ailecia Ruscin
Friday, September 17
5:30–7:30 p.m.
Opening Reception: WYETH: Three Generations of Artistry
Kemper Museum
The artwork by the Wyeth family, America’s iconic art family, will be the focus of the exhibition WYETH: Three Generations of Artistry this fall at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Together, the artists of the Wyeth family—N. C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, and James Wyeth—represent more than 100 years of American painting and have long been associated with the people and the landscapes of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and Maine. The exhibition will draw more than two dozen works from public and private collections from throughout the Midwest, including some that have never been on exhibition before now.
Above: Andrew Wyeth, Man and the Moon, 1990; egg tempera on Renaissance panel, 30 1/8 x 48 inches; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Promised Gift of the Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation PG2000:ECK3
Friday, October 23
6:00–9:00 p.m.
Opening Reception: Keltie Ferris: Man-Eaters
Kemper at the Crossroads
Keltie Ferris is a postdigital painter, employing formalist strategies and materials—oil, acrylic, sprayed paint, and oil pastel—to create enigmatic and visually seductive abstractions. Her quick, gestural marks, hard-edged forms, and diaphanous passages of sprayed oil paint demonstrate rigorous investigations of spatial illusion, color, and surface texture. Motley textures, marks, and palettes hover and collide into one another, creating complex compositions of competing strata of visual information. While recalling the works of Joan Mitchell, Sigmar Polke, Ross Bleckner, or Albert Oehlen, Ferris’s methodically structured paintings uniquely evoke the digital networks and urban topographies of the twenty-first century. And, with titles such as Jobriath (the first openly gay pop star) and Lady Stardust (David Bowie’s 1972 hit), our minds are punctuated with a broad range of associations from identity politics to pop-culture icons.
Born in 1977 in Louisville, Kentucky, Keltie Ferris lives in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA in painting from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at SUNDAY L.E.S., New York, NY; Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; and Scenic, New York, NY. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including shows at Museum 52, New York, NY; Rivington Arms, New York, NY; Galleria Glance, Turino, Italy; and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA; among others. Articles on her work have appeared in The New York Times, Artforum, Modern Painters, Details, and LA Weekly. Keltie Ferris: Man-Eaters is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition.
Above: Keltie Ferris, Cassiopeia, 2009; oil, spray paint, acrylic on canvas, 80 x 90 inches