My Students Animations and Videos

These are videos and animations made by my Mattie Rhodes Art Summer Camp students this past week.

Printing My Blog as a Journal/Zine

I'm in the beginning stages of turning this blog into a published journal/zine.  I've come to this decision because I think print and analysis about an art scene are important. I believe we define what is going on by our actions, and that reflection and analysis are essential in the growth of the culture.  This will be my attempt to start a larger discussion about what it means to be an artist working in Kansas City.

Below I will answer a couple questions about this project:

Why go from online to print when so many other journals and newspapers are switching to online?

Because there is a hole here without.  I think cataloging the history of the arts and culture here in Kansas City is important.  Collecting the stories in print, as opposed to scrolling through blog post.

Do you think it's possible to find a readership for a half-assed blog in print?

Well those are the questions I've been asking myself. My blog in the beginning was a way to showcase what I was doing, but as time went on I started to become more interested in showcasing the art shows and events around Kansas City and surrounding areas.   My online presence now is a satellite, showcasing KC to the world, where as, I see the print version of it being more localized and appealing to the art audience here.

Also a journal is not made up solely of one voice, but of the many voices that inhabit that scene. I think Kansas City has a lot of great artist, writers, curators etc... and that by approaching them to work locally and contribute that we can reflect and then redefine what a print magazine is to this city.

Avenue of the Arts Opening

My Show Closes on Thursday

GO CHECK IT OUT AT 

Urban Culture Project Space, 21 East 12th Street, Kansas City, MO

KCAI Painting

Here are photos from KCAI's Painting end of semester show

(the work above is mine and Eduardo Boleyn Velazquez video projections)

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Brad Williams, 20 artist I know photographs.

Tom Hembre

Simon 

Rhiannon Birdsall

Andrew Cimeli 

Gillian Tobin

Chloe Collomp

Ashley Wick

Caroline Sulek

Clayton Skidmore

Clayton Skidmore

Chloe Collomp

Fernando Rameriz

Chris Biddy

Rhiannon Birdsall

Justin Kroman

Rhiannon Birdsall

Eduardo Boleyn Velazquez

Kristi O'Meara

Tom Hembre

Erick Figueroa

Mine

Andrea Flamini at Review Studios

A really interesting multi faceted show at Review Studios from Andrea Flamini,  The show consist of videos, paintings, prints, books, and even a cello. 

Review Studios 

1708 Campbell 

Kansas City, Missouri 

64108  {816} 471- 2343 

On view until June 12, 2009

Blind Files

The Act of Watching 

Roma

I really loved these umbrellas as a way to block the light.   But they also become another element in the show, mimicking the skydiver in the Notebook Projection.

Notebook #4

MOST PERFORMATIVE PIECE EVER!

MOST PERFORMATIVE PIECE EVER!

Jason Dixon with perform his interpretation of 40 or so years of performance art tomorrow at La Esquina here is more info:

On May 8, 2009, beginning at noon, Kansas City based artist Jason Dixon will attempt to complete the most performance art pieces ever enacted by a single person in a single day. Clad in competitive swimming gear and acting through his alter ego, Tito, Dixon  plans to re-create a selection of seminal performance art works of the past, from Bruce Nauman’s “Bouncing in Corner” to Vito Acconci’s “Turn On,” and  Theme Song,” to Paul McCarthy’s “White Line.”  This unique 24-hour event will take place at CSF’s Urban Culture Project venue, la Esquina, 1000 West 25th Street, Kansas City, MO from noon on May 8 to noon on May 9. The public is invited to this free performance, which will also be streamed live and accessible online at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-most-performative-piece-ever!