Art Roundup: January 14, 2011 to January 22, 2010

Weekly roundup of the best art shows and art related events in and around the Lawrence/Kansas City area. Check out the link below for our calendar events January 14, 2011 through January 22, 2010.

Calendar link for events

For everyone that wants to heat up with the crowd in Lawrence or try some yummy food samples, check out these other events.
Friday, January 14th at 7:30pm – THE INAPPROS at Pachamamas. A half hour comedy series.
Friday, January 14th at 10pm – Kinetiks Winter Formal with the ACBs.
Saturday, January 15th at 12 noon – Foods for Health Sampler Saturday at the Merc.

Highlights:

• Set the Table
Halls Plaza (211 Nichols Road in Kansas City, MO)
Friday, January 14, 3-7pm (Ongoing through February 24)

From the Organizers:
Tabletop designs by Kansas City Artists, Renee Cinderhouse and Bryan Clark! Featuring the latest ceramic works by Osaurus Alchemy & Artifacts and a new line of fine stemware by Belle Glass. During this event you can meet the artists and shop the best selection! Enjoy complimentary Christopher Elbow chocolates and coffee while you browse!

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• Celebrate People’s History: Poster of Resistance and Revolution
The Lawrence Percolator (940 New Hampshire in Lawrence, KS)
Saturday, January 15, 6-9pm (Ongoing through January 28)

From the Organizers:
50+ posters from the Celebrate People’s History project (and now book), organized by Josh MacPhee of the Just Seeds artists’ cooperative, that pay tribute to revolution, racial justice, women’s rights, queer liberation, labor struggles, and creative activism and organizing. Celebrate People’s History! presents these essential moments – acts of resistance and great events in an often hidden history of human and civil rights struggles – as a visual tour through decades and across continents, from the perspective of some of the most interesting and socially engaged artists working today, including the Percolator’s own Dave Loewenstein.

In addition to the CPH posters, the Percolator will show posters from Lawrence collections that respond to and illuminate local struggles from the past forty years.

To read more about Celebrate People’s History! check out the Just Seeds website here.

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• Zeitgeist: Moving Forward
Liberty Hall (803 Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, KS)
Wednesday, January 19, 6:30-9:30pm

From the organizers (Films For Action):
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward is a feature length experimental documentary that assembles experts in the fields of public health, anthropology, neurobiology, economics, energy, technology, social science, and other relevant subjects that relate to social operation and culture. The three central themes of the film pertain to Human Behavior, Monetary Economics, and Applied Science. WATCH THE TRAILER: http://www.filmsforaction.org/Watch/Zeitgeist_Moving_Forward_trailer. The film is the culmination and product of The Zeitgeist Movement and is being screened worldwide on a non-commercial independent basis by supporters of the film and participants of the Zeitgeist organization and Films For Action. Tickets are $4 at the Liberty Hall box office. 500 seats are available for the screening. (You may see flyers around Lawrence with the ticket price of $7.50. That price has since been reduced.) Proceeds from the film will be used for similar events. For more info visit http://www.zeitgeistmovingforward.com/

Artboards

Adolf Martinez

• Artboards
Missouri Bank Crossroads Branch (125 Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, MO)
Friday, December 3, 6-10pm

From the Organizers:
Jerry Kunkel’s two west-facing images, titled Memories Are…, play with ideas of fact and fiction, past and present, the nature of memory, and the veracity of photographic representation.  Juxtaposing the front and back of a postcard against two views of the specific location it apparently depicts, Kunkel invites the viewer “to fill in the blanks, conjure a short response, and consider what may have transpired.”

Adolfo Martinez’s east-facing Artboards, titled We’re Not in Kansas Anymore, feature robots pulled from pop culture set amidst the Kansas City skyline: Robby the Robot, from the movie “Forbidden Planet,” Gort from “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” and robots from “Lost in Space,” “March of the Robots,” Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis, ” and a B movie called “Robot Monster.” While injecting a sense of humor and fantasy into the downtown landscape, this line-up of visitors from different eras and planets also offers a poignant portrait of changing cultural portrayals of the futuristic “other.”

KCAC Exhibition

Circus Flower by Teresa Magel

Berlin Tryptic by Aaron Dougherty

• KCAC Exhibition
Kansas City Artists Coalition (201 Wyandotte in Kansas City, MO)
Friday, November 12, 6-9pm (Ongoing until Dec. 3rd)

Featuring work by Anat Pollack, Fred Trease, Aaron Dougherty, and Teresa Magel.

i.’d.: i is, is i?

• i.’d.: i is, is i?
Urban Culture Project Space (21 East 12th Street in Kansas City, MO)
Friday, November 19, 6-10pm (Ongoing until Jan. 6th)

From the organizers:
In i.’d.: i is, is i? , emerging Kansas City-based artists Luke Pretz, Abbe Findley, and Terry Campbell present different conceptions of the self through an installation comprised of individual and collaborative multi-media artworks. With this project, these three artists investigate themselves, and specifically the manner in which their projected or externally-oriented representations of self relate to and blur with their internalized senses of self. Much of this blurring, and the consequent ambiguity relative to the notion of the “true” or “real” self, can be seen as product of contemporary media/technology, via which one is constantly in the process of (re)constructing and projecting one’s “self,” as well as accessing and processing others’ self-projections via shared images and actions. The exploration of these dynamics and how they relate to the forging of personal identity and lived reality are central to these artists’ works. Presented by Charlotte Street Foundation’s Urban Culture Project.

Some Where

Cripples by Garry Noland

• Some Where
The Dolphin Gallery (1600 Liberty in Kansas City, MO)
Friday, November 12, 5-10pm (Ongoing until Jan. 8th)

Featuring new works by David Ford, Aaron Storck, Adam Ekberg, Justin Gainan, Garry Noland, and Debra Smith