Art Roundup: February 18, 2011 to February 25, 2011

Weekly roundup of the best art shows and art related events in and around the Lawrence/Kansas City area. Click the link below for our calendar events February 18, 2011 through February 25, 2011. Next week’s Final Friday events coming soon….

Calendar link for events

Highlights:

“Deeper into Movies II and Half-Day Closing” by Matthew Kluber

• Not Here No There
The Dolphin Gallery (1600 Liberty in Kansas City, MO)
Friday, February 18, 5-10pm (Ongoing through April 9)

New abstract works by Matthew Kluber and Colin C. Smith, James Woodfill, and Anne Lindberg and Matt Wycoff.

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• Parcel’s Official Launch Party
The Raven Book Store (8 East 7th Street in Lawrence, KS)
Saturday, February 19, 8pm

From the Organizers:
Please come help us celebrate the release of Parcel, Lawrence’s newest literary venture. There will be music, delicious hors d’oeuvres, and journals for sale at a special discount.

Parcel is a beautifully designed showcase for work by known and developing writers and artists. Each issue is a collectible volume sent to subscribers along with limited edition broadsides and postcards.

Information about Parcel can be found here

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• Annual Department of Visual Art Faculty Exhibition
KU Art and Design Gallery (1467 Jayhawk Boulevard in Lawrence, KS)
Sunday, February 20, 2-4pm (Ongoing through March 4)

From the Organizers:
This year, we are celebrating the work and career of Professor Jane Asbury!

Parcel’s Official Launch Party

• Parcel’s Official Launch Party
The Raven Book Store (8 East 7th Street in Lawrence, KS)
Saturday, February 19, 8pm

From the Organizers:
Please come help us celebrate the release of Parcel, Lawrence’s newest literary venture. There will be music, delicious hors d’oeuvres, and journals for sale at a special discount.

Parcel is a beautifully designed showcase for work by known and developing writers and artists. Each issue is a collectible volume sent to subscribers along with limited edition broadsides and postcards.

Information about Parcel can be found here: parcelmag.org

Big Tent: Stories and Poems in Three Acts

• Big Tent: Stories and Poems in Three Acts
The Raven Book Store (8 East 7th Street in Lawrence, KS)
Thursday, February 24, 7-10pm

From the Organizers:
Eric McHenry is the author of Potscrubber Lullabies (Waywiser Press, 2006), which received the Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University. His poems have appeared in The New Republic, Poetry Northwest, Harvard Review, Orion, The Guardian (U.K.) and Slate, and he has been a poetry critic for the New York Times Book Review since 2001. He lives with his wife and two children in Topeka, Kansas, and teaches English at Washburn University.

Kate Lorenz is the editor of Parcel. Her work has been published in the Denver Quarterly and Everyday Genius, and by Blue Hour Press and Small Fires Press.

Kim Condon was raised in Lawrence, Kansas and received her undergraduate degree in English/Creative Writing from the University of Kansas. Kim’s poetry has appeared in Dystopia Magazine, and her short story, I Knew Toby Bergen, won an Editor’s Prize for short fiction in the ScissorTale Review. She was also a finalist in the 43rd annual Region V Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in their 10-minute play competition. She is currently attending the University of Kansas School of Law and is an Associate Features Editor for the Kansas Law Free Press.

Memories, Memoirs and Musings

• Memories, Memoirs and Musings
1109 Gallery (1109 Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, KS)
Saturday, February 19, 5:30-9pm (Ongoing until Mar. 20th)

From the organizers:
Featured artists Jennifer Unekis and the writings of Phyllis Copt and company. Readings by writing group led by Phyllis Copt at 5:30pm and Reception 7-9pm

Feb 21 – Movie at 1109 Gallery: “Herb & Dorothy” Vogel. This is about a couple, with very moderate means of support, who acquired over 4000 pieces Minimalist and Conceptual Art. The Spencer Art Museum has 50 pieces from their collection.

Feb 25 – Open until 9pm for Final Friday Art Walks/Musicians, Snacks and Beverages.

The Blue Island Review Release Party

• The Blue Island Review Release Party
The Raven Book Store (8 East 7th Street in Lawrence, KS)
Saturday, January 22, 7-8:30pm

From the Organizers:
THE BLUE ISLAND REVIEW is an annual journal of poetry produced by writers living in Lawrence, Kansas. The members of the Blue Island Poetry Group hold these tenets: that poetry is the art of making all suffer; that hypergraphia is a disorder that should be incubated; that the experience of poetry is to induce emotion through image, sound, and association; that narrative is prose, and should remain such in its multiple nefarious forms; that economy of words is most powerful; that love as it is known is a most brutal form of chemical warfare, and that to inflict poetry on the unsuspecting, both in print and in voice, is the highest calling of very sexy people. To that end, we have solicited contributions from writers living in (or connected to) northeast Kansas and northwest Missouri in the hopes that their work reaches more lovers of poetry than it otherwise might.

Copies of THE BLUE ISLAND REVIEW will be available for $10.
Blue Island is: Katie Longofono – Editor Mickey Cesar – Assistant Editor Mary Stone Dockery, Jason Robberson, Dana Schmidt, Amanda Schwartz, and Kerry Townsend.