Uncovering The Surface
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SDA-Sponsored Exhibitions

          With support from the Missouri Arts Council

•Silences• Anne Lindberg
•Pojagi and Beyond•Chunghie Lee
•Common Threads• Curator: Wendy Lugg
Belger Art Center

2100 Walnut Street
Reception: June 3, 6-9pm
Hours: Thursday-Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday 12-5pm
816-474-3250
June 3 – August 5

•Extra/ordinary: fiber artists rethinking art and everyday life•
Curator: Maria Elena Buszek

The Cube at Beco

1922 Baltimore Avenue
816-582-8997
Reception: June 3, 9am-9pm
Hours: Monday-Saturday 9am-5pm, or by appointment
June 3- July 9, 2005

•Process and Pattern• Ana Lisa Hedstrom
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center

Reception: June 3, 6-9pm
Hours:Thursday-Saturday 11am-5pm
May 6 – June 25

•Member Exhibition: Constants and Variables•
Jurors: Dorothy Caldwell and Rebecca Stephens

Lynn Foundation Gallery

9 West 19th Street
816-221-0012
Reception June 3, 12-10pm Sunday June 5, 2 - 6
Hours: Friday-Saturday 12-5pm
June 3- June 25 2005

•International Student Exhibition: Innovations•
Jurors: Michelle Fricke and Jerry Bleem
Opie Gallery and Back Room Gallery, Leedy Voulkos Art Center

Reception: June 3, 6-9pm
Hours: Thursday-Saturday 11am-5pm
June 3 – June 25
2012 Baltimore Avenue
816-474-1919

•Intersecting Traditions• Cynthia Schira
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

2004 Baltimore Avenue
816-221-2626
Working with a computerized loom system and contemporary software to construct layers of imagery, Schira creates a painterly space of mythic colors and surface effects.
Reception: June 3, 7-9pm
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11am-5pm
May 20-July 2

KCAI Campus Exhibitions

•KCAI Student Exhibition•
Curators: Jessica Knickman and Amber Radamacher

Destination Gallery, Living Center Kansas City Art Institute
Hours: June 2-4, 12-1pm
June 2-4

•Quality of Thought• Karyssa Miller
Irving Building, KCAI

Nostalgic for days gone by, Miller uses weavings, barbed wire, and ceramic sculptures to examine chaos and order.
Reception: June 3, 12-9pm
Hours: June 2-4, 12-1pm
June 3-June 5

•Interactive Dialogues: Uncovering the Meaning of the Stitch• Margaret Leininger

Irving Building, KCAI
Interactive Exhibtion
Hours: June 2-4, 12-1pm
June 1-June 5

•KCAI Fiber Faculty Exhibition•
Vanderslice Reception Room, KCAI

Hours: June 2-4, 12-1pm
June 2-4
4415 Warwick Boulevard
816-472-4852

Ghada Amer •Ghada Amer•
H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute

16 East 43rd Street
816-561-5563
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Reception: June 3, 12-5pm
Hours: Tuesday-Friday 12-5pm, Saturday 12-6pm
May 28-July 16

SDA Special Exhibitions

•Mythical Journeys• Jo Stealey
Arts Incubator

115 West 18 Street
816-421-0235 Reflecting on the ritualistic usage of vessels, Stealey presents sculptural works of handmade paper techniques and mixed media to illustrate personal stories, world myths, and Latin American poetry.
June 1-10
Reception: June 3, 1-9pm
Hours: Friday-Saturday 1-4pm, and by appointment

Parallel Lives• Installation by Joan Truckenbroad
Brush Creek Pedestrian Bridge

There should be fish in rivers and streams. In a comment on the current declining state of our ecology, printed images of a “salmon run” undulate just below the surface of the Brush Creek.
Hours: open continuously
May 28- June 9

•Upon Reflection• and •Layers•

Kansas Art Quilters
Beth Allison Gallery

2012 Baltimore Avenue
816-474-5637
Reception: June 3, 6-9pm
Hours: Thursday-Saturday 11am-5pm
June 3- 25

•Art Cloth Network: Undercurrents •
Curator: Akemi Nakano Cohn
Community Christian Church Gallery

In physical, philosophical, and creative interpretations of the theme “Undercurrents,” this group is expressing the exploration of images and techniques found when viewers investigate below the surface of Art Cloths.
4601 Main Street

816-561-6531

Julia Pfaff •Narratives, Prints, and Improvisations•

Using images informed by western painting and printmaking traditions, Pfaff creates art quilts that include abstracted images of dress forms, children’s toys, and academic symbols.
Hallar Gallery
4540 Main Street
816-561-5339
Reception: June 2, 2:30-4:30pm
May 31- June 11

•Fiber Art: Three Views•
Janet Kuemmerlein, Tabbetha McCale, Cindy Hickok Janet Kuemmerlein Studio

Included in this exhibition are large, stitched, relief murals of Kuemmerlein; weavings by McCale; and small, satirical, interpretations of master paintings by Hickok.
2004 Broadway Street
816-842-7049
Reception: June 3, 6-10pm
Hours: Monday-Friday 11-5, and by appointment
June 1-30

•Digital Perceptions•
Allison Bell, Cathy Treadaway, Phillip O’Reily,

and Jenny Evelyn

Using digital media in textile practices has provided a new visual language for artistic thought, including the exploration of new narratives and methods.
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center
Reception: June 3, 6-9pm
Hours:Thursday-Saturday 11am-5pm
May 6 – June 25

•Tapestry Wrapped/Unwrapped: Ikat as Embellishment•

Mary Zicafoose
Lightbox Gallery

9 West 19th Street
816-221-0012
Reception: June 3, 12-10pm
Hours: by appointment only
June 3-June 10

•Byzantine Las Vegas De Novo• Susan Avila
Through combining recycled samples and test fabrics from a Byzantine-themed collection, with embellished digitally printed images of Las Vegas entertainment icons, Avila intersects these two cultures in a 27’x9’ floating fabric mosaic.
Bird Ross •The 6000 Project•
During the proposal of this exhibition, the sum of civilian casualties from the September 11th attacks and the air and land attacks in Afganistan, equaled close to 6000 deaths. As an attempt to comprehend this amount, and reflect on the misfortunes of war, Ross has focused her studio techniques towards accumulating this number in different forms. This exhibition is the result.

Pi Gallery
419 East 18 Street
816-210-6534
Reception: June 3, 6-9pm
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11am-3pm, and by appointment
June 3-June 25

•Against the Current• Joan Truckenbroad
Society of Contemporary Photography

2012 Baltimore Avenue
816-471-2115
Recreating the performance of the west coast “salmon run” onto a hospital bed, Truckenbroad presents an emotional, and environmentally conscious, viewer-interactive installation that uses an estuarine as a metaphor for the stages of consciousness.
Reception: June 3, 11am-5pm, 7-9pm
Hours: Wednesday-Saturday 11am-5pm
May 6-June 25

Other Kansas City Textile Exhibitions

•Chrysalis• Jason Pollen
Belger Art Center

2100 Walnut Street
Reception: June 3, 6-9pm
Hours: Thursday-Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday 12-5pm
816-474-3250
June 3 – August 5

•In Collaboration•
Joscelyn Himes, Kelly Porter, and Justin Stewart (with Mary Tveit as a consultant)

Blue Gallery

7 West 19 Street
816-527-0824
Representing the meaning of collaboration, this show illustrates a few moments of coming together and combining ideas.
Reception: June 3, 12-9pm
Hours: Tuesday-Thursday 10am-5pm, Friday-Saturday 12-10pm
June 3-27

Maggie Rozycki Hilter
Byron Cohen Gallery

2020 Baltimore
816-421-5665
Hours: Thurs-Sat 11am-5pm, and by appointment
May 6-July 30

•Mats by Jason Pollen• Jason Pollen
Loft 122 Gallery, Smith and Burstert

122 Southwest Blvd
816-561-6261
A collection of new floor-mats by Jason Pollen.
Reception: June 3, 1-9pm
Hours: Saturday-Sunday 12-5
June 3-5

•Home Again: KU Textile Alumni Visit the Farm•
Organizers: Mary Anne Jordan and Mindy Goodman

The Farm: A Contemporary Arts Center

504 East 18 Street
816-931-2843
Specially made “yardages” by KU textile alumni display a variety of processes and techniques. Participating artists include Ruth Bowman, Linda Kelley, Ursula McCarty, and Wendy Weiss.
Reception: June 3, 7-11pm
Hours: June 3, 7-11pm; June 4-5, 12-4pm; and by appointment
June 3- June 24, 2005

•Recent Work• Jeremy Evans
The Late Show

1600 Cherry
816-474-1300
In a combination of weaving, sculpture, installation, and performance, Evans places emphasis on the processes involved in creation and the evolution of materials.
Reception: June 3, 6-10pm
Hours: Wednesday-Saturday 9am-6pm, and by appointment
June 3- June 26

•Good Intentions• Summer Farrar
Locust Street Gallery

1605 Locust Street
816-472-4977
Exploring the chemistry and meaning behind relationships, Farrar presents hand-embroidered portraits on felted wool.
Receptions: May 6, 7-10pm; June 3, 7-9pm
Hours: Monday-Friday 9am-3pm, and by appointment
May 6- June 3

•FUNDAMENTAL• Mindy Goodman
The MoMO

1830 Locust Street
816-474-4814
Taking inspiration from African art and quilt making, Goodman presents new mixed media works reflecting the concept that identity is the result of experience.
Reception: June 1:30-10:30pm
Hours: June 3, 1:30-10:30pm; June 4, 12-4pm; June 5, 12-4pm

•Losing Pattern in Gauzy Structure• Karyssa Miller
Through the desire of the artist to communicate the equilibrium between order and chaos, Miller incorporates ikat dying with a loose double layer weave structure.
•Artisan Fashion•

Brooke Poirier, Christopher Leitch, Tabbatha McCale
Three artists exhibit collections of originally designed garments, including processes such as shibori, embroidery, natural dyeing processes, and electronic knitting.

Tomboy Design Studio

1817 McGee Street
816-472-6200
Reception: June 3, 5-9pm
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 12-4pm
June 3- June 24

•The Fabric of Jazz: A Tribute to the Genius of American Music• Laura Camp
American Jazz Museum

1616 East 18th Street
816-474-8463
Making the association between composing a quilt and composing jazz, Camp’s unexpected use of fabrics’ patterns, textures, and colors are use to explore her understandings of music, jazz’s impact on society, and individual musicians’ characteristics.
Reception:
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 9am-6pm, Sunday 12-5pm
May 7- July 4, 2005

•Treasures: Tapestries and Garments Spanning 40 Years• Carter Smith
Inspired by the limitless possibilities of the shibori resist-dying process, Smith presents a collection of banners, textiles, and clothing.

Hallar Gallery

4540 Main Street
816-561-5339
Reception: June 2, 2:30-4:30pm
May 31- June 11

•Musical Chairs• Laura E. Morris
In an attempt to balance structural form and fabric design, Morris replaces traditional furniture design with sculptural fabric forms that include the artist’s hand as an apparent and integral aspects of the work.
June 3- 4
•Bird in an Empty Tree• Sha Sha Higby
Performance: June 3, 8:30pm
May 29-June 9

Arts Incubator

Reception: June 3, 1-9pm
Hours: Friday-Saturday 1-4pm, and by appointment

115 West 18 Street
816-421-0235

•Threadcount•
Hadley Johnson, Nancy Bach, Lauren McEntire
Fahrenheit Gallery

1717 West 9 Street
913-558-2632
By merging traditional methods such as embroidery, needlepoint, crochet, knitting, and quilting with sculpture, installation, and video, included artists merge traditional crafts with contemporary concepts and iconography.
Reception: June 3, 7-9pm
Hours: Saturday 12-6pm, and by appointment
June 3

•Guelaguetza: A Oaxacan Harvest Celebration•
Curator: William Hill
Mattie Rhodes Art Gallery

919 West 17 Street
816-221-2349
Reception: June 3, 7-9pm and July 1, 7-9pm
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 12-5pm
June 3- July 16

•Limited Edition T-Shirts Designed by Ghada Amer & Reza Farkhondeh•
Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh

Spool
122 West 18 Street
816-842-0228
Reception: 12-10pm
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 12-7pm
June 3

Tabbetha McCale
Telephonebooth

3319 Troost
816-582-9812
Reception:
Hours: Thursday-Saturday 12-5

Near Kansas City

•Through a Contemporary Eye: Ancient Peruvian Textiles•
Curator: Fifi White
Gallery of Art, Johnson County Community College

Drawing from a private collection of pre-columbian textiles, White expresses her interests in ancient textiles, contemporary art, and design.

12345 College Blvd
Overland Park, KS
913-469-8500 ext. 3972
Reception: June 3, 10am-5pm
Hours: Monday 10am-5pm, Tuesday-Wednesday 10am-7pm, Thursday-Friday 10am-5pm, Saturday-Sunday 1-5pm
May 1-June 15

•Submersed: Contemporary Altered Books•
Curator: Teresa Paschke
Billington Library, Johnson County Community College

12345 College Blvd
Overland Park, KS
913-469-8500 ext. 3972
Reception: June 3, 7:30am-5pm
Hours: Monday-Thursday 7:30am-10pm, Friday 7:30am-5pm, Saturday 8am-5pm
June 3-July 27

•Recursions: Material Expression of Zeros and Ones•
Curator: Carol Le Baron
George Caleb Bingham Gallery, University of Missouri

Located in the Fine Arts Building on the corner of Hitt and University Streets
Colombia, MO
573-882-3555
Transcending the boundaries between traditional and digital techniques, eleven artists (including Junco Sato Pollack, Lia Cook, Kathy Treadaway and Alison Bell) present jacquard woven and digitally printed textiles to revisit the creation of binary code. This exhibition was organized by the Museum of Design in Atlanta, Georgia.
Reception: May 12, 4-6pm
Hours: Monday-Friday 9am-4pm
May 9– July 15

•Midpoint: A Regional Art Quilt Show• Kansas Art Quilters
Merriam Community Art Gallery

5701 Merriam Drive
Merriam, KS
816-722-7750
Reception: June 3, 9am-9pm
Hours: Monday-Friday 9am-9pm, Saturday 9am-3pm, Sunday 2-4pm
June 2- June 26

•Bobbin and Weavin’: Contemporary Textiles at the Spencer Museum•
Cynthia Schira, Barbara Eckhardt, Lynn Basa, Lia Cook, and David Brackett
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas

1301 Mississippi Street
Lawrence, KS
785-864-0138
Reception:
Hours: Tuesday-Wednesday 10-5, Thursday 10am-9pm, Friday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 12-5pm
May 29-July 31

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