Archive for September, 2008
urban culture project’s third friday art downtown october 17
Monday, September 15th, 2008
Urban culture Project’s Third Friday begins with an artist talk (5:30pm at Paragraph) by Peregrine Honig, who was awarded the Charlotte Street Foundation spot at Art Omi International Studio Residency Program in Upstate New York this summer. The evening also includes the debut of a commissioned window installation by Kati Toivanen at City Center Square, the openings of On View: Art by Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Security Officers at Paragraph and Parallax, featuring the work of three women painters, at Project Space. Plus open studios at Bonfils and pARTnership Place. All free in downtown Kansas City.
american institute of architects-kc + csf partner to launch new art through architecture program
Monday, September 15th, 2008
The Charlotte Street Foundation and the American Institute of Architects-Kansas City (AiA-KC) are excited to announce Art through Architecture (AtA), a new partnership to promote and support the work of Kansas City area artists through architectural practice. AtA provides incentives and tools to encourage and empower architects and their clients to incorporate art and artists from the Kansas City area into their projects. New architectural projects may qualify for Gold, Silver, and Bronze levels of “Art Achievement” by dedicating percentages of total construction budgets to collecting artwork, commissioning temporary or permanent artworks, and/or including artists on design teams.
The new AtA website, www.ArtArch.org, launching late fall 2008, will serve as a tool for architects and their clients to identify artists of interest for specific projects. Artists within a 60 mile radius of downtown KC were invited to apply earlier this year for potential inclusion in the program’s on-line artist database, which will be updated annually. In addition, AtA representatives will provide hands-on support to architects and their clients pursuing Art Achievement status for their projects.
A new call to artists will be posted annually.
csf’s urban culture project presents spoonbender orchestra at la esquina opening october 3
Monday, September 15th, 2008
Spoonbender Orchestra, Directed by Jeffrey Rukaman
Live performances: October 3, 4, 9 & 10 – all at 7:30pm; $10
+ Gamelan Genta Kasturi: Traditional and contemporary Balinese music and dance performance
Performance: October 18, 7:30; free; Performance + workshop: October 19, 2pm; free
La ESQUINA | 1000 West 25th Street | 816.221.5115
More about current and upcoming Urban Culture Project programming.
SPOONBENDER ORCHESTRA is a Kansas City-based collective of musicians and artists dedicated to the discovery and performance of new music. Known for blending unorthodox instrumentation into panoramic soundscapes, the ensemble combines found objects, “discarded” technologies, cellos, kotos and glass bells into nocturnal stories where the sounds themselves become characters. Spoonbender Orchestra will feature the gongs and bronze chimes of Indonesian gamelan music as they premiere new work by composer Jeffrey Rukaman.
GAMELAN GENTA KASTURI, the region’s first gamelan orchestra, will perform traditional and contemporary Balinese music and dance in two concerts October 18 and 19, 2008 at La Esquina. Gamelan is the preeminent orchestral music of Indonesia, Incorporating deep bronze gongs, finely tuned metallophones, bamboo flutes and kendang drums. Read full press release.
peregrine honig selected to attend art omi
Monday, September 1st, 2008
2000 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award recipient Peregrine Honig was selected to attend the Art Omi International Residency Program this summer. Through a partnership launched in 2005, one Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award Fellow annually is awarded a three-week residency at Art Omi, a highly respected residency program in Upstate New York. Artists go to Art Omi to work alongside other serious artists from around the world and to gain feedback from a renowned group of visiting artists, critics and curators who visit the program each year. The opportunity to live and work in peaceful surroundings yet interact with the contemporary art world produces a unique atmosphere of creativity and dialogue among artists coming from as far away as Nigeria and as close as Brooklyn. Honig will deliver a public lecture about her experience at Art Omi on Friday, October 17, 5:30pm at Urban Culture Project’s Paragraph gallery.
Check out the Art Omi website http://www.artomi.org
