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“Several young Kansas City talents are making their marks locally, nationally and internationally with projects that incorporate film, video, sound, fashion and performance — and fun,” writes Alice Thorson in her July 26 front page Sunday Arts story for the Kansas City Star.  The article calls out 2007 CSF Award recipient Cody Critcheloe and the SSION (whose show of new  music videos opens Sept. 4 at Grand Arts),  2009 Award recipient Jaimie Warren and her Whoop Dee Doo, former UCP studio resident Julie Potratz, frequent UCP exhibitors Carnal Torpor, as well as artists-designers-collaborators with all of the above Ari Fish and Peggy Noland.  Read the full article here.

PERFORMANCES: July 24, 25, 27, 31 + August 1, 3, 7, 8, 10 – all 9pm
LA ESQUINA / 1000 WEST 25TH
Tickets $15; Doors Open at 8pm; Seating at 8:30pm.
Purchase tickets online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/71885

In 1979, 20th Century Fox released, The Rose starring Bette Midler, in her first feature film. The film, which loosely portrayed a Janis Joplin-like character, earned her an Oscar nomination. With an authentic rock score, the musical film, directed by Mark Rydell and nominated for four Academy Awards, has reached a cult status.

In 2009, Ron Megee directs Spencer Brown as “The Rose” in the live stage adaptation of the film featuring an incredible live band, the high-energy rock score from the film, and an ensemble of some of Kansas City’s finest talents. Curated by Chadwick Brooks, The Rose features a cast including David Wayne Reed, Kipp Simmons, Dana Nicholson, Corrie Van Ausdal, Kimberely Queen, Emma Taylor, and live music directed by Cody Wyoming, with Chris Meck, Mike Meyers, Jeff Harshbarger, and Ken Lovern

Click here to read the Kansas City Star review by Robert Trussell

National Center for Drug Free Sport (NCDFS) has been awarded highest level “Art Achievement” by Art through Architecture (AtA) – a partnership program of CSF and AIA-KC - for commissioning a new, site-specific video installation by Kansas City based artist Barry Anderson as part of a recent architectural renovation project completed by el dorado architects.  The artwork was commissioned as part of the second phase of a two-phase building renovation for NCDFS’s offices at 2537 Madison, on the Westside in downtown Kansas City.

Working with AtA, Frank Uryasz, owner of Drug Free Sport, and Josh Shelton, project architect, el dorado, reviewed the work of eligible artists in AtA’s online database at www.ArtArch.org, selected a short list of artists, then conducted studio visits with five finalists, ultimately selecting Barry Anderson for the commission.

Anderson’s 8-plus minute looping digital animation, “There and Back Again,” spreads out across three synched flat screen monitors mounted in a vertical arrangement on a wall in NCDFS’s entrance lobby.  The work takes inspiration from the architecture and design of the office lobby, particularly its brightly striped walls, its exposed, white-painted ceiling trusses, and its overall lightness, as well as from the function of the office lobby as a space which people enter and move through.  Read the full press release.