Sculpture

Michael Wickerson, associate professor and chair of the sculpture department, teaches a variety of traditional and contemporary skills...Read More

Michael Wickerson, associate professor and chair of the sculpture department, teaches a variety of traditional and contemporary skills and crafts.

Wickerson is a Canadian artist working in Kansas City, experienced in wood-working and metal-casting. He has exhibited throughout North America since 1994 and displayed artworks overseas in Holland, England, Poland and Bulgaria since 2002. In 2005, his installation "This Equipment Belongs to the Earth" was displayed at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City, and his aluminum casting "House of the Sun" was recognized in Spaces magazine in the spring 2006.

In 2007, Wickerson received a Lighton International Exchange Grant from the Lighton Foundation, and in 2004, he received the Excellence in Teaching Grant from the Kansas City Learning Exchange. He is a current member of the American Foundry Society (MK Chapter), the International Visitors Council of Kansas City and the Kansas City Artists Coalition. Previously, he co-founded and co-directed the Beth Allison Gallery in Missouri and taught at Memorial University in Newfoundland.

Wickerson holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Waterloo and a Master of Fine Arts degree from York University in Toronto, Canada.

Contact: mwickerson@kcai.edu
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Karen McCoy, who joined the KCAI faculty in 1994, specializes in site-specific sculpture, installations, video projection, autonomous...Read More

Karen McCoy, who joined the KCAI faculty in 1994, specializes in site-specific sculpture, installations, video projection, autonomous sculpture objects and drawings that explore relationships between nature, culture and perception.

She has created site-specific environmental sculpture across the United States and in Europe for more than two decades. Her work is included in the third edition of Earthworks and Beyond (John Beardsley, Abbeville Press). She has permanently sited pieces in Denmark at the Tranekaer International Center for Art and Nature on Langeland and at Krakamarken in Jutland; at Europos Parkas in Lithuania; in Jackson, Wyo.; at the Kansas City Freight House in Missouri; and at the South Carolina Botanical Garden in Clemson.

McCoy was awarded a residency at the Ucross Foundation in Sheridan, Wyo., in August 2001. During her sabbatical year she was awarded the Pritzker Foundation Endowed Fellowship for a distinguished residency at the Djerassi Foundation in Woodside, Calif., and an Andy Warhol Foundation Grant for her residency at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. Solo exhibitions include Source and Substance, Gardiner Gallery of Art, Oklahoma State University in Stillwater; Light and Shade at the Chair Building and Sculpture and Drawing at Jan Weiner Gallery, both in Kansas City; and at Pindar in New York.

In the April 1996 issue of Sculpture Magazine, John Beardsley wrote about McCoy's "The Edge of Town," installed at the Hartford Art School, University of Hartford in Connecticut, and the "Floating Pyramid for Providence: A Consideration of Cultural Notions of Wealth and Value" for Convergence 8, installed at Roger Williams Park in Providence, R.I. McCoy's professional affiliations include the College Art Association, Women's Caucus for Art and the International Sculpture Center. she previously taught sculpture at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., and was a visiting artist at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

She earned a bachelor of arts degree from Northeast Louisiana University; holds a master of arts degree from Northern Illinois University; and completed an M.F.A. degree at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Contact: 816-802-3413

Larry Buechel graduated in the sculpture department at KCAI in 1986 and received his M.F.A. degree from the University of Delaware...Read More.

Larry Buechel graduated in the sculpture department at KCAI in 1986 and received his M.F.A. degree from the University of Delaware.  Larry has been working as both a full- and part-time instructor and has served as a sabbatical replacement for the entire sculpture faculty since 2004. Buechel has focused on teaching the major students at the sophomore level and has prepared them for communal and safe studio practice.

Beyond his educational experience, he assisted professional artists at Grand Arts in Kansas City from 1994 to 2002, and he also served as an art director on several large-scale projects in Las Vegas between 2002 and 2004.  Specifically, he has worked with artists such as Dennis Oppenheim and Alice Aycock and organizations like the Rio and the Wynn Resort in Las Vegas. As a professional artist in his own right, Larry has worked on large-scale projects and temporary/kinetic works in many locations all over the United States.