Rachel Geschwind will give a talk entitled "New York Fairytales: Helen Levitt's Portraits of Children."

7 p.m.

Epperson Auditorium.

The lecture is in conjunction with the photography exhibit "Hide and See: Picturing Childhood" at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, which is on view through Feb. 21.

Geschwind will offer an interpretation of Levitt's photographs as folk literature and the debate over fairytales in the dawn of child psychology in the 1940s.

"Diverse communities and how difference influences classroom motivations"

11:30 a.m.

Epperson Auditorium

"Learn to Teach" is a series of talks relating to the topic of how to be an effective teacher in a community setting. The lecture series is free and open to the public.

For details, visit our Learn to Teach page.

2009 Charlotte Street Foundation Fellows

Dylan Mortimer ('02 painting), Jaimie Warren ('02 printmaking) and Andrzej Zielinski

7 p.m.

Epperson Auditorium

Dylan Mortimer has merged the iconographies and vocabularies of Christianity and hip-hop culture in an investigation of how religious beliefs, popular culture and social norms do and do not comfortably relate.

Jaimie Warren is a photographer, curator and performance artist who makes theatrical, humorous, self-portraits in different scenarios and locations.

Andrzej Zielinski’s current work consists of paintings of laptops, paper shredders and ATM machines.

As part of AIGA's Design Week, the Kansas City Art Institute will host Steve Frykholm who will give a lecture entitled “39 and Counting: Steve Frykholm and Herman Miller” from noon to 1 p.m. on Feb. 5 in Epperson Auditorium. Attendees are encouraged to arrive at 11:45 a.m. as the lecture will start promptly at noon.

After teaching in Nigeria with the U.S. Peace Corps, Frykholm attended and graduated from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Furniture icon Herman Miller Inc. then hired him to be its first internal graphic designer.

For 40 years he has been largely responsible for Herman Miller’s image and graphic identity, its posters, annual reports and other collateral literature. 

Not only has Frykholm received Herman Miller’s highest recognition for an employee, The Carl F. Frost Award, but he has also received recognition from professional peers. His work has been published and exhibited, and he's received gold and silver medals and certificates of excellence from AIGA, N.Y. Art Directors Club, American Center for Design, Mead Annual Report Show, Communication Arts, Graphis, Creativity and Print. He is an AIGA Fellow and a Lifetime Achievement Silver Medalist from the Ad Club of West Michigan, and he was recognized in the 50th Anniversary Issue of Communication Arts as an American Design Icon.
 

This annual show of work by Kansas CIty Art Institute continuing education students and instructors will be on display at the KCAI Crossroads Gallery from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 5 and from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6. More than 70 works of art will be on display in the exhibition. For more information call 816-802-3505.

The Black History Month Committee and the Xenos Society present a film series focusing on Sudan.

"God Grew Tired of Us" will show in two parts from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9 and Thursday, Feb. 11 in the Academic Resource Center.

7:30 p.m. in Epperson Auditorium: Shift is a collaboration between Dan Thomas of the Conservatory of Music and Dance at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Brett Reif, assistant professor in the School of the Foundation Year at KCAI. The performance will involve appropriated video, improvised sound and the voice. "As we experience our world, our perceptions shift to gather and process information," Thomas and Reif wrote. "This event will highlight the relationship between this perception shift. Music, often improvised, will react to the voice and language, which will react to moving images. The audience will be placed in the midst of this interplay."

ArtSounds is a series where composers, performers and visual artists join together to present a series of performances. Initiated by faculty from the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance and KCAI, ArtSounds explores cross-media expression through creative concert-making.  Faculty partners from each institution produce provocative events that explore a maximum breadth of means, methods, media and music: art sounds and music sees.
 

The Black History Month Committee and the Xenos Society present a film series focusing on Sudan.

The second half of the film "God Grew Tired of Us" will show Thursday, Feb. 11 in the Academic Resource Center.

Harlan Brownlee, president and CEO of the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City, will present "Time and classroom management."

12:30 p.m. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd.

"Learn to Teach" is a series of talks relating to the topic of how to be an effective teacher in a community setting. The lecture series is free and open to the public.

For details, visit our Learn to Teach page.

In conjunction with Black HIstory Month, Larry Lyles, president of The Scott Joplin Foundation, will give a presentation about ragtime musician and composer Scott Joplin.

Noon to 1 p.m.

Epperson Auditorium.

Joplin was an American composer and pianist known as the "King of Ragtime." During his career, he wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, a ragtime ballet and two operas. One of Joplin's early compositions, "The Maple Leaf Rag," was ragtime's first and most influential hit.

For more information about Joplin and The Scott Joplin Foundation, visit www.scottjoplin.org.

The Black History Month Committee and the Xenos Society present a film series focusing on Sudan.

"Lost Boys of Sudan" will show in two parts from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16 and Thursday, Feb. 18 in the Academic Resource Center.

"Early childhood development"

11:30 a.m.

Epperson Auditorium

"Learn to Teach" is a series of talks relating to the topic of how to be an effective teacher in a community setting. The lecture series is free and open to the public.

For details, visit our Learn to Teach page.

Fatimah Tuggar will give a presentation at 7 p.m. in Epperson Auditorium.

Tuggar (’92 sculpture) is a multidisciplinary artist who uses technology as both a medium and a subject in her work to serve as a metaphor for power dynamics. She combines objects, images and sounds from diverse cultures, geographies and histories to comment on how media and technology diversely impact local and global realities. Her work has been widely exhibited at international venues in more than 20 countries on five continents.

125th Annivesary Gala

Feb. 20, 2010

The college will celebrate its 125th anniversary with a black-tie-optional gala from 6:30 to 11:30 p.m. Feb. 20 in the Grand Ballroom of the downtown Convention Center. Tickets are $125 and up. For details, contact gala@kcai.edu.

Above: Soundsuit by Nick Cave ('82 fiber)

In connection with the ongoing celebration of the Kansas City Art Institute's 125th anniversary, Milton Katz, Ph.D., professor of history at KCAI, will speak at 2 p.m. Feb. 21 at Kansas City's Central Library, 14 W. 10th St. His talk is entitled "Making Creativity Dance: A History of the Kansas City Art Institute." 

The presentation is part of the Missouri Valley Speakers Series, a program of the Missouri Valley Special Collections at the Central Library. Admission is free. Call 816-701-3407 or RSVP online. Free parking is available in the Library District Parking Garage at 10th and Baltimore.

"Teens and at-risk populations"

11:30 a.m.

Epperson Audtiorium

"Learn to Teach" is a series of talks relating to the topic of how to be an effective teacher in a community setting. The lecture series is free and open to the public.

For details, visit our Learn to Teach page.

Jerry Eisterhold will speak at 7 p.m. in Epperson Auditorium.

The H&R Block Artspace with host a conversation with artist Kim Jongku, Raechell Smith, director of the Artspace, and Kris Ercums, curator of Asian art at the Spencer Museum of Art.

Noon to 1 p.m.

H&R Block Artspace, 16 E. 43rd St.