MK12, a Kansas City-based motion graphics studio, will give a presentation at 7 p.m. in Epperson Auditorium.

The Northland Alumni Exhibition will open will a reception from 4 to 7 p.m. at KCAI's Northland Campus for Special Programs, 1801 N.W. Platte Road #275, Riverside, Mo. The show will be on view through May 15.

The exhibition will feature work by KCAI alumni living in the Kansas City Northland area. Michael Schonoff, assistant curator, community outreach and exhibition management at the H&R Block Artspace at KCAI will serve as the exhibition's juror.

"Defining things, not words"
Work by Andrew Lyles (senior, painting)

KCAI Crossroads Gallery at 1908 Main St.
6 to 9 p.m.
April 2, 9 and 16

An opening reception for "Defining things, not words" will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. 

Lyles describes the show: "The show is very open to the viewer's interpretation of what is presented by myself.  It's like having a collection of marbles and suddenly they drop before you. You begin to pick them up, but you start out by choosing your favorite marbles. In that act of picking up your marbles you begin to, define things and not words."

Pictured: "Untitled" by Andrew Lyles.

Panel discussion on the exhibition "Arrival/Departure" on view April 9 through May 22 at La Esquina. The exhibition is curated by Jonah Criswell ('05 painting) and Maria Buszek, assistant professor of art history at KCAI.

7:15 p.m.

Epperson Auditorium

The exhibition brings together early-career artists who see Kansas City as a site from which they came into contact with the art world. Several of the exhibition’s artists will discuss their time in (and, in some cases, return to) Kansas City, the prestigious national and international graduate programs, residencies and exhibitions in which they have participated, and the role KCAI played in their creative evolution. All of the artists are graduates of KCAI.

"Defining things, not words"
Work by Andrew Lyles (senior, painting)

KCAI Crossroads Gallery at 1908 Main St.
6 to 9 p.m.
April 9 and 16

Lyles describes the show: "The show is very open to the viewer's interpretation of what is presented by myself.  It's like having a collection of marbles and suddenly they drop before you. You begin to pick them up, but you start out by choosing your favorite marbles. In that act of picking up your marbles you begin to, define things and not words."

Pictured: "Untitled" by Andrew Lyles.

ArtSounds presents "HEADSinTALES."

7:30 p.m.

Epperson Auditorium

"One, probability is a factor which operates within natural foces. Two, probability is not operating as a factor. Three, we are now within un-, sub- or supernatural forces. Discuss."

Featuring the members of "Creative Collaboration," a UMKC Conservatory class drawing from departments at UMKC and KCAI. 

Representing the absurdity of a world where technology overwhelms humanity, "HEADSinTALES" follows this thought through its permutations to the utmost extremes and back in a series of strange loops and reflective systems.

ArtSounds is a series where composers, performers and visual artists join together to present a series of performances. Initiated by faculty from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and the Kansas City Art Institute, 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.

Franklin Oviedo will give a lecture at 7 p.m. in Epperson Auditorium.

Oviedo graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute’s School of Design in 2004. He is a co-founder of Liquid 9, a production and post house that handles all aspects of the commercial video production process, and :31, a creative boutique with its niche in the entertainment industry. Oviedo has worked with clients such as Warner Bros., Bombay Sapphire, Tech N9ne, McDonald’s, Sprint, Bayer, Kasil Jeans, AUX TV and Lee Jeans.

A sneak preview* of the "2010 B.F.A. exhibition"

4 to 6 p.m.

H&R Block Artspace

Art history and creative writing students will read from "Compendium 2010," an anthology of the writings and images, at 4:30 p.m.

*The preview is for students, faculty and staff only.

"Defining things, not words"
Work by Andrew Lyles (senior, painting)

KCAI Crossroads Gallery at 1908 Main St.
6 to 9 p.m.
April 16

An opening reception for "Defining things, not words" will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. 

Lyles describes the show: "The show is very open to the viewer's interpretation of what is presented by myself.  It's like having a collection of marbles and suddenly they drop before you. You begin to pick them up, but you start out by choosing your favorite marbles. In that act of picking up your marbles you begin to, define things and not words."

Pictured: "Untitled" by Andrew Lyles.

The annual B.F.A. exhibition opens today at the H&R Block Artspace, 16 E. 43rd St. The exhibition closes May 15. A reception will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. May 14.

Sculptor Christy Georg will give a lecture at 7 p.m. in Epperson Auditorium.

Georg received her M.F.A. degree from Massachusetts College of Art and her B.F.A. degree in sculpture in 1997 from the Kansas City Art Institute. She also studied glassblowing at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Georg has been awarded 15 art residencies in North America. This summer she will have a solo show at the Khyber Institute for Contemporary Art in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Reed Anderson, Ph.D., special instructor of art history at KCAI, will present "Herman A. Webster's Love Affair With France: A Love Story in Prints" at 7 p.m. at KCAI's Northland Campus for Special Programs, 1801 N.W. Platte Rd. #275, Riverside, Mo.

Reed Anderson, Ph.D.,  is a special instructor in the art history department and has taught a variety of classes since coming to KCAI in 2004. One of his areas of expertise is the history of prints and printmaking, which inspired the exhibition and catalog "American Etchers Abroad, 1880-1939" (2004).

Anderson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master or Arts degree in art history from the University of Washington in Seattle, and a Ph.D. in American art from the University of Kansas. He is currently working on a book that explores the career of Herman A. Webster, a forgotten American master.

Pictured: "La place de l'hopital Strasbourg," Herman A. Webster, 1913, etching.  

Mark Newport will give a lecture at 7 p.m. in Epperson Auditorium.

Newport is the artist-in-residence and head of fiber at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. He earned his B.F.A. degree from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1986 and his M.F.A. degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1991. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Canada and Europe.

A road roller visits the campus today for an annual event sponsored by the printmaking department. Activity will center on the parking lot in front of Vanderslice Hall, where the road roller will make prints on a variety of materials ranging from paper to T-shirts. The festivities continue from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 30.

Students are planning a variety of activities on the campus today in honor of Field Day:

Noon – lunch on the campus green

12:30 p.m. – entertainment and a presentation by Art Play

1:30 p.m. – parading to the Brush Creek Community Rain Garden for a 5-year anniversary birthday celebration for the KCAI Community Arts and Service Learning program

3 p.m. – annual volleyball tournament and activities on the campus green