Julián Zugazagoitia is the fifth director of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Born in Mexico and educated at the Sorbonne Paris IV in France, he speaks six languages and has worked in the Americas, Europe and Africa. For the past seven years, Zugazagoitia has been the director/CEO of El Museo del Barrio in New York. He led the institution through a $44 million renovation project that resulted in new gallery spaces, a refurbished facility and a popular restaurant.

The show uses interviews to explore the diverse American experience of long-time immigrants. Enlightening and provocative, this production will question the meaning of the American dream while showing how your starting point can make or break your game.

Carmon Colangelo is a pioneering printmaker whose work combines surrealism and abstraction with the exploration of art history, science and technology. He is known for large mixed-media prints that combine digital and traditional processes. He is the dean of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis and holds the E. Desmond Lee Professorship for Collaboration in the Arts.

Pictured: "New" by Carmon Colangelo (2011, watercolor, graphite and ink on paper, 30 x 22 inches (sheet size), courtesy of the Arists and Carmon Colangelo)

Alex Kanevsky was born in Rostvo-na-Donu, Russia, and studied at Vilnius University, Lithuania, and later at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he presently teaches.  In addition to exhibiting work across North America and Europe, his work has been reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Observer, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Harper’s Magazine and New American Paintings. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Achenbach Collection, San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, de Young Museum and Legion of Honor, all in San Francisco. 

http://www.somepaintings.net/Alex.html

KCAI will be closed beginning at noon Wednesday, Nov. 23 through Sunday, Nov. 27 for Thanksgiving.