KCAI will observe the Labor Day holiday today - no classes, and offices will be closed.

"Current Perspectives" lecture by Matthew Hopson-Walker ('98 printmaking)

7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9

Epperson Auditorium, Vanderslice Hall

Hopson-Walker currently teaches printmaking and drawing at the College of the Sequoias and California State University-Fresno.

In conjunction with the “2010 Kansas City Flatfile,” the H&R Block Artspace at KCAI will host “The Big Draw.”

Noon to 5 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 11.

This event will offer drawing sessions for all ages and skill levels and will take place in the studio space at the Artspace, 16 E. 43rd St.

"Digital Honkbox Revival" is the first ArtSounds event of the 2010-11 season. It begins at 7:30 p.m. in Epperson Auditorium. The performance is free and open to the public.

"Current Perspectives" lecture with Michael Byron ('77 sculpture)

7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 16

Epperson Auditorium, Vanderslice Hall

Byron is a professor of painting at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

"Current Perspectives" lecture with Samina Quraeshi ('66 design)

7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23

Epperson Auditorium, Vanderslice Hall

Quraeshi is an educator, award-winning author, artist and designer. She operates S/Q Design Associates with her husband and partner Richard Shepard, an architect. In addition, she recently served as the first Gardner Fellow and Visiting Artist at the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.

"Current Perspectives" lecture with John Buck ('68 sculpture)

7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 28

Epperson Auditorium, Vanderslice Hall

Buck is both a sculptor and a printmaker who works with two interrelated bodies of work: carved wood, assemblage and bronze sculptures and large, multicolored woodblock prints.