One Time Productions is partnering with the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute to present the Kansas City premiere of the play “Arts or Crafts.” Performances will take place on the second floor of the Artspace, located at 16 E. 43rd St. Tickets are $15 per person. Student tickets are $7 per person and $5 for KCAI students. Parking for the Artspace is available on the north side of the building with an additional private KCAI parking lot located at 42nd and Walnut streets.

“Arts Or Crafts,” which will be directed by Kansas City director and One Time Productions co-founder Bess Wallerstein, is the first full-length play by Rob Roznowski and consists of a collection of original scenes ranging from the hilarious to the disturbing, with scenarios that include cavemen playing rock, paper, scissors and a rapper's explicit lyrics getting banned from the radio. It explores censorship and snobbery involved in judging the artistic, posing the question, “Who’s to say which is better, hobby or art?”

"Ritual Lights," an exhibition of work by Amanda Martinez (senior, painting), will be on display at the KCAI Crossroads Gallery from 6 to 9 p.m. Oct. 2, 9, 16. An opening reception will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2. Martinez said of the work, "Light can be a source of comfort or discomfort, as well as an aid or hindrance. When harnessed by humans, it becomes a powerful centerpiece in rituals and as decorum in the home." In this exhibition, Martinez‘s chandeliers and candelabras "exaggerate the history and attachment of light and decoration."

One Time Productions is partnering with the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute to present the Kansas City premiere of the play “Arts or Crafts.” Performances will take place on the second floor of the Artspace, located at 16 E. 43rd St. Tickets are $15 per person. Student tickets are $7 per person and $5 for KCAI students. Parking for the Artspace is available on the north side of the building with an additional private KCAI parking lot located at 42nd and Walnut streets.

“Arts Or Crafts,” which will be directed by Kansas City director and One Time Productions co-founder Bess Wallerstein, is the first full-length play by Rob Roznowski and consists of a collection of original scenes ranging from the hilarious to the disturbing, with scenarios that include cavemen playing rock, paper, scissors and a rapper's explicit lyrics getting banned from the radio. It explores censorship and snobbery involved in judging the artistic, posing the question, “Who’s to say which is better, hobby or art?”
 

One Time Productions is partnering with the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute to present the Kansas City premiere of the play “Arts or Crafts.” Performances will take place on the second floor of the Artspace, located at 16 E. 43rd St. Tickets are $15 per person. Student tickets are $7 per person and $5 for KCAI students. Parking for the Artspace is available on the north side of the building with an additional private KCAI parking lot located at 42nd and Walnut streets.

“Arts Or Crafts,” which will be directed by Kansas City director and One Time Productions co-founder Bess Wallerstein, is the first full-length play by Rob Roznowski and consists of a collection of original scenes ranging from the hilarious to the disturbing, with scenarios that include cavemen playing rock, paper, scissors and a rapper's explicit lyrics getting banned from the radio. It explores censorship and snobbery involved in judging the artistic, posing the question, “Who’s to say which is better, hobby or art?”

Public discussion in conjunction with the exhibition "Black Is, Black Ain't"

H&R Block Artspace at KCAI
16 E. 43rd St.

A public discussion will be held in conjunction with the exhibition "Black Is, Black Ain’t" currently on view at the Artspace. The exhibit confronts issues surrounding the concept of "race."

This program seeks to create a dialog stemming from the exhibition and current events and will be facilitated by Janet Brown Moss, Lewis Diuguid and Artspace staff members.  

Taking its title from Ralph Ellison’s "Invisible Man," "Black Is, Black Ain’t," explores a shift in the rhetoric of race from an earlier emphasis on inclusion to a present moment where racial identity is being simultaneously rejected and retained. The exhibition brings together works by artists whose work together examines a moment where the cultural production of so-called “blackness” is concurrent with efforts to make race socially and politically irrelevant. 

Seating is limited. RSVP by Thursday, Oct. 1 to mschonhoff@kcai.edu.

One Time Productions is partnering with the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute to present the Kansas City premiere of the play “Arts or Crafts.” Performances will take place on the second floor of the Artspace, located at 16 E. 43rd St. Tickets are $15 per person. Student tickets are $7 per person and $5 for KCAI students. Parking for the Artspace is available on the north side of the building with an additional private KCAI parking lot located at 42nd and Walnut streets.

“Arts Or Crafts,” which will be directed by Kansas City director and One Time Productions co-founder Bess Wallerstein, is the first full-length play by Rob Roznowski and consists of a collection of original scenes ranging from the hilarious to the disturbing, with scenarios that include cavemen playing rock, paper, scissors and a rapper's explicit lyrics getting banned from the radio. It explores censorship and snobbery involved in judging the artistic, posing the question, “Who’s to say which is better, hobby or art?”

Preregistration Begins

One Time Productions is partnering with the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute to present the Kansas City premiere of the play “Arts or Crafts.” Performances will take place on the second floor of the Artspace, located at 16 E. 43rd St. Tickets are $15 per person. Student tickets are $7 per person and $5 for KCAI students. Parking for the Artspace is available on the north side of the building with an additional private KCAI parking lot located at 42nd and Walnut streets.

“Arts Or Crafts,” which will be directed by Kansas City director and One Time Productions co-founder Bess Wallerstein, is the first full-length play by Rob Roznowski and consists of a collection of original scenes ranging from the hilarious to the disturbing, with scenarios that include cavemen playing rock, paper, scissors and a rapper's explicit lyrics getting banned from the radio. It explores censorship and snobbery involved in judging the artistic, posing the question, “Who’s to say which is better, hobby or art?”

One Time Productions is partnering with the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute to present the Kansas City premiere of the play “Arts or Crafts.” Performances will take place on the second floor of the Artspace, located at 16 E. 43rd St. Tickets are $15 per person. Student tickets are $7 per person and $5 for KCAI students. Parking for the Artspace is available on the north side of the building with an additional private KCAI parking lot located at 42nd and Walnut streets.

“Arts Or Crafts,” which will be directed by Kansas City director and One Time Productions co-founder Bess Wallerstein, is the first full-length play by Rob Roznowski and consists of a collection of original scenes ranging from the hilarious to the disturbing, with scenarios that include cavemen playing rock, paper, scissors and a rapper's explicit lyrics getting banned from the radio. It explores censorship and snobbery involved in judging the artistic, posing the question, “Who’s to say which is better, hobby or art?”

Nina Katchadourian was born in Stanford, Calif., and grew up spending every summer on a small island in the Finnish archipelago, where she still spends part of each year. Her work exists in a wide variety of media including photography, sculpture, video and sound. Her work has been exhibited domestically and internationally at places such as PS1/MoMA, the Serpentine Gallery, New Langton Arts, Artists Space, SculptureCenter and the Palais de Tokyo. In January 2006 the Turku Art Museum in Turku, Finland, featured a solo show of works made in Finland, and in June 2006 the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs exhibited a 10-year survey of her work and published an accompanying monograph entitled "All Forms of Attraction." The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presented a solo show of recent video installation works in July 2008. Katchadourian is represented by Sara Meltzer gallery in New York and Catharine Clark gallery in San Francisco.
 

She will speak at 7 p.m. tonight at Epperson Auditorium.

One Time Productions is partnering with the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute to present the Kansas City premiere of the play “Arts or Crafts.” Performances will take place on the second floor of the Artspace, located at 16 E. 43rd St. Tickets are $15 per person. Student tickets are $7 per person and $5 for KCAI students. Parking for the Artspace is available on the north side of the building with an additional private KCAI parking lot located at 42nd and Walnut streets.

“Arts Or Crafts,” which will be directed by Kansas City director and One Time Productions co-founder Bess Wallerstein, is the first full-length play by Rob Roznowski and consists of a collection of original scenes ranging from the hilarious to the disturbing, with scenarios that include cavemen playing rock, paper, scissors and a rapper's explicit lyrics getting banned from the radio. It explores censorship and snobbery involved in judging the artistic, posing the question, “Who’s to say which is better, hobby or art?”

"Ritual Lights," an exhibition of work by Amanda Martinez (senior, painting), will be on display at the KCAI Crossroads Gallery from 6 to 9 p.m. Oct. 9 and Oct. 16. The gallery is located at 1908 Main St. Martinez said of the pieces in the exhibition, "Light can be a source of comfort or discomfort, as well as an aid or hindrance. When harnessed by humans, it becomes a powerful centerpiece in rituals and as decorum in the home." In this exhibition, Martinez‘s chandeliers and candelabras "exaggerate the history and attachment of light and decoration."

One Time Productions is partnering with the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute to present the Kansas City premiere of the play “Arts or Crafts.” Performances will take place on the second floor of the Artspace, located at 16 E. 43rd St. Tickets are $15 per person. Student tickets are $7 per person and $5 for KCAI students. Parking for the Artspace is available on the north side of the building with an additional private KCAI parking lot located at 42nd and Walnut streets.

“Arts Or Crafts,” which will be directed by Kansas City director and One Time Productions co-founder Bess Wallerstein, is the first full-length play by Rob Roznowski and consists of a collection of original scenes ranging from the hilarious to the disturbing, with scenarios that include cavemen playing rock, paper, scissors and a rapper's explicit lyrics getting banned from the radio. It explores censorship and snobbery involved in judging the artistic, posing the question, “Who’s to say which is better, hobby or art?”

One Time Productions is partnering with the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute to present the Kansas City premiere of the play “Arts or Crafts.” Performances will take place on the second floor of the Artspace, located at 16 E. 43rd St. Tickets are $15 per person. Student tickets are $7 per person and $5 for KCAI students. Parking for the Artspace is available on the north side of the building with an additional private KCAI parking lot located at 42nd and Walnut streets.

“Arts Or Crafts,” which will be directed by Kansas City director and One Time Productions co-founder Bess Wallerstein, is the first full-length play by Rob Roznowski and consists of a collection of original scenes ranging from the hilarious to the disturbing, with scenarios that include cavemen playing rock, paper, scissors and a rapper's explicit lyrics getting banned from the radio. It explores censorship and snobbery involved in judging the artistic, posing the question, “Who’s to say which is better, hobby or art?”

One Time Productions is partnering with the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute to present the Kansas City premiere of the play “Arts or Crafts.” Performances will take place on the second floor of the Artspace, located at 16 E. 43rd St. Tickets are $15 per person. Student tickets are $7 per person and $5 for KCAI students. Parking for the Artspace is available on the north side of the building with an additional private KCAI parking lot located at 42nd and Walnut streets.

“Arts Or Crafts,” which will be directed by Kansas City director and One Time Productions co-founder Bess Wallerstein, is the first full-length play by Rob Roznowski and consists of a collection of original scenes ranging from the hilarious to the disturbing, with scenarios that include cavemen playing rock, paper, scissors and a rapper's explicit lyrics getting banned from the radio. It explores censorship and snobbery involved in judging the artistic, posing the question, “Who’s to say which is better, hobby or art?”

ArtSounds presents “Dreamy Time and Little Tokoyo” at 7:30 p.m. in Epperson Auditorium in Vanderslice Hall on the KCAI campus. 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.
 

Closing reception for the exhibition "Black Is, Black Ain't"

6 to 8 p.m.

H&R Block Artspace at KCAI
16 E. 43rd St.

Taking its title from Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” the exhibit brings together works by 26 black and non-black artists whose work will explore a shift in the rhetoric of race from an earlier emphasis on inclusion to a present moment where racial identity is being simultaneously rejected and retained.

"Ritual Lights," an exhibition of work by Amanda Martinez (senior, painting), will be on display at the KCAI Crossroads Gallery from 6 to 9 p.m. Oct. 16. The gallery is located at 1908 Main St. Martinez said of the pieces in the exhibition, "Light can be a source of comfort or discomfort, as well as an aid or hindrance. When harnessed by humans, it becomes a powerful centerpiece in rituals and as decorum in the home." In this exhibition, Martinez‘s chandeliers and candelabras "exaggerate the history and attachment of light and decoration."

The recent craft in America program that highlighted the KCAI ceramics department on PBS will be screened again at 5:15 p.m. today in Epperson Auditorium on the KCAI campus. The event is free and open to the public.

If you plan to attend, please RSVP to Anne Canfield, acanfield@kcai.edu or 816-802-3426.

7 p.m., Epperson Auditorium

Tracy Templeton teaches printmaking at Southern Oregon University. Before joining the department in 2001, she taught at the University of Alberta, the University of Regina and Illinois State University.

Her work has been shown in Canada, the United States, Mexico, England, France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Poland, Russia, Japan and South Korea. Templeton has received several awards including honorary mention at the Seoul Print Biennial, third place in the Great Canadian Printmaking Competition and several purchase prizes.

Specializing in photographic etching, she has lectured extensively on the technique at Anchor Graphics, Chicago; Black Hills State University, South Dakota; and Lane Community College in Oregon; among others. Templeton's work chronicles several years among abandoned, rural homesteads where she grew up on the prairies.
 

"Creative Defiance: The Art of the Holocaust" by Milton Katz, Ph.D.
7 p.m. Oct. 22

KCAI Northland Campus for Special Programs
1801 N.W. Platte Rd., Ste. 275
Riverside, MO 64150

Art of the Holocaust demands answers to questions that arrest the heart and soul and challenge our basic assumptions about ourselves and the human experience.

Focusing primarily on the art produced by the prisoners of the ghettos and concentration camps from 1940–1945 under impossible conditions, often at the risk of their lives, Professor Milton S. Katz will present a slide lecture discussing 50 evocative works created by 25 international artists from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Germany, France, Holland, Italy and the Soviet Union.

In this lecture Dr. Katz explores how Holocaust art functions not only as witness but also as a means of spiritual and psychological resistance, an assertion of humanity and an affirmation of life.

Lectures are free and open to the public. Call 816-505-1443 by Oct. 16 to RSVP for the Oct. 22 lecture.

Pictured on the home page: "Dance of Death" by Felix Nussbaum (1944)

The Red Cross flu shot clini, originally planned for today, has been postponed. The new date will be posted on this calendar as soon as that information becomes available.

Chris Martin will speak at 7 p.m. Oct. 29 in Epperson Auditorium as part of the College's "Current Perspectives" lecture series.

Marinis an abstract painter who was born in 1954 in Washington, D.C. He lives and works in Brooklyn, N.Y. He received his B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in 1992 and attended Yale University from 1972 to 1975. He has exhibited work in solo shows in New York, Boston and Los Angeles.

Recent group shows have included "Abstract America" at the Saatchi Gallery in London, "Painting as Fact -- Fact as Fiction" at de Pury & Luxembourg in Zurich, Switzerland, and "The Painted World" at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, New York. Martin received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in 1990 and 1993. He also has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Pollack-Krasner Foundation and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is represented by Mitchell-Innes & Nash.