River Market Regional Exhibition and Underground Exhibition

RIVER MARKET REGIONAL EXHIBITION

The theme, “Sounds of the City” was selected to celebrate the 2017 designation of Kansas City as a music city by UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Artists are invited to interpret the theme; drawing on whatever musical, rhythmic, organic, staccato sound that inspires you.

Ms. Reece Hardy has selected the following artists for the exhibition:

Lynn Benson / Jane Booth / William Bowerman / Joe Bussell / Blake Carroll / Ruben Castillo / Kirk Decker / Valerie Doran Bashaw / P Ebel / Michael Allen Engstrom / Genevieve  Flynn / Tim Forcade / Rachelle Gardner-Roe / LeRoy Grubbs / Rita Guile / Kwanza Humphrey / Roy Inman / Don James / Angie Jennings / Amanda Jolley / Ada Koch / Ruth Kolker / Chris LaValley / Judith G. Levy / Teresa Mastro / Hugh Merrill / Kristin Powers Nowlin / Benjamin Parks / Shelly Pinto / Zig Priede / Jane Pronko / Stephen Proski / Robert Quackenbush / Katrina Revenaugh / Diane Salamon / Kyle Selley / Robert Slotterback / Sheron Smith / Jeff Smith / Terry Super / Linda Teeter / Fred Trease / Lee Walker / Desiree Warren / Jackie Warren / Terri Wheeler / Don Wilkison / Debbie Williams

Join KCAC at the opening Friday, July 13!

Juror:  Saralyn Reece Hardy
Marilyn Stokstad Director, Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas

Ms. Reece Hardy has more led the Spencer Museum of Art since 2005.  Prior to her arrival in Lawrence, she served as director of Museums and Visual Arts at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and director of the Salina Art Center in Salina, Kansas

UNDERGROUND EXHIBITION

EMILY CONNELL has a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute. Residencies: Red Star Studios KCMO, Kansas City Collection IV, Kunstraum KC, International Ceramics Studio in Kecskemet, Hungary, La Meridiana International School of Ceramics, Italy, and Charlotte Street Foundation Urban Culture Project, Artist Inc. Fellow. Awards include ArtsKC Inspiration Grant and Regina Brown Undergraduate Fellowship through the National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA).

KELLY LYNN DANIELS has a MFA from University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and a BFA from California State University Chico. Residencies include, Red Star Studios, KCMO, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, Maine, and Arch Contemporary Ceramics in Tiverton, RI. Awards include numerous assistantships and scholarships at Penland School of Crafts, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts as well as Mary M.C. H. Eccles Scholarship, Dean’s List, Jack Windsor Award for Ceramics, and Bernard Osher Foundation Scholarships.

CHRISTINA ERIVES has a MFA from Pennsylvania State University, MA and BA degrees from California State University Northridge. Her residencies include Foundation Resident at Red Star Studios, KCMO, Rasquache Residency, Cholula, Mexico, Short term Resident, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT, Arquetopia Ceramics Residency, Puebla, Mexico, and New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM.

TOMMY FRANK is currently studio manager at Belger Crane Yard Studios and coordinator of the Red Star Residency program. He has a Master of Fine Arts from Bowling Green State University, a Post-Baccalaureate certificate from University of Florida Gainesville, and a BFA from Asbury University. Residencies include Arrowmont School of Crafts, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Odyssey Center for the Ceramic Arts, Archie Bray Foundation, and St. Petersburg Clay Company. Awards include First Place and Best of Show at The Annual Northwest Ohio Community Art Exhibition, Clay Champion of the World Craftsman House Gallery and Studio, Artist Achievement and Promise Award, and Eagle Scout Award.

HIROMI IYODA has a MFA from University of Nebraska, Lincoln and a BFA from California State University Long Beach. Residencies include Red Star Studios, KCMO and Ox-Bow School of Art. Awards include James Tingey Visiting Artist Fellowship at Kendall College of Art and Design, Fellowships and Othmar Scholarship at University of Lincoln Nebraska, Finalist “57th” International Competition of Contemporary Ceramic Art in Faenza, Italy, Travel scholarship award to study in Spain and France.

WEN DAN LIN MFA from Arizona State University, BFA from KCAI. Residencies: Red Star Studio, KCMO, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, and International Ceramic Studio, Kecskemet, Hungary. Awards include Arizona Artist Guild Award, Susan Furina Memorial Scholarship, and Martin Wong Foundation Scholarship.

SARAH JEWELL OLSEN has a MFA from West Virginia University, BFA from University of Alaska Anchorage, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, and participated in the Jingdezhen Ceramics Institute Study Abroad Program in China. She is a resident at Red Star Studios, KCMO. Awards include Graduate Teaching Assistantships, Chautauqua Schools of Fine and Performing Arts Summer Scholarship, Dean’s Purchase Award, Dean’s List Scholarship, and USUAA Travel Grant.