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February First Friday Opening

February 3, 2023 | 5pm - 8pm

RESONANCE
Group Show by RE: Generation
February 2 - April 27, 2024

FEATURED ARTISTS
Donna Bachmann
Sharon Hunter-Putsch
Janet Kuemmerlein
Jane Pronko
Lynn Richardson
Catherine Vesce
Diana Werts
Megan Wyeth
Carol Zastoupil

Resonance signifies that the RE: Generation collective members energize one another as a sound that is deep and reverberating. Showing together has caused us to reflect on a decade of serving as each other’s sounding boards. Our common history is shared as artists. art educators and women of a certain age encourages relationships in our art as in our lives. The work we produce, however, is very distinct and unique to each individual in media, dimension, scale, and content including photography; painting; printmaking and digital archival pigment transfer; drawing; collage and fiber. The ability to evoke or suggest, ideas, memories and emotions gives resonance to our work. Both because of, and in spite of, recent tumultuous years of uncertainty - a pandemic, social and political unrest, we are committed more than ever to expressing ourselves through our art. More important than ever is optimism that can come from creating with mind, heart and hands, making ripples that become waves, making things that will last beyond us as our time marches on. We still have much to say. 

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WE ARE ENOUGH

A Group Exhibition

Curated by Harold Smith

Celebrating the strength, resilience and diversity of

Kansas City's Artistic Community

February 2 - April 26, 2024
Front Gallery

Featured Artists

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Aaron Scarbrough  |  Ada Koch  |  Adrianne Clayton  |  Anita Easterwood

Anna Goodwin  |  Anson DeOrnery  |  Art Miller  |  Avrion Jackson  |  BJ McBride

Brittany Noriega  |  Chico Sierra  |  Clarissa Knighten  |  Claude Harris III  |  Crissi Rice

Crystal Major |  Dean Kube  |  Debbie Scott Williams  |  Debra Smith  |  Derrick Schmidt

 Garry Noland  |  Hubbard Savage  |  Isaac Tapia  |  James Schiller  |  Jamie James

Jamie Platt  |  Jeff Tamblyn  |  JoAnna Termini  |  John C. Sutton III  

  Juanita Maxine Harris Gibson  |  Julie Denesha  |  Katherine Looney  |  Kelli Hearn

  Kevin Hopkins  |  Kwanza Humphrey  |  JT Daniels  |  Leonard Le'Doux, Jr.

Mark Cook  |  Michael Brantley  |  Nano Nore  |  Nikita Vonee  |  Onnissia Harries 

 Peregrine Honig  |  Pierre Owens  |  Raffaela Malazarte  |  Rodrigo Alvarez

 Ryan Wilks  |  Sue Moreno  |  Taylar Sanders  |  Theo Davis  |  Tj Templeton  |  Toni Gates 

Trey Loomis  |  Valentine Poindexter Orozco  |  Vivian Bluett  |  Wolfe Brack

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We Are Enough celebrates the strength, resilience, and diversity of Kansas City’s artistic community. 

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From the work of under-the-radar, self-taught artists who have survived the unsurvivable to college-educated artists who found recognition early and often and have immortalized themselves into the city’s creative consciousness, We Are Enough presents and explores answers to the age-old question of “What does it mean to be human?”

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As a curator, it is my hope that viewers will leave energized, invigorated, and with a newfound respect for this amazing artistic community that we live in.

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As a resident, it is my hope that this exhibition will remind us that Kansas City is a significant arts destination with creatives that explore the issues, push boundaries, and are dedicated to their craft.

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As an artist, it is my honor to work with all of these amazing individuals.

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As all of the above and a Kansas City native, I say “We Are Enough”!

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KCAI Black Student Union Presents: Family Ties

 February 2 - 24, 2024

Opie Gallery

This exhibition hosts a sample of the breadth and diversity of KCAI’s Black students and their various modes of expression. As a student union, our primary goal is to create space, connection, and cultural ties for students of African descent to uplift themselves and each other and, by extension, our school and cultural community. This exhibition features work by BSU members ranging from first-year students to alumni within the community. This is done as a means to reveal the vast web of narratives that encompass Blackness within our time. Grasping the extraordinary time of previous isolation and rest as a guide to self-reflection, we claim a new reality that embraces discovery and representation as the inherent need for creativity. Viewers will be allowed to witness the artist’s experiences, not as spectators peering into their lives, but as listeners to their testimonies. This exhibition will introduce the current members of the collective by exploring the self-portrait. The work in the exhibition examines how identity is portrayed through anecdotes, vocabulary, and exploration of material. 

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terrain

 wet plate photography

by megan karson

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January 6 - February 24, 2024

Leedy Underground Gallery II

Terrain is a collection of landscape images created using the Wet Plate Collodion method of photography. Invented in the 1850s, wet plate collodion is an entirely hands-on process that allows me to connect to each step. From mixing my own chemistry to utilizing my portable darkroom to sensitize and develop each image, I am deeply involved from start to finish. Much like the wet plate photographers that came before me, I travel with my large format wooden cameras, my darkroom and chemistry, and a passion for landscapes larger than I can imagine. Instead of a covered wagon, I travel in my 1979 Chevy camper van, creating images of the world around me that can be held and shared for hundreds of years.  

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Kari Heybrock, a local glass bead maker has been melting glass and creating “wearable” art jewelry for over 20 years in her Hype Park Studio. Kari uses colorful Venetion glass rods and ancient glass blowing techniques to create every bead used in her designs.

“I love being able to create jewelry that will be worn with the clothes people are actually wearing. I can make a great casual piece for a football jersey or a stunning bridal set. I try to keep a pretty tight but wide color pallet so one can seamlessly add to their collection over the years.”

Her other hats include raising four wildly creative, engaged and compassionate children. Playing tennis, coaching soccer and being married to an entrepreneur/artsit/physician. Life is an abundance of controlled chaos…just like creating art.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Since 1985, the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center has existed as a creative and visual arts venue for regional, national and international artists. We plan to continue this role within the Kansas City art community as we move forward, but have added preservation services of artists and their work to our mission.

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We have formed The Leedy Foundation, a non-profit 501c3. It is the wish of Jim Leedy to continue this tradition of creative innovation and artistic opportunity while servicing the need to preserve and promote artistic legacy and heritage.

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Your donation can help us achieve this goal!

SHOP AND SUPPORT

Regular Gallery and Shop Hours

Wednesday- Saturday | 11am - 5pm

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First Fridays | 5pm - 8pm