Gabe Feenan: Visiting Artist Talk and Glassblowing Demo | | Visiting Glass Artist Gabe Feenan is in Kansas City and Belger Arts is hosting the following free public events at the Belger Glass Annex (1219 E. 19th Street, KCMO): Artist talk: Thursday, October 6 from 6pm to 7pm Free Glassblowing Demo: Friday, October 7 from 6pm to 8pm
Both events will cover themes and techniques unique to his work. Feenan’s three-day, hands-on workshop (October 8 – 10) is sold out. If you’d like to put your name on the waiting list, please email khogan@belgerartscenter.org. Gabe Feenan is known around the world for his craftsmanship and technical ability in the hotshop. He has been a resident gaffer at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA since 2002, and has worked with countless glass artists to actualize their creative and conceptual visions. Feenan’s own artworks are distinct for their technically challenging compositions and elegant sculptural stacks of bold geometric forms and rich color. | | | Artist Talk at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery | | Peter Callas, Maquette: Barn Owl, 2018. Wood fired Stoneware, 12 x 13 x 4.5 in. Collection of John and Anna Seargeant. | Peter Callas: An Enduring Legacy is a comprehensive survey of the career of Peter Callas, an internationally renowned artist, and master of the Anagama kiln wood-firing process. Callas considers the Anagama kiln, “the centerpiece for experimentation that records the passage of time.” The exhibition showcases Callas’ experimentation and innovation over 30 years of creative production and includes expressionist ceramic sculptures, abstracted container forms, intimate tea bowls, and works on paper. Meet artist Peter Callas at the following free public programs at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery (2011 Tracy Ave., KCMO): First Friday Artist Reception: Friday, October 7, from 6pm to 8pm. Peter Callas will give brief remarks at 6:30pm. Artist Presentation: Saturday, October 8, from 2pm to 3pm.
| | | | Elaine Olafson Henry, (left to right) Missouri, 2017, Kansas, 2018. Each wood fired porcelain, 6 x 4 x 4 in. | 50 Bowls, 50 States, 50 Woodfires includes 50 porcelain bowls made by artist Elaine Olafson Henry. Each thrown bowl was made using the same amount of clay from the same clay block, the same building and shaping process, and the same glaze. Curious about the effects of firing circumstances in different environments, Henry sent a bowl to a ceramist in each of the 50 states to be woodfired. The resulting bowls are products of the types of wood and variety of kilns used, the length of firing, and temperature reached. The bowls will be presented with technical details, including names of wood firing team members, providing insights into each collaboration and the various nuances acquired during the firing process. Meet Elaine Olafson Henry at the first Friday artist reception on October 7 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery, where she will also give brief remarks at 6:30pm. | | | | Digital Debut Artist Mathew Meunier originally trained as a carpenter. He comes from a long line of skilled craftsmen and craftswomen. A chance encounter with a handmade pot in a friend's kitchen led him to the pottery studio and to a new way of working with his hands. Using small-batch earthenware clay, simple glaze ingredients, and a soda kiln, he creates pottery that he describes as “honest and human.” Meunier's work is available online and at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery (2011 Tracy Ave., KCMO) through October 31. | | | | October Mug of the Month artist Caroline Meek is a queer poet and potter from Kansas City, KS who views her practice as “cathartic and perspective-shifting." Her mugs are available online and in the gallery through October 31. Learn more about her by visiting her artist page.
You can purchase a Mug of the Month even if you don't have a subscription. This means you can buy a mug by an artist you love when they become available. However, having a Mug of the Month subscription reserves your spot to receive a new mug before they are offered for sale to the public. | | | | | Robert Stackhouse, Red Flyer, 1999, watercolor, 60 x 126 in. Photo Courtesy of the Belger Collection. | Passages includes more than 30 sculptures, prints, paintings, and drawings by contemporary art icon Robert Stackhouse, all from the Belger Collection. His two-dimensional artwork often documents large-scale outdoor sculptures that were created with his students and volunteers. Many of them were of a scale where visitors could enter and pass through the installations. Often A-frame wooden structures, the sculptures were literal passageways through art. Frequent imagery in Stackhouse’s output includes boats and ships (reflecting earthly and spiritual passages) and snakes (symbolic of regeneration and death). This exhibition continues through January 7, 2023 at the Belger Arts Center (2100 Walnut St., KCMO). | | | For more information about exhibitions, classes, and programs, please visit our website. |
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