| | Ryan Kepler (left) and Kayla Ohlmer (right) working in the hotshop. | Artists from the Tulsa Glassblowing School will be in Kansas City to lead the next free glassblowing demonstration at the Belger Glass Annex (1219 E. 19th St., KCMO) on First Friday, November 3 from 6 to 8 pm. Ryan Kepler and Kayla Ohlmer will collaborate on an artwork that blends glassblowing and glass sculpting techniques.
Kepler aims to create curiosity and wonder by referencing nature, natural materials, and natural phenomena. Ohlmer’s work explores themes of perception, distortion, and vanity. | | | On View at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery | | (Clockwise) Work by Didem Mert, Josh Dickens, Nicole Aquillano, Chandra Beadleston, and Nicole Aquillano. | Belger Crane Yard Gallery presents Holidays at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery opening Friday, November 3 at 2011 Tracy Avenue, KCMO. Artists from across the country were invited to create artwork for the holiday season that make the perfect gifts for family and friends. Shoppers can choose from an array of unique ceramics, glass, metal, wood, and more. This year’s artists include Rachel Akin, Miguel Alaniz, Nicole Aquillano, Ian Bassett, Chandra Beadleston, Bekah Bliss, Conner Burns, Megan Chalifoux, Kelly Clark, Kate Clements, Josh Dickens, Chris Dufala, Genevieve Flynn, Bianka Groves, Pierce Haley, Katie Hogan, Brian Horsch, Nell Hull, Steph Kates, Cecilia Labora, Huey Lee, Lynn Maggard, Caroline Meek, Jacob Meer, Didem Mert, Marie Anine Møller, Kelsey Nagy, Brent Pafford, Ronan Kyle Peterson, Will Preman (Yum Yum Ceramics), Justin Rothshank, Melanie Sherman, Karel Sigtenhorst, Wanda Tyner, Desiree Warren, and more. For the most current list of participating artists please visit our website. | | | | For November’s Mug of the Month Belger studio member Paul Mallory invited artists Alexander Krohn and Kat Ramsey to collaborate on a series of mugs. Krohn threw the mugs on the wheel, Ramsey decorated them, and Mallory glazed them.
Krohn is a master potter who produces historical pottery based on finds from medieval Europe. He also enjoys fusing aspects of historical shape with modern function. Mallory is a long-time artist who teaches ceramics. His goal is to create functional ceramics that serve as touchstones of beauty. Ramsey is skilled across all mediums and nature is her biggest muse. For this series of mugs, she drew inspiration from the grasses of western Kansas.
These mugs will be available online and at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery on November 1 (10 am CST).
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 monthly subscription reserves your spot to receive a new mug every month before they’re made available to the public. | | | | Time is a Circle: Generational Craft Practices includes the work of Mona Cliff, Wansoo Kim, Hùng Lê, Jada Patterson, Jason Wang, and Aleah Washington. Throughout time craft practices have been passed from generation to generation, keeping traditions alive, preserving culture and history, while building communities through the making process. The six artists in the exhibition use craft traditions to carry on generational practices while unearthing aspects of their own histories, within a broader historical and artistic context. This exhibition will be on view at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery through February 3, 2024. | | | | | | | On View at the Belger Arts Center | | Terry Winters is a contemporary American painter and printmaker who is represented in depth in the Belger Collection. A native New Yorker, Winters graduated from Pratt Institute in 1971, focusing on painting. Through the 1970s, while studying nature, especially molecular level life forms, Winters honed his craft as a drawer and a painter until he was ready for his inaugural exhibition in 1982 at the prestigious Sonnabend Gallery. Later that same year he began his first foray into printmaking at Universal Limited Art Editions on Long Island. Winters became one of the leading printmakers in the United States. Over the years, Winters' paintings, drawings, and prints have been featured in major retrospectives at the Boston Museum of Fine Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition runs through January 6, 2024, at the Belger Arts Center. To schedule a group tour of this or any of our exhibitions, please call 816-474-7316 or email gallery@belgerarts.org. | | | For more information about exhibitions, classes, and programs, please visit our website. |
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