Resident Artist Exhibition Opens June 2 | | Gina Pisto, flowerpot VII, 2023. Stoneware, glaze, 54 x 18 x 18 inches. Image courtesy of the artist. | The Belger Crane Yard Gallery presents Milestones: Belger Arts’ Tenth Annual Resident Artist Exhibition, opening Friday, June 2, 2023, at 2011 Tracy Avenue, Kansas City, MO 64108. The exhibition includes work by current resident artists Cindy Leung, Sun Young Park, Gina Pisto, Adams Puryear, Meredith Smith, and Nicole Woodard. View the work and meet the artists at the opening reception from 6 to 8 pm.
This year Belger Arts celebrates a significant milestone: the tenth year of its Artists in Residence program. The program originated at Red Star Studios, a long-time Kansas City ceramics gallery and studio. After its closing, the program found a permanent home in May 2013 when Belger Crane Yard Studios opened. Belger Crane Yard Studios continues to host national and international artists through the program, providing ceramic artists the opportunity to expand their body of work or create a special project that may be outside of the scope of their routine studio practice. The group exhibition, with its range of styles, themes, and techniques, also marks a milestone for the six artists, as it is the culmination of their time in the residency program. The exhibition runs through September 2, 2023. | | | First Friday Glassblowing Demo | | Join us at the Belger Glass Annex (1219 East 19th St.) this First Friday, June 2 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm for a free glassblowing demonstration featuring the Belger Glass Annex glassblowing crew.
Watch as a team of glassblowers heat and shape hot glass into a work of art. This demonstration is an open-house-style event, so pop in for a little while or stay the entire time! | | | | Through the month of June, Belger Arts is offering 20% off the purchase of mugs made by five previous Mug of the Month artists: Eleanor Foy, Pierce Haley, Caroline Meek, Hunter Smith, and Nicole Woodard. Mugs make great gifts! Treat yourself, gift a friend, or get one or more for the dad in your life for Father’s Day.
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. | | | | | Randi Bachman a multidisciplinary artist based in Iowa City, IA, is the next Digital Debut artist. Bachman received her BFA in Ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute and will be working on her MFA at the Cranbrook Academy of Art beginning this fall. Her awards and recognitions include the Ken Ferguson Scholarship, the McKeown Special Project Award, Kansas City Art Institute Mentorship Award, and the Regina Brown Undergraduate Student Fellowship through the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. Bachman is interested in the authentic expression of experience, clay, fiber, and noise. Her work is available online and at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery through June 30, 2023. | | | | Sharif Bey, Star Child Series #1, 2019. Earthenware and mixed media 15 x 13 1⁄2 x 6 inches. Courtesy of the artist and albertz benda, New York and Los Angeles. | Inspired by modernism, functional pottery, Oceanic Art and Art of the African diaspora, Sharif Bey’s works investigate the cultural and political significance of adornment and the symbolic and formal properties of archetypal motifs. Ancestral Vestiges includes vessel-inspired mixed media works, mask-like sculptures, and large-scale power necklaces. These and other works in the exhibition reflect his continued exploration of functional and ritual objects, and the materiality of clay, metal, wood, and glass. This exhibition is on view at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery through August 5, 2023. To schedule a group tour, please call 816-474-7316 or email gallery@belgerarts.org. | | | | Terry Winters, A Light Zone Visible,1993. Alkyd on linen, 96 x 120 in. Courtesy the Belger Collection. | 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. His upcoming exhibition at the Belger Arts Center opens on first Friday March 3 and runs through August 5, 2023. Stay tuned to our website for more information. The exhibition runs through August 5, 2023 at the Belger Arts Center. To schedule a group tour, 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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