First Friday meet the artists, exhibition closings, and more!

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Belger Crane Yard Gallery Exhibitions

Nicole Woodard, Left to right: Figure III and Figure II, 2022. Ceramics, 36 x 9 x 7 in. and 36 x 12 x 8 in.

Exhibiting artists Summer Brooks and Nicole Woodard will give brief remarks on first Friday, August 5 at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery at 6:30pm. Meet the artists, learn about their work, and view GroundWork, now in its final weeks.

GroundWork includes work by current Artists in Residence: Summer Brooks, Elaine Buss, Eleanor Foy, Sun Young Park, Adams Puryear, and Nicole Woodard. For the six artists, the past year has been one of processing and navigating uncertainty, while persistently evolving, creatively thriving, and laying the “groundwork” for what’s to come. The exhibition continues through September 3 at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery (2011 Tracy Avenue, KCMO).

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Mary Anne Jordan, Red Alert, 2017. Hand dyed cotton, 82.5 x 85 in.

Imprint closes this week. Don't miss your chance to view ceramic works by Sarah Gross and fiber works by Mary Anne Jordan. Sarah Gross uses pattern and repetition to build complexity and engage the viewer’s eye. Her imprint is evident in the labor-intensive surface decoration of her vessels and in her installation titled Consumption, a 36-foot-long carpet of red-glazed ceramic tiles. Mary Anne Jordan uses nontraditional quilting processes to create hand-dyed, quilted, and stitched works. Creating pattern using bold colors and intensive hand-stitching, she allows her dyes to run and smear to reveal the artist’s imprint and a humanness to the work. The exhibition is on view through August 6, 2022 at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery (2011 Tracy Avenue, KCMO).

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Digital Debut artist Wesley Harvey combines kitsch and pop culture imagery with geometric patterns, floral designs, and gold to create elaborately decorated functional work. Through the lens of queer theory, Wesley addresses and questions what it means to be gay, queer, and cisgender. Wesley’s work is available online and at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery (2011 Tracy Ave., KCMO).

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August Special Offer

Now through the end of August, Belger Arts offers a 20% discount on Mugs of the Month by artists Pierce Haley, Paul Mallory, Carolyn Mimbs, Jada Patterson, and ChengOu Yu.

Learn about the Mug of the Month monthly subscription program by visiting our website.

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Belger Arts Center Exhibitions

Sharif Bey, Nazarite, 2020. Earthenware and mixed media, 15 x 11 in. Courtesy of Albertz Benda and Sharif Bey.

Don't miss your chance to view New Arrivals. This exhibition includes recent additions to the Belger Collection by local, national, and international artists and builds on the Collection’s educational focus and support of contemporary artists. Most of the sculptural and functional works were created in the last three years by emerging and established artists, with ceramics as the predominant medium. The exhibition closes August 6, 2022 at the Belger Arts Center (2100 Walnut St., KCMO).

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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 has been extended through January 7, 2023 at the Belger Arts Center (2100 Walnut St., KCMO).

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