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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS:  

Flora & Fauna
January 16 - April 3, 2010
Opening Reception Friday, January 15, 4-7-pm
Take a break from dull, wintry weather with this fun and colorful exhibition of artworks from the Albrecht-Kemper collection that feature images of plants and animals. Paintings, prints, photographs, and sculptures from a wide range of artists will delight visitors of all ages.

Holly Swangstu: Springtime in Winter
January 16 - April 3, 2010
Opening Reception Friday, January 15, 4-7-pm
Gallery Talk with the Artist: Sunday, February 7 at 1:30pm
Artist Holly Swangstu resides in Kansas City, Missouri. Much of her recent work has been focused in the area of textile arts. For her Albrecht-Kemper exhibition, she will be creating a site-specific installation in the museum's Esson Gallery. Her work has appeared in numerous solo and group shows. This will be her first site-specific solo installation. Combining a background in weaving with a painterly approach, she creates work that both reveals her life experiences and invites the viewers to connect more deeply with their own emotions and memories.
For more information see the article about Holly and her process on http://ereview.org/

Article link page: http://ereview.org/2010/02/14/brightness-warmth-enveloping/

Gallery Talk with the Artist: Sunday, February 28 at 3:00pm--CANCELLED
Holly Swangstu will speak about her site-specific fabric installation "Springtime in Winter". Swangstu will discuss her inspiration for the work, her technical methods, and the installation process.

Regional High School Exhibition
February 28 - April 1, 2010
Opening Reception Sunday, February 28, 1-4 pm
     The mission of the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art is to bring the excitement of American visual arts to the region through education, temporary exhibitions, the permanent collection, and the nurturing of regional artists. What better way to nurture young local talent than through exposure in a museum-sponsored juried art competition? The Regional High School Art Exhibition is an invitational exhibition, with over 75 schools from Northwest Missouri and Northeast Kansas asked to participate.
     Artworks are divided into nine categories based on media and/or technique. After a panel jury selection, First, Second, and Third Place, plus Honorable Mentions, are awarded in each category. Make sure you don't miss this opportunity to see the incredible and innovative work of our future artists.

     For more information, or If your school is interested in participating in this annual exhibition, please contact Jennifer Zeller, Curator of Education, at jzeller@albrecht-kemper.org or 816-233-7003.
2010 Official Entry Packet

2010 Participating Students
2010 Participating Schools and Instructors
2010 Award Winners
 

Fight for the Right: The Women's Suffrage Movement March 2 - April 3, 2010
Join us in celebrating Women's History Month by visiting this documentary exhibit. Explore this era of US history by learning about women such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and other leaders of the movement, which culminated in 1920 with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.


Saint Joseph Women Artists
from the Albrecht-Kemper Collection
on view in the Barclay Gallery
For this special exhibition, the Albrecht-Kemper staff has put together drawings, paintings, photographs, and prints from the museum's permanent collection. Artists included in the exhibition are Jackie Bishop, Louise Bradley, Susan Fay, Margaret Kessberger, Myrna “Pud” Ransdell, Robin VanHoozer, Dorothy May Wenz, and Megan Wyeth.. Be sure to visit these artworks that you may have never seen before!

LOOKING FORWARD:
(Please note dates and times may change)

Revelation of Figure and Landscape
Sculpture by Jim Brothers and Lori Norwood, Painting by Louis Copt,
Photography by Dan Coburn
April 10 - June 6, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, April 9, 4-7 pm

Celebrating 125 Years of the Kansas City Art Institute:
Works by Alumni From the Albrecht-Kemper Collection

June 12 - September 6, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, June 11, 4-7 pm

The European Connection
June 12 - September 6, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, June 11, 4-7 pm
The Albrecht-Kemper is known for its collection of artworks by American artists. So, be sure to make time to view this exhibition of rarely displayed European works from the museum's collection. The exhibition is mainly comprised of paintings and prints by artists such as Max Beckmann, Rosa Bonheur, Salvador Dali, Kathe Kollwitz, Goya, Manet, Rembrandt, Anders Zorn, and several others. Also included are two volumes of William Hogarth.
 

 
RECENT EXHIBITIONS:
 

Annual Membership Exhibition
January 16  - February 21, 2010
Opening Reception Friday, January 15, 4-7-pm. Awards Ceremony at 6pm.
The Membership Exhibition showcases the talents of museum members. It is open to current members of the Museum. Each member may submit two original works not previously exhibited at the museum. Artworks are divided into seven categories. The exhibition is then judged and awards presented in each category. Click here for official entry form. (pdf)
If you have trouble viewing entry form, please call 816-233-7003 to have one mailed to you.

2010 List of Participating Member Artists
2010 Membership Exhibition Award Winners

Participating Member Artists:
Please remember to pick up your artworks after the close of the exhibition. Note we have added an additional day for your convenience since the weather forecast for this weekend is for more snow.
Artwork Pick-Up:
Sunday, February 21  1-4pm
Monday, February 22  10am-4pm
Tuesday, February 23 10am-4pm
Wednesday, February 23 10am-4pm

November 21, 2009 - January 11, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, November 20, 2009, 4-7pm

Recent Work from the
Northwest Missouri State University Art Faculty
  
Participating Artists:
       Christopher Graves
       Laura Kukkee
       Philip Laber
       Armin Mϋhsam
       Kim Spradling
       Craig Warner
       Glenn Williams

The artworks in the exhibition now on view at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, by the seven Art Faculty members at Northwest Missouri State University, represent multiple disciplines. These accomplished and international artists, from Canada, Germany and across the United States, are also educators preparing students as future professional artists or other careers in the arts.

For this exhibition, Professor Kim Spradling (PhD, art education) is exhibiting two-dimensional pieces of handmade paper in a nonobjective style. The work of Professor Philip Laber (MFA, photography and printmaking) includes prints utilizing digital photography, engraving, and etching, as well as acrylic paintings. In sculpture, Professor Glenn Williams (MFA, sculpture) has contributed large constructions of wood and welded steel. These are complemented by small abstract ceramic sculptures by Professor Laura Kukkee (MFA, ceramics). Professor Christopher Graves, graphic design (MFA, graphic design and painting), is exhibiting paintings and drawings where his “expressionistic mode of thinking and working” results in artworks exploring opposites: real, unreal; spiritual, physical; good, evil. Professor Craig Warner’s graphic design projects include digital printed works. Acrylic landscape paintings by Professor Armin Mϋhsam demonstrate his theme of the “relationship between the natural and the human-built,” where technology has rendered the land virtually “uninhabitable”.
Northwest Missouri State University:  Home Page   Art Department   Art Faculty Bios
Exhibition Press Release


November 21, 2009 - January 11, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, November 20, 2009, 4-7pm
Infinite Perspectives: Prints by Bruce McCombs from the Albrecht-Kemper Collection
Bruce McCombs (American, born 1943) captures the indulgences and exuberance of capitalism on a grand scale. From eclectic urban architecture to frenzied foot traffic, the artist expresses nostalgia for the consumer culture of early to mid-20th-century America; yet McCombs says that he tries to be more eccentric than nostalgic. He records the minutiae of daily life with a rigor that turns the mundane into a spectacle. His combination of extraordinary detail, extreme perspective, and immense scale also gives the work a topographical quality. Although McCombs found success as a printmaker and exhibited his work both nationally and internationally, he felt burdened by the complexity of etching and the time it took to complete a plate. He was primarily a printmaker until a sabbatical in 1982, after which he turned to illustration and watercolor. The prints in the Albrecht-Kemper Collection reflect McCombs’s oeuvre through the 1980s.
Bruce McCombs Exhibition Brochure  (pdf)
      
Self-Portrait, 1988      Arcade, 1984         Marathon, 1981         Fossils, 1987          Parade, 1985
Photography by Phillip Geller
 

   

     


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