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KCUR | Her Art: Who Does She Think She Is?
KCStudio: Sept/Oct 2018
New issue out now and wow--sit down, everybody--you'll need to spend some time with this magazine and your calendar because you do not want to miss a thing happening in KC. But--real talk--you may have to make some hard choices. It's a crazy season. Enjoy. A Stimulating Season for Music Lovers Concert to Come: Beethoven's... Continue Reading →
KCUR: Central Standard
Live from Swope Park! I joined Gina Kaufman and guests for a live broadcast of KCUR's Central Standard to talk all things Open Spaces. It's the first year for the festival, which opened today, and I think we've all had a difficult time wrapping our heads around the event(s). It's two months+ of art and... Continue Reading →
THITHERWARD ENDEAVOURING
Dawn DeDeaux's massive multipart installation juts out along Swope Park's Pavilion Drive, cresting over the hill and down into the woods. It was installed as part of Open Spaces, the new multi-art biennial festival that's happening all over Kansas City for the next two months. Inspired in part by Germany's documenta, the festival combines two... Continue Reading →
KCUR: Art in the Loop 2018
Continue Reading → Covering the arts is an incredible privilege, not least because these works--typically positive, often to promote beauty expressed in this world--break up an otherwise depressing news stream. Currently on kcur.org, this story's post falls between a piece covering the fatal shooting by police in KCMO on Thursday, June 14th and a piece... Continue Reading →
It’s a Free For All – A Guide to Summer
I love summer and one of the things I love most about summer is the prevalence of free, often outdoor, free, casual events and concerts, that are free, family friendly, and get us all out and mingling and making music and art as part of a community. Fo' free. Did I say free? (Though donations... Continue Reading →
KC Studio: Ryan Wilks’ “Here Where You Wish”
There's always more. Writing this piece was a lesson in hard editing, because no way could I pack in all the details and thoughtfulness that Wilks and their collaborators poured into this work. (I tried. I cut out hundreds of words. My editor cut 400 more.) I need to go back and revisit the installation... Continue Reading →
MUSIC•PAINTING•MUSIC
Panels for a display I made for the Music/Media Library.
KC Studio Jan/Feb 2018
Laura Kaminsky's As One at LOKC | Violist Christine Grossman | Boston Camerata's Play of Daniel with Friends of Chamber Music | Dance Theater of Harlem with Harriman-Jewell Series
PLAY ON: Music and Games
Panels I made for a display at the Music/Media Library.
Proust Eats a Sandwich 