Subject: First Friday in the Galleries + Saturday Fall Fest at the Glass Annex 🎃

Fall Fest at the Belger Glass Annex

Fall Fest is this Saturday, October 7, from 11 am to 5 pm, at the Belger Glass Annex (1219 East 19th Street, Kansas City, MO)! Enjoy a free, family-friendly celebration of the season and area creatives that includes the following:

 

  • 11 am – 5 pm: Glassblowing and clay demonstrations

  • 11 am – 5 pm: Pumpkin patch with a colorful selection of glass pumpkins available for purchase

  • 11 am – 5pm: Art for sale by area glass artists including Shelby Allen, Ben Crawford, Katie Hogan, Cole Kennedy, Jessalyn Mailoa, Jeff Sidney, Lauryl Sidwell, Jake Valasek, and Hoseok Youn

  • 12 pm – 4pm: Julita’s Food Truck serves up fried chicken and other southern favorites.

  • 12pm – 4 pm: Maria the Mexican performs LIVE.

 

Enjoy the festivities, fun family art activities, and more!


We won't have a first Friday, October 6 glassblowing demonstration, but we'll see you on Saturday, October 7.

New Exhibitions

Mona Cliff, Untitled, Seedbeads, polyclay, leather, acrylic paint on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.

Time is a Circle: Generational Craft Practices, opens on First Friday, October 6 at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery, with a reception from 6 to 8pm. The exhibition 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 from October 6 through February 3, 2024.

Belger Glass Annex's very own Jessalyn Mailoa is the October Mug of the Month artist. Mailoa is a glass artist and graphic designer from Indonesia. Glass is a vehicle for her to explore the narrative that occupies the space between her identity and surroundings. Her glassware combines glassblowing and kilnworking techniques to create contrasting elements that engage with the senses of sight and touch. Mailoa's mugs are available for purchase online and at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery through October 31, 2023.


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.

On View at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery

Ben Galaday, Soft Fantasy (Shell), 2023. Plywood, foam, fabric, ceramic, silicone tubing. 23 x 23 x 3 in. Courtesy of the artist.

Ways to Train Songbirds: Sticky Gold Collective , an exhibition at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery includes work by five artists who are members of the Collective: Ben Galaday, Padyn Humble, Matt Mitros, Danni O’Brien, and Matthew Wicks. The artists question aspects of gender, orientation, and societal expectations through a mixed media approach to ceramics, while relieving the viewer of certain preconceived notions that come with “traditional” craftsmanship and material expectations embedded within the canon of ceramic art. This exhibition will remain on view through December 30, 2023.

Belger Arts’ Digital Debut artist Hoseok Youn debuts a collection of glass planters inspired by the shape, design, and delicate details of traditional goblets. He uses his knowledge of traditional techniques and design to create work that is uniquely his own. Youn’s glass planters are on view and available for purchase at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery through October 28, 2023. Hoseok Youn is a Glassblower at the Belger Glass Annex. 

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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