ARTSPEAK RADIO with The Rabbit Hole, Gen Goering, Charlotte Street Foundation-Patrick Alexander, & Chico Sierra

Maria talks with Deb Pettid owner/founder of The Rabbit Hole The World’s First Exploratorium, illustrator/muralist/scenic artist Gen Goering, multicisciplinary artist, Programming and Studio Residency at Charlotte Street Foundation Patrick Alexander, and poet Chico Sierra.

Deb Pettid-founder/owner of The Rabbit Hole
THE WORLD’S FIRST EXPLORASTORIUM / EX * PLOR * A * STOR * I * UM /
Crawl, walk, and climb through an evolving array of immersive storybook worlds and ever-changing galleries dedicated to the very best of children’s literature. Meet visiting authors and illustrators, learn about their work, view original book art both classic and contemporary, catch a show in the theater, visit the printing press and bindery, stop by the library, check out the archive, pen your own stories in the writing lab, work on special projects with resident authors and illustrators, browse the bookstore for a shared memory to take home.

STONE SOUP is a fundraiser for the Rabbit hOle, produced in collaboration with 323Clay, and The Bredin-Lee Gallery. Join us for an evening of good food, good fun, good art, and good music! Find out what’s next for the Rabbit hOle and how you can help make the world’s first Explor-a-Storium a reality!

The cost of $50/person includes a hand-forged stainless steel spoon and an artist made ceramic bowl of your choice filled with delicious soup created by some of KC’s best local chefs including Dan Swinney of Lidia’s KC, Todd Schulte of Genessee Royale, and Craig Howard of Howard’s Cafe and Grocery. You’ll also enjoy bread provided by Farm to Market Bread Co., beer from the Boulevard Brewing Company and KC Bier Company…and there will be wine as well!

Join us for an unforgettable evening! *this event is 18 and up
STONE SOUP : FILL A BOWL FOR THE RABBIT HOLE
The Rabbit hOle is a 501(c)3 charitable organization, all proceeds go to benefit our programming and our efforts to build the world’s first Explor-a-Storium!

Saturday, August 27, 2016 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (CDT)
The Bredin-Lee Gallery – 1729 McGee Street, Kansas City, MO 64108

THE RABBIT HOLE
WORKSHOP | CONCEPT SPACE | CAPITAL CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS
110 Southwest Blvd.
Kansas City, Missouri 64108
(816) 492-7915
[email protected]

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Gen Agers Goering is a freelance artist from Kansas City. As the head scenic artist of the Lyric Opera of Kansas City she leads paint crews on the implementation of backdrops as well as the surface treatment of all scenic elements. She is also a sculptor who does maquettes as well as large scale sculpting, specialty painting, custom fabrication, illustration, costuming and puppetry. She studied sculpture and fiber at the Art institute of Kansas City. Gen’s scenic art includes the Lyric Opera’s Tosca, Mikado, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Nixon in China, Flying Dutchman, Turandot, and Tech N9ne K.O. D. Tour.

www.gengworks.com

Patrick Alexander- Charlotte Street Foundation New residents kick off with artist ‘slide slam’
Wednesday, September 14, 7:00PM at La Esquina Gallery 1000 W 25th Street
[Kansas City, MO] Charlotte Street Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of 30 new artists to its year-long Studio Residency program and pleased to welcome back five residents from last year. The selection consists of six writers, eight performance-based artists, and 16 visual artists. The 2016/2017 residency period begins September, 2016. Charlotte Street Foundation’s Studio Residency Program provides free studios and rehearsal space in downtown, Kansas City, exhibition and mentorships opportunities, and related support as needed to artists of all disciplines.

To kick off the new studio residency term, the public is invited to meet the resident artists and learn about their work at a free “Studio Residents Slide Slam” Wednesday, September, 14th, 7:00PM at Charlotte Street’s La Esquina Gallery, 1000 W 25th Street. This fun, informal evening will feature 3-minute slide presentations by all 30 incoming studio resident artists—giving a fun introduction to the work, ideas, processes, and personalities of these diverse artists.

THE 2016-2017 CHARLOTTE STREET STUDIO RESIDENTS ARE:
VISUAL ARTISTS: Boi boy, Zoe Chressanthis, Monica Dixon, Molly Garrett, S.E. Nash, Neil Goss, Kathy Liao, Mark Raymer, Desiree Morales, Kim Lavonne, Carlos Ortiz-Gallo, Noel Morical, Benjamin Rosenthal, Shelby Burchett, and NDo (comprised of Jahaira Aguilar and Andrew Latner)
WRITERS: Z. Hall, Kevin King, James McNamara, Jen Harris, Flannery Cashill, Kim Riley
PERFORMING ARTISTS: Cody Kauhl, Ted King-Smith, Joseph Petrasek, Leo Gayden, Arnold
Young, Shiny Jets, Tori Lawrence, Amado Espinoza

ABOUT CHARLOTTE STREET’S STUDIO RESIDENCY PROGRAM
Charlotte Street Foundation’s competitive Studio Residency Program, established in 2004, advance Charlotte Street’s mission of challenging, nurturing, and empowering artists of exception vision by providing free studio space, rehearsal space, and related support for exceptional artists of all disciplines to develop their work, networks, and careers.Components of the program include an annual open studios weekend, exhibition and performance opportunities at Charlotte Street’s Paragraph Gallery & Project Space, studio visits and critiques, a mentorship program pairing residents with established artists and arts professionals from the community, and related career development support.

Studios are located on a previously vacant upper level floor of the Town Pavilion office building in downtown, Kansas City, MO: Town Pavilion, 1100 Walnut Street 6th floor. The studios include dedicated spaces for visual artists and writers, and access to shared rehearsal spaces for performing artists, including a dance stage with Marley floor—for performing artists.

STUDIO RESIDENCY SELECTION PROCESS
Through an annual open call for applications, visual artists, writers, and performing artists (composers/musicians, choreographers/dancers, theatre artists) are invited to apply for year- long Charlotte Street Studio Residencies, with terms beginning each September. First year residents are eligible to apply for a second year in the program, with their applications subjected to the same competitive review process as new applicants.
A rotating selection panel, comprised of regional and national artists and arts professionals, selects the residents through a rigorous, multi-phase application review and panel process. The selection panel for the 2016-17 residencies included: Libby Hanssen, performance critic for The Kansas City Star, KC Studio Magazine, and Metropolis; Erin Zona, artist, printmaking instructor at KCAI; Christopher Leitch, artist, illustrator/writer, Johnson County Library Community Relations Administrator, Lynnette Miranda, Charlotte Street 2016/17 curator-in- residence.

ABOUT CHARLOTTE STREET
For 19 years, Charlotte Street has challenged, nurtured, and empowered thousands of artists, distributed over $1.1 million in awards and grants to artists and their innovative projects, and connected individual artists to each other and to the greater Kansas City community. Charlotte Street – with its community of artists – strives to be a primary catalyst in making Kansas City a vibrant, creative metropolis, alive with collaboration, passion, ideas, and surprise.

For more information about Charlotte Street, its awards, programs, and initiatives, visit www.charlottestreet.org

Chico Sierra is a visual and performing artist living in Kansas City, MO. His paintings, photography, and sculpture can be found at various local galleries, including frequently the Mattie Rhodes Center. He is a member of the Latino Writer’s Collective and his forthcoming book of poetry, “Air Becomes Glass” is being published in August 2016 by Spartan Press. Sierra both performs original compositions and can be found reciting poetry to jazz music on any given night of the week. www.chicosierra.com.

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