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Ellen Carey (’75 printmaking)

In a nutshell, please tell us what you've discovered, when you discovered it and under what circumstances you discovered it.

In early January of 2009, I discovered Man Ray’s “hidden” signature in a very small (3” high x 2” wide) black and white photograph, a self-portrait titled Space Writing (1935). A brief description sees the artist as a blur and seated, facing the camera, drawing “in the air” with a penlight. The result is a photograph that contains white lines, looping shapes and abstract curlicues. However, when held up to a mirror, this photograph reveals his name as “man” (top) then “ray” (underneath) floating in the very composition that camouflages it, as a reversal and inversion, seen as “nam” and “yar” in the final print.

What sort of influence has Man Ray had on your work?

Affinities with Man Ray, especially his photograms, find delight in the unexpected and the drama of form. He used his unconscious and dream life, both entryways for making art, which I have done for many years, but it reaches a turning point in my story called, “The Dragonfly and The Rainbow,” which is about the twin losses of my mother and brother. My dream life mirrored the “real” world at that time, which also influenced my work. I made huge breakthroughs in my work and my thinking about life, about art, about love and loss, after I buried them, which emerged with my discovery of the Polaroid Pull in 1996.
Learn more.

Who are other influences?

After Man Ray, I would say the paintings of Jackson Pollock and the conceptual art and wall drawings of the late Sol LeWitt, whom I was fortunate enough to know. I wrote an essay for his MASS MoCA retrospective “100 Views” titled “Color Me Real”; this begins my writing in the tradition of artists-on-artists, seen in Donald Judd. Next was my Man Ray discovery and following essay What’s in a Frame? The “Space Writing” of Man Ray. Learn more.

Ellen Carey (’75 printmaking), “Dings & Shadows.”

And what caused you to decide to attend KCAI?

When I got there, I immediately loved the whole place. I explored materials and disciplines in freshman foundation, where I discovered I could not throw a pot, paint a picture, draw or sculpt. These soul-crushing realizations were offset with my love of printmaking, especially lithography, which I became somewhat accomplished at, but it was slow going! Photography was more my speed. I responded immediately to the “frame” and fell in love. KCAI had new darkrooms, so printing 10 hours a day was fun and normal. The printmaking department was on the first floor and photography upstairs, so I could move freely from one to the other. Freshman foundation also introduced me to color and Josef Albert’s color theory, which later informed my own work via photographic color theory. I found the projects challenging, especially my first one, which was to bring into class a square piece of dirt, which we drew for six weeks! The faculty definitely broke down any expectations of my preconceived notions of what art was in these Zen-like ways, making me think harder about the possibilities in art. Learn more.

What advice would you give to young artists?

Take full advantage of all there is — explore different mediums, explore materials and their meanings, take risks and don’t be afraid of failure — and remember, it is a discipline and takes practice, it is very much part of the “artist’s struggle,” which comes in a variety of ways. Immerse yourself in the culture of KCAI, take all the time you need to work in their studios, take courses and internships, visit as many museums as you can and take as many courses as you can with great teachers. Keep your mind open and a journal for yourself — and have good old-fashioned fun — dance, what dances we had at KCAI! — but read and write, cook with friends and laugh, travel and go out in the world, protect and nurture your gifts, protect your time, body, spirit and your mind. Find mentors. Eventually it will all fall together, like pieces in a puzzle. Find a way to take time out just for you, with a walk or a run or looking at nature, one of the best teachers around. And remember, the process of a life in art is as interesting and full of surprises as the final picture. I will say you’ll need your strength for this, both inner and outer resources. I would highly recommend developing a sense of humor with multiple coping mechanisms for rejection (I would buy flowers) coupled with good business sense and a tough hide. Mine is made of COR-TEN steel! Learn more.

Are there any updates to your original discovery?

Good question! I have found numerous other “portraits” in this photograph that are drawn with light. These penlight “selves,” I count three, have yet to be highlighted and announced, but they cue off his first “face” with dots for eyes and a circle, all outlined. They also form a triangle, a triage of self-expression, so this image packs a lot in a little. Quite astounding actually. It may be the first photograph to use text with a conscious, artistic intent, making it a precursor to conceptual art. As a self-portrait, it is multi-layered with meaning — sophisticated, outstanding and unique — an example of photography that is both illuminating and complex as it is stunningly elegant and simple. I have looked at thousands of photographs, and I have to say, this Man Ray is an exceptional and stellar work of art. Learn more.

For more information about Ellen Carey, visit her website at www.ellencarey.com.

Thank you to all alumni who have donated to the 2011 Art and Design Auction. If you’d like to participate, there is still time! Visit www.kcai.edu/alumni to fill out the online auction form. In order for your piece to be included in the auction, you’ll need to submit the form and your piece by May 20.

Why donate? Join more than 100 of your fellow alumni and faculty members who have donated to the auction for these reasons:

• To support the student scholarship fund. Ensure the best and brightest students have the opportunity to attend KCAI, no matter their financial circumstances.
• To expose your work to more than 600 art collectors, arts enthusiasts and professionals from the Kansas City area the night of the event.
• To receive a free ticket to the event and reduced ticket fees on additional tickets. The KCAI Art and Design Auction is one of the most anticipated biennial social events in the Kansas City area.

View some of the artwork that already has been donated.

Please note that pieces donated will not appear in the full-color catalog as the deadline for inclusion has passed. Instead, full-color images of the artwork will be displayed at the event near registration. With the environment in mind and in order to present the work in a more attractive way, the auction committee has decided not to publish a black and white addendum.

Seattle: May 16
Kansas City: Sept. 23-24 (Alumni Weekend)

Visit www.kcai.edu/alumni/alumni-gatherings for more information.

Plans are already well under way for the Fifth Annual Art of the Car Concours^®, which will take place June 26 on the KCAI campus. This event, a benefit for the KCAI scholarship fund, is growing in popularity and stature among vintage and classic collectors. The Concours is unique for its size and scale in having no formal judging and no classes of vehicles. The intention is to provide a wide range of very high-quality, original, vintage vehicles in an eclectic, informal setting, without the pressure of traditional Concours events. If you are interested in exhibiting a vehicle, volunteering or attending the event, visit www.artofthecarconcours.com.

If you haven’t registered for the online alumni directory, read the instructions below. The password-protected site is free and accessible only by KCAI alumni.

1. Contact the office of alumni relations for your unique registration number.
2. Log on to www.alumniconnections.com/kcai.
3. Click on the “Register now” link.
4. Enter your name in the registration boxes provided.
5. Select your name when it appears.
6. Enter the unique registration number you received from the office of alumni relations.
7. Click the validation button.
8. Create a user ID and password for all future use of the directory.

Once you have registered, you can begin updating your profile, revealing only the information you choose to share. Remember to keep your profile up to date! If you have any questions regarding the on-line directory, or do not wish to be included, contact the alumni relations office at alumni@kcai.edu.

We’re looking for submissions of creative writing to include as a regular feature in the alumni e-newsletter. The work may be fiction or non-fiction, and it must be 500 words or fewer. All submissions will appear on the KCAI alumni blog, and one will be highlighted in each issue of the e-newsletter. Send entries to alumni@kcai.edu.

View a writing submission by Anne Fewell (’62 painting), “The Master, R.V.R.” For more of her work, visit www.writingsbyannefewell.blogspot.com.

Which of these famous people did not attend KCAI? Be the first to answer correctly by e-mailing alumni@kcai.edu and win a prize from the treasure trove!
a)Dennis Hopper
b)Robert Rauschenberg
c)Gary Busey
d) Robert Morris

Thomas Barrow (’63 design), “Defender.”

Thomas Barrow (’63 design) exhibited selected works from throughout his career in “Thomas Barrow: A Restless Mind” last fall at the Joseph Bellows Gallery in La Jolla, Calif. The exhibition featured selections from Barrow’s career, from his Cancellation Series to his most recent work. Barrow is professor emeritus of photography at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the George Eastman House, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Photographic Arts, the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, Tucson, where his archive is also housed, and other major public and private collections.

Installation by Ming Fay (’67 sculpture) in “Boom Box.”

Ming Fay (’67 sculpture) exhibited work last month in “Boom Box,” a group exhibition presented by Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center and the Asian American Arts Centre at Abrazo Inferno Gallery in the Clemente Solo Velez Cultural Center, New York. Fay has exhibited at a number of institutions, including solo shows at the Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris, Ramopo College in New Jersey, Montalvo Gallery in California and group exhibitions at the National Academy Museum, Kohler Art Center in Wisconsin, Laumier Sculpture Park in Missouri, Zimmerli Museum in New Jersey, Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai, Hong Kong Museum of Art and International Artists’ Museum in Oregon. www.mingfay.com

Richard Notkin (’71 ceramics) exhibits work in a solo show entitled “Peace/War, Survival/Extinction: An Artist’s Plea for Sanity“ through May 30 at the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg, Fla. The Florida Holocaust Museum is dedicated to documenting not only the Holocaust of the mid-20th century in Europe, but also to documenting and protesting injustice and genocide worldwide since the end of World War II.

Richard Notkin (’71 ceramics), “Legacy.”

Terry Karson (’73 painting) exhibited compositions made of throwaway cardboard containers, such as milk cartons and Velveeta packaging, in a solo show entitled “East of West” in February and March at Visions West Gallery in Denver. The compositions were inspired from a recent trip to Turkey, where the artist’s interest in the tiled surfaces of the mosques sank into his thoughts and he began to play with the ideas of our throwaway culture contrasted with the ancient age-bearing tile work in Turkey.

Larry Fisher (’74 photography) has had a photo selected for permanent display at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. The photo was submited by the Associated Press and shows students from Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill., reacting to the O.J. Simpson verdict in 1995. The photo was nominated in 1995 for a Pulitzer Prize.

Eric Hansen (’74 ceramics) announces a benefit for survivors of Japan’s earthquake, tsunami and radiation, the “Tsunami Benefit Teabowls Show,” which will take place May 14 at Lab School in Washington, D.C. He invites KCAI alumni to participate by donating a teabowl. There is no entry fee, and all proceeds go to charitable nonprofit organizations. The deadline for submissions is May 12. For more information, contact Hansen at kansaspotter@gmail.com.

Joan Levy Hepburn (’76 painting) has opened Art at Murray Pond, a private nature preserve, at the artist’s home studio in Killingworth, Conn., where artists, writers, musicians, photographers and others can come to study. www.joanlevyartist.com

Dan Loewenstein (’76 sculpture) exhibited prints and sculpture in “Guiltboys, Leatherbirds, Boneheads and Other Bits” in April at the Pratt Gallery at Tashiro Kaplan Studios in Seattle. Loewenstein’s career spans 35 years, and includes performance art, installation and sculpture.

Peggy Nichols (’76 painting/printmaking) exhibited work in the show “Observance of the Tangible and Intangible” in February and March at the Santa Fe Art Colony Studio C in Los Angeles.

Akio Takamori (’76 ceramics) exhibited new work in a solo show entitled “Boys” in April at the James Harris Gallery in Seattle. The show consisted of two large-scale earthenware figures. Monumental in scale and personality, the two sculptures of nude boys have been placed on a catwalk. The installation takes into consideration the architectural space of the gallery by having the two boys parade down a centralized ramp. In Japanese art, the term Karako refers to the depiction of children whose function is to not only be a metaphor for youth but also act as a foil for age. The ideas of Karako have been an ongoing interest of the artist.

Akio Takamori (’76 ceramics), “Boys.”

Tom Maniaci (’78 design) is exhibiting “The Icons” through May at the Lido Gallery in Birmingham, Mich. The exhibit features pop portraits of some of the most iconic personalities of the 20th and 21st centuries. More information can be found at www.frameyourface.com.

Mikel Rouse (’79 painting) has recently had two gallery shows in New York focusing on his 200 plus moleskin journals documenting his travels around the world. The Lincoln Center will be archiving his art and music. Also an alumnus of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, he received an award from UMKC in April.

Mia Wicklund (’82 photography) is an adjunct faculty member at Columbia College in Chicago and teaches script supervision and producing in the film and video department. She won the Albert P. Weisman Award at the college this winter, which will provide funding to support the completion of her film project “Bananafesto.”

Debra Di Blasi (’85 painting) was interviewed by Forbes Magazine about her publishing company, Jaded Ibis Press, for the article “The 21st Century Novel: Jaded Ibis Sees a ‘Mashup.’” The article promptly went viral on Twitter, as it discusses the convergence of technology and literature, plus the marriage of literature, art and music in books. jadedibisproductions.com

Maria Creyts (’86 painting) exhibited new panoramic photos from sewn assemblages in a solo show entitled “neo PANOS” in April at Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City, Mo.

Amy Mack’s (’88 photo/video) piece “Barcode Sun” was aired Nov. 28 on "CBS Sunday Morning." Mack's painting and design work focuses on barcodes, which she interprets as "the common denominator of global consumerism." Her piece accompanied the show's segment about purchasing consumer warranties.

Angela Dufresne (’91 painting), “The lost fishing village of Diderot, Boucher and Lorraine.”

Angela Dufresne (’91 painting) received a 2011 Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Purchase Fund award. Her work will be included in the 2011 “Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards,” May 19 through June 12 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York. Dusfresne teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and previously taught at RISD. She also has taught at Princeton University, the Art Institute of Boston, Mass Art and Tyler School of Art. www.angeladufresne.com

Bernadette Esperanza Torres (’91 ceramics) will exhibit work in a three-person show entitled “Nature as Muse” in June at the Blue Gallery in Kansas City, Mo. www.bernadettetorres.com

Bernadette Esperanza Torres (’91 ceramics), "She Tried to Save Everyone."

Maren Kloppmann (’93 ceramics) participated in an invitational exhibition entitled “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” in April. The show featured the work of more than 100 national clay artists. Kloppmann’s submission was a 12-inch by 12-inch square serving platter that is designed to function also as a wall plate. Also, Kloppmann’s wall piece “Black Arch” was recently added to the permanent collection of the Minnesota Museum of American Art in Saint Paul. Black Arch was inspired by Ellsworth Kelly’s painting “Black Curve” and had been featured in the MMAA show “Ceramics Then/Ceramics Now” in October 2010 at the St. Paul Academy.

Christy Georg (’97 sculpture) has been awarded a 10-week residency at Boston Center for the Arts. Georg’s current work, “Nautical Body,” is inspired by the sea. She uses her exhaustive research of maritime history, culture and techniques, as well as her firsthand sailing experience, as inspiration for her artwork. During her residency, gGeorg will continue this theme by creating a large illustrative map that charts the evolution of the Boston Harbor from 1776 to the present. Her map also will incorporate personal stories with historical events, both of which will be given equal importance on her map. www.christygeorg.com

A book of 30 postcards by Nathan Fox (’97 illustration) entitled “Stay Tuned!” is available for purchase through Chronicle Books.

Linda Aili Schmeltz (’97 printmaking) is exhibiting work in a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, through June 14. She was the recipient of the Durfee Foundation Grant in January 2011, which made the show possible. www.ailischmeltz.com

Ethan Turpin (’97 sculpture) is working on a feature documentary project that addresses the California Condor Reintroduction Program. Also, his work currently is part of a group exhibition entitled “Lux ex Machina” through May 7 at Krowswork Gallery in Oakland, Calif. Also, Turpin will exhibit “Stereocollision,” an interactive Victorian-style parlor with a set of vintage-style stereocards and 3-D viewers, through July at the Kala Art Institute Gallery in Berkeley, Calif. The “Stereocollision” card set consists of text and images scanned from vintage stereographs, which Turpin digitally remixes and republishes. These contemporary scenes use history to comment on topics of globalization and power. Turpin spent October 2010 in residency at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, Calif., as part of the 2010 Visions from the New California Award. Selected from a pool of more than 300 visual artists state-wide, the six award recipients each received a one-month residency at one of the participating California programs in 2010 and a $4,000 unrestricted stipend. The artists and their work also will be featured in a widely distributed publication documenting their residency experiences at the host programs, and each will be invited to participate in a group exhibition featuring the work of a number of Visions artists. www.ethanturpin.com

Raissa Venables (’99 photography) recently showed her newest photographic works of opulent places in a solo exhibition entitled “Rendered Visible.” The work also was exhibited recently at Galerie Wagner + Partner in Berlin. A new catalog sponsored by British American Tobacco is available. A photograph by Venables is included in a group exhibition of the comprehensive UniCredit Art Collection entitled “Things are Queer” at the Galerie Rothamel in Frankfurt Main, Germany. Work by Venables also will be included in a group exhibition entitled “Herein!” at the DZ Art Bank Collection, Platz der Republik in Frankfurt Main.

Larry McAnany (’01 painting) exhibited 20 new sculptures in April at the Late Show Gallery in Kansas City, Mo.

Sean O’Connell (’01 sculpture) was recently awarded a year-long fellowship and artist-in-residency through the Archie Bray Foundation. He will have a solo exhibition of functional pottery based on the poetics of utility entitled “Anecdote of the Jar” in November at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester, N.Y. He will have another exhibition of functional pottery in December at the Red Lodge Clay Center in Red Lodge, Mont. www.seanoconnellpottery.com

Waseem Touma (’02 ceramics) exhibited sculpture work in “UN related: A Giant Cap Gun and White Discs” in December at Museum Gallery/Gallery Museum in Cincinnati. According to a review in Aequai, a Cincinnati-based e-journal, “Touma’s ability to adapt a single figure repetitively and yet keep each work fresh and vital is a remarkable accomplishment. In a day and age where too many contemporary artists adopt intellectually suspect rationales to justify their creative output, the simplicity of Touma’s exploration of form is a welcome reprieve.”

Work by Waseem Touma (’02 ceramics) in “UN related.”

Guy Michael Davis (’03 ceramics) recently held two exhibitions to highlight his residency at the Walbzrych Porcelain Factory. They were held in concurrence with the XXXIV International Ceramics Symposium “Porcelain Another Way.” The exhibitions were held at the Museum of Walbzrych and Ceramics and the Gallery of Glass in Wroclaw, both in Poland. More information can be found at www.guymichaeldavis.blogspot.com.

John Taylor (’03 printmaking) is a professor at Dallas and Tarrant County College, where he teaches drawing, two-dimensional design, art history and printmaking. He is exhibiting work in the M.F.A. show “PowerLines” at the Southeast Tarrant County Community College. Taylor is married with two children. johnalexandertaylor.blogspot.com

Scott Rosenberg (’05 ceramics) exhibited work with Michael Fujita (’05 ceramics) in “Strangely Familiar,” a two-person show that took place in March during the 2011 NCECA conference at the West Tampa Center for the Arts in Tampa, Fla. www.scottrosenberg.net

Larissa Uredi (’05 fiber), visual arts coordinator for the KC Fringe Festival, is overseeing a fundraiser through Kickstarter for the festival, which features KCAI alumni. Kickstarter is an online, all-or-nothing funding method where projects must be fully funded or no money changes hands. The goal for this project is $1,500 before 12:45 p.m. May 11. Donations are tax-deductible. For more information visit Kickstarter. Uredi also welcomes donations made through the festival website, www.kcfringe.org. Click “donate,” and in order to fund the visual arts aspect of the festival, include the description “visual arts fundraiser donation.”

Rena Wood (’06 fiber) is exhibiting work in a multi-media exhibition entitled “Honor Awards 2011” through May 19 at Art St. Louis. The exhibit includes work by 10 Award of Excellence recipients from Art Saint Louis’ 2010 juried exhibitions. Wood and Rachel (Euting) Akin (’99 ceramics) will exhibit work June through August created during their year-long residencies at the Craft Alliance in St. Louis.

Britt Adair (’09 digital filmmaking) exhibited work in April in “Broke with Matches,” a mixed-media group exhibition comprised of six artists from the Independent Studio Program at the Toronto School of Art. Each artist displayed an amalgamation of work completed during their eight-month residency. Learn more on Facebook.

Amelia Ishmael (’09 photography and new media/art history) delivered her paper “Black Metal in the White Tower: Metal’s Formless Presence in Contemporary Art” earlier this year at the Black Metal Theory Symposium in London. Ishmael is a 2011 graduate candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in art history, theory and criticism. More information can be found at blackmetaltheory.blogspot.com and www.ameliaishmael.com.

Calder Kamin ('09 ceramics and art history) and Julie Malen ('09 ceramics) will exhibit new work in a two-person show May 13 through June 10 in the Underground Gallery at the Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, Mo. Kamin and Malen will present their own bodies of work focusing on human nature and a new edition of their collaborative project the “Urban Still Life.” calderkamin.wordpress.com; www.juliemalen.com

Neoma Alt Thomas (’66 design) www.gallery319ames.com
Charles Birnbaum (’76 ceramics) www.charlesbirnbaum.com
Peggy Nichols (’76 painting/printmaking) web.mac.com/peggynichols1
Tom Maniaci (’78 design) www.frameyourface.com
Mark Estes (’79 photography) www.estesphoto.com
Edgar Cornish (’84 printmaking) www.edgarldavis.com
Shari Cornish (’88 fiber) www.sharicornish.com
Michal Sparks (’88 fiber) www.michalsparks.com
Mary Kay Botkins (’91 ceramics) www.botkinsclay.com
Jessica Kincaid (’92 fiber) www.jessicakincaid.com
Chris Kienke (’94 design) www.kienke.com
Christy Georg (’98 sculpture) www.christygeorg.com
Linda Lay (’08 painting) www.lindalay.com
Rhianna Weilert (’08 graphic design) www.polyform-design.com
Erin Hinz (’09 painting/art history) www.erinhinz.com
Nicole Rapp (’09 fiber) www.modelmayhem.com/NRappDesigns and Flickr
Andrew Lyles (‘10 painting) www.andrewlyles.com

Jack Lemon (’63 printmaking).

Call for applications for Landfall Institute
of Graphic Arts apprenticeships

KCAI and Landfall Press, based in Santa Fe, N.M., have announced the establishment of the Landfall Institute of Graphic Arts, which will offer six-month apprenticeships in Santa Fe.

“This is an exciting collaboration, and we are grateful to Jack Lemon, an alumnus with a long history of involvement with the Art Institute, for initiating this unique apprenticeship program,” said Kathleen Collins, president of the Kansas City Art Institute.

She noted that Lemon, who founded Landfall Press in 1970, graduated from KCAI in 1963 with a B.F.A. degree in printmaking. He went on to teach at the college and later became a benefactor and advocate for KCAI nationally and internationally, she said.

Lemon said the Landfall Institute of Graphic Arts will provide hands-on training for printers and other artists in graphic processes such as lithography, etching, serigraph, woodcut and digital printing.

“It will prepare participants for professional application of the skills they acquire during their apprenticeship,” Lemon said, noting that a maximum of four apprentices will be accepted for participation at any one time.

Apprentices will work directly with Lemon, who is a master printer, as well as with Steven Campbell, director of Landfall Press, and a variety of invited artists.

To be eligible for admission to the Landfall Institute of Graphic Arts, candidates must have a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent. KCAI graduates are eligible to apply, as are artists from throughout the United States and around the world who meet the eligibility requirement of a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent. Acceptance into the program is at the sole discretion of Landfall Press.

To apply for an apprenticeship, candidates must provide the Landfall Institute with:

• A completed application form, providing contact information
• Proof of a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent
  
• Three written recommendations from practicing artists within the field
  
• A digital portfolio of current work
  
• A statement of accomplishments and interest in the program
  
• A resume or curriculum vitae

A personal interview with Landfall staff is also required, accompanied by a selection of original works. Skype interviews may be accepted, but telephone or written applications, by themselves, will not be sufficient for acceptance to an apprenticeship, Lemon said.

The cost for a six-month apprenticeship is $9,600, payable to KCAI. Estimated costs for room and board are $1,500 per month, and participants are expected to provide for their own accommodations as well as travel to and from Santa Fe. If a participant is called to active military duty during an apprenticeship or required to withdraw for health reasons, the participant may request a refund in writing to Landfall Press with appropriate documentation. If approved, the refund will be made on a pro-rata basis.

Candidates will pay the cost for the six-month apprenticeship in two installments: One half is due at the beginning of the first three-month period, and, if a candidate does not continue for the second three-month period, no additional payment will be made. At the end of the first three months of an apprenticeship, Landfall staff will conduct a review to determine the viability of the apprentice’s continuation in the program.

Landfall Press is preeminent among a handful of atelier/publishers throughout the world. It provides a printmaking workshop environment that is collaborative and inventive for artists, printers and those in apprenticeship. Landfall Press has published more than 650 editions of prints to date, representing a wide variety of contemporary ideas and trends.”

Major retrospective exhibitions of Landfall Press productions have been held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. Artists in the Landfall stable include Christo, Philip Pearlstein, Robert Cottingham, Vernon Fisher, Terry Allen, Robert Arneson, Lesley Dill, Kara Walker and James Drake, to name only a few.

The KCAI fiber department and School for Continuing and Professional Studies have joined forces to provide an open studio opportunity for alumni of the fiber department. For a minimal fee you would have access to the fully equipped, recently renovated dye kitchen (now called the dye lab) and to the heat press and silk screen exposure unit, as well as use of various sizes of silk screens. Bring your dyes and materials, discuss your work with fellow alumni, reminisce and create. Standard auxiliaries will be available. Enrollment is limited to 10 people, and payment must be submitted to reserve your space.

Fiber Open Studio – Summer 2011
Facilitator: Debbie Barrett-Jones (’07 fiber)
Dates: 4 weeks, July 9 – July 31
Times: Saturdays, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. and Sundays, 1 – 5 p.m.
Cost: $125
Enrollment limited to: 10
Location: Main campus, fiber department
Enrollment andpPayment deadline: Monday, July 5

To enroll
Download enrollment form at www.kcai.edu/cps.
Completed enrollment forms can be mailed to:
Kansas City Art Institute
ATTN: CPS
4415 Warwick Blvd.
Kansas City, MO 64111

Walk-in enrollment
Main Campus, Mineral Hall
4430 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111

KCAI North Campus
1801 N.W. Platte Road, Suite 275
Riverside, MO 64150

Please contact the School for Continuing and Professional Studies with questions at 816-802-3333.

KCAI opened the Print Output Center, located in the Irving Building, in October 2010. The center is helping to centralize all printing applications on campus. While several output options are available, the Print Center specializes in large-format color and black-and-white photo-quality prints and graphic posters. Its services are available to students, faculty and staff. Alumni interested in using the output center should contact Aaron Blumenhein at ablumenhein@kcai.edu to arrange an appointment.

The Kansas City Art Institute, a four-year, independent, fully accredited college of art and design, has an immediate opening for an admissions counselor (by title, regional coordinator). Compensation is in the low 30s annually plus benefits including liberal holiday and vacation schedules.

Responsibilities include managing a recruiting territory, contributing to admissions marketing plan, representing KCAI at National Portfolio Days, advising students, visiting high schools, giving presentations to students, parents and teachers and portfolio reviews. Weekend work often required. Should be energetic and enthusiastic with effective communication/interpersonal skills and strong sense of professionalism.

Bachelor‘s degree is required, master’s preferred. Background in visual arts and/or art history is a necessity. Prior admissions experience is preferred. Valid driver’s license is required. Must be able to engage in extensive travel and work some weekends.

Open until filled. Email application letter, résumé, a list of three professional references we may contact and a separate philosophical statement on how to conduct a successful student portfolio review to hr@kcai.edu, or mail these materials to the address below. Applications without the philosophical statement will not be considered.

Kansas City Art Institute
Admissions Counselor Search c/o Human Resources
4415 Warwick Blvd.
Kansas City, MO 64111-1874

Kansas City Art Institute is an Equal Opportunity Employer