GUILDit at Kemper Museum, 10/27

Join us on….. Thursday, 10/27, 12-1pm, at the Kemper Museum 4420 Warwick Blvd, Kansas City, MO 64111 Find out how our dynamic artists do what they do and more…. The Kemper Museum, 4420 Warwick Blvd, Kansas City, MO 64111, just West of the Nelson-Atkins Museum and The Kansas City Art Institute.

David Basse, Talks 8/25 @ Kemper

The Kansas City Star called David Basse, “The voice of Kansas City”. And following David’s performance, poet Maya Angelou exclaimed, “I love the soul that is your voice”. His career lunged in the 80’s with a five-night gig for seven years. In the 90s he worked in L.A., which led to producing a Grammy nominated

Jessica Paige, Talks 8/25 @ Kemper

Singer and songwriter Jessica Paige is a KC music gem that the nation is discovering. She made her national debut on American Idol’s Hollywood competition.Jessica developed those national connections to put together her first album “Sweet Nothings” with an amazing set of talented Nashville-based artists and producers. Locally she has appeared at the Uptown Theatre

Veteran Mark English has been one of the most awarded illustrators in US history. His unique style is easily recognizable in such publications as Time, Sports Illustrated, Redbook, Atlantic Monthly, and others. His client list includes IBM, U.S. Park Service, RCA, GE, Ford, GM and Hallmark. http://markenglishonline.com/ Mark teaches at KC’s Illustration Academy http://www.theillustrationacademy.com/ Join

Sterling Hundley is a mid-career illustrator who from 2006-08 was the most highly awarded illustrator in the US. His work has appeared regularly in the pages of Communication Arts and Print Magazine. His clients include Rolling Stone, the Grammys, GQ, Scholastic and The New York Times. http://www.sterlinghundley.com/ Sterling will be teaching early in July at KC’s

GUILDit at IUAH, June 16th

Join us on….. Thursday, 6/16, 12-1pm, at the InterUrban ArtHouse 8001 Conser #290, Overland Park, KS 66204 Find out how our dynamic artists do what they do and more….

Hunter Long, Talks 6/2 @ Kemper

Hunter Long is a composer, performer and producer. He has been awarded grants by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, Charlotte Street Foundation and ArtsKC. Hunter was selected as a composer for the Darmstadt International Summer Course for New Music, the neif-norf Composition Workshop, the Montreal Contemporary Music Lab, the Banff

Jill Downen, a KCAI Assistant Professor of Sculpture, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment of the Arts and a Cité International des Arts Residency in Paris.  Her work is in the permanent collections of Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Emerson Electric, Sprint Corporation, Southwest Illinois College and numerous private collections. She has

Adriane Herman was the Charlotte Street Foundation’s 2014-2015 National Studio Resident, and received a 2015 Rocket Grant for her “Freeing Throwers” collaboration with Mo Dickens. Herman has taught in Kansas City Art Institute’s Printmaking and Sculpture Departments, and is Associate Professor at Maine College of Art. Her work has been exhibited widely and collected by The Whitney Museum

Sara Nicole Glass, aka: MissConception is a dynamic Hip Hop singer, poetic wordsmith, event promoter and organizer, plus performing artist. She had made it to the coast and back, from doing Hip Hop in LA to organizing and overseeing artists for Midwest festivals, spinning a hoop of fire to competing in poetry slams. Winning ‘KC