As the Xijing Men work a sign requesting silence is posted on the door of the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute.
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Chalk hieroglyphs created by members of the Xijing Men guide the students in a visual language project.
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Xijing Men artist Tsuyoshi Ozawa, of Japan, listens to evolving discussions as the KCAI arts students work.
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Will Meier, a student at the Kansas City Art Institute, creates a visual story with other students.
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Xijing Men artists (from left) Tsuyoshi Ozawa, of Japan, and Gimhongsok of Korea, discuss the visual languages they are creating during a language exercise.
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Rigged with a camera to document the process, Zach Hermann dashes to the other side of the room to capture the action.
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Kansas City Art Institute students Amber Thomas, (from left) and Sharon Gradischnig discuss their visual languages with Gimhongsok, of Korea.
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Xijing Men artist Chen Shaoxiong, of China, takes a closer look at the work of a student during an exercise.
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Xijing Men artist Chen Shaoxiong, of China, speaks with students as they work.
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Sharon Gradischnig attempts to interpret the work of other students.
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Xijing Men Collaborative artists Gimhongsok, of Korea, (from left) Chen Shaoxiong, of China, discusses the next activity for their students with Michael Schonhoff, assistant curator of the H&R Block Artspace as Tsuyoshi Ozawa, of Japan, looks on.
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Communicating with the aid of a drawing, Tsuyoshi Ozawa, of Japan, (from left) Will Meier, a student at the Kansas City Art Institute, Chen Shaoxiong, of China, discuss Japanese American artists as Gimhongsok, of Korea, speaks with another arts student.
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Xijing Men artists Gimhongsok, of Korea, (from left) and Tsuyoshi Ozawa, of Japan, introduce the next lesson.
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Xijing Men artists Gimhongsok, of Korea, laughs with arts students.
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Students teach a song to another student which they have to pass along to the next student.
Kansas City Art Institute students experienced cross-cultural communication through art during a Sunday workshop with visiting artists at the H&R Block Artspace. As part of their 1o-day residency in Kansas City, the Xijing Men led the students through activities designed to inspire them to use their skills as budding artists.
The historic Donaldson House in Kansas City, Mo. is slated for demolition on December 19. It's something that's been in the works for at least a decade.
A 1991 graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, Angela Dufresne paints loose figurative works that evoke works by seminal artists of 19th-century Europe and America, such as Thomas Cole and Frederick Church as well as French painters Jean Corot and Gustave Courbet. Dufresne manipulates idyllic scenes to rewrite history in her works.
Michael Wickerson's nine-panel bronze installation is near the front entrance at the South Branch Library in Kansas City, Kan.
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Michael Wickerson, associate professor and chair of sculpture at KCAI, stands in front of three bronze panels.
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There are six panels with vertical stacks of books "towering to the sky."
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A middle panel designed by Wickerson provides the perspective of looking down. It includes objects personal to Wickerson, like his grandfather's right-angle tool.
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Imagery on this middle panel "anticipates things going up." It was designed by KCAI student Keyan Alemifar.
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Wickeson describes this middle panel as "later in life, reflecting on things you know, like the golden mean." This imagery was conceived by KCAI student Lizzy Olson.
At the new South Branch Library in the Argentine district in Kansas City, Kan., nine 700-lb. bronze panels flank the entrance, some with images of vertical stacks of library books.
