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6:00 pm
Thu May 16, 2013

The Art Fantastic

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When you watch a film like Star Wars or Harry Potter, the fantastical worlds they present seem to come alive on the screen with colorful planets and moving portraits. 

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10:34 am
Fri November 30, 2012

Prairie Village Home Houses Huge Art Collection

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If you're ever invited to the Prairie Village home of Linda and John "Topper" Johntz, be prepared for your jaw to drop.

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Central Standard
9:27 am
Tue September 18, 2012

Connecting To Visual Arts With PLUG Projects

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Artist Carrie Scanga makes an adjustment to a honey-colored tissue paper panel in PLUG Projects’ gallery space. Scanga has created a hive-like structure for the new exhibit, "BREATHE : The Emergent Colony."
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Carrie Scanga makes a final sweep of a golden canopy inspired by bee colonies. Scanga is working with four area artists to create an experimental, collaborative workspace.
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Carrie Scanga adjusts a paper panel in PLUG Projects’ gallery space.
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Ron Harrity, (from left) Carrie Scanga and Amy Kligman, prepare the floor for the installation.
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Amy Kligman, a co-curator and artist, drapes the floor with a drop cloth to protect delicate paper panels.
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Carrie Scanga laughs as she rolls extra panels.
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Ron Harrity, (from left) Carrie Scanga, and Amy Kligman peer up to get a better look at the way gallery lights flow the tissue paper honeycomb. Harrity traveled with Scanga from Portland, Maine, to help her install her work.
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Folded tissue paper structures imitate the matrix of hexagonal cells in beehives.
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Ron Harrity, (from left) Amy Kligman, Carrie Scanga, and Misha Kligman survey the series of panel before installing them on gallery walls.
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Soft folds of gold surround Carrie Scanga in the transformed space at PLUG Projects gallery.
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Misha Kligman (from left) and Caleb Taylor, co-curators and artists at PLUG Projects gently move the fragile panels before installing them on the gallery walls.
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Misha Kligman (from left) and Caleb Taylor, co-curators and artists at PLUG Projects measure and install the painted panels.
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A swarm of yellow paint hangs over Caleb Taylor as checks the overlap of a triptych of painted panels.
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Thin paper painted with honeyed hues line one wall of the gallery in alcoves between the honeycomb structures.
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Carrie Scanga discusses the flow of air with Caleb Taylor as they install the panels.
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Carrie Scanga takes a final look at the installation before finishing up on Sunday.
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As Ron Harrity, (from left) Misha Kligman, and Caleb Taylor install the final panels Carrie Scanga and area chef Craig Howard discuss Howard's role in the collaboration at the exhibition's opening Friday.
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Area chef Craig Howard will infuse the gallery with a honeyed scent and create honey candy for visitors to taste as they experience the exhibition opening on Friday.
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On this Tuesday’s Central Standard, plug into a conversation with the artists behind the new arts gallery PLUG Projects. We’ll discuss their efforts to bring more thought-provoking works to Kansas City, local fundraising initiatives and resources to help develop local art writing and critique.

Later in the hour, visiting artist Carrie Scanga talks about "BREATHE: The Emergent Colony," her new experimental, collaborative exhibition that's transforming PLUG's gallery space.

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1:34 pm
Thu June 21, 2012

Balloon Artist Takes On Microscopic Animals

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Ondine
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MISA
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Supernova II
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Balluminescence
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Balloon twister James Wiske whipped up this listener request: a peacock.
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An Up to Date listener asked balloon artist James Wiske ("The Amazing Christopher") to twist up John Brown. Done.
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KCUR midday announcer Kim Noble and her favorite balloon animal: a kitty.
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"Aaaarrgggghh, Snoopy! Catch the Red Baron or ye shall walk the plank!" Two other works of James Wiske with Up to Date senior producer [and pirate model] Stephen Steigman
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Willy Chyr is not your typical balloon artist.

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Central Standard
12:12 pm
Thu June 14, 2012

A Small Victory For Fun: Hammocks Outside The Kauffman Center

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Artist Jarrett Mellenbruch views the performing arts center from one of a dozen hammocks that make up his public art piece called "Float."
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Artist Marilyn Mahoney showing her public artwork called "Blueprint."
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From the inside of artist Marilyn Mahoney's "Blueprint."
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Artist Robert Goetz calls his piece "By Land, By Sea, by Air."
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Artist Robert Goetz's sculpture is near the corner of Central and 11th Street.
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Artist Sue Friesz's sculpture is outside the Grand Ballroom near 16th and Central.
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Artist Stewart Losee was inspired by the Colorado landscape when he created his piece.
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The installation at 10th and Central is called “Ice Storm" by artist Christa Dalien.
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The Crown Center Fountains may be off limits, but there's a hammock with your name on it downtown. 

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Central Standard
1:01 pm
Thu April 5, 2012

Creativity & Stealing

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People always ask artists “Where do you get your ideas?” Only the honest ones will answer, “I steal them."

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Central Standard
4:35 pm
Wed February 29, 2012

Geo-Pride Tattoos In Vogue

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Emily Farris's Missouri outline tattoo
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Kelly Kearns's wheat stalk tattoo
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Outer North wall of Freaks on Burlington
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Noah Moore, tattoo artist at Freak's on Burlington. Holding up his KC tattoo, a white line drawing representing the KCTV Radio Tower.
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By Ashley Ferguson

You don't have to hang out in Westport or walk along Mass Ave for long before you'll likely spot an elbow with an area code, a shoulder with a familiar skyline or an ankle with a certain state flower.

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