Category Archives: Exhibitions

Happy New Year! More resources for Charlotte Street Fellows exhibition

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Happy New Year! As we begin 2024 there is a lot in transition in the museum’s galleries. Installation work for our two upcoming exhibitions will mean that all of the first-floor galleries will be closed for a few weeks. It may seem a little quiet, but there is a LOT going on behind the scenes.

This is a good time to take a deeper dive into the Charlotte Street Fellows 2023 exhibition, which is open through April 14!

A review of the exhibition here has some additional information that you may find helpful: Review: Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award Exhibition – Sixty Inches From Center

Also, we were able to interview Stuart Hinds, Curator of Special Collections and Archives at the University Libraries at UMKC about Ruben Castillo’s research of the Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America. A transcript of that conversation is here: Interview with Stuart Hinds UMKC Libraries Special Collections GLAMA (PDF)

And if you would like to know more about Drew Shafer, there is a great article on KCUR about the importance of his activism (and it has more info from Stuart): Meet Drew Shafer, a Kansas City man behind the Midwest’s gay rights movement | KCUR – Kansas City news and NPR

Patty Caroll Wins BBA Photography Prize

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Berlin-Based BBA Gallery awards Patty Carroll 1st place in the the BBA Photography Prize 2023! Read prize announcement post on Facebook. 

Patty Carroll, Party’s Over, 2021, Archival inkjet print, Collection Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, 2023.007, Acquired with funds provided by the Barton P. and Mary D. Cohen Art Acquisition Endowment at the JCCC Foundation

Charlotte Street Fellows 2023 exhibition resources

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Sean Nash and SunYoung Park installations from the exhibition Charlotte Street Fellows · 2023, Nov. 17, 2023 – Apr. 14, 2024, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College. Photo: EG Schempf

The Charlotte Street Fellows 2023 exhibition is now open and looks amazing!

Additional resources for Sean Nash:

Additional resources for Ruben Castillo:

Additional resources for SunYoung Park:

  • An article about SunYoung that features quotes:

Honors: Sun Young Park

 

 

Nick Cave receives 2023 Race, Place & Diversity Award

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Nick Cave, artist, received the Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey 2023 Race, Place & Diversity (RPD) Award on Nov. 4, 2023. RPD gives out this award to individuals and organizations that further diversity and equity in their communities.

The Nerman Museum has two of Cave’s Soundsuits in its permanent collection, one of which was last on view during the museum’s Adorned exhibition.

Nick Cave (Left), Soundsuit, 2005, Mixed media, (Right) Nick Cave, Soundsuit, 2011, Mixed media, Collection Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Gift of Marti and Tony Oppenheimer and the Oppenheimer Brothers Foundation

 

Tom Jones, Ho-Chunk Artist

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There’s just a little more than a month left to see These Colors Will Not Run, an exhibition that highlights works by Indigenous artists, including Tom Jones (not the musical artist!)

There are many articles about Tom Jones’s work – first, his website: Photography | Tom Jones Ho-chunk. There is also another article in Hyperallergic: Tom Jones Zeroes in on Ho-Chunk Visibility.

Thinking about Veterans Day tomorrow, Nov. 11, 2023, it seems appropriate to focus on Jones’s work in the exhibition which was the source of inspiration for exhibition’s title, and which highlights Native peoples’ involvement in the U.S. Military: Watch this video about Tom Jones’ work

Learn more about Martine Gutierrez

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We are so thrilled to be able to highlight the PhotograpHER exhibition (on view through Nov 21 – see it before Thanksgiving) in recent tours, including focusing on works by Cara Romero, Wendy Red Star, and the inimitable Martine Gutierrez. Interested in learning more about Martine’s work? I found several resources about her work:

Demons and Deities: Martine Gutierrez’s Indigenous Inspired Iconography – Art21 Magazine

A Shape-Shifting Woman Plays All the Parts – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Martine Gutierrez’s “Indigenous Woman”: A Trans Latinx Artist’s High-Fashion Critique of Colonialism | The New Yorker

Adding this excellent scholarship by Reid Mansur on the Demons series here too:

Home (usc.edu)

Dyani White Hawk awarded MacArthur Fellowship

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Dyani White Hawk recently spoke at the Nerman Museum as a visiting artist in September. We were so thrilled to have her speak with JCCC, Haskell and KU students at this program, which happened right before she was awarded the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship!

Watch her full talk at the Nerman Museum here:

See a short video about the artist from the MacArthur Foundation:

Andrew McIlvaine: Resilience Story – Reach through walls (poem)

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Reach through walls

Mira, I want to show you something.
Let me tell you why you wear that sheathing.
Why you’re so hard to reach.
Why you weigh so much,
And it feels so hard to leave.

I know that you hear me speak,
I know that you feel me breathe.
I know that same feeling,
That one, where you feel unseen.

Sometimes I want to run,
But my feet feel like concrete.

Sometimes my mind feels so weak
And weeks go by
Before I find a new routine.

I remember being thirteen
Thinking I was unclean.

Like no matter how much
I scrubbed my skin,
The stain of generational pain,
Generations longing
For anything but the same,
Just wouldn’t leave my brain.

Old fate on repeat,
Like passing trains.
Stuck in a loop
A circle of blame.P

I hope I’m healing.
I tell my myself,
As the tears form
And begin to rain.

I hope these sacrifices are worth the gain.
I reach out to the ancestors
To voice my shame
Knowing they may be able to help,
But they’re too far away.

So, I turn to the images
That flow through my veins.
The ones that may help me explain
Why this shadow,
This reflection
is one and the same.

Mira, open your eyes,
I hear you say.
I believe you can move through walls
Try to break the chain.

— Andrew Mcilvaine