Kleppe Visiting
Artist Lecture Series
The Kleppe Visiting Artist Series brings practicing artist and designers to the University of Central Missouri campus to discuss their work with students and the community.
Lectures take place on scheduled Mondays throughout the semester from 4pm – 5pm in Wood 100 on campus. Lectures are held in person with a virtual option via Zoom. Free Zoom registration is required.
Fall 2024 Schedule
Aug 26 - SAQA Panel Discussion
SAQA is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the art quilt: "a creative visual work that is layered and stitched or that references this form of stitched layered structure." Their vision is for the art quilt to be universally respected as a fine art medium. SAQA’s core values are excellence, innovation, integrity, and inclusion. Over the past 30 years, SAQA has grown into a dynamic and active community of over 4,000 artists, curators, collectors, and art professionals worldwide. With exhibitions, resources, publications, and membership opportunities, they seek to increase public appreciation for the art quilt and support members in their artistic and professional growth. Within the Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma region, there are small groups or “pods” that meet in person based on their geographic location. The pod meetings feature various outside speakers, workshops, panel discussions, or may be an unstructured casual event for showing and sharing artwork and building relationships.
Studio Art Quilts Association, INC, KS-MO-OK
Sep 2 - Labor Day
Sep 9 - Dr. Loren Whittaker (Art Appraisal)
Dr. Loren Whittaker is the founder and manager of Whittaker Fine Art Appraisals. She earned her PhD in the History of Art at the University of Kansas, where she received the Ted Johnson Interrelation of the Humanities Award, Department of Art History Academic Excellence Scholarship, and Marilyn Stokstad Award. Loren's mastery of of assessing art began with her dissertation that analyzed the condition, attribution, and provenance of a large, privately held collection of European paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and metalwork spanning from the early-fifteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries.
Loren has taught art history overseas and in the United States and currently teaches at the Kansas City Art Institute. She is a member of the College Art Association and Renaissance Society of America and serves on the Nominating Committee for the Italian Art Society.
https://www.whittakerfineartappraisals.com
Sep 16 Meridith Host (ceramics)
Meredith Host (she/her) received her BFA in Ceramics from Kansas City Art
Institute in 2001 and her MFA in Ceramics from The Ohio State University in
2008. She was named one of the 2011 Emerging Artists for NCECA and
Ceramics Monthly, and in 2016 was a Presenter at the Utilitarian Clay
Symposium. Meredith has spent time at numerous ceramic residencies including
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, ME, The Archie Bray
Foundation in Helena, MT, Dresdner Porzellan Manufactory in Dresden,
Germany, and West Virginia University through The Pottery Workshop in
Jingdezhen, China. Currently, Meredith lives in Kansas City, MO, teaches
workshops around the country, and is a founding member of the Kansas City
Urban Potters.
Sep 23 Amber Wyatt (Interior Design)
Amber Wyatt is an alum of the UCM Art & Design Interior Design program. She is currently a designer with a history of working in the themed entertainment & municipal aquatic industry.
Sep 30 - Katie Watson (Illustration)
Katie Watson, also known as Ann Drew, is a Lesbian Illustrator and Comic Artist based out of the American Southwest whose work focuses on adding a Queer lens to Pulp Erotica. All of her work looks as if it could have been made during the 1950-60 Pulp Art boom, challenging the rules and regulations of that time to comment on the ways that we as a society still limit LGBTQ+ storytelling and expression.
When Ann isn’t hunched over her computer whispering nonsensical things into her laptop she can be found annoying her cat, perfecting her finger skateboard flip kicks, and wrestling alligators on the weekends.
Oct 7 Kat Zahner (Art Conservation)
Oct 14 Jim Barcus (photography)
After working nearly 15 years as a staff photographer at The Kansas City Star, Jim Barcus is now a freelance photographer and filmmaker based Kansas City, MO. He enjoys photographing people because he says, the have "far more interesting stories than those I could ever make up." Barcus has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the Kansas City Art Institute
Oct 21 Marcie Miller Gross (drawing/Sculpture/installation)
Marcie Miler Gross makes site responsive sculpture, installations and drawings that are informed by the conditions of a place. Created through a visceral connection, her works of tactile materials reflect her interest in time and evidence of people on a place. Recent exhibitions include: SITE Seeing, Charlotte Street Foundation, Decade, Haw Contemporary, The Legacy of Joseph Beuys, Goethe Pop Up, Power of Place, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS. Other exhibitions include Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work is held in numerous corporate and private collections. Honors include: Charlotte Street Foundation Fellowship, MidAmerica/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Studios Inc. Residency,
Allied Arts and Craftsmanship Award, AIA / Kansas City and more recently Ucross Foundation Residency and Fellowship, Haystack Mountain School, and Constellation Studios Residency. Reviews and writings of her work include: Art in America, Sculpture, ID Magazine, Kansas City Star, Politiken, Copenhagen.
Miller Gross received a Master of Fine Arts at Cranbrook Academy of Art, and held teaching appointments at Kansas City Art Institute and University of Kansas. She is represented by Haw Contemporary.
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