Reflections and Chemistry
WOW! What an amazing weekend! The untiring curiosity, gravitas, humor, intelligence and kindness of the visiting Art Practical team were simply inspiring. Patricia Maloney, Victoria Gannon, Christian L. Frock and Elyse Mallouk kept up an intense schedule to meet with as many institutions and artists as possible in their brief 3-day stay in Kansas City, … Read more
We: Art Practical +the Rocket Grantees
During Art Practical‘s recent visit, all current and previous Rocket Grantees were invited to Plug Projects for a discussion about the effect of the Rocket Grant program, experimental programming, and dynamics behind the art ecology of Kansas City. Patricia Maloney pointed out that one of the things she had noticed in meeting one on one … Read more
Discourse about Discourse
Dialogue about dialogue. That’s how we spent Thursday night, at the Art Practical Open Forum at KCAI. Patricia Maloney’s publication, an online forum based in the San Francisco Bay area, demonstrates that its possible to contribute in a meaningful way to the local critical dialogue while gaining national visibility and readership, given some committed contributors … Read more
Art Writing = Critical
Recently Plug hosted a meetup of writers, bloggers, artists, and editors to a casual open forum to discuss critical writing and its place in the Kansas City arts ecosystem. The meeting opened with an invitation to speak to the history of criticism in KC; venues and projects of the past, what is working already and what … Read more
Public Forum with Art Practical
LOOSED OF LIMITS AND IMAGINARY LINES. February 2nd, 2012, 7 PM, Epperson Auditorium at the Kansas City Art Institute. Forget about the concept of a regional aesthetic, an all-encompassing description of what artists in a particular place and time produce. Imagine instead a continuously evolving constellation of dialogues, shared interests, and overlapping approaches that, like … Read more
Critique Night II at PLUG Projects
PLUG PROJECTS 1613 Genessee Street Kansas City, MO 64102 Thursday, January 12, 2012 6-8pm Join us this Thursday for our second critique with Blair Schulman and our guest moderators Corey Antis and Sean Kelley. We will be looking at the work of Pat Alexander, Mark Cowardin and Neil Lawley. PLUG PROJECTS will be regularly hosting … Read more
On Hold Until 11:15 CST
We are waiting for some additional helium for the balloon. The electronics are in good shape and we should be launching around 11:15 CST.
