Mixed Media

What comes first - the medium or the message? Tell me a little about the work that is on view.

Definitely the message that I'm trying to convey and express. The medium comes second but plays an important process when achieving the point of view. Artwork: well, there are...

An exhibition of Women’s Voices, featuring six renown female artists – Laura Berman, Jane Booth, Teresa Dirks, Cheryl Eve Acosta, Katrina Revenaugh and Robin VanHoozer – who use color, shape and lines as a cultural currency to convey rich conversations and take risks. They...

Jessica Kincaid creates pictorial beaded textiles based on nature scenes and surrealist imagery. As her medium of choice, beading brings an abstract quality to concreate images. She describes the process of creating beaded textiles as “labor-intensive, so it’s a challenge to...

Monica Dixon’s work centers on “relationships between living bodies and the forms that protect and comfort them.” Comprised of images found in used fashion magazines, her hand-cut collages transform fragments of familiar-looking textures into irregular images. Why fashion...

Art from students at Blue Valley Middle School. 

Come see the work of collagist Coti Meier and illustrator Lauren Seider, two Kansas City artists whose different approaches to their art compliment each another. This joint exhibition can be seen at the Corinth Library until April 22. 

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What comes first – the medium or...

What comes first – the medium or the message? Tell me a little about the work that will be on view.

For my work, the medium and the message go hand in hand.

My work is made up of drawing and collage based on studies of everyday things, people and happenings. I work in...

Coco Rico's Artist Statement:

The memories I have collected from my childhood experiences with family and friends help me create symbolic images. Objects in my work signify a person, a place, a time, or a situation that (I personally) have gone through. I have hidden in my...

Lauren Seider is an illustrator and designer based in Kansas City. Her studio and illustrations tend to be full of light and vibrant color, and lots of yellow raincoats! In her practice, these things are all connected – manifesting the world of the Yellow Raincoat Society...

The paintings in this exhibit were created during Memories in the Making©, a program of the Alzheimer’s Association.  Though words may become difficult and many abilities fade, each person has a lifetime of experiences that can find expression through art. In Memories in the...

 What is the history of the Overland Park Historical Society?

The Overland Park Historical Society was organized on September 30, 1994 for the purpose of identifying and preserving the history of Overland Park and the surrounding area.

In September of 1998, the Society...

Sara Slaughter is a painter. For Slaughter, her role as an artist is "to bring some inspiration and beauty to people who might otherwise not have it." To understand Slaughter's practice more, we asked her a series of questions before the exhibition. The following are her...

​InterUrban ArtHouse (IUAH) is a non-profit organization creating a new hub for arts and culture in Johnson County, Kansas. IUAH’s mission is to enrich the cultural and economic vibrancy of Downtown Overland Park and surrounding community by creating a place where artists...

The Deaf Cultural Center’s mission is to provide educational and resourceful programs and activities to inspire a deeper appreciation and understanding of the lives of diverse deaf people, including their language, culture, experiences, achievements and contributions...

The JCDS Emerging Artists are a talented group of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The artists create original artwork independently, with support from staff, interns, professional mentors, and volunteer artists. The Emerging Artists earn income from...

For m.o.i. aka Minister of Information and Sarah Star Wilkison, message precedes the medium. Similar to storytellers, the father-daughter duo are interested foremost in the narrative of their ongoing exploration to make sense of the world we live. 

The Arts Asylum was created to provide space and assistance to artists of all varieties. This is primarily accomplished through the offering of space to both create and share at affordable rates. The Arts Asylum also offers the staff and planning necessary to execute all...

The Expressions Art Series, supported by The Whole Person, provides opportunities for artists with disabilities to overcome barriers that may keep them from showing their art in a professional setting, and allows them to share their perspectives and experiences with the...

This exhibition features mixed media works from the DCC and is made possible through a partnership with InterUrban ArtHouse located in downtown Overland Park, Kansas.

The JCDS Emerging Artists are a talented group of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This exhibition was made possible through a partnership with InterUrban ArtHouse, located in downtown Overland Park, Kansas.

Born in Sydney, Australia in 1938, Phillip Dizick moved to the United States in 1960 and settled in California. For roughly a decade he was involved in education as an art teacher for youth of all ages, sharing his knowledge on sculpting, ceramics, painting and drawing...

Exhibition features works by National Arts Honor Society members from Shawnee Mission East High School and is made possible through a partnership with InterUrban ArtHouse, located in downtown Overland Park, Kansas.

​Studio 7 features the textile and mixed media works by regional artists: Barbara Brackman, Georgann Eglinski, Linda Frost, Carol Gilham-Jones, Elnora Nokes and Deb Rowden. This exhibition was made possible through a partnership InterUrban ArtHouselocated in downtown Overland Park, Kansas.

Anthony Pack is a full-time artist living in Overland Park, KS. His 3-D mixed media creations are built by hand, entirely of recycled materials. Pack combs antique malls, thrift shops, and estate sales to find the cast-off items that will become his work.

After earning a...

References to domesticity, ceremonies, loss and personal narratives are just a few of the many elements you might find in  Jeff Tackett’s work. Tackett creates his conceptually-based installations that reference environments such as medical labs, wedding ceremonies and...

The ole adage “one man’s junk is another man’s treasure” is easily applied to local artist Ben Hawkins. He collects the tossed away and discarded, and transforms them into sculptures. Taking objects of the everyday and arranging them in whimsical forms, Hawkins’ assemblage...

We are especially pleased to highlight the work of members of The Wyandotte Art Association as they mark the celebration of their 50th Anniversary this year. This group of artists has been sharing their art and helping to educate residents of Wyandotte County since 1965. The...

Artist Aaron Sutton describes his work as “multi-cultural afro cosmic.” His formative years were exposed to sci-fi and horror and influenced by comics, video games and heavy metal artwork. “In 1986, I remember seeing the movie, Legend, going home and drawing the demon/devil...