Postcards from the Middle

Members: $32 | Public: $40 | Students: $16Members: $32 | Public: $40 | Students: $16

A postcard is a bond between place, sender, and recipient. In the space of a few inches, image and text combine to tell stories about people, relationships, environments, and experiences. We may be more likely to send postcards when far from home, but a postcard of home can open new, even strange ways of understanding our sense of place. This multi-part program examines the exhibition Strange & Familiar Places and invites you to create a series of photo postcards that address personal stories about place. Select images from each participant will be featured in a pop-up installation at the museum's Night/Shift event on May 15.

SCHEDULE:

Thursday, March 6 | 6–7:30 pm | Gallery Discussion & Project Introduction | Gallery L11 and Lens 2
April Watson (Senior Curator, Photography) leads a discussion of the new exhibition Stange & Familiar Places and Angie Jennings (President, Kansas City Society for Contemporary Photography) introduces the project. Please bring a postcard you have collected or received to share.

Thursday, March 6 – Monday, April 7 | Submission Window
Create new work and submit via an online portal.

*Thursday, April 17 | 6 – 7:15 pm Atkins Auditorium

Artists in Conversation: Rahim Fortune, Elise Kirk, and Holly Lynton

Bonus optional lecture .

Thursday, May 1 | 6 –7:30 pm | Workshop | Lens 2
Reconvene for the reveal of selected images by each participant and engage in a series of writing and storytelling exercises.

Thursday, May 15 | 5 – 9 pm | Pop-up installation at Night/Shift at the Nelson-Atkins
Celebrate the collective results at this free and free-form evening of creative encounters.