Kansas City Art Institute
Type | Private, independent, four-year college |
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Established | 1885 (1885) |
Affiliation | National Association of Schools of Art and Design |
Academic affiliation | Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design |
Academic staff | 75 |
Students | 678 (Fall 2017)[1] |
Location | Kansas City , Missouri , US |
The Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) is a private, independent, four-year college of fine arts and design founded in 1885 in Kansas City, Missouri.
KCAI is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD) and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. It has approximately 75 faculty members and 700 students.
KCAI offers the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, in which students undertake a comprehensive liberal arts program with a studio major in animation, art history, ceramics, creative writing, digital filmmaking, digital media, fiber, graphic design, illustration, painting, photography and new media, printmaking, or sculpture.
Contents
1 History
2 Notable faculty
3 Notable alumni
4 References
5 External links
History
The school started in 1885 when art enthusiasts formed the "Sketch Club" with the purpose of "talking over art matters in general and to judge pictures." Meetings were originally in private homes and then moved to the Deardorf Building at 11th and Main in downtown Kansas City.
The club had its first exhibition in 1887 and 12 benefactors stepped forward to form the Kansas City Art Association and School of Design.
In 1927 Howard Vanderslice purchased the August R. Meyer residence, a Germanic castle entitled Marburg and its 8-acre (3.24 ha) estate at 44th and Warwick Boulevard adjacent to the planned Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. A Wight and Wight addition was added to the building. The residence was later renamed "Vanderslice Hall" and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places along with another building on the campus—Mineral Hall. The campus has since expanded to 15 acres (6.07 ha).
In 1935 painter Thomas Hart Benton left New York City to teach at the school. Among the artists Benton influenced as a teacher at KCAI were Frederic James, Margot Peet, Jackson Lee Nesbitt, Roger Medearis, Glenn Gant, and Delmer J. Yoakum.[2] Though Benton brought attention to the Art Institute, he was dismissed in 1941 after making disparaging references to, as he claimed, the excessive influence of homosexuals in the art world.[3]
In 1977, the Kansas City Renaissance Festival was founded as a benefit for the school, which it remained until sold to a for-profit company in 1999. In 1992 the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art opened on the west side of the campus.
On the occasion of its 130th anniversary in 2015, the Kansas City Art Institute received an anonymous donation of $25 million, one of the largest gifts ever to an American art school. The money will be used to bolster the school’s general endowment, improve and renovate its campus adjacent to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and, in the form of a challenge grant of $6 million, sharply increase the number of scholarships the school is able to give out.[4]
Notable faculty
Thomas Hart Benton – Leader of Regionalist art movement; KCAI teacher, 1935–1941
Harold Bruder – Painter
Elaine de Kooning – Painter, visiting critic
Dale Eldred – Sculptor, environmentalist
Ken Ferguson – Ceramist
Glenn Gant – Regionalist painter, student of Benton, KCAI teacher
Frederic James – Watercolor painter, KCAI teacher
Cyan Meeks – Filmmaker and video artist, KCAI teacher
Victor Papanek – UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization) designer/mediator; author, Design for the Real World; campaigned against unsafe design, advocate for design in the developing world
John Douglas Patrick – Painter, draughtsman, KCAI teacher 1909–36, member French Salon 1886–89, earned Bronze Medal 1889 Universal Exposition
Stephen Sidelinger – Professor of design
Notable alumni
Martin Arnold – Filmmaker
Eric Bransby – Muralist, Painter
Paul Briggs – Animator, storyboard artist- Nick Cave (performance artist)
Dan Christensen – Painter
Richard Corben – Comic book creator
John Steuart Curry – Painter
Marc Davis – Animator, imagineer
John de Martelly – Regionalist printmaker, KCAI printmaking teacher
Walt Disney – Animator, media entrepreneur (attended Saturday morning classes as a child)[5]
Karon Doherty - Ceramist
Angela Dufresne – Painter
Ellen Fullman – Inventor of Long String instrument
Jon Gnagy, – Nationally syndicated television art teacher
Michael Greathouse – Video artist
April Greiman – Graphic designer
Paul Jenkins (painter)[6]
Christian Holstad – Conceptual artist
Dennis Hopper – Actor, attended Saturday classes during high school
Suzanne Klotz – Painter, sculptor
Barry Kooser – Artist, Painter, and Animation Filmmaker
Arthur Kraft – Sculptor and Painter
Frank S. Land, founder of DeMolay [7]
Ronnie Landfield – Painter
Doris Lee – Painter
Jim Mahfood – Comic book and Graffiti artist
Mercedes Matter – Painter, co-founder of the New York Studio School
Louisa Matthiasdottir – Painter
Christina McPhee – New Media artist
Roger Medearis – Regionalist painter, student of Benton
Cyan Meeks – Video artist and filmmaker.
Robert Morris – Sculptor, performance and installation artist
Jackson Lee Nesbitt – Artist known for his regionalist etchings and lithographs, student of Benton
William F. Nolan – Screenwriter, original Twilight Zone co-author
Theo Parrish – Musician and DJ
Margot Peet – Painter, student of Benton
Chris Pitman - Musician
Sam Prekop – Photographer, musician with The Sea and Cake
Archer Prewitt – Illustrator, musician with The Sea and Cake and The Coctails
Robert Rauschenberg – Painter
Glen Rounds – Author and illustrator
Mikel Rouse – Musician with Tirez Tirez, composer who developed Totalism (music)
Eric Sall – Painter
Nelson Shanks – Painter
Marjorie Strider – Painter
Jim Suptic – Sculptor, musician
Akio Takamori – Ceramic artist
Robert Templeton (artist) – Painter
Christopher Willits – Musician, sound and multimedia artist
Delmer J. Yoakum – Artist, set designer/painter
Kathryn Zaremba, former Full House and Toothless star[8]
Arnie Zimmerman – Ceramicist
References
^ https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/subscriber-only/2017/12/01/largest-colleges-and-universities-in-kc.html
^ Under the Influence: The Students of Thomas Hart Benton. Marianne Berardi. The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art. 1993.
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^ Randy Kennedy (August 18, 2015), Kansas City Art Institute Receives $25 Million Donation New York Times.
^ Biography of Walt Disney, Film Producer – kchistory.org – Retrieved September 14, 2009 Archived April 25, 2016, at WebCite
^ Kenneth B.Sawyer, Pierre Restany The Paintings of Paul Jenkins, Two Cities, Paris, 1961, 125 p. text in english and in french
^ "Frank Sherman Land – kchistory.org – Retrieved September 14, 2009". kchistory.org. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
^ "Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center Broken Arrow, Oklahoma". www.brokenarrowpac.com. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
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