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DOCUMENTARY 🚨📝

AUGUST 26, 2023

FILMED FROM 8:09 AM – 11:42 AM

KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI 🎥🎞️

🎨 #ARTISTDOCUMENTARY #BEHINDTHESCENES 🎥 #ARTSCHOOL #ARTSCHOOLJOURNEY #kansascityartinstitute

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baaa bye summer

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Come out this Friday, July 17th for the preview openings of two great shows: Cross Threaded, and The Sketchbook Project!

A cumulative 70+ artists in our two gallery spaces! Come on out and experience the work of all these artists!

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Moving through hills and valleys

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sat on canyon walls listening to the sun and moon argue

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2 days remaining…

The deadline to submit a proposal for our 2026 open call for exhibitions is Monday, December 1 at 11:59 pm.

We are seeking proposals for exhibitions to be hosted in Vulpes Bastille's 100-year-old galleries between May 2026 and March 2027.

Anyone can apply, including curators and groups of artists. We especially encourage submissions from students and emerging artists.

Please note, this call is intended for entire exhibitions, and artists are responsible for installing and deinstalling their work.

Proposal materials should be submitted through the online form on our website:

‼️ vulpesbastille.com/open-call (link in bio)

Please DM or email if you have any questions!
💌 vulpesbastille@gmail.com

📷 Documentation from "Earned? Trust? You?? Aight." — duo exhibition by Kevin Hopkins and Cole Vacek in February 2025 ❤️‍🔥

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Far and wide, we’re cooking up some ideas to bring alumni together physically and digitally. 💫

Click on our linktree to fill out the KCAI Alumni information update. Even if you're a recent graduate or have been in touch, please complete the form!

Stay tuned for more information on our page. We hope to hear from you soon ❤️

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📢📢📢 Calling all Social Practice alums! 📢📢📢

As part of the KCAI Alumni Weekend festivities, the Artspace is hosting an Open House on Saturday, Sept. 6, from 1:30–5 p.m. We’d love to connect with any and all Social Practice alums who might be in town—plus our friends who graduated in Community Arts and Service Learning (CASL) or Interdisciplinary Arts (INDA) ...

Stop by the Artspace during the Open House to meet Social Practice program coordinator Rebecca Blocksome, along with some current minors, and learn about the new partnership between the Artspace and Social Practice. You’ll also have the opportunity to make a button displaying your program and graduation year, so that you can easily identify and connect with other socially-minded alums! 🟠🟢🟣 And of course, we want to hear about what you’re up to these days, and how your social practice education has translated into the outside world ...

While you’re at the Artspace, don’t miss your chance to engage with the 2025 Kansas City Flatfile & Digitalfile exhibition, featuring more than 270 artists from the Kansas City region. Alumni are well-represented in the exhibition—including Social Practice alums Allegra Eccles (‘24), Muriel Hansen (‘19), Caroline Honas (‘22), Avery Jade (‘24), and Cole Vacek (‘24) 🎓🎓

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the circle of life in the context of, Richard the homegrown rooster

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Thank you @jacobkittilstad for these amazing photos from the @artspace_kcai 2025 Flatfile + Digitalfile!

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Sneak peek of a few works selected for my @artspace_kcai Flatfile + Digitalfile cabinet wall! See the entire curation, cabinet walls by other fantastic guest curators, and files from more than 250 artists this Friday, June 20.

Highlighted pieces by:
Taylar Sanders - @taylarstake
Payton Kelly - @paytonkellycreative
May Tveit - @maytveit
Cole Vacek - @coco107

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Spotlight on EARNED? TRUST? YOU?? AIGHT. by Cole Vacek and Kevin Hopkins. Closing reception tonight 6-9 PM 🔥

In Earned? Trust? You?? Aight. Kevin Hopkins and Cole Vacek collaborate to explore the nuances of memory’s degradation, the celebration of nostalgia, and the vulnerability of trust through painting, sculpture, and installation.

In Kevin's work, he reflects on a childhood concept he and his brothers called Dreaming—a shared moment when they would choose characters from their favorite shows, particularly Shonen anime, blend those personas with their own, and play-fight within the imagined worlds they collectively built and negotiated in a shared daydream. Through this recollection of childhood imagination, Hopkins also examines the eventual demise of the Dreaming practice as he and his siblings grappled with the expectations of masculinity and responsibility imposed on them within the context of a Lowcountry Black experience.

Cole's work delves into the processes of remembering, recalling, retaining, and clutching at memories, even as we inevitably lose the complete pages of our once-vivid stories. He suggests, however, that the unintentional loss of memory doesn't signify its total absence. Instead, memories become fragmented—charred, altered monuments we cling to—still capable of participating in acts of exchange.

Together, Kevin and Cole present vulnerable moments for viewers to contemplate, offering artifacts and dreams to explore and a catalyst for personal recollection. They ask themselves: What is worth preserving? What are the rules? How do I grow up? How do I stay young? How do I fulfill myself? How do I survive? And how do I help you do the same?

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