Emily & Todd Voth Artspace (2026)

25/03/2026

Selections from the Collection: Identity Over Time
March 6 – April 3, 2026

Emily & Todd Voth Artspace
Kansas City Art institute
16 East 43rd Street
Kansas City, MO 64111

The Artspace is pleased to share Selections from the Collection: Identity Over Time.
Organized by the Artspace Jesse Howard Fellow Melissa Wolf (Sculpture ‘24) for the Artspace Cohen Resource Room, Identity Over Times features a selection of prints from the collection of the Kansas City Art Institute alongside works by invited local artists Maria Vasquez Boyd (KCAI Painting ‘91) and Isaac Tapia (KCAI 2010-2012).

The Popular Graphic Workshop refers to a famous Mexican printmaking collective, founded in 1937 and known for producing politically and socially charged prints from woodcuts. The collective educated the public on revolutionary causes and daily Mexican life while at the same time influencing global political art movements. All 85 historical prints portraying a series of events from the Mexican revolution are included in this exhibition. These works extend conversations around landscape beyond physical geography, presenting it as a site of memory, resistance, and social formation. By foregrounding how political forces are inscribed onto land and bodies, the exhibition contributes to a broader understanding of history as an archive of lived experience sustained through visual culture.

Hear more about this exhibition and other upcoming events from Melissa Wolf in a recent radio feature on kkfi.org: Artspeak Radio hosted by Maria Vasquez Boyd.

This exhibition is open to the public by appointment through April 3, 2026.

Images: Del Taller de Grafica Popular (Popular Graphics Workshop), Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana (Prints of the Mexican Revolution), 1947, suite of 84 linocut engraving prints and portfolio cover printed and published by Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City, ed. 75/500, from the Collection of the Kansas City Art Institute. Photos courtesy of the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Marta Adams Papers, circa 1914-circa 1991.

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11/10/2025

2025 Kansas City Flatfile + Digitalfile
June 20 – September 27, 2025

Salon Wall – September | East + North
Selections by Emily & Todd Voth Artspace Staff

Aztec (JCDS)
Beverly Ahern
Barry Anderson
Corey Antis
Evan Barclay
Debbie Barrett-Jones
Laura Crehuet Berman
Sherry Cromwell-Lacy
Jackson Daughety
Eric Dodson
Allegra Eccles
Nate Fors
Rachelle Gardner-Roe
Lee Giesler (JCDS)
Rashawn Griffin
Muriel Hansen
Bobby Haulotte
Morgan Hobbs
Kathryn Hogan
Kate Horvat
Andrew Johnson
Mary Anne Jordan
Minister of Information (Don Wilkison)
Joseph Kim
Misha Kligman
Justin Korver
Samantha Krukowski
Hùng Lê
Marilyn Mahoney
Meranda McDermott
Jarrett Mellenbruch
Grant Miller
Sean Nash
Babs O’Halloran
Sally Paul
William Plummer
Riley Rouse
Char Schwall
Nathan Troppito (Imagine That!)
Courtney Whitacker
Casey Whittier + Andrew Castañeda + Erin Conyers
Megan Wyeth

Images courtesy of the artists:

1-6. Artspace staff guest-curated Salon Wall, exhibition views.
7. Debbie Barrett-Jones, “Memory of the Barn, Study 18,” hand-dyed, handwoven textile, deconstructed.
8. Morgan Hobbs, “Site,” 2025, Sharpie on paper.
9. Babs O’Halloran, “1973-2022,” 2022, screenprint, watercolor, acrylic paint.
10. Minister of Information (Don Wilkison), “circus,” 2024, color pencil on Bristol.

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11/10/2025

2025 Kansas City Flatfile + Digitalfile
June 20 – September 27, 2025

The Artspace would like to acknowledge our final round of guest curators of our September salon and cabinet walls, including our alumni and student staff, and lead preparator Muriel Hansen, who provided critical installation support throughout the exhibition and who accepted an invitation to participate in a September salon wall for 2025 Kansas City Flatfile + Digitalfile with our full-time staff.

Emalee Ball
Rebecca Blocksome
Marcus Cain
Olivia Fitzpatrick
Addi Gibson
Muriel Hansen
Raechell Smith
Magx Wanner
Melissa Wolf

Images: Artspace student and alumni staff curating and installing their salon wall.

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11/10/2025

2025 Kansas City Flatfile + Digitalfile
June 20 – September 27, 2025

Salon Wall – September | West + South
Selections by KCAI Gallery Club Students

Mark Allen
Summer Brooks
Elaine Buss
Marcus Cain
Jonah Criswell
Jackson Daughety
Paige Davis
Rie Egawa
Xiao Faria daCunha
Nathan Ford
Elise Gagliardi
Joleen Goff
Mark Hennick
Bobby Haulotte
Avery Jade
Misha Kligman
Nicole Ma**er
Yuxiao Mu
Kadie Nugent
Paulina Otero
Adams Puryear
Rebecca Riden
Cydney Ross
Aaron Storck
Tim Stone
David Terrill
Cole Vacek
Melissa Wolf
James Woodfill
Nettie Zan

Images courtesy of the artists:

1-5. KCAI Gallery Club students guest-curated Salon Wall, exhibition views.
6. Summer Brooks, “Afro Pick 4,” 2025, ceramics, underglaze.
7. Rie Egawa, “Shapes in My Head,” 2025, gouache, pencil, paper, yarn on 300lb Fabriano.
8. Nathan Ford, “Do you still want to f*k me?” 2025, pieced and sewn fabric.
9. Mark Hennick, ”Halāsana No. 7,” 2025, acrylic.
10. Rebecca Riden, ”Haze,” 2025, monotype with pen and ink.

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11/10/2025

2025 Kansas City Flatfile + Digitalfile
June 20 – September 27, 2025

The Artspace would like to acknowledge our final round of guest curators of our September salon and cabinet walls organized by artist educators, including exhibiting artist Elaine Buss, Assistant Professor of Foundation, who facilitated participation from KCAI students in the Gallery Club as Salon Wall guest co-curators of the 2025 Kansas City Flatfile + Digitalfile.

Alex Drain
Addi Gibson
Savannah Johnson
Melina Marik
Lucas Nguyen
Tom Recker
Thomas Singhirunnusorn
Magx Wanner
Elan Warren

“This salon wall is the result of an experimental curatorial collaboration between The Voth Art Space and the Gallery Club, a rotating collective of artists and creatives who are students at the Kansas City Art Institute.

Our curatorial process unfolded as a call-and-response. The group split into two teams. The first team’s task was to enter the space and select works that spoke to a theme they intentionally agreed upon privately: line, both as a formal element and a conceptual thread. Without revealing that theme or their intentions, they curated the initial layout. The second team followed, responding intuitively to what had been placed before them. They didn’t disturb the existing order but instead built upon it, selecting pieces that complemented or contrasted the initial arrangement.

The second team composed and added their selections on either side of the first team’s picks so that their compositions would serve as quotation marks around the interactions initiated by the first team. Together, they frame and re-frame a process-driven salon wall, where authorship is shared and meaning emerges through an improvised collaboration.

In this way, the wall becomes a conversation between curators, artworks, and themes, where meaning is not fixed but shifted and layered through each response. The final curation is not a statement, but a dialogue — one that reflects trust, interpretation, and exchange.”

Images: Gallery Club students curating their salon wall.

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11/10/2025

2025 Kansas City Flatfile + Digitalfile
June 20 – September 27, 2025

Digitalfile – September | Artspace Screening Room
Selections by Barry Anderson

Caitlin Horsmon
Natalie Beer
Will Cardini
Heehyun Choi
Diana Heise
Harold Smith, Jr.
Lilly McElroy
Ben Rosenthal
Nora Snyder
Danielle Hardy

Images courtesy of the artists:

1. Caitlin Horsmon, “Faster Work,” 2025, 16mm cameraless cyanotype film transferred to video, stereo sound.
2. Natalie Beer, „Fool’s Gold NSB,“ video.
3.Will Cardini, “Panels,” 2021–24, mp4.
4. Heehyun Choi, “Between the Eyes 2,” 16 mm to digital, color, sound.
5. Diana Heise, “Medicine of the Sun,” 2023, HD video, color, sound.
6. Harold Smith, “A Black Man at 50 Contemplating His Life,” 2012, mp4.
7. Lilly McElroy, “Rhinestone Cowboy,” video.
8. Ben Rosenthal, “Body-oddy-oddy-oddy: Destabilizing the Surveilling of Q***r Bodies,” 2024, 4K video.
9. Nora Snyder, “A Film About Nothing,” 2022, video.
10. Danielle Hardy, “Passed On,” 2025, videography.

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11/10/2025

2025 Kansas City Flatfile + Digitalfile
June 20 – September 27, 2025

At the conclusion of our exhibition, the Artspace would like to acknowledge our guest curators of our September salon and cabinet walls organized by artist educators including exhibiting artist Barry Anderson, Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at UMKC, who recently served as guest curator of our September Digitalfile Screening Room of the 2025 Kansas City Flatfile + Digitalfile.

Barry Anderson works in video, photography, sound, and installation. His work has been featured in more than 50 solo exhibitions and 100 group exhibitions around the United States and abroad. Barry’s work is also included in museums and numerous public and private collections around the country. His current projects are “Polychrome Rift,” a series of AI-processed videos and prints exploring psychological space in abstract form and content, and “Lucite Plains,” a music and performance collaboration with fellow visual artist Ricky Allman.

Images:

1-2. Views of the 2025 Kansas City Digitalfile Screening Room, featuring work by Ben Rosenthal, and the Digitalfile kiosk.
3. Barry Anderson, courtesy of the artist.
4-6. Barry Anderson, "Fragments of Space" series : "Fragment [p23.151]," 2023; "Fragment [p23.165]," 2023 ; "Fragment [p25.32]," 2025, pigment prints on Dibond.

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11/10/2025

2025 Kansas City Flatfile + Digitalfile
June 20 – September 27, 2025

Cabinet Wall – September | Drawers 31-40
Selections by KCAI Fiber Students

Elise Hanson
Lueking Knabe
Philip Heying
Christopher Lowrance
Marilyn Mahoney
Lisa Maione
Laura Nugent
Babs O’Halloran
Miguel Rivera
Taylar Sanders

Images courtesy of the artists:

1-4. Guest co-curated Cabinet Wall, exhibition views.
5. Elise Hanson, “Flowers,” 1965, 2017, archival laser print.
6. Philip Heying, “Irrational Exuberance #17,” 2000, pigment print.
7. Laura Nugent, “No. 7 (from Now for the other life. The one without mistakes),” 1996, thread paint, repurposed paper.
8. Miguel Rivera, “Intermittent Venice,” 2025, drawing.
9. Taylar Sanders, “Like Mother, Like Daughter,” 2025, acrylic on canvas print.

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11/10/2025

2025 Kansas City Flatfile + Digitalfile
June 20 – September 27, 2025

At the conclusion of our exhibition, the Artspace would like to acknowledge our final round of guest curators of our September salon and cabinet walls organized by artist educators. Exhibiting artist Marie Bannerot McInerney, Professor and Chair of Fiber, facilitated participation from Fiber students as September Cabinet Wall guest co-curators of the 2025 Kansas City Flatfile + Digitalfile.

Carmen Cantu
Abigail Cruz
Carly Henley
Mabel Johnson
Charlie Jones
Sarah McMurry
Newton Ponder
Sabrina Ross
Marissa Smith
Carter Weilert
Syd Wilson

Title: from fragments to form to dreams

“In our fast-paced and technologically driven modern world, the smaller, quieter moments are often left behind. Our contemporary world often favors flashy, quick imagery that bombards us from all angles. Rather than all of the visual information being rapid and on demand, these works invite the viewer in closer to spend time investigating the subtle complexities of each piece. Works by Laura Nugent and Elise Hanson strongly influenced the cultivation of our selections. Each artist approaches process and materials differently to support their own unique message. Hanson explores tension between images and originality by reproducing compiled images of imperfectness. While Nugent creates abstract works exploring the discontinuity of color and how they change in different forms. Together these selected artists work in unison to communicate fleeting and distant memories of what once was or is. These moments of life are not particularly dramatic; they are just things that happen and exist. These pieces ask of you as the viewer, for if only a moment, to just exist as well.”

Images: KCAI Fiber students viewing and selecting work for their cabinet wall.

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11/10/2025

2025 Kansas City Flatfile + Digitalfile
June 20 – September 27, 2025

Cabinet Wall – September | Drawers 21-30
Selections by KCAI Painting Students

Dora Agbas
Jo Archuleta
Craig Deppen Auge
Hadley Clark + Steph Becker
Adam Crowley
Erin Dodson
Phil Dunn
Ariadne Fish
Joey Grimm
Austin Carlos Gutierrez
Heinrich Toh
Kati Toivanen
Immanuel Weaver (Imagine That!)
Yulie Yurano

Images courtesy of the artists:

1-4. Guest co-curated Cabinet Wall, exhibition views.
5. Craig Deppen Auge, “Camper,” 2024, salvage assemblage.
6. Adam Crowley, “Stef in the Dining Room,” 2023, oil and pencil on paper.
7. Erin Dodson, “Squash Leaves,“ 2025, gouache, rain, walnut ink, and acrylic on paper.
8. Ariadne Fish, “Even in Hell,” 2025, nylon flag with grommets.
9. Heinrich Toh, “A Little Time Is Needed,” 2025, monoprint, paper lithography, relief on Rives BFK paper.
10. Kati Toivanan, “Strands of Hope, from the series ‘Chimera’ series.

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11/10/2025

2025 Kansas City Flatfile + Digitalfile
June 20 – September 27, 2025

At the conclusion of our exhibition, the Artspace would like to acknowledge our final round of guest curators of our September salon and cabinet walls organized by artist educators. Exhibiting artists Jonah Criswell, Associate Professor in Painting, and Noelle Choy, Assistant Professor in Painting, facilitated participation from their students as September Cabinet Wall guest co-curators of the 2025 Kansas City Flatfile + Digitalfile.

Junie Brown
Iggy Campbell
Alex Drain
Oliver Lair
Olivia Gordon-Hauser
Lilian McMahan

Images: KCAI Painting students viewing and selecting work for their cabinet wall.

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