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An Art Historical Journey Along the Missouri River

Presentation by art historian and writer Brian Hearn

In this presentation, Brian Hearn will share a curated selection of the river’s most iconic images and consider how artist’s representations have shifted, like the river itself, through the centuries.

The Missouri River

Time and Place

Tuesday, October 24, 2017
7:00 pm

Westport CoffeeHouse Theater
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Presentation by art historian Brian Hearn

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Where – Westport Coffeehouse Theater – 4010 Pennsylvania Ave. Kansas City, MO

6 p.m. – Social Hour
7 p.m. – Presentation. Presentation will be filmed – After 7 PM, Please enter through Green Room Burgers

PLUS – This presentation audio will be streaming live on KCDV.tv!
(See past videos here)

Presentation is FREE and open to the public!

For thousands of years, the Missouri River has been a site of human visual culture. From petroglyphs made by Indigenous artists to the European and American artist/explorers of the 19th century to contemporary artists of today, the Big Muddy continues to inspire and engage the artistic imagination. In this presentation, we will view a curated selection of the river’s most iconic images and consider how artist’s representations have shifted, like the river itself, through the centuries.
Brian Hearn is an art writer, historian, curator and consultant based in Kansas City, Missouri.

Directions

Westport CoffeeHouse – 4010 Pennsylvania Kansas City, Mo – www.westportcoffeehouse.com

The Westport CoffeeHouse is in the Westport entertainment area, midtown KC, south of downtown and north of the Plaza.  The main intersection is Westport Rd and Broadway.  From this intersection, go west on Westport Rd one block to Pennsylvania. Turn north (right).

OR you can get there from the intersection of Southwest Trafficway and Westport Rd.  Go east on Westport Rd to Pennsylvania. Turn north (left).

Westport Coffee House is approximately one block down on the west side of Pennsylvania.  Parking can be had either south of the coffee house in the large parking lot or just north of the coffee house alongside the building.  Enter through Green Room Burgers or Westport CoffeeHouse.

Resources and Links

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The Big Muddy Speakers Series in Kansas City

is hosted by these wonderful partners!

Thanks to all of our venue hosts for making this possible! Click here for a list of upcoming presentations» The Big Muddy Speaker Series is also held monthly in Rocheport and St. Charles.

Recordings of Presentations

Kansas City Digital Video has been recording Big Muddy Speaker Series presentations. These are available on their website at this link. Some contain synchronized powerpoint presentations. We will be posting these to the archived presentation pages on bigmuddyspeakers.org. Thanks Micheal Morgan and crew for putting this important archive online!