M-AAA’s Culture Lab Features Artist Christina Shmigel
By Elizabeth Snell
Mid-America Arts Alliance’s Culture Lab will be open on First Friday, September 6 and October 4, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri, and will feature an exhibition, this blasted tender beautiful world, just as it is, by Ukrainian-American artist Christina Shmigel.
Working in sculptural installation and drawing, Christina Shmigel combines hand-made objects with unaltered acquired components, employing shifts of scale, and view point. The theatrical spaces of her installations are experienced through slow revelation, in time and through memory.
Christina’s work captures those moments when ordinary reality shifts, revealing something intangible beneath its surface. Her installations create a space of playfulness, engagement, and opportunity for re-enchantment with ordinary existence. Currently, she maintains studios in St. Louis, Missouri, and in Bakersville, North Carolina.
Learn more about Christina’s artwork in her video, Little Pink.
To learn more about Christina Shmigel’s work, visit her website at www.shmigel.com.
Hours and Location
The exhibition will be open to the public for the Crossroads Arts District First Fridays in September (9/6) and October (10/4) from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
The Culture Lab at Mid-America Arts Alliance is located at 2018 Baltimore Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, 64108. See the full details on our calendar.
Other viewing times are available by appointment and are subject to staff availability, please call 816-800-0926 to make arrangements.
About The Culture Lab
The Culture Lab is our space for exhibitions, presentations, and events at our headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri. The Culture Lab allows us to showcase programs in the vibrant Kansas City Crossroads neighborhood and participate in the city’s First Friday celebrations.
Past projects have included music presentations, dance, theatre performance, fine art exhibitions, and humanities projects. Traveling exhibitions from our program ExhibitsUSA frequently launch their tours here.
Header photography: this blasted tender beautiful world, just as it is, by Christina Shmigel created with bicycle, training wheels, laser cut packing boxes. Photography by Bruno David. Courtesy of Christina Shmigel.