Work in Progress | The Watercolorist

A man painting with watercolors at his desk

Don Gore’s paintings allow him to combine his architecture background with the free flowing unknown of watercolor. Treating watercolor as his therapy, Gore says the art transports him to a simpler time and place. “I have so many different things on the inside, and that’s my way of getting whatever is in my head out,…

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Work in Progress | The Painter

A man standing in front of a mural

With every brush stroke, Warren “Stylez” Harvey combats the anxiety and self doubt he’s dealt with since childhood. Through his artwork, he’s able to embrace the feelings that once held him back. “I’m grateful for my fear,” he said. “It has brought me to understand who I am. I am light. I am consciousness. I’m a…

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Work in Progress | The Ceramicist

A ceramist works on her sculpture

As a child, Angelica Sandoval associated darkness with fear and the unknown. As an adult, she taps into her love of ceramics to combat those fears. She creates porcelain “creatures of light” as a therapeutic means to address the uncertainty she feels. “For me, light is comfort, light is this sense of hope, light is…

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Work in Progress | Preview Our New Arts Series

Get inside the minds of four diverse Kansas City-based artists as we explore the inner-workings of their creative souls. Work in Progress celebrates the process of art — its creation and its creator — rather than the finished project. There are those who are driven by purpose and those who are driven by chaos, and…

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