Amy Kligman and Basil Kincaid - Artists Talk and Opening Reception

Learn more about Amy Kligman: The Salon for Possible Futures and Positive Obsession: Drawings by Basil Kincaid

Amy Kligman and Basil Kincaid

Amy Kligman. Photo: Misha Kligman; Basil Kincaid

Join us for a FREE artists talk with Amy Kligman and Basil Kincaid, featured in our upcoming exhibitions Amy Kligman: The Salon for Possible Futures and Positive Obsession: Drawings by Basil Kincaid. A reception with light refreshments will follow the in-person talk. Free and open to the public. No RSVP required for in-person attendance. RSVP to receive livestream link.

Amy Kligman (b. 1979) is an artist and arts organizer living in Kansas City, MO. Amy’s practice is centered on people, space, and care. Kligman’s experience as an exhibiting artist and grassroots curator/arts administrator spans 20 years of studio work, independent curating and organizing, and artist-run projects. Her work is exhibited nationally and is featured in the permanent collection in the Nerman Museum of Art, the Hallmark Art Collection, and others. In 2011 Kligman was one of five artist-curators who established and curated Plug Projects, a Rocket Grant supported, artist-run project space in Kansas City’s West Bottoms, that hosted a nationally recognized calendar of exhibitions and artist-centered programming. She was the Executive Artistic Director at Charlotte Street Foundation from 2015-2024.

Basil Kincaid (b. 1986) is an artist based in St. Louis, Missouri, who honors and evolves traditional practices through quilting, collaging, photography, installation, and performance. Implementing materials vested with emotion and memory, Kincaid allows these mediums to function as spiritual technology that shares various wisdoms born from Kincaid's greatest values: family, imagination, rest, and experience. Since earning his BA in Studio Art at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, Kincaid has exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2019, Kincaid debuted his first museum performance, “The Release,” at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis MO. In 2020 Kincaid received the Regional Arts Commission Fellowship, and in 2021 Kincaid became a United States Artist Fellow and joined the Collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Amy Kligman: The Salon for Possible Futures will be on view in the Nerman Museum’s Oppenheimer New Media Gallery, Second Floor, March 28 through December 21, 2025.

Positive Obsession: Drawings by Basil Kincaid will be on view in the Nerman Museum’s McCaffree Gallery, Second Floor, March 28 through October 26, 2025.