LocationHillcrest Community Center 10401 Hillcrest Rd, Kansas City, MO |
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Artwork by: Michele Oka Doner
Installed: 1996
Medium: Bronze
KCMO’s One Percent for the Arts Program
Blurring the lines between art and function, Michele Oka Doner’s fireplace and hearth, bronze fire screen and tools fill the Hillcrest Community Center with the warmth of home. Its title, River Jacks, refers to the native river stones used in the hearth’s construction. Known for her site-specific work, Doner combines her interests in natural history, archeology, and anthropology into a piece that, in her own words, “evokes the ancestral storage containers of early Missourians.”
Nearly 200 hundred years after the area’s first fur trading post was settled on the bluffs of the Missouri River, Kansas City is preparing to honor the French pioneer Francois Chouteau who established it, and the Native Americans with whom he traded. Francois Chouteau...
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