{"id":7865,"date":"2024-06-07T07:35:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T12:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=7865"},"modified":"2024-06-07T07:35:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T12:35:55","slug":"read-the-room-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/07\/read-the-room-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Read the Room Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to everyone who came to the opening for <i>Read the Room<\/i> two weeks ago, we had a blast!! <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2024-06-07_Cardini-mural-laughing.png\" alt=\"Will Cardini at the Read the Room opening, laughing in front of his colorful vinyl mural\"><br \/>\nMe laughing in front of my mural, <i>Blursed Miizzzard<\/i>. Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kateschroederceramics.com\/\">Kate Schroeder<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was great to see so many of the artists at the opening. We took a group shot at the end but didn\u2019t capture everyone who showed up: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2024-06-07_Read-the-Room-group-pic.png\" alt=\"Group of artists making silly poses in front of the entry wall of the exhibition Read the Room\"><br \/>\nLeft to right: <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/joshstress\">Josh Rios<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travismillard.com\/\">Travis Millard<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/redshortsbindery\/\">Thayer N G Bray<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/timbrown.website\/\">Tim Brown<\/a>, me (Will Cardini), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siobhan-gallagher.com\/\">Siobh&aacute;n Gallagher<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/johnfmalta.com\/\">John F. Malta<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/momokousami.shichihuku.com\/\">Momoko Usami<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joshuawcotter.com\/\">Joshua W. Cotter<\/a>. Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/charlottestreet.org\/about\/our-people\/kimi-kitada\/\">Kimi Kitada<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Big ups to all the artists for trusting us with their brilliant artworks; my co-curators for bearing with my hyper-focus on details; everyone at Charlotte Street, especially Kimi and Kevin who helped so much with install; and my fam for putting up with all the time I had to put into this project. <\/p>\n<p>The show is up thru Saturday, July 13th, and we have a couple more events planned, both taking place in the Charlotte Street Kemper Library: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Freestyle<\/i> featuring jazz guitarist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adamschlozman.com\/\">Adam Schlozman<\/a> and zine-making with <i>Read the Room<\/i> artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barbaralanetharas.com\/\">Barbara Lane Tharsas<\/a>, Saturday, June 8, 1 to 3pm\n<li><i>Inviting the Images<\/i>, an autobio-comics-making workshop run by co-curator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jason_lips\/\">Jason Lips<\/a>, Wednesday, June 26, 6 to 8pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can also just come by Charlotte Street Gallery, 3333 Wyoming Street Kansas City, MO 64111, Tuesday thru Friday 12 to 5pm and Saturday 11am to 5pm, to check the work out! Or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/williamcardini\">see the install shots on my Instagram<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to everyone who came to the opening for Read the Room two weeks ago, we had a blast!! Me laughing in front of my mural, Blursed Miizzzard. Photo by Kate Schroeder. It was great to see so many of the artists at the opening. We took a group shot at the end but didn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-shows","category-recaps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}