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Art Research Center was founded in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1964 by constructivist artist Michael Stephens.

ARC grew out of the new center u.s. art cooperative gallery which was dissolved in 1964 when the original idea for ARC was conceived. The founders of this gallery were part of an “abstract” segment of the 15 artists in the co-op. Their background and impetus was partially influenced by the Bauhaus and moholy-nagy and the new Bauhaus in Chicago.

International exhibits focused on multi-disciplinary experiments in constructive arts, exploring the relationship between art, science and technology and expositing issues of sensory perception with aesthetic structures.

1 ARC Timeline and Exhibits
2 ARC Artists and Associates
3 Miscellaneous Stories and Anectdotes
4 The ARC Welders
- 4.1 Former ARC Welders and others involved with the Art Research Center
5 Associated movements
6 References
7 External links

[edit] ARC Timeline and Exhibits

Date	Exhibits
1963	New Center United States Artists Gallery at 9th & Delaware. First artist owned and operated abstract cooperative gallery in the Midwest.
1964
1965
1966	Art Research Center First Exhibition: October 29 – Nov 6 (or 26) Kansas City MO Public Library, 12th & Oak. Second Exhibition: January 14 – February 4, at the Kansas City KS Public Library, 625 Minnesota Ave.
1967	Third Exhibition and panel symposium: April 8 - May 9 Linda Hall Library of Science and Technology, 5109 Cherry, Kansas City MO. Symposium topic: The Relationships of Art and Science and Technology.
1968	1. Anonima Studio Gallery, 40 W 28th St. New York, NY. Art Research Center Group Exhibit – May 20 – June 20 included six artists, 33 works, conjunctive symposium/talk, electronic music. Artists included Patrick Manley “Transformations.” 2. Announced new “center” for the Center – 3 floors, 25,000 sq ft. 3. A. R. C. Group Exhibition and Opening of new center headquarters in October. 4. Film-makers Seminar series – August. Participants included William Westerman, Larry Bowser, Dave Peeples, William Peterson, Eliot Gage, Lee Clark. 5. Sound Environment Seminar - November. Electronic Music Audio Research Development Studio Conservatory of Music, University of Missouri. Electronic Music Concert with non-associative projected light environment – organized by Patrick Manley. 6. Science in Art Seminars – December: “Creative Problem-Solving for Design in Game Format” John Abbick and “Geometry in Art and Architecture” and Stanley Tigerman. Held in old ice cream factory downtown Kansas City, MO. 7. The Art and Architecture of Stanley Tigerman—February. Exhibition (being a total immediate survey of the international, inter-disciplinary works of Tigerman)
1969	New Tendency Exhibit in Zagreb, Yugoslavia in May. New artists and associates: Peter Clapp (Boston), Gary Rice – computer programmer, Laurence Booth, Zbiginew Blazieje (Toronto, Ontario multi-media artist), Stanley Tigerman (Architect, Chicago Ill), Frank Millich, David Garrison.
1970	Address 4808 Troost Acquired exhibit space at the Trolley Barn, Kansas City, MO. Toronto balloon show
1971	Art Research Center at 922 East 48th Street, across from the old Trolley Barn. Andreas Weininger's "Mechanical Revue"
1972
1973	International Matrix Exhibition in Padua, Italy
1974	"Fire and Ice" William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City MO
1979	1. City Celebration – May 27 “Spacenet” with "A Fair-for-All" a balloon structure at Volker Park, Kansas City, MO. 2. "Warped Planes in Space" 41st & Main, T.M. Stephens Kansas City, MO. 3. Brick building at 2nd & Delaware, Kansas City, MO.
1980	International Conference of Constructive Art in Architectonic Space Hamburg, Germany.
1981	1. "Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition" (paper) Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO 2. TELIC 2 Group Exhibit.
1986	20th anniversary TELIC 3 Exhibit, 175 artists, 300 works of art, 22 countries.

[edit] ARC Artists and Associates

Andreas Weininger
Arthur Evans
Bart Schoales
Bill Cozad
Bob McConchie
Bob Columb
Bobby Scroggins
Carlos Setien
Catherine Emily
Chris Rexroad
Dale Eldred obituary
Dave Peeples
David Barr
David Staudacher
David Desmond
David Garrison
Denise Childers
Dennis Sanders
Dorothy Moss
Douglas Freed [1]
Duane Benton
Eleanor Feik
Elizabeth Willmot
Essex Garner
Eliot Gage
Francois Morellet
Frank Millich
Gary Rice – computer programmer
Harold Chase
Jay Heuser
Jaya Dumas Kern
Jay Mandeville - writer
John F. Abbick
John Baird - 3-D photographer obituary images
John Brees Thogmortin -- architect
Joseph Ziegler
Katherine VanVoorst
Kathryn Howard
Ken Berger
Ken Gray
Kevin Kissinger [2]
Kevin Whelan
Larry Alton
Larry Bowser
Laurence Booth - architect [3]
Michael Zagalik
Milton Smith
Lee Clark
Nancy A. Stephens
Norton Nelkin [4]
Pamela Gustavson Johnson
Patricia Shubert
Patrick Manley
Perrin Blackman
Peter Clapp (Boston)
Philip J. Van Voorst
Richard Murphy
Robert Blackman
Robert Scagliotti
Ron Roberts
Samella Gates
Stephen Black
Steve Collins
Steve Conard
Sue Scott
Stanley Tigerman – Architect, Chicago Ill
Thomas Michael Stephens
Ted Otteson
Tom North
Tony Lecaiso
Vincent Roark Exhibit in New York 2002 obituary source
Virginia Hillix Obituary
W Clayton Bodenhamer
Wayne Yocky
Will Elton
Willi Ottremba
Wildred Arnold
William Peterson
William Westerman
Yvonne Ellsworth
Zbiginew Blazieje – Toronto, Ontario multi-media artist

[edit] Miscellaneous Stories and Anectdotes

[edit] The ARC Welders

The Art Research Center often recruited artists and musicians to participate in live music concerts. These concerts included improvised ensemble works by the "ARC Welders". The ARC Welders in general, consisted of the musicians who happened to be participating in any given event.

At least one of the ARC Welders concerts received favorable reviews from The Kansas City Star.

[edit] Former ARC Welders and others involved with the Art Research Center

Kevin Kissinger, electronic musician

art research center- was created in 1967 by tm Stephens/nancy a. Stephens and jon brees thogmartin. john f.abbick/norton nelkin/ Phillip van voorst/ harry chase/ peter clapp/ David garrison/joseph ziegler and others i shamefully cannot remember, came as time passed. in 1969 art research center participated in new tendency exhibit & symposium in zagreb, Yugoslavia.Nancy/Thomas & jon took 7 works to zagreb. they participated in symposium and museum exhibit.the group also had a show at anonima gallery nyc. 68/69. they had numerous shows in and around the country during the 60's thru 80's. never well funded but sincere in belief and conviction. we all had our own agenda but all believed in new approaches to art and were open to experimentation & process. Michael Stephens carried the center since the early 70's. with numerous performance and musical works ,many times in public space. not always technically mastered but the tone of the opening article is entirely wrong. i was part of it and there at the beginning along with a lot of other sincere people.