Find a Purpose for your Passion

We could be talking about YOU when we say "Hand-made especially for you by an Eclectics artist"  Eclectics is always looking for artists who make unusual items that "someone" will want to buy. Share what you have made with the world.  Check out our application process here.

Eclectics features artist-made items - not stock purchased from the local gift mart. We are looking for well-crafted, unique or unconventional  pieces in a range of prices. If you used a commercial pattern or copied someone's work, it is not what we are looking for.

Questions? Call us at 816-361-6643 Monday - Saturday from 10 am - 6pm to speak to a member. We jury applicants the first week of each month.

Susi Farrell Coatta - Featured Artist

Check out our Spring petting zoo at Eclectics. We have lots of "animals" available for adoption for you or a loved one....and are currently featuring the work of Susi Farrell Coatta.

Susi specializes in "softies" - her soft sculpture folk art dolls - which many people collect. Susi was a Kansas City resident for many years, where she worked as a buyer for Halls, and was a gallery owner (she was a partner in Susi Bird Gallery). She loves to "weave fantasy and frolic into her artwork," and her work has a look that is recognizable and lovable. Originally from Michigan, Susi now lives in Greensboro, NC, with her husband and their animals.

Susie's soft-sculpture dolls feature vintage fabrics, laces, trims, buttons, ribbons and fibers. No two are alike but we love them all.

Eclectics has other types of birds, bunnies, kitties, monkeys and more in styles ranging from whimsical to sculptural to made in cement!

You should also check out recently acquired paintings by Susi, which are in her signature whimsical style. Susi specializes in birds, bunnies, kitties, angels, Santas and witches, so you will see her work featured in our displays year-round.

We also have cards with original paintings by Kathy Gray, cat lamps, puppy-dog waste baskets, and ceramic bird salt and pepper shakers.

NOTE: Are you an artist who is looking for a location to sell your work? Eclectics juries new artist applications monthly. Call us during business hours at 816-361-6643 for more information.

Angela Gallia - Featured Consignor

Featured Consignor at Eclectics is Angela Gallia whose whimsical ceramics range from functional to completely fantastical. Her great carrot-filled green shoe was featured in our latest promotion.

 

Her birds are popular  - angry or not! Be sure to check out our display of Gallia's work at Eclectics.

 

Gallia has been actively working in clay since the mid 1980’s.  She currently works as a full time studio artist and splits her between Dallas and Northwest Arkansas.  Angela studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and Northern Arizona University. For fifteen years she also ran the retail store at Trinity Ceramic Supply in Dallas, TX.

She has curated a number of contemporary ceramic shows including:Figurative Clay in Texas at the Dallas Visual Art Center, White Bread at Gallery 2520 in Dallas, White Bread, the 2nd Slice at the Chicken Farm Art Center in San Angelo, TX., The White Bread Family Side Show at the Live Oak Art Center in Columbus, Texas, The Collage of Kaolithic Curiosities and Jack Earl at Trinity Ceramic Supply. 

In 1997 she founded Clay Biscuit Books, Inc. which published the 25th Anniversary Edition of the classic “Finding One’s Way with Clay” by Paulus Berensohn.  Clay Biscuit Books is currently involved in several other projects including a book of the artist’s own creation, as well as Trinity’s catalogs and magazine ads.  Angela’s heroes and mentors include (but are not limited to) Susy Siegele, Gary Huntoon, Billy Ray Mangham, Jack Earl, John (dad) Williams, Robin Hopper and Rimas Visgirda.

Currently, Angela lives in Dallas, Texas.

Introducing: Eclectics Featured Artists!

Did you know?

• Eclectics has over 30 consignment artists (in addition to the member artists).
• Consignors are all either LOCAL to KC area artists or they have some local connection.
• Some consignors sell at Eclectics and nowhere else while other sell all over the nation.

So, next time you are in Eclectics, be sure to check out the new Featured Artist display. We will regularly rotate the display to highlight one consignor at a time. Some artists only have a small inventory of items and you may have missed them altogether!

Our first Featured Artist is Brenda Schoneman - "I am addicted to knitting"

Brenda knits and makes unique children's apparel, sometimes combining knitting with fabric and ribbon elements. (Check out the cute dress at right, which is featured in our next email promo.)

Brenda says she has a compulsion to always be knitting something or usually several things. It is just what she loves to do.  Recently she found a group of other women who share this obsession and just loves to be at the "knitting table" with them.

She has really never sold things before, most things she made were gifts for family and friends. She has no website nor does she sell at other locations. Eclectics is it.

Brenda says, "I learned to knit from my mother many, many years ago. I am mostly inspired by the yarn, by children and by seeing what other knitters are making. I do like to see that others are enjoying what I made for them. 

When we lived in Minnesota I really got back into it when I sat our daughters' swim practice for 2 hours and knit and talk with the other moms. Now it is just something I have to do on a daily basis. I would for sure say I am addicted to knitting and anything to do with yarn.  I just love the color and feel of yarn, all types."

Currently, Brenda lives in the Eclectics neighborhood - in Brookside.

Leap Day - Think Green!

Leap Day! This year, February has an extra day - think about what you are going to do with 24 bonus hours...we suggest you get ready for March and stop by Eclectics for something GREEN! We even have green hearts if you are still in Valentine mode.

Think Green with a recycled paper Origami Clock

 Send Green with an embroidered green, mail-able fabric Postcard

 Wear Green with a frilly repurposed Skirt Apron or

 Delicate Green beaded Bracelets

 Funky Green cuff Bracelets

Vintage Green with heirloom Linen Appliqued Apron

 See Green with a glass mosaic Shamrock Lamp

 Make others Green with envy of your lux hand-painted silk Cut Velvet Shawl

 Rock Green with this green Solitaire Wire Wrapped Ring

 Serve Green veggies with a Ceramic Shoe-ful of Green-topped Carrots

Baby someone with Green crocheted hats or this Knitted child's dress

 We also have Green Earrings,

Tea cozies,

scarves, blown glass  and fused glass..

 We also have great hand-made items in other colors!

It's Raining Cats... and Hats!

KC didn't really have winter this year, so we all missed our annual "hat season" - it's just not been cold enough to think about wearing hats.

But Eclectics knitters and crocheters didn't know that would happen so Eclectics has LOTS of yummy hats.

Hats in all colors...

Hats in all sizes...

From Preemie size to Newborns....

And for Babies....

To child size....

Hats with mittens....

We even have a hat with a MATCHING kitten....

We have cats wearing hats...

and just cats made from old hats (and sweaters and such) ...

So whether the weather,

Is cloudy and gray,

Or edging toward Spring,

Our cats and our hats

Could be just the thing!

Eclectic Gallery - 7015 Oak Street in KCMO - open Monday - Saturday from 10 - 6.

Happy Valentines Day!

Don't know 'bout you, but "hearts and flowers" used to bring to mind rosebuds with baby's breath, smiling cherubs, lace paper doilies, ribbons, and all things soft and feminine. Well, no longer....welcome to the 21st Century, baby!

Broken china and mirror glass still says "Love". Or perhaps it says "Love Isn't All It's Cracked Up to Be!" By Eclectics member artist, Wendy Shoufler.

Heart with spikes (a la African nail fetishes) by Beverly Mangham could be a charm against evil or it could represent how you feel after a breakup!

Paper, wire, buttons and glitter heart sends a message of "hope" with a worn, vintage feel. A great expression of a well-aged love, perhaps an anniversary message? by Robin

Love keeping you up at night? Keep the light on with this fused glass heart-nightlight. Great for a kids room or a dark corner that needs brightening up. All sizes and shapes of fused glass night lights by Jenny Isenberg.

Local stitch-maestro Andrew Johnson includes hearts in his works - from framed art to greeting cards and collage.

Nothing says LOVE more than a baby - dress yours in sweet, silk-screened onesies by Elise Keeling of Pilot Valve.

My love is a red, red .... button!

Romanticism in the 21st Century.... "I love you, now go away!

All currently available at Eclectics Gallery, at 7015 Oak Street in Kansas City, MO. Please visit us Mon-Sat from 10 - 6.