EARTH SYMPHONY

December 5, 2025 - February 27, 2026

Leedy-Voulkos Art Center

2012 Baltimore Ave, Kansas City, MO 64108

OPENING FIRST FRIDAY December 5, 2025 5-8pm

“I wish I could be there with you!” Rita

Dates and hours:

December 5, 2025 - February 27, 2026

Wednesday-Saturday, 11am-5pm.  

First Friday events on 2/5, 1/2 and 2/6 from 5-8pm.

Paintings inspired by music, movement, growth, renewal, and the cyclical nature of life.

Exhibition statement by curator Connie Gibbons:

“Earth Symphony represents a pivotal moment in Rita Blitt’s decades-long dedication to exploring the expressive qualities of line, movement, and color. The most recent paintings, created in the past three years, reflect Blitt’s deepening connection with the natural world around her, building on core themes within her practice while reaching new levels of intimacy and nuance. Central to her approach is the conviction that line possesses an animating energy—each brushstroke, drawn gesture, or fusion of color embodies a sense of momentum and fluidity, as if capturing the choreography of nature itself.

Throughout the decades, Blitt has consistently drawn inspiration from nature, family, music, and movement. The everyday beauty of neighborhood gardens and trees are transformed into expansive contemplations on growth, renewal, and the cyclical nature of life. Through these paintings, she transforms fleeting glimpses of the everyday into meditations on the universal, reminding viewers of nature’s endless potential for artistic transformation. Blitt’s signature style, where movement and color form a contrapuntal interdependence, allows the local to become universal and the transient to become enduring.”