A husband-and-wife team from Wichita, Kansas, has transformed a Kansas City gallery into a colorful playground of interactive artworks that aspire to impress visitors from outer space.
At the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in the Crossroads, a spiny red spider topped with locust seed pods shimmies with the turn of a crank, and visitors can jiggle a massive prairie rock that bounces on a pair of springs. In a back corner of the main gallery, two industrial fans inflate a 42-foot-long, floor-to-ceiling tent made from 35 tie-dyed sheets.
The show — “When the Extraterrestrials come, they will judge us by the quality of our Art!” — is the work of sculptor Mike Miller and his wife, installation artist Meghan Miller…