The Kansas City Art Institute is home to faculty that are passionate about teaching because they are artists devoted to their crafts and the continued growth of their artistic practices. The campus at large is a creative community made up of full-time faculty, adjunct faculty, and staff who work together and contribute to a diverse landscape of talent and creativity. The 2017 KCAI Biennial Exhibition will include both faculty and staff members with a studio practice, focusing on sculptural exploration and uncovering the many ways that artists form ideas and give form to those ideas.

This exhibition is organized by Jennifer Baker and has been planned to coincide with The 27th International Sculpture Conference: Intersection + Identities being held in Kansas City on October 25-28, 2017. Submissions were juried by Jennifer Baker, Assistant Curator at H&R Block Artspace; Sally Frater, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Ulrich Museum of Art; and Joey Orr, Assistant Curator of Research at the Spencer Museum of Art.

Featuring work by: Logan Acton, Marie Bannerot McInerney, Patricia Bordallo Dibildox, Jill Downen, Cary Esser, Cyan Meeks and Karen McCoy, Jarrett Mellenbruch, Il Sung Na, Liz Smith, Damien Spader, Natalie Spicker, Caleb Taylor, Pauline Verbeek-Cowart and Dwight Frizzell, and James Woodfill.

Featured in this post, left to right: Fiber Department Chair, Pauline Verbeek-Cowart (in collaboration with Dwight Frizzell), Assistant Professor of Fiber Marie Bannerot McInerney, and Fiber Technician Natalie Spicker

Photos by E.G. Schmpf