Faculty & Staff News
Marie Bannerot McInerney:
2024 Stone & DeGuire
Contemporary
Art Award
Professor Marie Bannerot McInerney was honored with the prestigious award presented by the Sam Fox School at Washington University. Read more about Marie and the other recipients here.
Kim Eichler Messmer
receives
first prize in quilt exhibition
Associate Professor Kim Eichler Messmer received first prize for her quilt Ice Palace in the Schweinfurth Art Center exhibition
Quilts=Art=Quilts 2023.
TRACE ME BACK
Professor Marie Bannerot McInerney’s immersive exhibition, Trace Me Back, enveloped audiences at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art with silk, sound, and light. Press for the exhibition was also featured by KCAI and in a review of the exhibition in Burnaway.
AMoA Biennial 600
Assistant Professor Marie Bannerot McInerney exhibits work at the Amarillo Museum of Art
Kim Eichler-Messmer designs fabric line for Paintbrush Studios
Based on Kim’s hand dyed shibori fabrics, Shibori Dye is digitally printed and available in quilt shops nationwide.
Studios Inc awards residency to Marie Bannerot McInerney
Assistant Professor Marie Bannerot McInerney is awarded a studio at Studios Inc.
Natalie Spicker and Brittany Boynton’s interactive scrapbook for First Date
First Date—a co-curated exhibition between Open House and The Granite City Art and Design District—features the work of 10 artist pairs introduced by the curating galleries.
Artist pairs:
Brittany Boynton & Natalie Spicker
Sage Dawson & Rebeka Pech
Michael Worful & Megan Ammari
Peter Pranschke & Andrew Ordonez
Steph Zimmerman & Kylie McConnell
Rachel Youn & Megan Pobywajlo-Bailey
Edo Rosenblith & Zane Smith
Marina Peng & Boi Boy
Brandon Bandy & Robert Castillo
José Garza & Lilly McElroy
Learn more:
Indigo Blue Exhibition 2020
Associate Professor Kim Eichler-Messmer exhibits two indigo dyed quilts at the Indigo Blue Exhibition 2020 in Tokushima, Japan.
Lineage and Impact: KCAI Faculty Past and Present
Pauline Verbeek-Cowart featured in Lineage and Impact: KCAI Faculty Past and Present at Haw Contemporary Stockyards. The exhibition celebrates seven decades of working artists on the faculty of the Kansas City Art Institute, a community that values making, teaching, and learning art as interdependent, often inextricable practices.
Systems & Networks exhibition at Hello Stitch
Kim Eichler-Messmer exhibited several quilts and taught workshops at the Hello Stitch gallery and maker space in Berkeley, CA.
Casting Shadows presents Åakhu
KCAI Professors Pauline Verbeek Cowart and Dwight Frizzell present
Åakhu, a collaborative 4-panel weavings, video projections and multi-channel sound installation.
2018 CSF Visual Artist Awards Announced
Charlotte Street Foundation announces Marie Bannerot McInerney as one of the recipients of the 2018 Visual Artist Awards. Congrats Marie!
VisionMakers2018 at 108|Contemporary
Fiber Department Technician and Studio Coordinator, Natalie Spicker, receives Hogan Visionary Award for Art | Craft Dialogue for works featured at VisionMakers2018
Pauline Verbeek-Cowart presents at Textile Society of America
Professor and Chair of the Fiber Department, Pauline Verbeek-Cowart presents, “The Nature of Collaboration in the Digital Age” at Textile Society of America’s 15th Biennial Symposium.