KCAI Fiber - The Warehouse (map)
Image Credit: Madeline Farinas De Leon (Fiber ‘25), Weaving with reed and cotton
April 8 - April 15, 2024 (by appointment only)
Public Reception Friday April 12, 5 - 8pm
Fiber Warehouse | 4218 Walnut | KCMO 64111
Featuring work by Erica Alexander, Ben Asbury, Katie Boyd, Madeline Farinas De Leon, Najm Habib, Kelsie Kirkland, Antonella Labrozzi, Nate Lanzarin, Vanessa Navia, Cherline Philogene, Oasis Tellez Giron, Aeddon Wegrzyn-Van Zant
Image Credit: Erica Alexander (Fiber ‘25)
In conjunction with our exhibition, Over/Under, KCAI Fiber students are holding a REPAIR/REWEAR event.
Fast fashion is careless and without life; mending is a living and loving act of radical care
Visitors to the exhibition are invited to bring a garment to be repaired with visible mending, button replacement, custom patches, dyed thread and more.
Repairs start at $10, and the proceeds support Fiber students
Bring an item to be mended:
FRIDAY, December 1, 2023: 5-8 PM
SATURDAY, December 2, 10 AM-5 PM
Garment Pickup:
SUNDAY, December 3, 12-5 PM
Image Credit: Left: Emilie Chartrand (Fiber ‘23), Right: Antonella Labrozzi (Fiber ‘25)
The Kansas City Art Institute Fiber Department presents Horizon, a selection of works from our Sophomore, Junior, and Senior students. As we come to the close of a challenging academic year, we collectively take a deep breath and meet at the horizon—a place where earth appears to meet the sky, a place full of possibility, potential, and opportunity.
This year has posed many challenges—it required us to be flexible and patient while engaging from a distance and asked us to reimagine how we create community. Between virtual meetings, outdoor critiques, and studio time split between home and school we have learned to approach our continually changing circumstances with the understanding that we will persevere as a community. We are so proud of the determination, positivity, and vulnerability exhibited by our students and look forward to what lies on the other side of the horizon.
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Image credit: Rachel Tucker, As I Look at the Clouds, 2021, Digital Collage
This semester has been special. Fall 20 students entered back into the classroom environment open and willing to participate in critical discussions, engage with their peers and faculty, and take on the challenge of making work during this difficult time in our world history. The term “emergent” speaks to the effort of this group—to bring into being, to meet the moment, and to flourish.
The galleries within the exhibition—Connectivity, Dreamscapes, Familial, Landscapes and Redact—take into consideration an orientation of self in relationship to the current moment. Now more than ever, it is important to bring together these works, and although many were made in separate spaces, they are in conversation with each other as documents of what it feels like to be living in this time.
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Please enjoy the galleries we’ve put together that celebrate works made in the present moment by visiting kcai.edu
May 22, 2020, at 4 p.m. CST
Fiber processes depend on the collective actions of individuals—two sets of hands more easily warp a loom, multiple hands speed up prepping fleeces and paper pulp, and many hands can tend and share an indigo vat.
The global pandemic has affected each of us uniquely, but as makers, it has redefined how we approach our work and how we support our Fiber community. Both the challenge and the gift of sheltering-in-place, has been the emphasis on the present, the only moment we have the power to change and fully experience.
Although we cannot physically be together, our community continues to be vibrant by showing up and sharing what is most important to us.
Image Credit: Left: Rachel Tucker (Fiber ‘21), Right: Hannah Morrison (Fiber ‘20)
Opening:
Friday, Dec. 6, 5—8 p.m.
Gallery Hours:
Saturday, Dec. 7, 10 a.m.—5 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 8, 12 p.m.—5 p.m.
Image Credit: Left: Emily Mooney (Fiber ‘22), Right: Rachel Tucker (Fiber ‘21)
image credit: https://lizcollins.com/
Opening:
Friday, April 26, 5–8 PM
Gallery Hours:
Saturday, April 27, 10 AM–5 PM
Sunday, April 28, 12–5 PM
Image Credit: Gabriella Poulos (Fiber ‘21)
Opening: April 5th, 5:00–8:00 pm
Works by:
Amelia Greteman, Morgan Elliot, Hannah Morrison, Natalie Stein, Harper Newell, Paulina Otero, Jonah Rose, Penny Stopper, Lily Mueller, Skye Gyllies, Lueking Knabe, Vanessa Argueta
Image Credit: Natalie Stein (Creative Writing Major and Fiber Minor ‘20)
Opening:
Friday, November 30th 5–8 PM
Gallery Hours:
Saturday, December 1st 10 AM–5 PM
Sunday, December 2nd 12–5 PM
Image Credit: Hannah Morrison (Fiber ‘20)
Check out new, exciting and naturally-dyed works by Associate Professor of Fiber, Kim Eichler-Messmer, at her exhibition opening Fall Back Into Place.
In Kim’s words, “In 2016, I received an Inspiration Grant from Arts KC to deepen my understanding of natural dyes—those made from plants, minerals, and an insect. This exhibition is a new direction fo my work and the result of two years of concentrated study and practice in the use of natural dyes. Please join me for opening receptions the first Fridays in November and December”
The Arts KC Gallery is open Monday through Thursday 9:30AM–5PM and First Fridays 5–8PM
Excited for an in-depth conversation and exhibition tour with Fiber Associate Professor and amazing artist Kim Eichler-Messmer!
Tickets $10 RSVP here
Opening Friday, April 27th 5:00–8:00 PM
Gallery Hours:
Saturday April, 28th 10:00AM–5:00PM
Sunday April, 29th 12:00–5:00PM
Image Credit: Ari Bonner (Fiber ‘19)
Checkout alumna (and former Fiber Technician!) Lexie Abra Millikan's opening Color Field
Image Credit: Left: Paulina Otero (Fiber ‘20), Right: Michelle Chan (Fiber ‘19)
THE RUGMAKER'S DAUGHTER Exhibition Statement:
My work explores notions of identity, care, and labor. Using traditional textile processes The Rugmaker’s Daughter, examines my family structure and my place within it. Working with clothing discarded by friends and family, I spend time carefully deconstructing and reconstructing the material by sewing and weaving it back together. These collected textiles are fraught with history and meaning, possessing a lineage of fragmented memories. Piecing together snippets of these histories, I compose abstract portraits of those I have loved, presently love, and those who have been lost somewhere in between.
The KCAI Crossroads Gallery: Center for Contemporary Practice presents, The Performative Loom: sound, rhythm and experimental making, a collaborative project shared between the KCAI Fiber Department led by Pauline Verbeek-Cowart, students in Advanced Audio-Vision led by Dwight Frizzell, and students in Space Between Papers led by Marie Bannerot McInerney.
Taking into account the experiential relationship between academia, art, community, and labor that took place during the experiment of the Black Mountain College and the interdisciplinary nature of the Bauhuas model, The Performative Loom: sound, rhythm, and experimental making is a collaborative project that hosts various large scale methods of fabrication with linear elements while activating the human body as the central tool. Participants will undertake a series of choreographed movements in response to soundscapes and instruments created with handmade paper to construct large scale sculptural objects.
Image Credit: Anna Van Gheem (Fiber ‘17)
For the Record: the KCAI Fiber Department Junior Exhibition opens March 24th, with a closing reception April 7th, from 5-8 pm. This show takes place at the KCAI Fiber Warehouse, located at 4218 Walnut St. KCMO, 64111. For the Record features 9 fiber artists dealing with themes of identity, community, memory, history and place.
For the Record showcases the 2017 junior Fiber majors. Bringing together the East and West Coasts, along with everything in between, these young artists define their place in the Kansas City art scene. This exhibition is open to the public, showcasing a group zine of the 9 artists as well as interactive works and community programming.
OPENING FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2nd 5:00 - 8:00 PM
GALLERY HOURS
SATURDAY DECEMBER 3rd 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
SUNDAY DECEMBER 4th 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
THE WAREHOUSE
4218 WALNUT ST
KANSAS CITY, MO 64111
Image Credit: Rebecca Gemeinhardt (Fiber ‘17), Chase Ford (Fiber ‘17)
