Where We Meet | Fiber End of Semester show opening TONIGHT from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Postcard image credit to Carmen Cantu.
Carter, He/they - What inspires you to create?  “The concept of intimate moments and community” - What’s your preferred medium / process? “Pictorial, I enjoy mixed media but enjoy a well composed painting or image”
Marissa Smith (she/they) - What inspires you to create?  “There are ants in my skin and bees in my brain and if I didn’t have an outlet for them, I would tear myself apart.” - What’s your preferred medium / process? &ldqu
Abigail Cruz, she/her - What inspires you to create?  “When I think about what inspires me to create, it always comes back to the structure of fiber—the way threads interlock and the endless possibilities that emerge from that. I&rsq
Carly Henley she/her - What inspires you to create?  “I create based on my love for color, and repeat patterns in the form of anatomical structures, and geometric shapes. The outcome of creating shibori dyed textiles continues to generate
Sabrina Ross (she/her) - What inspires you to create? “I make art because I need to- I have a strong pull to create. It is as natural as breathing to me. I find inspiration in the world around me and the feminine experience.” - What&rsquo
Sarah McMurry, she/her - What inspires you to create? “A lot of my inspiration comes from nature and my relationship to it through memory. Growing up, fiber was all around me. My mom is a fashion history professor and teaches patterning, my sis
Newton Ponder (He/Him) - What inspires you to create? “My family inspires me to create. My mom and grandma have a long history in fiber arts, they inspired and encouraged me to create.” - What’s your preferred medium / process? &ldq
Mabel Johnson - What inspires you to create?  “I’ve always been inspired by the idea of making something out of nothing. My mom taught me to sew when I was little, by taking scraps fromclothing my siblings and I had outgrown, by rep
Syd Wilson (He/She) - What inspires you to create?  “Genuinely, if I don’t make art I’ll die. I need to make cute rainbow things or I’ll be so bored I’ll keel over.” - What’s your preferred medium / proc
Charlie Jones (he/him) - What inspires you to create? "My endless well of whimsy" - What’s your preferred medium / process? "Anything and everything except for wire" - What’s one thing you wish more people understood
Carmen Cantu (She/Her) - What inspires you to create? "I could make a list of what inspires me to create into oblivion. Lately I feel that I am a conduit for so many big revelations that have occurred in my recent day to day life and the work so
Local knitwear designer Tabbetha McCale Evans visited fiber for a fabulous forum show-and-tell today. Students learned about her experience as a KCAI fiber alum working for Peruvian Connections.
Students in Pauline Verbeek-Cowart's Intro to weaving and fiber properties class joining together for some large scale knitting!
End of Semester show and sale opening this Friday, December 6th from 5-8pm! Gallery hours are 10am to 5pm on Saturday, and noon to pm on Sunday.
Sophomores in @kimemquilts's classes wrapped up their semester with critique this week! They presented both yardage from surface and color and final sewing projects from basic sewn construction.
Seniors are celebrating their final critique this semester with a potluck. No starving artists here!
This week students installed their flags on the campus green. Each flag represents a concept important to the student, part of a campus-wide project hosted by the Collaborative Practice Committee.
@bannerot's junior class is enjoying the windy fall weather as they begin learning basketry. Reeds are soaked before they can be woven, perfect work to do outdoors!