WORKSHOPS, EVENTS, + EXHIBITIONS
2026
Tender Machines + Soft Structures
I’m excited to present a solo show of new work!
July 2 - August 20, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, JULY 2, 2026 from 5PM-7PM
Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH
Exhibition Statement:
In this world, perspective shifts from horizon to close-up to overhead. Interiors and landscapes blur their edges. Earth and sky are in perpetual negotiation, reflecting one another while struggling to maintain dominance.
Water towers, grain elevators, furnaces, satellites, and turbines grow soft and unwieldy, forgetting what they were meant to do. Ponds, hills, fields, and constellations step in to guide the way.
Brightness and weight coexist easily here, with joy and sadness resting side by side. Flashes of light and shimmer offer protection from ill intent. Everything tilts without deciding to fall. Tender machines and soft structures practice the quiet work of keeping balance.
Heart of the Nation
May 15 – July 19, 2026, IKEA, Merriam, KS
Presented in collaboration with IKEA in partnership with AAACollective
Heart of a Nation is a nine-week artist residency and exhibition that brings together twenty-one artists whose work reflects the layered cultural forces that have shaped Kansas City. Organized in three rotating cohorts, the residency invites artists to present works developed within their own studio practices and install them within an exhibition environment designed to mirror the spaces in which people live and gather.
Form + Field
I had several quilts on display in an exhibition at HOK (an architecture firm in KC) in partnership with the Kansas City Artist Coalition, curated by Babs O’Halloran. January - March, 2026
2025
As Grass Grows – Ten Years at Prairieside Outpost
September 5 - November 21, 2025
As Grass Grows: Ten Years at Prairieside Outpost is a group exhibition commemorating the first ten years of the Artist-in-Residence program at Prairieside Outpost in Matfield Green, Kansas. The exhibition features 28 visual artists and writers from across North America, each of whom has worked on their creative endeavors in the remote and head-clearing expanse that is the Kansas Flint Hills. This unique ecosystem, known for its unmediated landscape of rolling hills, layered limestone, and the biodiverse habitat of the tallgrass prairie, provides an engaging natural setting for creativity.
2024
June 25 - 27: Des Moines Area Quilters Guild lecture and workshops
I will be giving an artist talk on the evening of June 25, a gradient dyeing workshop on June 26, and a machine sewn, raw edge, reverse applique workshop on June 27. There are still a few spaces available in my Reverse Applique workshop. Check out the link above to register. Non-members of the DSM Quilt Guild can take the workshop for an additional fee.
July 15 - 21: Slow Stitching, A Gathering of Stitches
I’m teaching indigo + shibori at the Slow Stitching Retreat in Washington, Maine. This will be my fourth time teaching there and I am so excited!
2022
April 12 - June 26, 2022: Midwest Modern Quilt Exhibition at the Iowa Quilt Museum
I have two quilts in this exhibition!
Midwest Modern is a collection of modern quilts from the last decade that were made by quilters who primarily live and work in the Midwest. The quilts in this exhibit are a small sample of the ways midwestern modern quilters have explored both the past and future of quilt design using the highest and lowest of technologies. They were created with inspiration from the world around them both rural and urban and from the histories and traditions of art, architecture, design, and quilting while being strongly influenced by the internet age and social media. These quilts, like modern quilting itself, were created on the boundaries of the quilting traditions that were most prominent in the last century and they pushed forward into the new century toward the future of quilt design and quilt making. Curated by Heather Kinion.
May 21-22: Machine Sewn Shibori with Indigo + Cutch
Virtual workshop with Botanical Colors
Textile artists around the world have been using shibori techniques to create patterns, marks, and imagery on cloth for thousands of years. We will expand on this tradition with the use of a sewing machine to create intricate geometric patterns and machine sewn shibori. We will experiment with the technique using small pieces of fabric dyed in indigo and then expand on our practice by going bigger and adding in cutch, iron, and optional foraged dyes to add layers of color and depth to our designs. Rather than finishing a project, participants will create a number of studies that will be suitable for use in a wide variety of sewing projects.
The workshop includes tannin dyes, iron and mordant for mordanting cellulose fibers. You may add your own foraged dyes or other dyes of your choice. Indigo ingredients are not included in the workshop materials and we have included a link to the information on how to calculate the amount of indigo needed for your vat.
2021
October 22-23: Machine Sewn Shibori with Indigo
Virtual workshop with Botanical Colors
Textile artists around the world have been using shibori techniques to create patterns, marks, and imagery on cloth for thousands of years. We will expand on this tradition with the use of a sewing machine to create intricate geometric patterns and machine sewn shibori. We will experiment with the technique using small pieces of fabric dyed in indigo and then expand on our practice by going bigger and adding in cutch, iron, and optional foraged dyes to add layers of color and depth to our designs. Rather than finishing a project, participants will create a number of studies that will be suitable for use in a wide variety of sewing projects.
The workshop includes tannin dyes, iron and mordant for mordanting cellulose fibers. You may add your own foraged dyes or other dyes of your choice. Indigo ingredients are not included in the workshop materials and we have included a link to the information on how to calculate the amount of indigo needed for your vat.
Take advantage of this opportunity to consider making a runner for your holiday table (or gift your favorite hostess!)
May 28: Botanical Colors Feedback Friday
The recording is now available! click here
Join us May 28th, 9am Pacific, 12pm Eastern for a live Zoom FEEDBACK FRIDAY with Kim Eichler-Messmer, a quilt artist who has been hand-dyeing fabric for nearly 20 years. In 2015 she made the decision to switch from using synthetic dyes to natural dyes and began a journey of learning and discovery, guided by experts in the field such as Catharine Ellis and Michel Garcia. Kim will share her work, how the learning process influences her, and discuss how her work has evolved since making the switch to natural dyes.
January 21: Textile Talk: Natural Dyes & the Natural Dye Garden, presented by the Surface Design Association.
With Catharine Ellis, Rosa Chang, Kenya Miles, and myself! Watch the video recording below!