Arts

Exhibition Reception: Both / And

This exhibition brings together the fresh perspectives and rigorous studio practices of first-year MFA graduate students from: Carnegie Mellon University and Kent State University. "Both/And" serves as a bridge between the creative communities of Pittsburgh and Kent, highlighting the diverse researc…

KBAI Visiting Artist Lecture: Leslie Diuguid

Leslie Diuguid is a Brooklyn-based artist, printmaker and founder of Du-Good Press. Her practice combines technical precision with creative collaboration, and she is committed to expanding access to the arts through screenprinting, teaching and community-centered work.

KBAI Visiting Artist Lecture: Trudy Benson

Trudy Benson is a painter based in the Hudson Valley, New York. Her work examines painterly layering as image and process, with compositions that reference systems of organization such as grids, networks and sequences.

KBAI Visiting Artist Lecture: Ellie Krakow

Ellie Krakow is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans sculpture, drawing and photography. Her practice combines bodily representation with forms inspired by medical intervention and seeks to claim a place for the sick body within the lineage of figurative sculpture.

KBAI Visiting Artist Lecture: Ryan Gardner

Ryan Gardner is a jewelry artist and metalsmith based in Ohio. Through Ryan Gardner Designs, he creates one-of-a-kind works that combine stone and metal, often beginning with rough stones that he cuts, polishes or carves by hand.

KBAI Visiting Artist Lecture: Jason Lee Starin

Jason Lee Starin is a ceramic artist whose work has been shown in group exhibitions across the United States. His practice uses ceramics, discarded objects and construction materials to explore relationships among craft, escapism, emotional awareness and the physical environments people inhabit.

KBAI Visiting Artist Lecture: Dylan Ethan Collins

Dylan Ethan Collins is a mixed-media artist whose research explores the intersection of traditional and digital artmaking methods. His practice includes drawing, steel fabrication, blacksmithing, 3D printing, CNC cutting, mold making, metal casting and found object assemblage.

KBAI Visiting Artist Lecture: Elbert Joseph Perez

Elbert Joseph Perez is a self-taught painter based in Hudson, New York. His oil paintings draw from personal symbolism, art history, philosophy and literature to create allegorical narratives that reflect on the fragility and strength of the human psyche.

KBAI Visiting Artist Lecture: Maura Wright

Maura Wright is a Kansas City-based visual artist working primarily in earthenware clay and painted paper. Her ceramic vessels, still life sculptures and large-scale installations draw from Rococo ornamentation, interior fresco painting and the expressiveness of touch in American folk art.

KBAI Visiting Artist Lecture: Tyanna Buie

Tyanna J. Buie is an artist and educator whose work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions nationally. A native of Chicago and Milwaukee, Buie has received fellowships and awards including the Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant, the Kresge Artist Fellowship and the Ruth Arts/Mary L. …