Olivia Mills, Sampler
Kim Eichler-Messmer
What Quilts Carry: Eighteen Years of Quilting at KCAI
September 4 - December 5, 2026
Main Gallery
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FEATURED ARTISTS
Aneesa Shami Zizzo | Catherine Rybak | Erica Alexander | Gabriella Poulos
Gwen Murphy | Hadley Clark | Houda Derbas | Jaedyn Roberts | Jordan Geiger
Kadie Nugent | Kim Eichler-Messmer |Kit Landwehr | Lena Klett | Lily Mueller | Lizzie Green
Michelle Chan | Mol Mir | Nathan Ford | Nina Littrell | Olivia Mills | Rebecca Vaughan
Sarah McMurry | Sascha Merryfield | T Palermo | Yulie Urano
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What Quilts Carry: Artists in Conversation
Saturday, October 17th | 2-3pm
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What Quilts Carry: Eighteen Years of Quilting at KCAI brings together work by alumni of the studio course “Quilts: More than the Sum of Their Parts,” developed and taught by Kim Eichler-Messmer at the Kansas City Art Institute over the past eighteen years. The exhibition traces how a shared introduction to quilting, as a system of process, materials, and form, continues to shape the artists’ practices long after the class ends. Work by Eichler-Messmer is included alongside the alumni, reflecting the ongoing relationship between teaching and studio practice. Presented together, the works reflect a range of approaches, from traditional quilting to expanded material practices, linked by an ongoing engagement with structure, attention, and process.
