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Education: 

2025 – Ceramics, Penn Valley Community College

2025 – Sculpture, Maple Woods Community College

2024 – Printmaking, University of Kansas City, MO

2023 - Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Stitching Soft Sculpture

2022 - Haystack Mountain School of Arts and Crafts, Finding Focus

2020 - Weaving a Life, certified as a Circle Leader

2017 - Penland School of Arts and Crafts, Letterpress Fundamentals

1991 – Painting, University of Kansas City, MO

1987- 1988 – Visual Arts Explorations – Penn Valley Community College

1980 - Bachelor’s in Music Education with an emphasis in Music Therapy, UMKC

 

Residencies:

2025 – Peninsula School of Art, Time and Space Program, Fish Creek, Wisconsin

2024 – International Lithuanian Art Residency, Palanga, Lithuania

2023 – Jardin Botanique de Marnay sur Seine, France,

2020 – Osage Arts Community, Belle, Missouri

 

Solo exhibitions 

 

2024 

The Top-Half Bakery: Ode to the Prudish Mother, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, KCMO 

 

2023  

Who Will Hear My Plea? Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, KCMO  

 

2022  

The Hook: Mirrors and Messages, Arts Asylum at Premier Financial Services, KCMO  

DO NOT SILENCE ME: Exploring Women’s Roles Through Stitch, Bunker Center for the Arts, KCMO                                      

 

Group exhibitions 

 

2026 – Upcoming

Social Fabric - Special Effects Gallery, KCMO

Secret Signs - Vulpes Bastille, KCMO

Textile Exhibition - Kansas City Artists Coalition, KCMO

Time and Space: A Survey of Artists-in-Residence II -  Peninsula School of Art, Fish Creek, WI

 

 

2025

2025 Kansas City Flatfile & Digitalfile - Emily & Todd Voth Artspace at KCAI

Beasts of the Imagination – Ft. Smith Regional Art Museum, Ft. Smith, Arkansas

Out of Body [Exhibition] -New Narratives in Figurative Art, https://notrealart.com/exhibition/out-of-body/ Membership Exhibition, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO   

 

2024 

Membership Exhibition, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO   

Delta Triennial, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR   

It’s the LittleThings, Interurban Art House, Overland Park, KS  

Creative Cloth and Linda Jurkiewicz, Lenexa City Hall Gallery, Lenexa, KS

 

2023  

Membership Exhibition, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO   

Blue Hour, Intersect Arts Center, St. Louis, MO  

24th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois  

Her Art/Their Art, Interurban Arthouse, Overland Park, KS  

84/61: Women’s Work, UMKC Gallery of Art, KCMO  

 

2022 

Ms.behaving! Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, KCMO  

Her Art/Their Art, Interurban Arthouse, Overland Park, KS   

Art Heals, Interurban Arthouse, Overland Park, KS  

 

2021  

Tangled Roots, Interurban Arthouse, Overland Park, KS  

Temporalis Rite, Beco Gallery, KCMO  

An Exhibition of Things Called Art, Hilliard Gallery, KCMO  

Her Art/Their Art: Intersexions and Identity, Interurban Arthouse, Overland Park, KS Counterpoints – MoFA, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO

 

2020  

State of the Arts 2020, Prairie Village, KS  

Kansas City Fiber Group Show, Smalter Gallery, KCMO  

Who Does She Think She Is? Interurban Arthouse, Overland Park, KS  

 

2019  

Speaking of Fibers 2019 - Stories of Importance, Morton J. May Foundation Gallery, St. Louis, MO  

Amarillo Museum of Art Biennial-600: Textile/Fiber, Amarillo, Texas         

Look Me In the Eye: Portraits of Kansas City, Epsten Gallery, Leawood, KS       

New Work by the Kansas City Fiber Group, Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, KCMO

 

 

2018  

Raw –The Exhibition, Indiana University, Kokomo, Indiana  

  

2017 

Sacred Threads, Herndon, Virginia  

The Blue Show, Core New Art Space, Denver, Colorado  

 

 2016 

Welcome to My World: Mental Health Awareness through Art, MIRI Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT  

Human Form vs. Abstract Exhibition, Overland Park Art at the Center, Overland Park, KS

The Engaged Object, Foothills Art Center, Golden, Colorado 

 

2015

Unraveling Life, A joint exhibit at All Soul’s Unitarian Church, Kansas City, MO.

 

2014

Juried Exhibition in Art at the Center, Overland Park, Kansas 

Fractured Fabric Society exhibit, Interurban Arts Center, Overland Park, KS.

 Fractured Fabric Society exhibit, Lenexa City Hall, Lenexa, KS.

 

2013

Art @ Work, Arts KC Regional Arts Council, Union Station, Kansas City, MO

 

2011

Women’s Equity Quilt, University of Missouri-Kansas City Women’s Center. 

Quilts on the Quad, University of Missouri-Kansas City.  

  

Professional Affiliations:  

Kansas City Artists Coalition  

Surface Design Association

  

Publications and Interviews 

Canvas Rebel, December 2024 https://canvasrebel.com/?post_types=&s=Linda+Jurkiewicz

Linda Jurkiewicz : Artist File. Kansas City, Mo.: Spencer Art Reference Library, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,  

2023  https://search.worldcat.org/title/1416018747?oclcNum=1416018747 KKFI 

 

Artspeak interview, November 2023  https://kkfi.org/program-episodes/artspeak-radio-november-1-edition/  

 

KC Studio, September 2023  https://kcstudio.org/who-will-hear-my-plea-by-linda-jurkiewicz-leedy-voulkos-art-center-undergroundgallery-ii/  

 

KKFI Artspeak interview, July 2023  

https://kkfi.org/program-episodes/artspeak-radio-linda-jurkiewicz-kitty-barrett-kraai-and-phil-dunn/  

 

KKFI Artspeak interview, June 2022  

https://kkfi.org/program-episodes/artspeak-radio-schnur-nagler-meeks-jurkiewicz/  

 

March 2022 DO NOT SILENCE ME, Live interview at Bunker Center for the Arts https://www.facebook.com/bunkca/videos/682271556539203/  

 

Instagram Live Interview @SmalterArt Linda Jurkiewicz, July 31, 2020 

 

KC Studio, May 2019 http://kcstudio.org/fine-art-fine-craft-new-work-by-the-kansas-city-fiber-group-leedy-voulkosart-center/  

 

Grants and Awards

2024 - Albrecht-Kemper Museum Membership Exhibit – First Place in Fibers and Textiles

2022- Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Jack Lenor Larsen scholarship  

2022 - Arts KC Inspiration Grant “Integration of Inner and Outer Life through Working with Textiles” 

2017 – Penland School of Crafts scholarship

2016 - Human Form vs. Abstract Exhibition, Overland Park Art at the Center, Juror’s Choice Award

2009 – Midwest Weavers Conference scholarship