Linda Jurkiewicz
Fiber Artist
Linda Jurkiewicz lives in Kansas City, MO and began working with fiber in 2005. She credits her upbringing as a first-generation Ukrainian-Croatian for her “make-do” attitude and her delight in upcycling repurposed materials, especially “woman’s work” such as dish towels, household items, and clothing. Her consequential fiber work incorporates soft sculpture, wordplay, idiom, embroidery, wall hangings, plush form, sequential dioramas, and installations which delve into the cultural roles of women in America over the last century. She pushes viewers to reexamine these roles that are changing, to trade nostalgia for empowerment.
Solo Exhibitions
2024 "The Top-Half Bakery" Installation, Leedy Voulkos Art Center, KCMO
2023 ""Who Will Hear My Plea? Installation, 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
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Group Exhibitions
2024 Delta Triennial, Arkansas Museum of Fine Art, Little Rock, AR
It’s the Little Things, Interurban Art House, Overland Park, KS
39th Street Show, Smalter Art Gallery, KCMO
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
W 39th Street: Art From Here II, Smalter Gallery, KCMO
84/61: Women’s Work, UMKC Gallery of Art, KCMO
2022 "Her Art/Their Art" InterUrban ArtHouse, Overland Park, KS
"Art Heals" InterUrban ArtHouse, Overland Park, KS
2021 "Smaller Art" Smalter Gallery, KCMO
"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
“Fiber 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, Missouri
Amarillo Museum of Art Biennial-600: Textile/Fiber, Amarillo, Texas
“Look Me In the Eye: Portraits of Kansas City”, Epsten Gallery, Leawood, KS
“W. 39th St: Art From Here” Smalter Gallery, KCMO
New Work by the Kansas City Fiber Group, Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, KCMO
“Paying tribute to the Muse” Vanessa Lacy Gallery, KCMO
2018 “Explorations in Fiber” Tim Murphy Gallery, Merriam, KS
“Raw –The Exhibition” Indiana University, Kokomo, Indiana.
“The Nature of Fibers” Anita B. Gorman Discovery Center, Kansas City, Missouri.
2017 “Edge: On the Verge” Topeka Public Library, Topeka, Kansas
“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, Juror’s Choice Award.
“Where We Are Going, Where We Have Been” MINT’s Third Annual Juried Exhibition, Atlanta, Georgia.
“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.
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Professional Affiliations:
Kansas City Artists Coalition
Publications and Interviews:
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
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KKFI Artspeak interview, July 2023
KKFI Artspeak interview, June 2022
DO NOT SILENCE ME, Live interview at Bunker Center for the Arts, March 2022
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Instagram Live Interview @SmalterArt Linda Jurkiewicz, July 31, 2020
KC Studio, May 2019 Fine Art/Fine Craft: New Work by the Kansas City Fiber Group
Grants and Honors:
2024 Albrecht-Kemper Museum Membership Exhibit – First Place in Fibers and Textiles
2022, August Haystack Mountain School of Crafts on full scholarship
2022 Arts KC Inspiration Grant for “Integration of Inner and Outer Life through Working with Textiles”
2017 Penland School of Arts and Crafts – full scholarship
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Education:
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, “Stitching Soft Sculpture” with Nicole Havekost, September 2023
Haystack Mountain School of Arts and Crafts, “Finding Focus” with Jane Lackey, August 2022
Penland School of Arts and Crafts, attended August 2017
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Certifications:
Weaving a Life Circle Leader, 2020
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Residencies
Jardin Botanique de Marnay sur Seine, France, 2023
Osage Arts Community, 2020