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    • ABOUT
    • GALLERY
      • save COLORED men
      • SAPPHIRE SERIES
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      • Adinkra Symbols
      • Our Ancestors unFINISHED
      • FASHION AND FIBER
      • CROWN
      • faces
      • SCRAPS
      • jAZZY Collection
      • TEXTILE PANELS
    • STORYTELLING
      • Women in Jazz
      • Zora's Journey
      • Ida's Journey to save...
      • Author and Artist Chat
      • Artist Conversation
      • " unFINISHED stories"
      • 777@7 Part 1
      • 777@7 Part 2
      • A is for Africa 2020
    • TAMMIE HOLLAND SHOW
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ART BY .E LEWIS
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SEW What's Happening in August

Hello and welcome to my art and entertainment gallery.

My name is Karen E. Griffin, I am the artist Art by .E Lewis

 

I am a creative, proactive and transformative textile and performing artist possessing the innovative ability to formulate fabrics and seams into wonderful stories. My visionary process evokes and informs viewers by exploring tangible and verbal artforms. 

 

August Newsletter

New Shows, Art Classes, and More!

July 1st -September 22nd

"Rhythm and Reveal"

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Buttonwood Art Space is underwritten by Buttonwood Financial Group, LLC. 3013 Main St. Kansas City, MO 64108 (816) 285.9040

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July 1st -September 22nd

"Rhythm and Reveal"

  

EXHIBITION DATES: JULY 1 - SEPTEMBER 22, 2022 

FIRST FRIDAY RECEPTION: AUGUST 5, 2022, 5PM - 8PM 


How do you reveal the strength of the huma...

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Buttonwood Art Space is underwritten by Buttonwood Financial Group, LLC. 3013 Main St. Kansas City, MO 64108 (816) 285.9040

FRI. August 5th

Make & Take Art Block Quilt

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Bunker Center for the Arts 1014 E. 19th Street KCMO 64018

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FRI. August 5th

Make & Take Art Block Quilt

   

I need your help with recycling fabric. Join me and others with creating a free 6 x 6 art quilt block. No experience needed. It's fun, fa...

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Bunker Center for the Arts 1014 E. 19th Street KCMO 64018

SAT. August 13th

Truth in Comedy ( TiC )

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Bunker Center for the Arts 1014 E. 19th Street KCMO 64018

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SAT. August 13th

Truth in Comedy ( TiC )

   

 Truth in Comedy, or TiC for short, is a storytelling, stand-up comedy, and art show where humanity is the muse. It's a unique experience...

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SAT. August 13th

Mark your calendar and honor the Afro-American Flag August 13, 1920

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Bunker Center for the Arts 1014 E. 19th Street KCMO 64018

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SAT. August 13th

Mark your calendar and honor the Afro-American Flag August 13, 1920

Red: the blood that unites all people of Black African ancestry, and shed for liberation;

Black: for the people whose existence as a nation, ...

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Bunker Center for the Arts 1014 E. 19th Street KCMO 64018

FRI. August 19th

Tangled Roots 2022

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Bunker Center for the Arts 1014 E. 19th Street KCMO 64018

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FRI. August 19th

Tangled Roots 2022

 Tangled Roots is a multicultural artist collaboration. An organic and ever expanding cultural celebration of diversity and inclusion, the e...

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I am a artist. I am a storyteller. I am a educator.

Portfolio

  

Education 

· Certified National Storyteller, Mid-Continent Public Library   2021  

· Certificate of Completion in Mastering Public Speaking, Mid-Continent Public Library  2021 

· Certificate of Completion in Art and Crafts Business, Mid-Continent Public Library  2020  

· Certified International Tour Manager, International Guide Academy    2019  

· Bachelor of Science in Business Management, University of Phoenix   2013  

 

Art Studio 

· The Bunker Center for the Arts- Kansas City, MO  2019 - Current 

   

Solo Exhibitions

·  Red, Black and Green on Canvas, Black Archives of Mid-America, Kansas City, MO  2021

·  SCRAPS at Pierpont’s at Union Station, Kansas City, MO 2021

· Sapphire, Bunker Center for the Arts, Kansas City, MO    2021

·  Ida’s journey to save COLORED men in america, Black Archives Mid-America, 

    Kansas City, MO    2021

·  Peace of Me, Holsum Art Gallery, Kansas City, MO    2021

· Fashion and Fiber, Do Good, Kansas City, MO 2021

· Faces, Do Good Co., Kansas City, MO 2021

· Seams & Stories, The Sewing Labs, Kansas City, MO 2021

· Our Ancestor’s unFINISHED stories in america on the LINE, 

  The Black Archives and The Bunker Center for the Arts, Kansas City, MO 2019 - 2020 


Group Exhibition

  

· Rhythm and Reveal, Buttonwood, KCMO, 2022

· Change is God-Take Root Among the Stars: Black Abstraction in the Midwest

   Curator and Visual Artist Gregory J. Rose, Minnesota, MN 2022 

· Her Art / Their Art, Interurban Arthouse, Overland Park, KS 2022

· Abstract: heART for All, Buttonwood, Kansas City, MO 2022

· Art Exhibitions, Johnson County Public Library, Gardner, KS  2022

· The Essence of a Black Woman, Motor House | Blk Arthouse- Baltimore, MD  2021 

· Site One, The Erku Project, Kansas City, MO    2021

· 12 x 12, Interurban Arthouse, Overland Park, KS  2021

· Flat File and Digital File, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO   2021

· Stupid Cupid/Eros Unbound, Kansas City, MO  2021

· Tangled Roots, Interurban Arthouse, Overland Park, KS   2021

· Run run quiet, plug, Kansas City, MO   2021

· RACE, Museum at Prairefire, Overland Park, KS  2021

· Her Art as Life, University of Missouri Kansas City | Kansas City Community Church of Christ Kansas City, MO     2021

· Juneteenth, St. Louis Art Chamber, St Louis, Missouri  2021


Publications and Reviews

· Guildit  https://guildit.org/blog/ 2022

· Missouri Arts Council   https://www.facebook.com/missouriartscouncil 2022

· SCRAPS KC, February  2022

· core. issue 3. Dec. 2021. pp.11-17    2021

· The State Historical Society of Missouri; Winter 2021-2022 Missouri Time p.14 2021

· “The Life, I Love” National Best Seller, Co-Author pp. 31 -36 2020  


Workshops and Education

· Playing Dress Up, Fringe, Kansas City, MO 2022

Make’n HERstory, The Sewing Labs, Career Presentation, Kansas City, MO  2021 

· Seams and Stories, The Sewing Labs, art class and storytelling, Kansas City, MO 2021 

· Fiber and Fashion, Do Good Co. Art show and storytelling, Kansas City, MO 2021  

· Jazz Appreciation Month, Virtual Art and Jazz Presentation, Fort Wayne, IN 2021

· Jazz Storytelling, Australian Jazz Museum, Melbourne, AU 2015 


Collections

· Bunker Center for the Artist,  2019 – present 

· Grandma’s Dress Pattern on Display at Museum at Prairiefire, June 2021 – June 2022

· Black Archives of Mid-America, Kansas City  2019


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