The Kansas City Kansas Community College Art Gallery is holding a closing reception for its current exhibition, “Eco-Justice,” later this week.
The reception is from 4 to 6 p.m. July 22 in the art gallery, which is on the lower level of the Jewell Building on the KCKCC Main Campus, 7250 State Ave. The event is free and open to the public.
“Eco-Justice” by Susan Ferguson, reflects on the mingling of nature, ecological justice and climate change. Ferguson, who has worked for more than 40 years in agriculture, journalism, writing, editing and teaching, developed the ideas for many of the fiber collages after seeing news footage and photographs of wildfires in both California and Oregon in 2019.
A self-educated artist, she was a Fellow in the 2020 cohort of the Artist INC program of the Mid-America Arts Alliance and has had her work exhibited throughout the Kansas City metropolitan area as well as St. Louis.
Ferguson’s pieces use a variety of different fibers including yarn, linen, cotton, felted wool and deconstructed fabric and utilizes techniques such as knitting, weaving, felting and other fabric manipulation.
Pieces in the exhibit include “Camp Fire,” “Cave Fire,” “Kincade Fire,” “Piute Fire,” “Tick Fire,” “Mallacoota Bushfire,” “Victoria Bushfire,” “August Complex Fire” and others.
- Story from Kelly Rogge, KCKCC public relations manager
