Kayla Powers
Artist’s Statement
In my materially driven practice and land-based teaching, I engage with place to foster a seasonally and geographically specific visual vocabulary and to cultivate and facilitate belonging within the family of things.Â
Biography
Kayla Powers (b. 1988) is a place-based artist and naturalist who makes ecologically focused textile art with and about the living world. Kayla holds an MFA in Fiber Art from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BA in Art History from Western Michigan University.Â
Awards
2025
Hancock Fellowship, Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Australia
Artist-in-Residence, AiR Green, Noresund, Norway
2024
Artist-in-Residence, Breck Create, Breckenridge, Colorado
2023
President’s Award for Sustainability, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Artist-in-Residence, Icelandic Textile Center, Blönduós, Iceland
2022
Windgate Fellowship, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Outstanding Student Award, Surface Design, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2021
Gerhardt Knodel Fellowship, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
2020
Grant Recipient, Knight Foundation, Detroit, Michigan
Honorable Mention, Scarab Club, Detroit, MichiganExhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Title TBD (forthcoming), Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Saugatuck, Michigan
Title TBD (forthcoming), Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Australia
2024
Public Art Exhibition, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
International Festival of Arts, Breckenridge, Colorado
2023
Made of Light, Common Grounds, Traverse City, Michigan
2022Â
Above Below Within, Cedar North, Cedar, MichiganÂ
Self Preservation, GM Design Center, Warren, Michigan
2021
Soft Grid, Simone DeSousa at Eugenie, Detroit, Michigan
The Shape of Home, Public Art Installation, Detroit, Michigan
2020
Local Color, Detroit Month of Design, Detroit, Michigan
Naturally Dyed Textiles, Gillespe Museum, DeLand, Florida
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Vision Makers, 108 Contemporary, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Piece by Piece, Stamelos Gallery, University of Michigan, Dearborn, Michigan
Onna House, The Royal Poinciana, Palm Beach, Florida
2024 -2025, The Kresge Foundation, Troy, Michigan
Winter at BasBleu, Wasserman Projects, Detroit, Michigan
2023
Get Together, Reyes Finn Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
Going North, Icelandic Textile Center, Blönduós, Iceland
Earth is a Time Machine, Wavelength Space, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Graduate Degree Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Concerning Landscape, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, Michigan
2022
Materials: Hard + Soft, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, Texas
The Fiber of Being, Matthai Botanical Garden, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Handwerk, Next Space Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
2021
What Feels Real, StudioStudio, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Uncommon Thread, Scarab Club, Detroit, MichiganWebsite
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Kayla Powers
Chromatic Ecology: Spruce
48 x 36 ″ Archival Giclée Print on Moab Entrada paper $950