Contact: Kammy Downs
Email: kammyldowns@gmail.com
Phone: 909.714.7966
Address: 11 E. 89th St.
Facebook: Kammy Downs
Instagram: @kammydowns
About: Kammy Kennelley Downs is a teaching artist whose artworks employ seeds, roots, and plants as metaphors for the relationship between the seen and unseen in life. Her practice includes social practice projects around issues of mental health. Downs grew up in rural Kansas within a family of makers and has been teaching art for over 25 years. Currently, she teaches sculpture at Kansas City Kansas Community College while offering a range of art workshops & classes out of her Mission, KS art studio. She earned a bachelor’s in art education from Emporia State University and a Master of Fine Arts in drawing from Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas. Downs is committed to facilitating artistic opportunities in her community and empowering others to realize their creative strengths. She believes art has the power to heal while making space for community.
Artisan
Natural dyer, sewist, hand-stitching, mender, drawing on fabrics, recycler
Services: Teaching various classes in drawing, natural dying, eco printing, quilt, embroidery.
Classes: Fiber Mix-media, Mindfulness, Eco printing, Embroidery, Quilt basics, Plant dyes.
“I am a multi-disciplinary visual and social practice artist that creates meditative fiber artworks incorporating uniquely created plant dyes and hand stitching to construct meditative spaces. My work speaks about the relationship between the seen and unseen in life.”
