Opening Reception
Thursday, March 2nd, 2023 | 5 - 8pm

Closing Reception with Weaving Demo

Saturday, May 27th, 2023 | 1 - 4pm

Lineages explores multi-directional and entangled histories, or “genealogies,” through weaving and its peripheral--but intrinsically connected--activities, sites, ambient knowledges and structures. Specifically, the exhibition explores Swedish, Swedish-American, and American identities through traditional weaving and its site-specific environments, algorithmic structures, associations, and temporal rhythms. Through a series of weavings, draft notations, sound, and video, sister artists Debbie Barrett-Jones and Kristine Barrett present kinship and cultural identities as fluid processes rather than a given: connecting, dissolving, and reconstituting through memory, practice, and relationship. This (re)membering relates to the act of weaving and textile practice itself: weaving disparate threads (or bodies, sounds, images, narratives, hidden histories) into a relationship with one another, sewing-severing-suturing. Other ‘genealogies’ emerge through this process that intersects, intervenes, disrupts, and entangles.

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​Textiles artist, DEBBIE BARRETT-JONES left her small town in Iowa so she could pursue an education at the Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) and since graduation, has exhibited her work throughout the United States, including the Kansas City area locations, such as; Children’s Mercy Hospital in North Kansas City, Truman Medical Center, Community Christian Church, Lead Bank in the Crossroads of Kansas City, and The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. And in late 2016, she collaborated with he Kansas City Ballet for an art installation and performance called Unspoken. Barrett-Jones is currently working on her Master of Fine Art at the University of Kansas focusing on textiles along with teaching weaving courses to KU undergraduates.

In 2016, she began to envision the "Healing with Weaving" initiative, to highlight the importance of how art, specifically weaving, can be a therapeutic tool for healing. The first Healing with Weaving Community Outreach Program’s pilot project at Children’s Mercy Hospital Adele Hall Campus in Kansas City, MO. The project provides 200 Healing with Weaving Frame Loom Kits with instructions to be used by patients, family members, and staff to explore the meditative and therapeutic benefits of weaving during the summer and fall of 2021. Currently, Barrett-Jones was one of nineteen Kansas City artists to be commissioned to make permanent public artwork for the new KCI Airport that will open in the spring of 2023.​

KRISTINE BARRETT is an American artist, composer, academic, and vocalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area.  After completing a double BFA in Studio Art and Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute, Barrett went on to study music composition with the legendary Fred Frith at Mills College, where she received an MFA in Electronic Music Composition and Recording Media in 2006.  A storyteller at heart, Barrett’s work has been performed, exhibited, and featured in various galleries and media festivals throughout North America and Europe, and was recently featured on the NPR show The Thistle and Shamrock. In addition to her solo work, Kristine has performed professionally with several renowned musicians and ensembles, including the acclaimed Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble, Svetlana Spajić, and Trio Kavkasia, among many others.  She has directed several community choirs throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, including the Temple of Light Georgian Community Choir, Headlands Community Folk Ensemble, and Sound Orchard’s West Marin Choir.  Connecting folklore, textiles, and women’s vocal arts, Kristine is currently working on her second Master’s degree in Folklore at UC Berkeley. An avid hiker, bibliophile, lover of ancient literature and art; Kristine loves being in the non-human world, wooden boats, needlework, and sailing schooners.  She currently resides on a houseboat with a myriad of plants, shrines, and animals with her husband in Sausalito, California.