Maven

𝘗𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘉𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘴 will be among good company in Vortex, Selections from Comfort Station’s Artists to Watch program May— October, 2026 Opening Reception May 16, 2026 2–5p Buddy Chicago 78 E Washington St Garland Gallery, Chicago, IL 60602 Curated by— Alexandria Knapik Vortex brings together artists whose works examine how materials, bodies, and systems transform through repetition, pressure, circulation, and time. Across many processes displayed, which include: weaving, rubbing, crystallizing, staining, digitizing, and decay, the works together resist fixed identity and instead operate as porous and evolving structures, carrying the marks of softened grids, reconstructed blooms, weathered residues, and ecological imprints. The exhibition embraces abundance and draws from an understanding that meaning, resourcefulness, and transformation emerge from what is already present. Even though that notion is sometimes lost in the vortex of what captures our attention. Through reused materials, gestures, slow processes, and adaptation, the artists collectively reveal abundance within limitation and expansiveness within constraint. Like a vortex (in fluid dynamics), the exhibition gathers disparate practices into motion, allowing meaning to accumulate through return, drift, and relational flow. #screenprint #naturaldye #boxmaking

Final week of Queer Ecologies II at Charlotte Street! Collab between The Waiting Room and Purple Window Gallery. Image (left to right): SK Reed, Maven Kennedy, Kate Humphrey, and Maya Davis. Featuring: Bianca Brandolino @bianca.brandolino Maya Davis @mayabdavis Lily Erb @lilywelderb Eve Gordon @from.eves.studio Naomi Hamlin-Navias @allfishgotoheaven Kate Humphrey @kateweavesthings Missy IsaMoore @unrelaxedmissy , @petalsandironkc Linye Jiang @linye.j Katie Kaplan @pennysmasher Maven Kennedy @mkennedystudios Justin Korver @justincaseyourewondering Calder Kamin @calderful Emily Mulvaney @emily_mulvaney David Nasca @davnasca Lucas Nguyen @lucas_fiberarts SK Reed @sk__paints Oona Taper @oonataper Exer Thurston @baybey.baybye Kellen Wright @kellen__w Eli Brown @eli.m.brown Photo by @egschempf

Hi my loves! At the end of April I will be moving out of my studio 💔 and to prepare for downsizing my collection of work/stuff I will be doing a studio sale Sunday - Tuesday 4/26-4/28. You can expect to see books, bandanas, prints, stickers, iron on patches, small textile and box works, and studio supplies and furniture! It’s a weird and transitional time for me right now, and I would love so much for my work and things to be adopted by you so to make this sale as accessible as I can manage items over $35 will be available at a sliding scale. I’ll be sharing links to the sale on my website and on instagram Sunday morning at 10am, and you can call dibs my dming me, and paying me through my Venmo link. #studiosale #prints #journals #naturaldye #screenprinting

There’s still a little time to see Queer Ecologies at @charlottestreetfoundation up through 5/2! Here’s some documentation of my work for the show 𝘗𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘔𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘴 𝘐𝘧 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘞𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘉𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘔𝘪𝘹𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺𝘴 screenprints with inks made from marigold, goldenrod, onion skin, peach pits, ground bricks, walnut husks, rusty nails and burnt paper on two mirror, walnut ink stained frames #naturaldyes #inkmaking #screenprinting #mirrors #installationart

Thank you to @kcstudiomag for featuring Queer Ecologies II on view at @charlottestreetfoundation ! And thank you Emily Spradling for the lovely writing. If you’re interested link in bio! ——- Queer Ecologies II, on view at Charlotte Street until 5/2. @charlottestreetfoundation The exhibition is a collaboration between The Waiting Room and Purple Window gallery, curated by Bianca Brandolino, Lily Erb, Maven Kennedy, and SK Reed. @purplewindowgallery @itsthewaitingroom Featuring: Bianca Brandolino @bianca.brandolino Maya Davis @mayabdavis Lily Erb @lilywelderb Eve Gordon @from.eves.studio Naomi Hamlin-Navias @allfishgotoheaven Kate Humphrey @kateweavesthings Missy IsaMoore @unrelaxedmissy , @petalsandironkc Linye Jiang @linye.j Katie Kaplan @pennysmasher Maven Kennedy @mkennedystudios Justin Korver @justincaseyourewondering Calder Kamin @calderful Emily Mulvaney @emily_mulvaney David Nasca @davnasca Lucas Nguyen @lucas_fiberarts SK Reed @sk__paints Oona Taper @oonataper Exer Thurston @baybey.baybye Kellen Wright @kellen__w Eli Brown @eli.m.brown

Queer Ecologies II, on view at Charlotte Street until 5/2. @charlottestreetfoundation The exhibition is a collaboration between The Waiting Room and Purple Window gallery, curated by Bianca Brandolino, Lily Erb, Maven Kennedy, and SK Reed. @purplewindowgallery @itsthewaitingroom Featuring: Bianca Brandolino @bianca.brandolino Maya Davis @mayabdavis Lily Erb @lilywelderb Eve Gordon @from.eves.studio Naomi Hamlin-Navias @allfishgotoheaven Kate Humphrey @kateweavesthings Missy IsaMoore @unrelaxedmissy , @petalsandironkc Linye Jiang @linye.j Katie Kaplan @pennysmasher Maven Kennedy @mkennedystudios Justin Korver @justincaseyourewondering Calder Kamin @calderful Emily Mulvaney @emily_mulvaney David Nasca @davnasca Lucas Nguyen @lucas_fiberarts SK Reed @sk__paints Oona Taper @oonataper Exer Thurston @baybey.baybye Kellen Wright @kellen__w Eli Brown @eli.m.brown Photo by @egschempf

Queer Ecologies II, on view at Charlotte Street until 5/2. @charlottestreetfoundation The exhibition is a collaboration between The Waiting Room and Purple Window gallery, curated by Bianca Brandolino, Lily Erb, Maven Kennedy, and SK Reed. @purplewindowgallery @itsthewaitingroom Featuring: Bianca Brandolino @bianca.brandolino Maya Davis @mayabdavis Lily Erb @lilywelderb Eve Gordon @from.eves.studio Naomi Hamlin-Navias @allfishgotoheaven Kate Humphrey @kateweavesthings Missy IsaMoore @unrelaxedmissy , @petalsandironkc Linye Jiang @linye.j Katie Kaplan @pennysmasher Maven Kennedy @mkennedystudios Justin Korver @justincaseyourewondering Calder Kamin @calderful Emily Mulvaney @emily_mulvaney David Nasca @davnasca Lucas Nguyen @lucas_fiberarts SK Reed @sk__paints Oona Taper @oonataper Exer Thurston @baybey.baybye Kellen Wright @kellen__w Eli Brown @eli.m.brown Photo by @egschempf

I am honored to be in this exhibition with members of the artist collective Praxis. Our group continues to support and challenge each other professionally via monthly meetings, studio visits, exhibitions, shared resources. Grateful! Join us for the opening on April 10th at Chicago Art Department. It’s EXPO weekend- get some daylight and fresh air while you hit the local galleries after you cruise Navy Pier. Cover art by Jennifet Mannebach. Card design by @marzena.anna.ziejka @vanessafilley @mannebach_art @tulikaartist @tlh.gill.studio @yoonshin_park @loisbielefeld @katherinelampert @jilllanza @hollyacahill And curated by the marvelous @mkennedystudios

Opening next Second Friday!! What You Change, Changes You approaches art making as a collaborative and social practice. The exhibition brings together Praxis, a collective of eleven women artists formed in 2019 whose resistance to singular medium, style, or category is itself a position. Spanning fiber, ceramics, performance, collage, and beyond, they join a long lineage of women who have challenged the formal frameworks that have both defined and limited the canon. The artists in this exhibition restore through mending, reclaim through melting down and reshaping, and rebelliously preserve histories that have always existed at the margins. The meaning-rich processes and storied materials each engage with and contribute to the ethos of the artist as both record keeper and context shifter. By working with their families, partners, and communities, the larger ecosystem of each comes together and is changed by their experiences, cumulatively resulting in an ever-evolving process of regeneration and change. Picture above Holly Cahill, Elemental Interplay, 2025 acrylic on canvas and linen, natural dyes on silk and cotton, velvet 47.5 x 44.75 inches Curated by @mkennedystudios Participating artists Lois Bielefeld @loisbielefeld Holly Cahill @hollyacahill Vannessa Filley @vanessafilley Tanya Gill @tlh.gill.studio Rita Grendze @ritagrendze Tulika Ladsariya @tulikaartist Katherine Lampert @katherinelampert Jill Lanza @jilllanza Jennifer Mannebach @mannebach_art Yoonshin Park @yoonshin_park Opening reception April 10, 6 to 9pm Exhibition runs April 10 to May 29 Artist panel May 8, 6 to 8pm Collage workshop May 21, 4 to 6pm

Thank you everyone who came out to the opening of Queer Ecologies II yesterday @charlottestreetfoundation ! Additional thanks to those who made zine pages for our collaborative zine! The show is up for six weeks, come see the amazing work of 20 Queer Midwest artists thinking with ecological counterparts! —- The exhibition is a collaboration between The Waiting Room and Purple Window gallery, curated by Bianca Brandolino, Lily Erb, Maven Kennedy, and SK Reed. Featuring: Bianca Brandolino @bianca.brandolino Maya Davis @mayabdavis Lily Erb @lilywelderb Eve Gordon @from.eves.studio Naomi Hamlin-Navias @allfishgotoheaven Kate Humphrey @kateweavesthings Missy IsaMoore @unrelaxedmissy , @petalsandironkc Linye Jiang @linye.j Katie Kaplan @pennysmasher Maven Kennedy @mkennedystudios Justin Korver @justincaseyourewondering Calder Kamin @calderful Emily Mulvaney @emily_mulvaney David Nasca @davnasca Lucas Nguyen @lucas_fiberarts SK Reed @sk__paints Oona Taper @oonataper Exer Thurston @baybey.baybye Kellen Wright @kellen__w Eli Brown @eli.m.brown

Opening today, 3/21 3-5pm at Charlotte Street! @charlottestreetfoundation Zine making the hour before, 2-3pm in the library-- open to the public. Atendees are invited to create a page for a collective zine answering the question, "What is Queer ecology to you?" All pages will be complied into a final zine after the event. The exhibition is a collaboration between The Waiting Room and Purple Window gallery, curated by Bianca Brandolino, Lily Erb, Maven Kennedy, and SK Reed. Featuring: Bianca Brandolino @bianca.brandolino Maya Davis @mayabdavis Lily Erb @lilywelderb Eve Gordon @from.eves.studio Naomi Hamlin-Navias @allfishgotoheaven Kate Humphrey @kateweavesthings Missy IsaMoore @unrelaxedmissy , @petalsandironkc Linye Jiang @linye.j Katie Kaplan @pennysmasher Maven Kennedy @mkennedystudios Justin Korver @justincaseyourewondering Calder Kamin @calderful Emily Mulvaney @emily_mulvaney David Nasca @davnasca Lucas Nguyen @lucas_fiberarts SK Reed @sk__paints Oona Taper @oonataper Exer Thurston @baybey.baybye Kellen Wright @kellen__w Eli Brown @eli.m.brown

Opens this Saturday, 3/21! Reception: 3-5pm @charlottestreetfoundation Zine Making hour before opening in their library, 2-3pm answering the question “What is Queer ecology to you?” **All materials will be provided, pages made will be compiled into a collective zine after the event! You're welcome to bring your own materials to collage as well!* Amazing Graphic Design by @colorsindisguise ❤️ —- Queer Ecologies II brings together twenty Queer artists from the Midwest whose practices engage with their ecological counterparts. This second iteration, a collaboration between The Waiting Room in Kansas City and Purple Window Gallery in Chicago, builds upon an ongoing dialogue about the interdependent relationships between humans, the more-than-human world, and wildborn Queerness in our region. @purplewindowgallery @itsthewaitingroom Queer Ecologies II, curated by Bianca Brandolino, Lily Erb, Maven Kennedy, and SK Reed, embodies a deeply queer ethos: building the communities we seek beyond traditional structures and imagining more expansive, interconnected futures. Featuring: Bianca Brandolino @bianca.brandolino Maya Davis @mayabdavis Lily Erb @lilywelderb Eve Gordon @from.eves.studio Naomi Hamlin-Navias @allfishgotoheaven Kate Humphrey @kateweavesthings Missy IsaMoore @unrelaxedmissy , @petalsandironkc Linye Jiang @linye.j Katie Kaplan @pennysmasher Maven Kennedy @mkennedystudios Justin Korver @justincaseyourewondering Calder Kamin @calderful Emily Mulvaney @emily_mulvaney David Nasca @davnasca Lucas Nguyen @lucas_fiberarts SK Reed @sk__paints Oona Taper @oonataper Exer Thurston @baybey.baybye Kellen Wright @kellen__w Eli Brown @eli.m.brown