Kris Grenier Art

Kris Grenier Art Kris Grenier explores the interplay of identity and the environment in adventure-inspired fiber art.

A bit over a year ago, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to experience Peters Valley School of Craft as a student i...
09/18/2026

A bit over a year ago, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to experience Peters Valley School of Craft as a student in James Blake’s Lost Wax Glass Casting and had a magical week of creative experimentation. This weekend, I’m back at Peters Valley School of Craft to teach a full class of students how to create felted wool landscapes. I hope they find this place just as creatively nourishing as I do! 💚

What a year it’s been!With the support of the Kentucky Foundation for Women’s Art Meets Activism Grant, I’ve been travel...
09/08/2026

What a year it’s been!

With the support of the Kentucky Foundation for Women’s Art Meets Activism Grant, I’ve been traveling around our state teaching hundreds of women, girls, and nonbinary Kentuckians how to felt. In the process, each participant has created a visual representation of their hope for the future.

After a final few workshops, I’ll be assembling all of these individual artworks into an approximately 300-square-foot fabric mural, which will then tour our Commonwealth for years to come.

With in-person workshops from Ashland to Owesboro and remote workshops as far away as Paducah and Cadiz, this project has spanned our state. Along the way, I’ve met so many interesting Kentuckians whose creativity and generosity have been indispensable in bringing the Felting the Future project to life. All together, this mural will represent 1,750 hours of women+’s labor.

Just 32 of the 500 artworks are included in this picture. The arrangement is representative of the finished mural, but the final piece will almost certainly look different! Along with their visual art, participants have also shared written reflections, which I’ve been posting on .

Please follow along, and share this project with the Kentucky women+ in your life.

Have you ever wondered how I create my needle-felted landscapes?With the help of online programming through Peters Valle...
05/11/2026

Have you ever wondered how I create my needle-felted landscapes?

With the help of online programming through Peters Valley School of Craft, you can step inside my studio for a behind-the-scenes look at how a woolen landscape comes to life. In this 45-minute live demonstration (followed by a 15-minute Q&A), I’ll walk attendees through my process of translating reference imagery into a needle-felted landscape. Participants will learn how to: select and work from reference imagery, blend custom wool colors to achieve depth and atmospheric nuance, use needle-felting techniques to create shapes and lines, apply foundational color theory to landscape work, build highlights and shadows to create the illusions of form and light, and harness wool’s unique properties to develop layers and textures.

This demonstration is ideal for beginners curious about felting as well as makers looking to expand their textile vocabulary. It also serves as a preview of a 3-day workshop I’ll be hosting at Peters Valley in September, where participants will explore both wet-felting and needle-felting techniques to create their own landscapes. More on that soon!

To sign up, visit petersvalley.org.

Thank you for a beautiful opening night of the WACC Signature Member Exhibition! It was a lot of fun to meet so many gu...
05/10/2026

Thank you for a beautiful opening night of the WACC Signature Member Exhibition! It was a lot of fun to meet so many guild members in person and to see their lovely work. This country mouse never ceases to be inspired by the cultural scene in Cincinnati—what a treat to be part of it for a night!

It’s another Cincinnati night tonight! is hosting the Woman’s Art Club of Cincinnati’s Signature Member Exhibition, whi...
05/07/2026

It’s another Cincinnati night tonight! is hosting the Woman’s Art Club of Cincinnati’s Signature Member Exhibition, which opens today. The piece I’ll be sharing is one of my very favorite feltings, “Golden Hour,” which you can catch a glimpse of on the second slide. The opening reception runs from 5:00 until 8:00, and I’d love for you to stop by and enjoy the beautiful show!

This spring’s edition of “New Woman” was a vibrant show—full of color, texture, and layers of meaning. It was such a tre...
05/06/2026

This spring’s edition of “New Woman” was a vibrant show—full of color, texture, and layers of meaning. It was such a treat to exhibit “Persistence” and “Moving On” at and to meet a community of hard-working and forward-thinking women+. As I get ready for another opening in Cincinnati this week, I found myself looking through photos from this show and wanted to share them here. 🧡

Tomorrow’s the big day! I’m so excited to be part of the Clifton Cultural Arts Center’s “New Woman” exhibition, a three-...
03/05/2026

Tomorrow’s the big day! I’m so excited to be part of the Clifton Cultural Arts Center’s “New Woman” exhibition, a three-floor showcase that opens with a reception tomorrow evening at 6:00. If you’re in the Cincinnati area, I’d love to see you there!

As described by the Clifton Cultural Arts Center, “New Woman celebrates the voices, perspectives, and lived experiences of emerging women artists from Cincinnati and beyond, highlighting practices that expand and challenge traditional narratives of representation, identity, and visibility. The exhibition continues a legacy of recognizing the evolving contributions of women artists, inspired by Elizabeth Nourse, the Cincinnati-born painter who achieved rare international distinction at a time when few women sustained professional artistic careers.“

My “Moving On” (from the Arizona Trail) felting made it onto the poster, and “Persistence” (from the Tahoe Rim Trail) is also in the show. When I dropped off my work for the exhibition, there were so many beautiful and fascinating works gathering in the arts center, and I can’t wait to see them all up on the walls and meet the artists who created them!

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