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Kinhouse Art Kinhouse Gallery is an artist-run contemporary exhibition space in Fort Wayne, IN, showing early career and established artists.

Kinhouse Residency is an inclusive, family-friendly artist residency bringing artists to Fort Wayne for week long stays.

Two open calls are live at Kinhouse, and the first closes in just a few days. 🚪✨OPEN DOOR: 2027 Exhibition + ResidencySo...
10/15/2026

Two open calls are live at Kinhouse, and the first closes in just a few days. 🚪✨

OPEN DOOR: 2027 Exhibition + Residency
Solo, two-person, or three-person shows, collectives, curators, installations, performance, and site-specific work are all welcome. Selected artists and curators get a fully funded 6-night residency in Fort Wayne timed to their opening, plus installation support, promotion, and professional documentation. Work-in-progress is welcome. 3-4 proposals will be selected.

📅 Deadline: Oct 18
💌 Notified: Oct 28

LIGHT OF A CLEAR BLUE MORNING: Winter Solstice Group Show
We’re gathering work about the solstice as a threshold, hard-won hope, softness as resilience, candlelight, ritual, and quiet domestic beauty. All mediums are welcome, with a special love for work that’s soft in both subject and material. Selected artists receive a $20 shipping stipend. Open to the US and Canada.

📅 Deadline: Oct 26
🖼 On view Dec 2026 – Jan 2027
Apply to one or both. Link in bio 🔗

Come see this stunner tomorrow! We will be open Thursday Oct 15th from 12:30-3:30pm. We are CLOSED Friday Oct 16th due t...
10/14/2026

Come see this stunner tomorrow! We will be open Thursday Oct 15th from 12:30-3:30pm. We are CLOSED Friday Oct 16th due to Fall break :)

In Spirit
Quilting
48" x 58.5" x .2"

by Ariel Mannie


Ariel Mannie (she/her) is a textile artist born in Chicago and raised in Harvey, Illinois. Working primarily through quilting, her practice explores cultural memory, ancestral knowledge, and the evolving relationship between African American and African cultural traditions. Drawing from quilting traditions, dimensional soft sculpture, and digital fabrication, Mannie creates works that examine how textiles function as vessels for history, storytelling, and collective memory. Through geometric abstraction, layered construction, and material experimentation, her work investigates how inherited cultural practices endure, transform, and connect communities across time and place. Inspired by African and African American cultural traditions, her practice reflects on themes of identity, spirituality, resistance, and belonging, creating contemporary works that honor the past while imagining new futures.

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6 days left to apply to our biggest opportunity yet!!! ⭐ We are opening our doors to YOU! 🚪Kinhouse opens its door each ...
10/13/2026

6 days left to apply to our biggest opportunity yet!!!
⭐ We are opening our doors to YOU! 🚪

Kinhouse opens its door each year to emerging and mid-career artists and curators through Open Door, our annual call for solo, two-person, and three-person exhibitions. We welcome proposals for collaborations, artist collectives, performances, installations, and site-specific work — as well as proposals from curators looking to organize a show in our space.

Selected exhibitions will be part of our 2027 programming year and come paired with a FULLY FUNDED residency week for participating artists, timed to coincide with your opening reception. Consider it an invitation to step through the door and into the Kinhouse and community — to slow down, make work, and be supported while you do it.

We're looking for proposals with a clear vision, a strong statement, and compelling visuals, and thoughtful attention to diversity and inclusion. While submissions don't need to fall within our curatorial scope, Open Door especially welcomes work that engages with themes of community, care, belonging, the domestic, parenting, craft, and lineage — the same values that shape everything we do at Kinhouse.

Selected artists/curators will receive:

🚪 Communication and support leading up to the exhibition
🚪 Installation support for the exhibition
🚪 A fully funded 6-night residency at Kinhouse Residency in Fort Wayne (a 3-minute drive from our gallery)
🚪 Promotion and marketing of your artwork and exhibition across our platforms
🚪 Professional documentation of the exhibition (Kinhouse retains rights to use these images for promotional purposes)

We welcome submissions from artists of all genders and backgrounds. Work samples may be submitted as works-in-progress and do not need to be finished. Access the full application at the link in our bio!

Call Ends: October 18th, 2026, 11:59pm ET

Artists will choose from 4 options:
March 1st - 7th, 2027 (reception March 5th)
May 31st - June 6th, 2027 (reception June 4th)
June 28th - July 4th, 2027 (reception July 2nd)
August 2nd - 8th, 2027 (reception August 6th)

We are so excited to have artist Nancy Kay Turner and partner Hoyt joining us for the week from Los Angeles! ☀️Nancy Kay...
10/12/2026

We are so excited to have artist Nancy Kay Turner and partner Hoyt joining us for the week from Los Angeles! ☀️

Nancy Kay Turner (b. New York) is a Los Angeles artist, art critic, educator, and founder of the Hana Kark art collective. For more than fifty years she has centered her practice around memory, time, domestic life, and hidden emotional currents embedded within ordinary materials. Working across assemblage, collage, artist books, works on paper, and installation, Turner transforms overlooked and nontraditional materials into layered visual narratives moving between personal history and collective memory.

"In my works I make pieces that hover between artifact and apparition. Each piece is a kind of reliquary where personal and collective stories merge. The work highlights dualities - presence/ absence, memory/forgetting, truth and fiction while collapsing the space between past, present and future. As an accidental archivist and alchemist, I transform unwanted, unmoored, and abandoned ephemera and objects that bear the weight of history into works that engage the viewer in considering what is remembrance."

Could sit and stare at this painting in our current show for hours! Something Borrowedoil on canvas40" x 30" x .75"by Mo...
10/11/2026

Could sit and stare at this painting in our current show for hours!

Something Borrowed
oil on canvas
40" x 30" x .75"

by Molly Mansfield

www.mollymansfield.com

"I’m a storyteller and I see the objects in my paintings as keepers of story and memory. Quilts are a big influence in my work both symbolically and aesthetically. Quilts go on multiple journeys, from when they are created to being used and passed down, then making their way to me. Sometimes, they are treasured as “something my grandmother made,” –or sometimes, they end up in a thrift store. Quilts are physical metaphors for women’s labor and as such serve as links connecting ancestral women. I’m obsessed with the hundreds of patterns and colors that can be found in a single quilt. I seek to imitate the flatness in my paintings, layering patterns found in nature such as rocks, mountains, and flowers, with fabric patterns next to each other, causing foreground and background to meld together. The table,–a space for sharing and caregiving– is a stage set for the objects in my paintings and is seen in multiple perspectives that give the work an abstract quality."

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Such a stunner in our current show by Cheryl Andrey - come check it out today, we are open 1pm-5pm at 1133 Broadway, Fo...
10/09/2026

Such a stunner in our current show by Cheryl Andrey - come check it out today, we are open 1pm-5pm at 1133 Broadway, Fort Wayne, IN

Aggregate
Cardboard assemblage, unframed, slight dimension. Painted with acrylic and tempera. Gold leaf is also utilized.
25" x 19" x .5"
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statement: "During the 2020 pandemic I started exploring with the cardboard that was coming into our home from various deliveries. An ongoing series of cardboard assemblages was born from that creative play. Long inspired by quilt making, my assembly process is intuitive and improvisational and I allow the nature of the materials that I work with to help shape the direction of the finished artwork. When I was creating this piece, I was considering the way in which we are slowly shaped by individuals in our life. The title, Aggregate, reflects how we are made up of these influences that we collect over the years."

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❄️ Winter is coming — and we want to meet it with something beautiful.We're calling for artists to submit work for a gro...
10/08/2026

❄️ Winter is coming — and we want to meet it with something beautiful.
We're calling for artists to submit work for a group exhibition about the light we carry through the dark: candlelight, ritual, hope that's hard-won, softness as resilience. A show to help carry us through the darkest months of the year.

Submissions open now - this is our last open call for 2026 — link in bio. 🕯️

Such an honor to have this meaningful piece from local artist by Dani Wagner in our current show "Patchwork"All I Got W...
10/07/2026

Such an honor to have this meaningful piece from local artist by Dani Wagner in our current show "Patchwork"

All I Got Was This Quilt
Cyanotype on cotton denim, thread
12" x 12" x .25"

Statement: "These blocks were pieced together following my mother’s death & a failed pregnancy journey, two events that unfolded together in 2025. The central squares are cyanotype prints on denim, made from ovulation tests, layered with thread marking each test taken over the year I tried to conceive while visiting my mother in the ICU & eventually planning her funeral. The surrounding fabric is dyed with an inverse cyanotype of baby’s breath, present at both funerals & baby showers. Underneath the grief, there was anger. Anger at her for not taking care of herself. Anger at myself for not trying to conceive sooner. Anger that I never told her we were trying. Anger that whether or not I conceived, I would never again be the same person she knew. This piece represents my feelings of wanting everything to change & wanting nothing to change at all. Wanting to stay exactly the daughter my mother knew. Neither wish came true. I am still her daughter. I am still not anyone’s mother."

.art and her kiddos are back to the residency and it is truly our pleasure to welcome this crew to our space again! 🌸🌼🌸L...
10/07/2026

.art and her kiddos are back to the residency and it is truly our pleasure to welcome this crew to our space again! 🌸🌼🌸

Lacie Martinez is a painter, creative entrepreneur, and mother based in Oklahoma. Her work often focuses on womanhood, empowerment, and savoring all this life has to offer! She uses her artwork as a means to extend a moment's longevity and create a visual record of meaningful memories.

Lacie and her two daughters are excited to return to Kinhouse and be fully engulfed in the magical and creative environment again. She plans to flesh out ideas for a new body of work, get messy, and have FUN alongside her girls. She also looks forward to the pockets of stillness and peace the residency provides. In addition to sketching and painting, she plans to spend the evenings working on her writing.

Collect this gorgeous work from our current exhibition "Patchwork"kinhouseart.com/shop/exhibition-catalogLife Quilt: Per...
10/06/2026

Collect this gorgeous work from our current exhibition "Patchwork"
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Life Quilt: Perfect Disguise
Digital Photographic Collage
16" x 24" x 0"

by Tracy Federwitz
www.tracyfederwitz.com/

My work explores the complex emotional landscape of motherhood—the profound love, guilt, boredom, frustration, humor, tenderness, and amusement that can coexist within everyday life. Working with photography, digital collage, and drawing, I create images that move between observation and invention, using my own photographs as fragments to construct layered visual narratives. Drawing from my family’s history with quilting, I have begun creating “life quilts,” digitally constructed works that reference traditional quilt patterns and the practice of assembling individual pieces into a larger whole. These works honor quilting as a way of preserving memory and family history while translating its language into contemporary photographic practice. By collecting, altering, and reassembling photographs and drawn elements, I consider how ordinary moments accumulate into a life, and how the experience of motherhood is simultaneously deeply personal and universally recognizable.

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