Kayla Powers

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10/18/2026

Dang Houston 🌼 what a weekend! Thank you so much for coming out and saying nice things about my work. I’m so happy some of these flowers are heading out into the world!

I absolutely loved creating work at this scale and I’m already dreaming up another big project 🌸

Each piece is made with organic fabric and yarn and is dyed with natural materials. Me and Stephanie Griffith hand sewed them almost like quilts. Such an undertaking and I’m so happy with how it all came together.

10/16/2026

I’m so happy to share this work! 30 native Texas wildflowers, dyed with natural materials (indigo, cochineal, chamisa etc), sewn by hand ✋🏼 thanks so much to Affordable Art Fair Texas for inviting me to create this installation! It’s really fun to get to take up this much space 😏 if you’re in Houston please come say hi!

10/11/2026

🌸 Thank you so much to Affordable Art Fair Texas for inviting me to create this installation for the first edition of the fair in Houston! I’m bringing 30 naturally dyed, hand sewn, native Texas wildflowers with me next week.

I grew up in Texas but I’ve never been to Houston! Please send me your recommendations. And if you’re in town, please come by to say hi ☺️

Can’t wait to share more!

10/03/2026

Saturday November 7th I’m teaching Botanical Watercolors at Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Abiquiú, New Mexico ✨ I’ve been foraging materials for us to use…cochineal, chamisa, willow, maybe I’ll even make some indigo pigment from my one giant indigo plant! AND I collected some mica from the mountains for us to crush up and add to the paint if you’re into a little shimmer.

The link to sign up is in my bio!

Gorgeous color charts by Kelly Booth and other student work from this summer at Anderson Ranch!

10/01/2026

I’m excited to share that this piece is heading off to a private collection in Finland ☁️ Figuring out this open but structurally strong woven form was so exciting to me! I made the first panels in December 2024, continued working on them at AiR Green residency in Norway, and finished it at a residency at Australian Tapestry Workshop !

I’m so grateful to Onna House for stewarding this piece and supporting my work and the work of so many women artists 🤍

09/23/2026

‘Conditions Allow’ opens September 30 at North Seattle College! I’m excited to show alongside an amazing lineup of artists. The work in this exhibition explores possibilities and limitations of materials. “Through experimentation, materials become active collaborators inviting artists to manipulate, transform, resist, and discover what emerges through the process of making.” curated by Amanda Knowles

Flower Drawing # 3: Dried botanical matter arranged in a 6 x 3 grid on the floor, 2026
Dried flowers and leaves
66 x 30 x 1.5 inches

Trellis, 2024
Cotton, ixtle, wool, locally foraged cochineal
44 x 20 x 4 in

Lee Davignon
Jennifer Fernandez
Emily Gherard
Justin Gregg
Debra Kayes
philippe hyojung kim
Malavika Singh Thakur

09/06/2026

Thank you all so much for coming out to Chromatic Ecology! I am blown away by the turn out and just feel so grateful to get to make this work and to share it with you all. What a beeeautiful day. Most of the work has found a home but there are still a couple pieces left. Please reach out if you’re interested!

Huge thanks to my incredible assistant on this project Stephanie Griffith. To my family for squeezing the lemons for the Prickly Pear Lemonade, baking brownies and 1000 other tasks, to Johanna Hamblett for so much support 🫂 to Mountain Cloud Zen Center for providing the dreamiest venue (and home) to The Puffin Foundation and 516 ARTS for the funding to make it all possible! To Grant for the many many conversations before, during, and after the project. And to the brave people who have chosen to purchase/steward an art work in this very unconventional way.

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09/01/2026

Saturday September 5th!
1:00 - 3:00 pm
Santa Fe, NM
Free, outdoor, art show in the garden 🌱
See the last slide for more info!

I’m trying out a different model of ownership/stewardship of this work. I’m hoping the collectors (you!) will collaborate with me and this work by living with it for five years and then burying it / planting it.

There are flowers, seeds, roots, and rocks sewn (sown) into this piece and it’s made with all natural materials. The dyes come from plants (or in this case, cochineal) and the fabrics are all organic. Returning them to the earth feels interesting and right for this body of work. If you’re interested in participating, please be in touch.

A portion of all of the sales will go to Hózhó Center Hózhó Voices of Healing 🐑

More info:

This style of piecing together fabric is similar to Jogakbo, a traditional Korean art form of sewing small pieces of fabric together, sometimes to create Bojagi or wrapping cloth. Please have a look, there are so many incredible artists working this way.

This way of working is also inspired by my family quilting traditions which have similar origins in frugality and necessity, tracing back four generations (that I know of) to the American South. My great-great Grandmother, Jim Bob Robertson, was a blue ribbon quilter in Tennessee and I am honored to have a quilt top she started but never finished which has inspired my exposed seams and delicate fabric.

This work like all of my work is an exploration of place through color. I’m foraging, cultivating, weaving, sewing, and dyeing to express a relationship with and as the living world. This project was funded by The Fulcrum Fund and The Puffin Foundation 516 ARTS

08/21/2026

Saturday September 5th!
1:00 - 3:00 pm
Santa Fe, NM
Free, outdoor, art show in the garden 🌱
See the last slide for more info!

I’m trying out a different model of ownership/stewardship of this work. I’m hoping the collectors (you!) will collaborate with me and this work by living with it for five years and then burying it (or returning it to me to bury).

There are flowers, seeds, roots, and rocks sewn (sown) into this piece and it’s made with all natural materials. The dyes come from plants and the fabrics are all organic. Returning them to the earth feels interesting and right for this body of work. If you’re interested in participating, please be in touch.

A portion of all of the sales will go to an Indigenous-led Navajo Churro Wool Cooperative here in NM 🐑

More info:

This style of piecing together fabric is similar to Jogakbo, a traditional Korean art form of sewing small pieces of fabric together, sometimes to create Bojagi or wrapping cloth. Please have a look, there are so many incredible artists working this way.

This way of working is also inspired by my family quilting traditions which have similar origins in frugality and necessity, tracing back four generations (that I know of) to the American South. My great-great Grandmother, Jim Bob Robertson, was a blue ribbon quilter in Tennessee and I am honored to have a quilt top she started but never finished which has inspired my exposed seams and delicate fabric.

This work like all of my work is an exploration of place through color. I’m foraging, cultivating, weaving, sewing, and dyeing to express a relationship with and as the living world. This project was funded by The Fulcrum Fund and The Puffin Foundation 516 ARTS

07/28/2026

I’m weaving a color chart for my current project Chromatic Ecology ✨ I’ve been foraging and growing dye plants to create a series of textile pieces and this woven color chart to explore place-based color.

On September 5 I’m hosting an outdoor art show in the garden to show off all this work. I hope you can come! This project is funded by The Fulcrum Fund and Puffin Foundation ❤️

The madder root I grew this year (from seed! 🙏🏼 Grand Prismatic Seed) won’t be ready to harvest for at least two years so I bought ground madder root from Maiwa. And the indigo also came from Maiwa because I have one lone surviving plant from this very intense growing season here in Santa Fe.

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Santa Fe, NM
87500-87599

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