For the first time ever, the FolkArtwork Collective will be live and in person with an exhibit in Des Moines, Iowa. Featuring artwork by self-taught and visionary artists from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
All works available for purchase
Kathy Edwards Hayslett, Iowa
KATHY EDWARDS HAYSLETT left her 20-year curatorial position to make art full-time in 2017. Her successful exhibition and sales record includes solo and group exhibitions in Chicago, Provincetown, and Denver, among others. In 2022-23, Kathy received a grant from the Iowa Arts Council for a catalogue of her work. Although she has a wonderful studio in Iowa, Kathy recently completed two residencies at Edgewood Farm in Massachusetts and Grand Marais Art Center in Minnesota.
Through her vaguely unsettling, whimsical, and suggestive narratives, Kathy address aspects of climate change, geoengineering, and the rights and histories of women. The artist believes these issues are interrelated, and her work explores changing natural habitats as subject, as she considers histories of the land.
Kathy’s work is process and materially oriented. She combines abstraction and representation with manipulated imagery and layers of media. From acrylic to spray paint, color pencils, collage, and an assemblage of small jewel-like pieces. She uses myriad techniques, from wiping, cutting, stencil and rubbing, to ink jet copying, and direct painting and drawing.
Kathy has many influences from her 25 years as a museum curator. Modernist composition, surrealism, decorative arts and craft, photography, and the relationship between landscape/memory and the female artist-body.
Kathy’s writing is published extensively. Her artwork is in the collection of University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics, and many private collections. Upon leaving the UISMA, Kathy and her husband established the Kathleen Edwards Purchase Fund for Contemporary Art by American Women.
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This is the first ever FolkArtwork exhibit, taking place in my hometown of Des Moines, Iowa. Thanks for all your support.
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