Education

2008 AAS, Apparel and Design - Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY 

2005 BA, Fine Art - University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 Refuge Corridor Gallery, The Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Touch Me: Feeling Fashion  University Galleries at William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ

Curated by: Laura Di Summa, Professor of Philosophy, William Paterson University

Casey Mathern, Director of the University Galleries, William Paterson University

2022 Yarn/Rope/String

New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA

Organized in partnership with ‘Fiber Art Now’. (Magazine)

Juror: Michael F. Rohde, Artist, Westlake Village, CA 

Craft Nouveau

Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA

Juror: Ariel Zaccheo, Curatorial Director, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA (Catalog)

2021 Uncommon Threads

Juried Online Exhibition San Fernando Valley Arts & Cultural Center, Encino, CA

Juror: Georgia Freedman-Harvey.

2020 Reflections

Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN

Curated by Amy Varsek

GRANTS & AWARDS 

2023 Arrowhead Regional Arts Council - Artist Small Grant

Arrowhead Regional Arts Council - NEA-ARP Working Artist Project Grant

2021 Arrowhead Regional Arts Council - Emergency Working Artist Grant

2020 MN State Arts Board - Creative Support for Individuals Grant

Arrowhead Regional Arts Council - Individual Artist Project Grant

Arrowhead Regional Arts Council - Small Grants Award

2016 Career Development Grant - Arrowhead Regional Art Council

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2024 Tris McCall, “‘Touch Me: Feeling Fashion’ show at Williams Patterson is full of imaginative creations” NJ Arts.net, April 16, 2024.

https://www.njarts.net/touch-me-feeling-fashion-show-at-william-paterson-is-full-of-imaginative-creations/

2022 Yarn/Rope/String 2022. Fiber Art Now, Summer 2022. p. 71. 

Blue Line Arts Publication. 2022. Craft Nouveau, Blue Line Arts, 1 April-28. May. (Exhibition catalog) Roseville, CA.

Duluth Art Institute, exhibition announcement with photograph, Duluth, MN, Feb. 1, 2022.

Brielle, Bredsten. “Women-owned businesses make up Lincoln Park 'Garment District'”. Duluth News Tribune. 16 Aug. 2022.

2021 Ashlea Halpern. “America’s Best Independent Design Shops”. Dwell Magazine. Nov/Dec 2021. p. 7. (Print & Online)

https://www.dwell.com/article/stranger-and-co-edina-minnesota-0934d3e8

Georgia Freedman-Harvey. Uncommon Threads. Online Exhibition. San Fernando Valley Arts and Culture Center, Dec. 1, 2021. 

https://www.sfvacc.org/uncommon-threads

“Gathered Together”. The Textile Eye: Insights for Inspired Designers. Report No.9 Summer 2021. p. 38 

2020 Amy, Varsek. “Reflections”. Hue Magazine, Duluth Art Institute. Fall 2020. p. 7.

https://www.duluthartinstitute.org/resources/Documents/HUE/HUE_2020_04_Fall.pdf

Alyssa Swanson.“Fiber Artists Share Common Threads”. Hue Magazine, Duluth Art Institute. Fall 2020. P. 10.

https://www.duluthartinstitute.org/resources/Documents/HUE/HUE_2020_04_Fall.pdf

Studio Bloesem, “Blending In” KOEL Magazine. Issue 9, 2020 p.144 

2019 Kristen Kaas (2019). ‘Field Notes: Kristen Kaas, Weaver’. Interviewed by Rachel Snack. Warp and Weft Magazine. 11 Nov. Field Notes Warp and Weft Magazine (online)

https://www.warpandweftmag.com/field-notes/kristen-kaas

COMMISSIONS/PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

2021 Tiffany Weiss Interior Design, large scale weaving (76”x26”) Cotton, Wool, Linen, Local Smile Co, Redondo Beach, CA

2020 Public Art Commission, Duluth Art Institute, large-scale weavings (5 x 3 ft.), Cotton, Flax, Wool, Bamboo, Nylon, Rayon, Mylar, Duluth Depot Entrance, Duluth, MN

Studio Bloesem, “Blending In” KOEL Magazine. Weaving and pattern design, Cotton, Issue 9, p.144