The fiber in my work is of the native lands of the Osage, Sioux, Kickapoo and Kaskaskia peoples. I acknowledge their stewardship of the land and sky that bore me. The sun shines, the rain falls, the grass grows, and the animals transmute energy into wool. By being of the land, may my work honor the memory of those before me.

News

New Work on View at H&R Block Artspace Flatfiles

On July 7th, the H&R Block Artspace Flatfiles Exhibition opened to the public featuring artwork by over 250 regional, emerging and established visual artists. For this time-honored biennial tradition, ten new diminutive fiber works were created through a light-hearted, spontaneous collage process. For a closer look, visit the H&R Block Artspace: 16 East 43rd StreetKansas City, …

Kansas City International Airport Commission Underway

As one of the 19 local artists selected for commissions to complement the upcoming Kansas City International Airport, on track to open in March of 2023, Rachelle Gardner-Roe is full-steam ahead on her work, Flyover Country: The Wild Side. This tongue-in-cheek acknowledgement of the Midwest’s moniker focuses in on the rich world flora and fauna …

EXHIBITIONS

2022
Forming Fiber, Alice C. Sabatini Art Gallery, Group Show, Topeka, KS
The Life You’ve Seen, Weinberger Fine Art, Group Show, Kansas City, MO
Portal and Path, Lawrence Art Center, Solo Show, Lawrence, KS
2021
Contemporary Textile, Salina Art Center, Group Show, Salina, KS
2020
Beyond Bounds, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Group Show, Overland Park, KS
2019
PORTAL, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Solo Show, Kansas City, MO
A CERTAIN KIND OF ARMOR,  The Bunker Center for the Arts, Solo Show, Kansas Ctiy, MO
Small Works Exhibition & Auction, Spiva Center for the Arts, Group show, Joplin, MO
Winter Collective, Weinberger Fine Art, Group Show, Kansas City, MO
2018
Uncle Jimmy’s Table / Open Spaces Biennial, Collaborative Performance, Swope Park, Kansas City, MO
Woman’s Work, Bunker Center for the Arts, Solo Show, Kansas City, MO
River Market Regional Exhibition,  Group Show, Kansas City, MO
Fugitive Color, Weinberger Fine Art, Gorup Show, Kansas City, MO
2017
70th Annual Membership Show, Spiva Arts Center, Group Show, Joplin, MO
Femin • Is, The Writers Place, Solo Show, Kansas City, MO
Award Winner, River Market Regional Exhibition: Truth Trust Transcend, Group Show, Kansas City
Femin • Is, Counter Point, Solo Show, Kansas City, MO
ArtsKC Annual Luncheon Featured Artist Exhibition, Bartle Hall, Grand Ballroom, Solo Show, Kansas City, MO
Artis Gras, Leawood Arts Council, Group Show, Leawood, KS
2016

Culture Without Borders, Kansas City Museum, Group Show, Kansas City, MO
Award Winner, State of the Arts, R.G. Endres Gallery, Group Show, Prairie Village, KS
Anatomy of the Wound, Leedy-Voulkos Arts Center, Group Show, Kansas City, MO
Kansas City Flatfile & Digitalfile, H&R Block Artspace, Group Show, Kansas City, MO
2015
Threads to Webs, ArtsKC Gallery, Solo Show, Kansas City, MO
Fiber Focus, Art Saint Louis Gallery, Group Show, St. Louis, MO
Urban Suburban XI: Transition, Experience, Adventure Epsten Gallery, Group Show, Overland Park, KS
Art+Fashion, Halls, Group Show, Kansas City, MO
Heat, Leedy Voulkos Art Center, Group Show, Kansas City, MO
2014

Making of Self, Studio RM Gardner, Solo Show, Kansas City, MO
Urban Suburban X: Perception & Reflection
, Epsten Gallery, Group Show, Overland Park, KS

River Market Juried Regional Exhibition, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Group Show, Kansas City, MO
Art in the Loop: Celebrating Ten Years of Revitalizing Downtown KC with Public Art, Box Gallery, Group Show, Kansas City, MO
Beautiful Game / Art in the Park, Crossroads Arts District / Sporting KC Park, Group Show, Kansas City, MO
Topeka Competition 31, Sabatini Gallery, Topeka Public Library, Group Show, Topeka, KS
Winter Invitational, Telephone Booth Gallery, Group Show, Kansas City, MO
2013
ArtsKC Supported, Filter Gallery, Group Show, Kansas City, MO
Crossing the Divide, Lawing Financial, Solo Show, Overland Park, KS
Money: A Juried Exhibition, The Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Group Show, Kansas City, MO
Fiberart International, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts & Society for Contemporary Craft,
Pittsburgh, PA; Touring 2013 – 2013: San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA;
Franklin G. Burroughs – Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC;
American Textile History Museum in Lowell, MA
Arts Alive Main Event Feature, Solo Show, Kansas City, MO
The Kansas City Artist Coalition Auction Exhibition, Group Show, Kansas City, MO
2012
Kauffman Foundation Conference Center, Group Show, Kansas City, MO
Art at the X, Xavier University Art Gallery, Group Show, Cincinnati, OH
25th Northern Art Competition, Nicolet College Art Gallery, Group Show, Rhinelander, WI
Fiber Options: Material Explorations, Circle Gallery, Group Show, Annapolis, MD
Annual Juried Art Competition, South Arkansas Arts Center, Group Show, El Dorado, AR
55th Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Chautauqua Institution, Group Show, Chautauqua, NY
Craft National 2012, Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Group Show, Topeka, KS
Mindpool 2012, Next Gallery, Group Show, Denver, CO
Leawood Foundation Arti Gras Juried Exhibition, Group Show, Leawood, KS
McCownGordon Construction, Solo Show, Kansas City, MO
2011
Lyric Theatre, Solo Show, Kansas City, MO
UrbanSuburban, Epsten Gallery, Group Show, Overland Park, KS
2010
Paint the Town, St. Luke’s Hospital,  Group Show, Kansas City, MO
UrbanSuburban, Epsten Gallery, Group Show, Overland Park, KS
2009
Eyes of the World – Urban Culture Project Studio Residents Focus Exhibition,
Paragraph Gallery + Project Space, Group Show, Kansas City, MO
UrbanSuburban, Epsten Gallery, Group Show, Overland Park, KS
BNIM ArtsFund Installation, BNIM, Group Show, Kansas City, MO
The Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City, Solo Show, Kansas City, MO
2008
Gallery 908, Rees Masilionis Turley Architecture, Solo Show, Kansas City, MO
TK Architects, Solo Show, Kansas City, MO
The Kansas City Artists Coalition’s 25 Annual Art Auction, Group Show, Kansas City, MO
Kansas City Fringe Festival, Arts Incubator East, Group Show, Kansas City, MO
Dreamscapes, The Urban Culture Project’s Jenkins site, Solo Show, Kansas City, MO
Leonard Koenig–Rachelle Gardner, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Group Show, KC, MO
Of One Form, The Central Exchange, Solo Show Kansas City, MO
2007
Bella Napoli, Solo Show, Kansas City, MO
Small Works Group Show, Pi Gallery, Group Show, Kansas City, MO
The Kansas City Artist Coalition Open Studios, Group Show, Kansas City, MO
The Kansas City Artist Coalition Auction Exhibition, Group Show, Kansas City, MO
2006
Prairie Village Art Show, Group Show, Prairie Village, KS
Platte County Arts Festival at Zona Rosa, Group Show, Kansas City, MO
Human Form Exhibition, Art at the Center, Group Show, Overland Park, KS
Abstract Exhibition, Art at the Center, Group Show, Overland Park, KS