JIMMY KUEHNLE

The Office of Communications at Albion College contacted me in October about wanting to get a photo of one of my inflatable suits. We scheduled a photo shoot and You Wear What I Wear ended up on the back of Io Triumphe! the alumni magazine. It came with the caption “A 21st-Centruy Pied Piper.” DavidContinue Reading

The Battle Creek performance lost out to the rain on Friday. I rescheduled for the next day with decent weather, which ended up being Sunday. What have I been doing in the studio during my residency? I made a new inflatable suit. This suit, Hello. Bye., sports big yellow letters and of course big redContinue Reading

The new suit will have arrows of different sizes. Here are two little red arrows still with the wrong sides of the fabric out. The seam allowances are visible.

The new suit will sport big yellow letters as well as some large arrows. Tomorrow I trek to Grand Rapids to install work at the Old Federal Building as part of the upcoming ArtPrize competition. There is also a preview event from 5:00 to 8:00 at the same location. As the PR says: Be theContinue Reading

After setting my studio up at Albion College, I got to work designing a new inflatable suit. This suit will have some large inflatable arrows made from pink nylon. Above is a small preview of a preliminary sketch for the suit. As details get finalized and fabricated I will post more pictures.

Today, You Wear What I Wear, made its debut performance in Albion, Michigan. This afternoon I inflated the suit and began to march around the campus. Similar to other inflatable suits, it gets the look and the cell phone picture. Students did not know quite what to make of the suit with many appendages thatContinue Reading

After returning from Finland and a nice summer break in St. Louis, I am back. This time I am at Albion College in Albion, Michigan. For the fall semester I will be a resident artist here at the college. Today I began to move stuff into the studio. While setting up my second welding studioContinue Reading