JIMMY KUEHNLE

After finding a parking space near Woodward and Warren Avenue, I unpacked two inflatable suits. In the morning Santiago Esparza of The Detroit News contacted me about coming to the performance with a photographer. I waited for him and Mary Beth Carolan to show up. Mary Beth saw some of the publicity for the DetroitContinue Reading

William Mayer of Hope College in Holland, Michigan invited me to jury the student show there this fall. I accepted the invitation and traveled to Holland jury the work, give an artist talk, and of course to bounce around town in an inflatable suit. At 12:00 noon the doors of the gallery were locked andContinue Reading

After a successful series of inflatable suit performances in central Michigan, I am expanding the list of cities to include Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit and St. Louis. Since it is getting colder up here I am planning to confront the weather head on to find out what happens. These performances will occur in the end ofContinue Reading

Fall is letting me know that winter is right around the corner. Although I am not looking forward to the lower temperatures as my show title, I Don’t Like Cold Weather, suggests, the colors sure are beautiful.

I wrapped up the central Michigan performance tour in Kalamazoo. Hello. Bye. took strong winds in stride and attracted the attention of a couple reporters. As I walked by the Kalamazoo Gazette building during my performance, two journalists from the Business Review came out to see what was going on. Candace Beeke wrote a pieceContinue Reading

The rain stayed away for the performance in Jackson. I started in the mall parking lot and then headed down Michigan Avenue toward downtown. Along the way car horns kept pace with their always ambiguous messages. Since I performed during the lunch hour, many people were dining in storefront cafes. This provided ample opportunity toContinue 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 I Don’t Like Cold Weather inflatable performance tour in Michigan kicked off today in Albion. At noon I took You Wear What I Wear out of the gallery and drug it out through the double doors. After hearing the clock tower bells ring, I connected the battery to the 12v blower motors inside theContinue Reading

Look out Jackson, Michigan, there is an “Inflated Invasion” coming your way. Bill Chapin of the Jackson Citizen Patriot wrote a feature article in the Entertainment section of the Jackson Citizen Patriot. It covered the performances that I have planned for the I-94 corridor during my show “I Don’t Like Cold Weather” at Albion College.Continue 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.