JIMMY KUEHNLE

Preview article by Paul Friswold in the Riverfront Times about the final performance of the Midwest tour in St. Louis. Click on the image to see the full page of events or click on the link to the piece on the RFT website. http://www.riverfronttimes.com/events/jimmy-kuehnles-inflatable-suit-performance-tour-908286/

Steven Rosen of the CityBeat in Cincinnati interviewed me about the upcoming performance there on Friday. I spoke with him on the phone the day after my performance in Chicago. Click on the image to see the full article or follow this link: http://www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/article-19514-adjusted-for-inflation.html

Santiago Esparza of The Detroit News came out to see the Detroit performance and followed along a bit down Woodward Avenue while Robin Buckson documented the event with her camera. Click the image to see a large image of the article and to read the text. The Detroit News link: http://www.detnews.com/article/20091128/METRO/911280331/1409/METRO/Pair-don-giant-inflated-suits-to-lighten-things-up-on-Woodward

I spoke with Jason Carr of the FOX 2 Detroit Morning show at the FOX 2 studios. The interview went fine except for the fact that large inflatable suits do not fit well inside television studios. The suits banged into the lighting rigs a bit, but no damage was done. Getting the suits out andContinue Reading

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

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

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

Emily Weerts of the Austinist online magazine interviewed me about the upcoming Art Outside event that begins Friday at Apache Pass. Link to the full interview: http://austinist.com/2009/10/08/interview_jimmy_kuehnles_inflatable.php

Emily Richett of FOX 17 News in Grand Rapids, Michigan interviewed me live on the morning news during the ArtPrize competition. If you are in Grand Rapids, register to vote and text vote24921 to 878787.

I returned to Grand Rapids to finish my installation at the Old Federal Building. While there I noticed on the front page of The Grand Rapids Press an article by Troy Reimink about Larry Moss, Jason Hackenwerth and myself titled, “Take a deep breath and put on your wearable balloon art.” All three of usContinue Reading