INSIGHT Art Talk | Kim Brook

Join us for an evening with ceramics artist, Kim Brook, as she discusses her recent solo exhibition, Love in Bloom!

Kim Brook is a visual artist and arts educator based in Lawrence, KS. Her passion for building and strengthening community is evident through teaching, organizing community events, and serving on the Friends of the Art Museum board for the University of Kansas Spencer Museum of Art

For the past five years, one of Kim’s major commitments to increasing community connections has been the Valentine’s Card-making project to benefit Meals on Wheels recipients. She has also assisted in creating collaborative public art pieces with Boys and Girls Clubs and youth summer day camps. In addition, the past six summers she has taught weeklong arts programs for K-5th grade in Elk, Grant, and Howard counties (Western Kansas). In the classes, Kim challenges students to think creatively as an everyday process and reframes how art can build community.

In addition, Kim has served as an art show juror, a facilitator of the Artist Inc. program through Mid-America Arts Alliance, and offers workshops in ceramics and Korean cooking.  Her work has been shown in multiple gallery exhibitions, collaborations, and art festivals.