KATHY EDWARDS HAYSLETT
KATHY left her 20-year curatorial position to make art full-time in 2017. Her successful exhibition and sales record includes solo and group exhibitions in Chicago, Provincetown, and Denver, among others. In 2022-23, Kathy received a grant from the Iowa Arts Council for a catalogue of her work. Although she has a wonderful studio in Iowa, Kathy recently completed two residencies at Edgewood Farm in Massachusetts and Grand Marais Art Center in Minnesota.
Through her vaguely unsettling, whimsical, and suggestive narratives, Kathy address aspects of climate change, geoengineering, and the rights and histories of women. The artist believes these issues are interrelated, and her work explores changing natural habitats as subject, as she considers histories of the land.
Kathy’s work is process and materially oriented. She combines abstraction and representation with manipulated imagery and layers of media. From acrylic to spray paint, color pencils, collage, and an assemblage of small jewel-like pieces. She uses myriad techniques, from wiping, cutting, stencil and rubbing, to ink jet copying, and direct painting and drawing.
Kathy has many influences from her 25 years as a museum curator. Modernist composition, surrealism, decorative arts and craft, photography, and the relationship between landscape/memory and the female artist-body.
Kathy’s writing is published extensively. Her artwork is in the collection of University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics, and many private collections. Upon leaving the UISMA, Kathy and her husband established the Kathleen Edwards Purchase Fund for Contemporary Art by American Women.
About the FolkArtwork Collective
Not only can you shop original work from this great artist, there’s much more where that came from! It brings me great pleasure to introduce the FolkArtwork Collective — a phenomenal group of self-taught and contemporary emerging artists from across the globe. Jackie Bradshaw, Esteban Whiteside, Sarah Lee, and Noel Hatfield are the first artists to bring original artwork directly to the FolkArtwork web store on both FolkArtwork.art/shop and directly on Instagram. I am very pleased to also add Reneesha Mccoy, Jordan Sullivan, Gabrielle K Brown, Christopher Bame, Max Kuhn, Ben Gardner and in 2024, Melody Jean Moulton, Dinah Hanson-Carrillo, Lindsay Carraway, Kathy Edwards Hayslett, Lorena Eliasen, Mike Combs, and James Ash to the collective. More artists art continuing to join in 2025 including Des Moines own Alexandre Shiffer, Lesley Miserables from London, and contemporary visionary artist Linda DiLeva.
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