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Beach Museum of Art
Kansas State University
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George M. Kren, Janet Kuemmerlein (fiber artist), in her studio, Central Street, Kansas City, M…
Janet Kuemmerlein
George M. Kren, Janet Kuemmerlein (fiber artist), in her studio, Central Street, Kansas City, M…
George M. Kren, Janet Kuemmerlein (fiber artist), in her studio, Central Street, Kansas City, Missouri, May 20, 1982, May 20, 1982, printed 2011, inkjet print on paper, 16 1/16 x 16 1/16 in., Kansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Margo Kren, 2017.243

Janet Kuemmerlein

United States, born 1932
Place of BirthKansas City, Kansas
Biography• Kuemmerlein studied painting at the College of Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan before going on to study sculpture and metalsmithing at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
• Kuemmerlein moved to the Kansas City area in 1959. Soon after the move, her husband passed away leaving her the sole caregiver of their four young children.
• Her varied art training gave her the mindset that being an artist was a serious and viable career. According to Kuemmerlein, it never occurred to her that there was risk involved. She set out to make a living doing what she knew with great confidence.
• She was a pioneer in the fiber arts movement, exhibiting her work in the Fiber as Medium International Exhibition in California in the early 1960s.
• Her work ranged in size and complexity, from small individual pieces to large murals for public buildings. One of her largest pieces, titled “Artic Echoes,” took 16 hours to install in the municipal library in Anchorage, Alaska.
• Throughout the 2010s, she also painted portraits of other artists, including female jazz vocalists for the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City.