Solar Girl is an art and design exhibit focusing on sharing ideas about improving our world. Looking forward, our goal is to exhibit 2021 outdoors and award more money for artists and activists. Thank you to all the artists that participated this year and last!
2020 Awards:
Jillian Youngbird, Mona Cliff, Don Wilkinson, Lu Waldemer, Audrey Campbell, Kyle Kempker
The awards panel is comprised of 2019 exhibit winners. Thank you so much judges for your thoughtful analysis:
Natalie Richlinski
IG: nats_io
Natalie is a brick layer by trade and uses her spatial awareness skills in her sculptures and photography.
Mary Kay McGinty
IG:mcgintymk
Artist and climate activist Mary Kay McGinty graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute ans has participated in numerous exhibitions including Solar girl 2019. Passionate about the environment and climate Justice she’s active in several local climate action groups including Mothers Out Front, The Sierra Club and Climate Action Friends KC.
Craig Deppen Auge
IG: craigdeppenauge
Craig Deppen Auge is an artist currently residing in Kansas City Missouri. His works explore the relationships between material, shape, color, gesture and mark making, site and psyche. He merges and flows between collage, alternative bookmaking, salvage assemblage, and impromptu public intervention. Ephemeral, formal explorations reflect through-lines of self, and potentially activate collective deja-vu. He has exhibited regionally and nationally in venues such as Kiosk Gallery in Kansas City and Site in Brooklyn. Works have been included in many publications, among them The Hand Magazine, For Your Eyes Only, and Cut Me Up. Craig attended the On::VIEW residency at Sulfur Studios in Savannah GA in 2018. He is a 2019-2020 Charlotte Street Foundation Studio Resident and will be an Elsewhere Museum Resident later this year in Greensboro NC.
