Nomadic curatorial / design studio weaving art into
shared spaces.
Louisville, K.Y.
Hillbillies at art fairs.
Curation as a collaborative study.
Communion as a practice.
Art-speak as the plague.
Design as art.
White walls as just one option.
Bringing the water to the horse.
Gathering as art.
Hillbillies at art fairs. Curation as a collaborative study. Communion as a practice. Art-speak as the plague. Design as art. White walls as just one option. Bringing the water to the horse. Gathering as art.
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Kudzu jelly is a Louisville, KY-based creative partnership between life partners El Bruner and Lindsey Cummins. Combining their passions for curating, art, and design - their shared goal is to build creative community that feels accessible, personal, and thoughtful. Working nomadically, they curate and exhibit in a variety of spaces, including in their Butchertown home, the Kj House.
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Lindsey
Lindsey Cummins (she/her) is a Louisville, KY based Independent Curator, Collections Advisor, and Community Arts Organizer.In 2020, Lindsey founded Printed, a fiscally sponsored project whose primary initiative is an annual zine publication. Lindsey works at Kentucky’s Great Meadows Foundation, a non-profit that awards travel grants to regional artists.
Lindsey’s recent curatorial projects include a traveling zine exhibition, "Papertrail,” shown at Carbon Copy Gallery (Louisville, KY) and the Print Room (Aberdeen, Scotland), which features a site-specific hanging installation of over 300 zines collected from artists around the world, and “Slump” shown at ArtPortal (Louisville, KY). Upcoming exhibitions include “Kith & Kin: Things Well Known” at Wave Pool Gallery (Cincinnati, OH).
Lindsey received her education at the Hite Art Institute with a degree in Studio Art, Art History, and Modern Culture. She currently serves on the Board of the Portland Museum, the SNAP Art Foundation, and is a member of the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art (IKT).
El Bruner
El Bruner (they/them) is an independent designer, creative director, photographer, and curator living and working in Louisville, Kentucky. They are interested in communion as praxis, aka collaborating with others, and the art within design. They are also interested in human/technology interaction.El is the founder of Gosh! studios, a multidisciplinary art, design, and production studio. They serve as creative director for Printed.
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Kj House
(aka our house in Butchertown, come over, see art, hang out, drink a beer on our porch, or let us make you some tea.)
Snide Hotel
Louisville Grows | Healthy House Gallery
The Chapel of St. Philip Neri -
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