Woven Together Community Landscape Collaborative Art Project
Woven Together Community Landscape Participants
Kelli Austin | Debbie Barrett-Jones | Matthew Baumann | Lori Bennett
Morgan Bennett | Peggy Bennett | Elaina Boudreau | Kristen Bowlin
Rebecca Boyd | Larkin Bowlin | Jillian Buckley | Mary Burian
Maria Comerford | Christina Jean Craig | Anna Diep | Lindsey Doolittle
Fiona Dougan | Mitch Durr | Kari Flynn | Sophie Froneoeur | Maria Fry
Emily Gaul | Andrea Glinn | Sadie Goll | Joz Garsow | Kelsey Harkins
Shelby Hawkins | Emily Herndon | Bailey Herzberg | Jane Holmes
Tiana Nanayo Kuuleialoha Honda | Allie Horner| Lilly Habel | Kanishka Jayanetti
Lyndsee Johnson | Sarah Johnson | Cora Jones | Audrey Knight
Grace Kruer Doyle | Anne-Marie Krull | Ina Krull | Madeleine Krull | Ivy Lane
Kongmong Lor | Salem McAnany | Kylie McConnell | Lily Mehlman | Wendy Mellon
Eryn Minor | Jordan Nations | Kara Nedvar | Michelle Newcome | Lucas Nguyen
Maurice Olin | Richard Ouk | Ashley Perrin | Paige Price | Jennifer Reinhardt
Jesse Reusch | Sandra Rodriguez | Cydney Ross | Barbara Starrett
Cameron Stewart | Kelly Stindt | Ivy Tompkins | Aurelio Vaz | Dejah Wake
Bo S Weisenberger | Kaitlin Welch | Josh Wendell | Erin Wilson| Vilan Vu
Melanie Yearta
Woven Together
Debbie Barrett-Jones
June 25 – July 12, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 25 | 5–7 p.m.
Greenlease Gallery
Rockhurst University
Kansas City, MO
Gallery Hours:
Thursday, Saturday & Sunday: 1–5 p.m.
Friday: 9 a.m.–12 p.m.
Closed July 3–5 | Reopens July 9
Weaving Together with Debbie:
Saturday, June 27 | 1:30–3 p.m.
Friday, July 10 | 10–11:30 a.m.
About the Exhibition
Woven Together is a participatory textile installation and exhibition presented in collaboration with Rockhurst University’s Greenlease Gallery. The project transforms the gallery into an active weaving space where visitors are invited to contribute directly to a growing communal landscape textile.
Rooted in Debbie Barrett-Jones’ Healing with Weaving initiative, the installation continues an ongoing exploration of weaving as a form of connection, care, and shared authorship. Since 2021, the project has welcomed more than 75 participants whose individual woven contributions form a collective record of place, memory, and presence.
Within the gallery, frame looms are available for visitors to add their own woven sections to the work. As the piece evolves throughout the exhibition, it reflects a living landscape shaped by many hands rather than a single author.
Presented in the lead-up to global cultural events in Kansas City, Woven Together emphasizes the role of craft as a universal language—one that invites participation, slows time, and creates connection across backgrounds and experiences.
Visiting Information
Greenlease Gallery is located on the campus of Rockhurst University and is free and open to the public during gallery hours. Visitors are welcome to attend exhibitions, participate in workshops, and engage with the installation throughout the run of the show.
Bio
Debbie Barrett-Jones has been creating custom hand-dyed woven textiles for homes, businesses, places of worship, and gallery spaces since graduating from the Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) with a BFA in Textiles 2007 and an MFA at the University of Kansas, focusing on textile and teaching weaving courses. She has exhibited her work throughout the United States, including the Kansas City area locations, such as Children’s Mercy Hospital in North Kansas City, Truman Medical Center, Community Christian Church, Lead Bank in the Crossroads of Kansas City, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and was one of nineteen Kansas City artists who were commissioned to make permanent public artwork for the new KCI Airport. In 2016, she began envisioning the "Healing with Weaving" initiative, highlighting how art, specifically weaving, can be a therapeutic tool for healing. The first Healing with Weaving Community Outreach Program’s pilot project at Children’s Mercy Hospital Adele Hall Campus in Kansas City, MO. The project provides 200 Healing with Weaving Frame Loom Kits with instructions to be used by patients, family members, and staff to explore the meditative and therapeutic benefits of weaving during the summer and fall of 2021. Barrett-Jones has taught at the University of Kansas and the Kansas City Art Institute and continues to teach Healing with Weaving Workshops.