Kayla Borell-Mullins

Artist and Arts Educator
kaylaborellstudios@gmail.com

  • Education

    2022
    MA in Arts Leadership and Management
    Wichita State University, Wichita, KS

    2019
    BA in Visual Art Administration
    BA in Studio - Painting and Ceramics
    Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS

    2015
    Dighton High School, Dighton, KS, Diploma

  • Art-Related Experience

    Current - 2019
    Owner/Artist and Art Instructor, Borell Studios, Lindsborg, KS

    2023 - 2022
    Adjunct Ceramics Professor, Kansas Wesleyan University, Salina, KS

    2022 - 2019
    Adjunct Art Professor, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS

    2021
    Art Instructor & Volunteer, Smoky Valley Arts & Folklife Center, Lindsborg, KS

    Director of Education & Art Instructor, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS

    2020
    Education Coordinator & Art Instructor, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS

    2019
    Art Education Assistant & Art Instructor, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS, 2019

    2019 - 2018
    Summer Art Intern, Salina, KS

    Volunteer, Installed exhibitions, Birger Sandzen Memorial Art Gallery, Lindsborg, KS

    Production Pottery, Bethany College Swedish Crafts, Lindsborg, KS

    2017
    Swedish Folk Art Apprentice, Hemslojd Inc, Lindsborg, KS

    Art Gallery Assistant, Mingenback Art Center, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS

  • Non-Art Related Experience

    2019 - 2020
    Assistant Manager, Hemslojd Inc, Lindsborg, KS

    2018 - 2019
    Gift Shop Personnel, Hemslojd Inc, Lindsborg, KS

    2016 - 2018
    Office Assistant, Lane-Scott Electric Coop, Dighton, KS

    2011 - 2015
    Custodian, Lane-Scott Electric Coop, Dighton, KS

  • Exhibitions

    Upcoming 2023
    Solo Show, Salina Public Library, Salina, KS
    Holiday Gift Group Show, Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg, KS

    2022
    Solo Show, Soil Take Me Home, Sculpt Massage, Salina, KS
    Holiday Gift Group Show, Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg, KS
    2nd Annual Community Arts & Crafts Exhibition, Smoky Valley Arts & Folklife Center, Lindsborg, KS
    Invitational Group Show, West of Topeka: Kansas Women Artists, Morris Gallery, NOTO Arts Center, curated Barbara Waterman-Peters, Topeka, KS
    Solo Show, Bloom, McPherson Public Library, McPherson, KS
    Solo Show, Soil Take Me Home, Peaceful Body Wellness Retreat, Salina, KS
    Solo Show, First Friday, The Flower Nook, Salina, KS
    Solo Show, Salina Community Theatre, Salina, KS
    Art Consignment, Leaping Llama Art Gallery, Topeka, KS

    2021
    Holiday Gift Show, Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg, KS
    Bethany College Faculty Show, Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg, KS
    Solo Show, Soil Take Me Home, Regier-Friessan Gallery, Hesston College, Hesston, KS
    Group Show, Fiber and The Magnolia Leaf, The Flower Nook, Salina, KS
    Group Juried Show, Juried Art is Ageless, Mix Media/Crafts and Christmas Art, Salina Presbyterian Manor, Salina, KS
    Solo Show, Soil Take Me Home, Gallery 708, Salina Public Library, Salina, KS
    Group Show, Small Gestures of Repair, juried Joyce Harlow, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
    Pottery Consignment, Leaping Llama Art Gallery, Topeka, KS

    2020
    Group Holiday Gift Show, Sandzen Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg, KS
    Pottery Consignment, Leaping Llamas Art Gallery, Topeka, KS
    Faculty Show, Mingenback Art Gallery, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS

    2019
    Catharsis: Color in Bloom, Solo BA Thesis Show, Mingenback Art Gallery, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS
    Messiah Student Show, Juror Elizabeth Stevenson, Mingenback Art Gallery, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS
    Group Show, Departures: The Art of Leaving this Place, Salina Art Center, Lindsborg, KS
    Kansas Culture Show, curated by Ryan L. Swayne, Augusta Arts Council Gallery, Augusta, KS
    Sunflower Bienniel: Through Their Eye, Contemporary Art from Emerging Young Kansas Artists, juror Randy Regier, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS

    2018
    Group Senior Spring Preview, The White Peacock, Lindsborg, KS
    Beginning, Middle, and End, Student Show, Mingenback Art Gallery, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS
    Messiah Student Show, juror Grace Peterson, Mingenback Art Gallery, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS

    2017
    Line, Linear, Lineage, Student Show, Mingenback Art Gallery, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS
    Messiah Student Show, juror Matt Garcia, Mingenback Art Gallery, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS

    2016
    Fall Student Show, Mingenback Art Gallery, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS
    Messiah Student Show, jurors Stephanie Lanter and Erin Wiersma, Mingenback Art Gallery, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS

    2015
    Fall Student Show, Mingenback Art Gallery, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS

  • Service and Organizations

    2022
    Volunteer & Art Instructor, Smoky Valley Arts & Folklife Center, Lindsborg, KS
    National Art Education Association, Active Professional, Kansas

    2021
    The Raymer Society, member, Lindsborg, KS
    Maker’s Street Committee, member, local art walk, Lindsborg, KS
    Smoky Valley Arts & Folklife Center, committee member, Lindsborg, KS
    Education Committee, leader, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
    Salina Cultural Educators, member, Salina, KS

    2020
    National Arts Education Association, Actie Professional, Kansas
    Lindsborg Arts Council, member, Lindsborg, KS
    Art Club Advisor, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS
    Education Committee, leader, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
    Salina Cultural Educators, member, Salina, KS

    2019
    Bethany College Art Dept, Search Committee Chair: Visiting Assistant Professor, Lindsborg, KS
    Lindsborg Arts Council, member, Lindsborg, KS
    Art Club, member, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS
    NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts), student member
    KACA (Kansas Artist Craftsmen Association, member

    2018
    Lindsborg Arts Council, member, Lindsborg, KS
    Art Club, president, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS
    NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts), student member
    KACA (Kansas Artist Craftsmen Association, member

    2017
    Art Club, president, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS
    Sigma Phi Omega, treasurer, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS

    2016
    Bethany College Art Department, Search Committee Chair: Ceramics and Sculpture Professor, Lindsborg, KS
    Art Club, treasurer, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS
    Sigma Phi Omega, secretary, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS

    2015
    Art Club, member, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS
    Sigma Phi Omega, member, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS

    2015 - 2004
    4-H member

  • Artist Workshops

    2021
    Randy Clark, Abstract Painting, Smoky Valley Arts & Folklife Center, Lindsborg, KS
    Kansas Alliance for the Arts in Education and the Kansas Literacy Festival, Environment Education Experience, Secret Life of Diatoms, Zoom, Pratt Public Library

    2020
    Darren Morawitz, Watercolor Painting, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS

    2019
    Hanna Eastin, Ceramics, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS
    Larry D Peters and Barbara Waterman-Peters, Ceramics and Oil Painting, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS

    2018
    Kwok-Pong “Bobby” Tso, Ceramics, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS
    Tyler Quintin, Ceramics, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS

    2017
    Mark and Bambi Freeman, Ceramics, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS
    Linda Ganstrom, Ceramics, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS

    2016
    Stephanie Lanter, Ceramics, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS

  • Conferences

    2019
    Claytopia, NCECA’s 53rd Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN

    2018
    Kansas Artists Craftsmen Association, NOTO, Topeka, KS
    Ceramics Symposium, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
    Cross Currents: Clay and Culture, NCECA’s 52nd Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA

    2017
    Kansas Artists Craftsmen Association, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS

  • Art Residencies

    TBA