Kayla Borell-Mullins
Artist and Arts Educator
kaylaborellstudios@gmail.com
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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, 20192019 - 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, KS2018 - 2019
Gift Shop Personnel, Hemslojd Inc, Lindsborg, KS2016 - 2018
Office Assistant, Lane-Scott Electric Coop, Dighton, KS2011 - 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, KS2021
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, KS2019
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, KS2018
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, KS2017
Line, Linear, Lineage, Student Show, Mingenback Art Gallery, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS
Messiah Student Show, juror Matt Garcia, Mingenback Art Gallery, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS2016
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, KS2015
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 Library2020
Darren Morawitz, Watercolor Painting, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS2019
Hanna Eastin, Ceramics, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS
Larry D Peters and Barbara Waterman-Peters, Ceramics and Oil Painting, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS2018
Kwok-Pong “Bobby” Tso, Ceramics, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS
Tyler Quintin, Ceramics, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS2017
Mark and Bambi Freeman, Ceramics, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS
Linda Ganstrom, Ceramics, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS2016
Stephanie Lanter, Ceramics, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS -
Conferences
2019
Claytopia, NCECA’s 53rd Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN2018
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, PA2017
Kansas Artists Craftsmen Association, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS -
Art Residencies
TBA