Featured Artist
- Marketing@CCB
- Feb 6
- 2 min read
Experience the art of Rachelle Gardner-Roe.

Associates are invited to experience the thought-provoking and visually rich works of local artist Rachelle Gardner-Roe, now on display in BGT Lobby at 1 Ward Parkway. A longtime fixture in the Kansas City arts community, Gardner-Roe melds her Midwestern rural roots with a contemporary multi-media practice, incorporating fibers, sculpture and drawing to explore our relationship with the natural world.
Through exuberant color and intricate imagery, her pieces create a vibrant, almost “Where’s Waldo”-like experience, encouraging viewers to look closer and discover layers of meaning. Her work serves as both an invitation and a conversation starter, highlighting native species, conservation and our place within the natural world—as being “of nature” rather than being separate from it.
Gardner-Roe’s process is as compelling as her themes. Although drawing serves as the foundation of much of her work, her fiber-based pieces use hand-dyed wool from her family’s farm (where her family raises sheep), stitched with a sewing machine in what she describes as the “inverse” of drawing. In other works, she writes poetry with a 3D printing pen, transforming words into layered, sculptural forms. Her ability to successfully blend historical craft techniques with contemporary artistic methods challenges perceptions of “women’s work” and connects generational knowledge to the present.
Gardner-Roe’s work has been commissioned for major public and private collections, including the Kansas City International Airport, St. Teresa’s Academy, Art in the Loop Foundation and A.I.R. Gallery of New York. Her pieces are housed in collections at The City of Overland Park; The City of Kansas City, Missouri; American Century Investments and numerous private collections.
She has exhibited nationally at venues such as The San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, The Mulvane Art Museum, The Leedy-Voulkos Art Center and The Chautauqua Institution.
Her first solo museum exhibition is set for spring 2025 at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Gardner-Roe works with a studio in the historic West Bottoms of Kansas City, Missouri.
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