Kinhouse Gallery is an artist-run contemporary exhibition space in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

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Kinhouse Gallery, founded in 2024, is an artist-run exhibition space that champions women artists, creates exhibition opportunities for emerging and established artists, works in collaboration with Kinhouse Artist Residency, and brings contemporary art and artists to engage with our community in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

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Kinhouse Gallery, 1601 Oakland St, Fort Wayne, IN 46808

Open by appointment, email kinhouseart@gmail.com

 

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  • While we don’t exclusively show women artists, we support women artists through

    • Artist/Mother open call

    • Showing our own work and facilitating personal curatorial projects

    • A curatorial program that leans toward craft materials and processes

    • Partnership with Kinhouse Residency, a family inclusive residency

  • We create exhibition opportunities for early career artists through

    • Proposals open call for artists in need to space for solo shows, collaborative shows, curatorial projects, performances, or installations.

    • A gallery sale split with 80% of sales going back to the artist

    • 2-3 open call opportunities for group shows

  • We partner with Kinhouse Artist Residency through

    • Artist/Mother open call

    • Inviting artists from the residency to engage with gallery programming, such as invitations to openings or invitations to speak

  • We engage with the Fort Wayne community through:

    • Bringing artists to Fort Wayne that have not shown here before

    • Exhibitions and receptions are free and open to the public

    • Inclusion of local, contemporary artists

    • Educational signage and clear prices

Gallery Director, Kaylan Buteyn

Kaylan Buteyn’s work investigates physical representations of generational care through paintings, quilts, domestic textiles, abstraction and collage. She has exhibited in galleries and community spaces internationally including the Ground Floor Gallery in Nashville, TN, Artlink in Fort Wayne, IN, Split Milk in Edinburgh, Scotland, among others. Kaylan maintains an active social extension to her art practice through initiatives she founded, including the Artist/Mother Podcast and the Thrive Together Network. From 2020-2023, Kaylan co-founded Stay Home Gallery with Pam Taylor in rural TN. Today, Kinhouse Gallery and Residency is modeled after that work. Kaylan holds an MFA from the New Hampshire Institute of Art. She now lives with her partner and their 3 children in Fort Wayne, IN. 

Kaylan’s Artist Website

Gallery Director, Dana Caldera

Dana Caldera is a mixed-media visual artist. Her pieces combine found collage material, handmade paper, textiles, painting, and drawing into intricately layered compositions. Caldera has had recent group shows at Flatland Gallery (Houston) and Site:Brooklyn Gallery (Online) and a recent solo show at Box13 Art Space (Houston). She is a recipient of grants from the Wendy Wagner Foundation, the City of Houston, and Indiana Arts Commission. Residencies include Atelierhaus Hilmsen and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston’s CAMHLAB. Her work has been published in Photo Trouvée Magazine and books: Collage Care: Transforming Emotions and Life Experiences with Collage and Echoes of Yesterday. Her artwork can be found in public and corporate collections including Sweetgreen and The Doug and Laurie Kanyer Art Collection.

Dana’s Artist Website