THREE BLIND WOMEN DESCRIBE AN ELEPHANT

Heather Baumbach, Elaine Farley Kinnaird, Miriam Omura

December 5 – 20, 2025

Opening Reception: Friday, December 5, 5 – 7 pm

Artist Talk: Saturday, December 13, 3 pm

Heather Baumbach is a fiber artist whose textile sculptures explore the complexity of her relationship with the physical body, skin, and the cloth that covers it while expressing cultural concepts of gender, domesticity, and craft. She is devoted to working with her hands, creating works notable for their deft finish and tactile nature. Her visual art has been exhibited at Mass MoCA, the Broad Institute of MIT, Harvard, the Wiregrass Museum of Art, the Gadsden Museum of Art, and the Georgine Clark Alabama Artists Gallery. Heather holds a BFA in Costume Design from UNCSA and an MFA in Visual Art from Lesley University.

Elaine Farley Kinnaird is a fiber artist and Birmingham native, whose practice often involves growing, spinning, and dying cotton, producing sculptural works from the resulting material. Farley Kinnaird graduated from the Alabama School of Fine Arts and from Birmingham-Southern College, majoring in Art History with a minor in Art. She received her MFA in Fiber Art in 2014 from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 2015, she participated in the Cultural Reservation Podere Conte Ràcani–Sculptor Residency Program in Umbria, Italy, and in 2018, she received a Visual Arts Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

Miriam Omura is a visual artist whose practice includes textiles, ceramics, and alternative photographic methods. Her material processes are guided by her research, delving into newspaper archives, genealogy, and various other resources to unearth narratives. Exploring themes of personal and community loss, as well as identity, Omura navigates the known and unknown details surrounding missing and unidentified individuals, and her work examines how materiality and history intersect. Omura holds a BFA in Fiber and Material Studies from The Cleveland Institute of Art and an MA in History and Art History from Cleveland State University. She is a past recipient of an ASCA Individual Artist Fellowship grant and has exhibited nationally and internationally.