Kendell Harbin lives, works, and believes in Kansas City, MO. Since earning a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute (2013), she has worked as a teaching artist, amateur archivist, project manager, curator, cook, moonlight barback, carpenter, fence painter, and even a substitute teacher for a day. Kendell was recently awarded an Artistic Innovations Grant from the Mid-America Arts Alliance (2017), Inspiration Grant from ArtsKC (2018), and Rocket Grant from the Charlotte Street Foundation and KU Spencer Museum of Art (2017) for her work developing an ad hoc mobile media center serving LGBTQ communities in Middle-America.