Bei Bei Fields
About Bei Bei:
BeiBei Fields, originally from China, spent her first 18 years in an orphanage before moving to Kansas City in January 2024. Now a student at the Kansas State School for the Blind, she embraces new experiences with curiosity and determination. Fully blind, her interest in exploring artmaking through touch brings a distinctive and imaginative perspective to this collaborative project. A big coffee fan, she also works at The Brailled Bean at KSSB, where you can find her behind the counter.
Lisa Cowan
About Lisa:
Lisa Cowan is a painter based in Leawood, Kansas, whose work spans from realism to full abstraction and centers on perceptual investigations of color, feeling, and place. Her mastery of color allows her to evoke emotions, specific memories, and the experience of place through both indoor artworks and public-facing pieces across the Kansas City area. Passionate about community outreach, Lisa actively engages with individuals and groups locally to foster meaningful connections through art.
Katy Cowan
About Katy:
Katy Cowan is a painter and educator based in Berlin, Germany. Her work includes hand-painted metal wall reliefs, drawings, and paintings move fluidly between mediums and embrace accidents and materials in unexpected ways. In addition to her professional art career, she is an educator who has been working closely with her Kansas City-based mother-in-law, Lisa Cowan, and together they’ve spent the past year exploring how artists use their bodies differently to create art, flipping common ideas about what’s possible. Inspired by poetry, place, and collaboration, Katy’s work invites people to see the world—and art—through fresh eyes.