MacKenzie Fulmer, Local Artist
Introducing the Artists from Local Artist Go Miniature
On October 25, The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures celebrated the opening of Local Artists Go Miniature, an exhibition highlighting Kansas City’s vibrant creative community. The exhibition features small artwork by 29 talented local artists in various mediums, styles, and subjects. Artworks could be realistic, abstract, and/or imagined subjects and did not have to be inspired by an existing, full-scale object. The exhibition concluded on June 9, 2025.
About MacKenzie
MacKenzie Fulmer’s background in illustration and interest in observational drawing informs her still life paintings. Living between reportage, fantasy, and mcurio collections, her paintings serialize daily life and depict her attachments to objects. She utilizes formats like zines and still life paintings as a way to catalog chapters of life and make discoveries about the individual process of self-actualization.
In-Depth Artist Interviews
Artists selected for the exhibition were given the opportunity to participate in a video interview about their studio practice, experience working in miniature, and more. Below is a highlight from Fulmer’s interview. Watch the full video to learn more about Fulmer and her work.
What Inspires Your Work?
“I’m really a very sentimental person. So, it often comes back to that. An object tied to a memory or person, just a time and a place. Whether they’re my own objects or something vintage that I found — something that’s thrifted or something that’s been in my family for a long time, I’ve worked in a lot of different mediums like metals, jewelry, photography, illustration — all of my work kind of becomes autobiographical, whether I want it to or not. I think a lot about my grandmother or the matriarchs in my family, and how they are the keepers and collectors of our family’s memories, and I feel that connection to my work as well.”
Supporters
Financial assistance for this project has been provided by the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency, and a generous private donor.
