Exhibitions + Community

Projects

Grant-funded community projects, installation work, gallery exhibitions, artist talks, and public art-making rooted in queer storytelling.

Community LGBTQIA+ art initiative | Wichita, Kansas | 2025

Queer storytelling, public art-making, performance, and community care.

Threads of Pride is a community-centered art project planned and curated by Michael K. Davenport, celebrating LGBTQIA+ identity, resilience, and connection in Wichita. From community-created art inspired by the AIDS Memorial Quilt, to an art exhibition at Harvester Arts, to Pride Month performances, this project reflects the strength and creativity of queer voices coming together. Supported by the City of Wichita and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Michael K. Davenport painting a large community-created Surface/Self canvas.

Wichita Arts Council supported installation | In development

Community marks transformed into life-sized fabric figures.

Surface / Self is an evolving installation project exploring how community shapes identity while honoring the individuality of every body. Through public participation and large-scale fabric figures, the work reflects on queer experience, belonging, and becoming.

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Installation for Queer Intimacy | 2025

Queer polyamorous love, tenderness, distance, and memory.

An installation about intimacy in transition. Once centered on abundance and connection, this work evolved into a meditation on love, loss, and the fragile traces people leave behind.

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Steckline Gallery at Newman University | September 2024

A solo exhibition on masculinity, vulnerability, and personal narrative.

Find & Explore is a mixed media art exhibition by Michael K. Davenport exploring masculinity, vulnerability, humor, and personal storytelling through layered paintings, portraiture, abstraction, and symbolic imagery.

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