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Molly Kaderka is currently working on her Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree at the Kansas City Art Institute, majoring in Painting and Art History. Previously she has completed several workshops and classes at The University of Texas at Austin, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Molly has also been accepted into the Studio Art Centers International in Florence Italy for the late spring term of May 2011. Among others, she has exhibited paintings in the H&R Block Artspace and Dodge Painting Gallery in Kansas City Missouri, Arthouse at the Jones Center Contemporary Art for Texas, and Bass Concert Hall in Austin Texas. She has received numerous awards and scholarships for visual arts, as well as writing awards and theatrical awards including the KCAI Competitive Award 2007-2011, both gold and silver medals at the Visual Arts Scholastic Event in 2006, 2004, and 2003 and the Austin American Statesman Excellence in Writing Scholarship Competition in May 2006. Additionally, during the summer of 2010 Molly was invited to join a team to design and execute two four-story murals in the new Performing Arts Center designed by Moshe Sofdie. Molly has also been hired has a teaching assistant for the Kansas City Art Institute in the summer of 2009 and has interned at the H&R Block Artspace Gallery and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Fine Art in Kansas City Missouri during the fist half of 2010.
Molly is very interested and engaged with current conversations in painting. She actively responds and appropriates from the history of painting while still maintaining a relationship with contemporary topics in painting.
