Kansas City Chicken Art Debuts

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“Birds of Feather” — a 19-piece assortment of sculptural chickens crafted by the two women-owned businesses (inspired by Ampersand’s bold and colorful brand; translated, built and brought to life by The City Girl Farm) — is set to debut later this week at a First Friday gallery opening.

Opening 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, May 2 at the Crossroads Hotel private dining space, the collection also will accessible to the public 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, May 3-4 . . .

In addition to the whimsical footstools (a signature of City Girl Farm that feature sculptures that are up to 22 inches tall and weigh 25 pounds), Ampersand plans to showcase — for the first time — the original two-dimensional art pieces that inspired this season’s chicken footstools, they noted.

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Chicken footstools gain fine art foothold through collaboration with no pecking order - Startland News

A pair of two-dimensional designers at Ampersand Design Studio and their three-dimensional collaborators at The City Girl Farm just flocked together to release a new collection of two-foot-tall fiber-feathered fowl "footstools."

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