Baylee Schmitt, 306 West Church St.
Exhibition • Through Saturday, September 6, 2025
Gallery hours
Saturday, August 9, 11am-3pm
Saturday, August 16, 11am-3pm
Saturday, August 23, 11am-3pm
Saturday, August 30, 11am-3pm
Friday, September 5, 6–9pm – Artist’s Reception
Saturday, September 6, 11am-3pm – Last Look
Artist’s Statement
I crochet my childhood home from memory. Making this work is a meditative – and anxious – practice of understanding the self in relation to family. There must be energetic and emotional byproducts from these dynamic relationships seeped into the walls, furnishings, and memory of a space. The childhood home, providing an architecture for the mind, the self, is a communal space — one often crowded and loud, filled with the voices of the others. I’m interested in reducing this space down into its constituent parts: stitches that make up rows, rows that make up shapes, and shapes that make up both image and object. It echoes the way memories, relationships, and experiences seem to make up a person; the way rooms make up a house; and the way individuals make up a family. I use yarn to build shapes stitch by stitch, crafting an image to interpret the emotional memory of the space we inhabited as a unit.
About the Artist
Baylee Schmitt(MFA from Miami University) is currently the DAAP Printmaking Lab Manager at the University of Cincinnati. A fiber artist and printmaker, Baylee exhibited work with solo exhibitions at River East Gallery in Toledo, OH, at LASC in Lexington, KY, and an upcoming exhibition of new work at Laisun Keane Gallery in Boston, MA. Baylee has also participated in group exhibitions at Bulthaup Toronto and the Ohio Craft Museum.