Dr. Samantha Krukowski is the Founder and Art Farmer in Chief of the Little Art Farm. She is a maker, author, and educator who is interested in the nature of images and objects, the records of experience, the identity of place and the consequences of intervention. Dr. Krukowski can often be found on the back of a horse, teaching at the Kansas City Art Institute, with her Beauceron Soren, practicing her carpentry and construction skills, and with her hands in the dirt.
The Little Art Farm is a creative landscape, partially located on a residential lot in Kansas City but not anchored to its site. More than a place, it is a conceptual umbrella for a range of artistic practices. It is at once an art studio, urban farm, habitat restoration project, experimental laboratory, animal sanctuary, gathering place, community icon. The Little Art Farm is an alternative model for living and making that challenges ideas about what it means to live a creative life, where and how artists work, how artworks are identified and shared, and what responsibilities property owners and others who dwell have to inhabitants and materialities other than themselves – ground, water, wildlife, neighbors, beauty, sustenance.