About

Megan Pobywajlo is an artist and researcher raised in San Diego, transplanted to Kansas City, and currently working in the Arkansas Ozarks. She has worked as an arts organizer, educator, publisher, and photographer. Her current research revolves around DIY community care and the political ideologies and contributions of counter-cultural publishers in the Ozarks.

She has taught at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville, the Kansas City Art Institute, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and lead numerous workshops online and in-person elsewhere.

Megan co-founded Archive Collective (2013-2020), launching their residency and publishing imprint out of her apartment in 2017. Megan’s artworks and Archive publications are in the libraries and permanent collections of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Swiss Institute’s Art at Swiss Re, University of Missouri Kansas City, University of Kansas Lawrence, and University of Nebraska Lincoln among others.

Motivated by the slow and insufficient response to support the people behind the arts amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, Megan worked with her fellow organizers to launch KC Spaces Fund, an emergency mutual aid fund for artist-run spaces and initiatives in Kansas City (2020).