I Loaf You’s Rachel Rolon is making fiber art with bagels & beer bread
Rachel Rolon doesn’t want to sell you just one piece of her art. She’s hoping you take three, six or even a dozen at a time – and then butter them. The Kansas City Art Institute graduate, who has a fiber studio near 15th Street and Oak, is perfecting her new medium: bread.
“It’s a really similar process to dyeing fabric,” Rolon says. “It’s a time process. All the ingredients are based on percentages. You’re just adding dye or flour or yeast to make it reactive. I think that’s why I like [baking] bread.”
On a recent Monday, Rolon, 23, arrives at The Pitch offices after running deliveries: dropping off bagels, bagel balls (the size of dinner rolls but without a hole, and infused with herbs and cheese) and beer bread, all baked that morning in the kitchen of her midtown apartment. She’s wearing a KC baseball cap from the Boulevard Brewing Co. store and a T-shirt she made herself. On the shirt are the letters I and U, separated by an illustrated bread loaf. It’s her company’s name: I Loaf You.
