Signco wraps KC Streetcar and stop enclosures for Art in the Loop 2025!
Art in the Loop is a nonprofit that is contributing to the ongoing revitalization of downtown Kansas City through public art. They work with local artists to install themed works on the streetcar’s various stops, and also on one of the streetcars, turning it into a moving work of art, weaving its way through downtown KC.
Signco has partnered with the KC Streetcar Authority since 2018, professionally printing and installing the vinyl wraps for the stops and streetcar, and bringing the selected artists’ works of art to life and increasing their visibility. Signco’s reliable materials and certified installers ensure that the durable, weather-resistant wraps look fresh and vibrant over the many months they are displayed.
Art in the Loop 2025 Theme: Wonder
This year, the organization selected the theme “Wonder.” Artists were asked to submit works that explored the complexities of connection, discovery, and shared experience that create a community. Creators were encouraged to use their relationships, values, guiding principles, personal journeys, and important causes to explore how they tie into the larger Kansas City community.
Max Dlabick
“Interplanetary Joyride” – KC Streetcar
Max Dlabick is a Kansas City-based illustrator with a BFA in Illustration from the Kansas City Art Institute. His work, inspired by digital and ink-based comics, explores humor and emotion through the use of playful lines and color.
“Interplanetary Joyride” encourages viewers to take a break from the stresses and chaos of everyday life and invest time back into the activities that bring them happiness. Pursuing hobbies is one of the greatest joys of life and a key to enriching and strengthening the spirit. Dlabick’s highly distinctive characters paint, sing, dance, bicycle, stroll, and dance across the KC Streetcar in vibrant, eye-catching hues.
Adrienne Clayton
“Reflection” – Library Southbound Stop
Adrienne Clayton has been a painter and educator based in Kansas City for 24 years. She holds degrees from UMKC in Studio Art, Curriculum, Instructional Leadership, and Administration. As a founding member of Black Space Black Art, Clayton contributed to the design and implementation of six Black Lives Matter murals around the city.
This painting was inspired by a moment when she observed her daughter sitting on the Paseo stairs after a dance performance, lost in thought. The work began as a reused classroom canvas and combines free-form painting with vibrant color and playful stencils.
David Morris
“Music is Community” – Kauffman Southbound Stop
David Morris is a retired commercial photographer whose work has appeared in national campaigns and publications. Driven by his love of jazz, he has transitioned into abstract digital art inspired by music and is represented by Cerbera Gallery. Morris and his wife owned the advertising photography studio Studio 2131, and he is a former Shawnee City Councilman, current Chairman of the Crossroads Arts District, and co-founder of Rebuilding Together Shawnee.
This striking collage explores how music and art bring people together. Two figures are seen linked by the swirling colors, instruments, and musical notes. The layered effect invites viewers to explore and discover hidden details and forms on their own. Its dreamlike aesthetic sparks curiosity, imagination, and a sense of wonder.
MacKenzie Fulmer
“Newcomer” – Metro Center Northbound Stop
MacKenzie Fulmer’s painting style uses everyday objects to symbolize memory, attachment, and transformation. In this way, Fulmer explores storytelling, and her works fall somewhere between realism and fantasy. Her background in illustration has led her to illustrate several children’s books, and she has been awarded the Norman Rockwell Scholarship from the Society of Illustrators.
“Newcomer” is inspired by Fulmer’s first visit to Kansas City. Through her work, she showcases the silence that surrounds feelings of awe and how it is translated through one’s eyes.
Miranda Clark
“Jewel” – Crossroads Southbound Stop
Miranda Clark is a designer who explores the intersections of sculpture, color, and community-centered design. She draws inspiration from large-scale infrastructure, like the 24-mile Causeway Bridge near her hometown, New Orleans. Her work blends research, technology, craft, and material to push the boundaries of art. Clark has a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and recently completed her Master of Architecture at Yale, where she was a Feldman Prize finalist.
Clark explores infrastructure with “Jewel”. The work incorporates an abstraction of the Kansas City skyline and complex line work to create movement, similar to the way jewels refract light. Just as jewels are created by applied pressure over time, Clark views the creation of Kansas City similarly, with the purpose-driven community applying the “pressure” that shaped the city into what it is today.
Art in the Loop and the participating artists trust Signco to bring their works of art to life with vivid color, precision printing, and expert installation. These KC Streetcar wraps and stop enclosures are subjected to the toughest of KC’s weather, requiring superior durability and longevity, which the Signco team delivers each and every year.
