Selections from the KIA Permanent Collection (featuring nearly 4,000 paintings, prints, photographs and 3-D works) are always on view in the Lower Level Galleries.

Temporary exhibitions feature exciting shows representing a diverse array of styles, time periods and media.

Work of the week free Sunday tours
 Every Sunday at 2 p.m. beginning September 7
A different work in the KIA Permanent Collection or a special exhibition will be explored in-depth.

  • Marc Chagall: The Early Etchings
  • September 6-October 19
    An exhibition of 65 early monochromatic etchings by Russian-born artist Marc Chagall (1887-1985), based on two popular literary documents: Les Ames mortes (The Dead Souls) by 19th-century Russian novelist Nikolai Gogol, and Selected Fables, by 17th-century French author Jean de La Fontaine
    Sponsored by the Olin and Muriel Prather Charitable Foundation, Trustee T. Huff

  • Michigan Ceramics 2008
  • September 13-October 12
    The Michigan Ceramic Art Association (MCAA) brings its 50th anniversary traveling exhibition to the KIA. One of the few U.S. exhibitions of its kind operated entirely by artists, the exhibition showcases the excellence and diversity of ceramic art. Ceramicist Bonnie Seeman is the juror.
    Sponsored by The Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs
    Click here to see the exhibition online!

  • Picturing Health: Norman Rockwell and the Art of Illustration
  • September 20-December 14
    From the Massachusetts museum that bears his name comes this exhibition of narratives painted by Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) for medical advertisements. The show also includes modern-day editorial art about health by some of today’s top illustrators, works that first appeared in such publications as Healthy Living, Men’s Health, Newsweek, The New York Times and The New Yorker.
    Sponsored by Consumers Credit Union, Friendship Village, Keyser Insurance Group

  • Spared from the Storm: Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art
  • November 8, 2008-February 8, 2009
    See 89 treasures of American and European art, spanning more than 300 years, from such masters as Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Wassily Kandinsky, Claude Monet, Georgia O’Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Pierre Auguste Renoir, John Singer Sargent, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (the official painter to Marie Antoinette) and more.
    Sponsored by The Irving S. Gilmore Foundation, and presented by The CSM Group and Miller Johnson
    Media sponsors: The Kalamazoo Gazette, Michigan Radio, WGVU-TV

  • 2009 West Michigan Area Show
  • February 20-April 26, 2009
    One of the area’s largest juried shows, with examples of the best art produced in a 14-county region of West Michigan, as selected by a guest juror
    Sponsored by Prudential Preferred, REALTORS

  • 2009 High School Area Show
  • March 28-April 26
    An exhibition of the best works from visual artists in high schools throughout a nine-county region of West Michigan, as selected by a guest juror
    Sponsored by Educational Community Credit Union

  • Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Times: American Modernism from the Lane Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • May 9-September 13, 2009
    A celebration of 20th-century American art, this exhibition traces the development and diversity of American Modernism through the eyes of one of its most passionate collectors. It features masterpieces by O’Keeffe, as well as Charles Sheeler, Arthur Dove, Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley and others.
    Sponsored by National City and the Tyler-Little Family Foundation







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