Rookie Detectives: Beautiful Hands

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts 314 S Park St, Kalamazoo, MI, United States

What will your beautiful hands create today? Inspired by artists in the West Michigan Area Show, the Rookie Detectives will explore creating artwork with their hands and fingers. Wear clothes…

Richard Mayhew: Spiritual Landscapes

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts 314 S Park St, Kalamazoo, MI, United States

During this ARTbreak, we will screen the short film Richard Mayhew: Spiritual Landscapes. Created by Linda Freeman and David Irving, the film explores the work of painter Richard Mayhew, whose 1974…

Artistry and Spectacle in the Kabuki Tradition

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts 314 S Park St, Kalamazoo, MI, United States

Woodblock prints by Hokusai Katsushika, Kunisada Utagawa, and Toyokuni Utagawa in the Sugoi exhibition feature Kabuki actors in costume, as well as scenes from popular Kabuki plays in 19th century…

An Evening with the Black Arts & Cultural Center

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts 314 S Park St, Kalamazoo, MI, United States

Since its founding in 1986, the Black Arts & Cultural Center has served a vital community-focused mission, providing invaluable support to Black artists from the Kalamazoo area and around the…

Art Detectives: A Flag for Juneteenth

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts 314 S Park St, Kalamazoo, MI, United States

As part of the KIA’s Juneteenth Community Day, the Art Detectives will read A Flag for Juneteenth. This book is illustrated through quilted pictures, and we’ll create a community paper…

Juneteenth Community Day

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts 314 S Park St, Kalamazoo, MI, United States

Celebrate Juneteenth with the KIA! This meaningful holiday celebrates the day that enslaved people in Texas finally received freedom 2 years after President Lincoln’s address of the Emancipation Proclamation. For…

West Michigan Area Show Artist Highlight

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts 314 S Park St, Kalamazoo, MI, United States

During select ARTbreaks throughout the summer, artists featured in the 2023 West Michigan Area Show will deliver talks on their featured pieces, their larger bodies of work, their artistic processes,…

Horse

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts 314 S Park St, Kalamazoo, MI, United States

by Geraldine Brooks A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids…