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The KIA Gallery shop is thrilled to partner with MRC artWorks
MRC artWorks offers unique and affordable art created by individuals with disabilities, providing an outlet to achieve creative self‐expression in a way that promotes personal growth, dignity, and self-confidence.
All artists receive a commission for the sale of their work, which not only serves as their source of income, but also enhances and reinforces their self-esteem and self-worth. MRC artWorks provides a safe, positive, and creative environment that focuses on the individual’s abilities rather than their disabilities.
Carol has taken ceramics classes here at the KIA Kirk Newman Art School since 2000. She works both in porcelain and red earthenware, but prefers earthenware because of the color that can be captured with low fire glazes. Carol loves color and wants to pass on the joy she gets from creating beautiful ceramics. All her work is lead free and food safe. It is microwave safe but will become hot and pot holders should be used to remove from microwave. Carol suggests hand-washing.
Sharon appreciates all kinds of art. Before retiring, she enjoyed her jobs of being a cook and a seamstress. After retirement, she started taking classes at the KIA. Sharon states that the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts is her happy place! Through the years she has taken classes in Jewelry, welding, papier-mâché, pottery and needle felting. She enjoys learning new things that bring out her creative expression.
Beginning with sheet metal and wire in silver, copper, brass and bronze Lauren uses techniques such as filing, piercing and soldering to construct finished pieces of work. These metals have an almost plastic quality in that they can be bent, moved and formed into three dimensional forms. She considers her jewelry truly wearable art.
After receiving her BA from Western Michigan University she set up her studio in Hastings, Michigan and four years later began teaching metalsmithing classes at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.
The best way to care for your jewelry is to wear it. Worn pieces tend to tarnish less. To clean use a polishing cloth or polishing crème. Ultrasonic cleaning is not recommended for pieces with stones.
Each of Noelle’s ceramic pieces is either thrown on the wheel or hand-built, sometimes using a slump mold. Noelle learned all she knows about ceramics at the KIA Kirk Newman Art School. With a love of bright colors and painting Noelle sees the clay as a canvas she can mold to almost any size or shape.
When creating the “fern design” real ferns are used that she has collected and stored in old phone books.
All of her ceramics are food safe, she recommends hand washing but they may be put in dishwasher and microwave.