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ArtBreak: West Michigan Area Show Artist Highlight

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

During this ArtBreak, meet local artists Richard Aardsma and Olivia Stier, whose works are featured in the 2024 West Michigan Area Show! Richard Aardsma finds inspiration for his photomontages in the evolution of the photographic still life in modern and postmodern art. Thought-provoking compositions such as Still Life with Camera convey narrative meaning through the juxtaposition of…

ArtBreak: Gun Lake Tribal Historic Preservation and Curation

Rebecca Rupe is the Archives/Collections Coordinator for the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians (Gun Lake Tribe). She began her career with the Gun Lake Tribe in the spring of 2021. In addition to assisting in establishing tribal archives and collections, Rupe has also worked with the Tribe in the areas of programming, digital archive website…

ArtBreak: From Deep Time to Body-Oddy-Oddies

Eric Souther (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of Kinetic Imaging in the Gwen Frostic School of Art at Western Michigan University. During this ArtBreak lecture, he will present a short overview of his experimental media art practice, covering the topics of artificial intelligence, deep time, material agency, and his recent collaborative work with Benjamin Rosenthal:…

ArtBreak: An Interartistic Dialogue Between Visual Poetry and Visual Art

Hedy Habra is a poet, artist, and essayist. During this ArtBreak, she will discuss and read selections from her recently-published poetry collection, Or Did You Ever See the Other Side? (Press 53, 2023). The ekphrastic poems in this volume focus on the feminine and are mainly inspired by contemporary and surrealist women artists from different…

ArtBreak: Building Safe Spaces

Dell Darnell (they/them) is the founder of The Dapper Hammer and is a carpenter and woodworking educator. Darnell started The Dapper Hammer, Michigan’s first trans-owned teaching workshop, several years ago to chase a dream of supporting the community with their hands, building beautiful things, and sharing their passion of teaching people who are not traditionally…

ArtBreak: Let Freedom Swing: Jazz Music in American Culture

Led by Rev. Millard Southern, this ArtBreak will feature an interactive, jazz-style conversation on topics such as race, culture, and religion with some of Kalamazoo's most-sought after and in-demand jazz musicians. Together they will discuss and demonstrate many of the core characteristics of jazz music, as well as the genre’s powerful potential for bringing communities…

ArtBreak: The KIA Centennial: People, Places, and Events

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

The KIA’s history is rich with remarkable men and women who, through their sheer grit and determination, guided us from a rented room in the YWCA to the “Best Art Institute between Detroit and Chicago.”  Jim Carter, past president of the board of directors and current docent, will present KIA history in a series of…