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ArtBreak: Preston Singletary: Echoes, Fire, and Shadows

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

For nearly two decades, Preston Singletary has straddled two unique cultures, melding his Tlingit ancestry with the dynamism of the Studio Glass Movement. In the process, he has created an extraordinarily distinctive and powerful body of work that depicts cultural and historical images in richly detailed, beautifully hued glass. Singletary has translated the visual vocabulary…

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…

ArtBreak: Glass Art

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

Learn more about glass art with Ekin Deniz Aytac and Joshua Davids! A husband-and-wife team of artists hailing from Edremit, Turkey, and Colorado respectively, Aytac and Davids draw from a unique combination of culture, heritage, and experience to develop new works of glass art. They have lived, traveled, and created artwork together since 2014. Aytac…

ArtBreak: Curatorial Conversation on Legendary Voices

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

The KIA’s centennial exhibition Legendary Voices: Art for the Next Century features idiomatic and often unexpected pairings and groups of works from our permanent collection. Displayed in conversation with one another, these works have the potential to spark new interpretations and to reveal new meanings to the viewer. In celebration of the KIA’s centennial, the…

ArtBreak: Legendary Artist’s Talk: James Palmore

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

Get to know local artist James C. Palmore, who has long been a pillar of the fine and performing arts communities in Kalamazoo. Palmore’s interest in the arts was first sparked when he was a student in the Kalamazoo Public School system. In the 1970s, he took art classes at Kalamazoo Valley Community College before…

ArtBreak: Exploring Common Myths about the Samurai

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

The remarkable success of the 2024 television series Shogun is only the latest example of popular fascination with Japan’s historical warriors, the samurai. Despite all this attention, the samurai remain puzzling for many people: products of both history and myth who have been repeatedly reinvented and used to explain everything from Japanese business practices to…