Have you ever wondered how a picture book comes to be? What do the illustrations look like before words are added? It’s a David Small World is the unmissable opportunity to see the process of creating a children’s book! The Betty Upjohn Mason Grandchildren’s Gallery will be transformed with original drawings and books by locally and nationally…
Ginny Ruffner: Reforestation of the Imagination is a unique installation that fuses fine glass blowing, augmented reality (AR), and drawing. For this special presentation, Ruffner and her collaborators developed an AR app so that viewers can explore a new landscape using their phones and tablets. This reality-bending presentation is the artist’s imagining of a gloriously…
Featuring the artist’s signature style of found frames and stacked images from his private archive, Todd Gray: Crossing the Waters of Space, Time, and History considers the impacts of colonialism on Black consciousness. Gray’s recent photographic, yet sculptural compositions obscure, expose, and connect images of contemporary culture and nature to express hidden relationships in the…
Profound depictions of landscapes in Asia date back thousands of years. These images of nature, whether realistic or imaginary, have served many purposes—as points of meditation or escape, to assert pride in national identity, settings for lore and religious narrative scenes, as well as for aesthetic appreciation. They also reflect the political and social structures…
How can an artist and nature collaborate? Local artist Ladislav Hanka will speak about his process of working with honeybees in an interspecies collaborative creation of artwork. You may have seen his work in the KIA’s West Michigan Area Show, at ArtPrize, at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum, Kalamazoo Nature Center, the Detroit Institute of Arts,…
“Meaningful art, enduring art, and the transformative process it awakens keeps us alive,” writes Mark Nepo, a poet and philosopher who is nationally recognized and a local presence. Nepo will read from his book Drinking from the River of Light, which invites you to explore how art and authentic expression can help us explore our…
Have you ever looked up at the Calder mobile in the KIA lobby and wondered about the artist who created it? Join us to learn about Alexander Calder as we read Sandy's Circus, look at art, and make a project. Reserve Your Ticket
Visual artist Nayda Collazo-Llorens will talk about the on-site research behind her projects ELF (Extremely Low Frequency) in 2016 and Interconexiones in 2021. Collazo-Llorens, who teaches art-related courses at Kalamazoo College, has had her artwork exhibited across the USA, Puerto Rico, and Latin America. Recently, she was Artist-in-Residence at Yellowstone National Park, and she has…
Be the first to see the Kirk Newman Art School Faculty Review! Members can enjoy an opening reception with light refreshments from 6-7:30pm on Friday, December 17. This biennial exhibition reveals why the Kirk Newman Art School's faculty are among the leading artists in Southwest Michigan. Featuring new directions in the work of more than…