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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…