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Sunday Tour: Highlights of 100 years

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

Exceptional docent-guided gallery tours are on Sundays at 1:30pm. Gain a fresh perspective on selected artworks, or re-engage your excitement around the permanent collection. Tours are included with admission and meet in the lobby; no reservations are required.

Wonder Walk: Patterns

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

Take a Wonder Walk through the galleries! The walk will include close looking at a few artworks as well as gallery games and activities. This is a great way to introduce your little one to art and the museum. Wonder Walks is for children 2-4 years old (but all are welcome) and is free with…

Sunday Tour: Legendary Voices: Art for the Next Century exhibit

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

Exceptional docent-guided gallery tours are on Sundays at 1:30pm. Gain a fresh perspective on selected artworks, or re-engage your excitement around the permanent collection. Tours are included with admission and meet in the lobby; no reservations are required.

Gallery Gatherings: Roscoe Hall and Tylonn Sawyer; Chinese Goddess Figures

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

We are combining January's planned Gallery Gathering with a rescheduled one from December! First from 5:30–6pm, we will delve into questions of American life and identity with a discussion of Roscoe Hall’s With Great Intent to Leave It All For You and Tylonn Sawyer’s American Woman: Columbia. These pieces are paired together in Legendary Voices:…

Art Detectives: My Hands Sing the Blues: Romare Bearden’s Childhood Journey

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

by Jeanne Walker Harvey Romare Bearden has been described as the nation’s foremost collage artist. Art Detectives will view a work by Bearden in Legendary Voices: Art for the Next Century, as well as the work of other collagists. After exploring in the galleries we’ll create a collage to take home. Art Detectives is for…

Sunday Tour: Highlights from the permanent collections

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

Exceptional docent-guided gallery tours are on Sundays at 1:30pm. Gain a fresh perspective on selected artworks, or re-engage your excitement around the permanent collection. Tours are included with admission and meet in the lobby; no reservations are required.

ArtBreak: Ekphrastic Showdown

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

Please note: ArtBreaks are moving to Wednesdays in 2025. During this ArtBreak, artists Mary Hatch and Elizabeth Kerlikowske will join us to discuss their latest collaboration. Falling Women, the duo’s third co-authored publication, features paintings by Hatch and ekphrastic poetry by Kerlikowske. Guests will hear a sampling of Kerlikowske’s poems while viewing images of the…

Book Discussion: Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

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

by Bianca Bosker Bianca Bosker takes a deep dive into the art world, examining the way we see and experience art in this funny and gripping memoir. Bosker investigates how and why art takes hold of our senses and even our person in such different and profound ways, looking at perspectives from gallerists, collectors, curators,…

Artful Evening: Movement in the Museum

Kalamazoo holds the unique distinction of being home to one of the nation’s longest-standing, small professional modern dance companies. Celebrating its 44th year in 2025, Wellspring/Cori Terry & Dancers hail from a distinct lineage of pioneer modern dance companies. Since its founding in 1981, the organization has introduced thousands to the art of dance, enriched…

Sunday Tour: National Day of Racial Healing with the Michigan Transformation Collective

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

In partnership with the Michigan Transformation Collective and the National Day of Racial Healing, join a drop-in tour at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts on Sunday, January 19 from 1:30-2:30pm to explore and discuss art and artists who have used art for healing, to highlight resilience, promote community building, call attention to marginalization, showcase their…

Free Thursdays at the KIA

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

Enjoy free admission and extended hours until 8pm every Thursday, thanks to generous support provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program and the Efroymson Family Fund.

Sunday Tour: Highlights of 100 years

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

Exceptional docent-guided gallery tours are on Sundays at 1:30pm. Gain a fresh perspective on selected artworks, or re-engage your excitement around the permanent collection. Tours are included with admission and meet in the lobby; no reservations are required.