Kalamazoo Institute of Arts

The Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts is a school and non-profit art museum located at Kalamazoo in Michigan City, United States. There are art classes for all ages with the whole family, including the Kirk Museum of Art School and the Eleven Gallery Museum of Fine Arts. With outreach programs, educational programs, lectures, and a fine art research library, the school attracts millions of people a year. There are opportunities to see sculpture, weaving, printmaking, fiber art, etc., the creative arts of Michigan residents.

Attractions

Exhibition of Kalamazoo institute

About 10 to 15 temporary performances are organized by this institute every year. These main performances are the High School Area Show, the Recurring Show, and the West Michigan Area Show. Here is an exhibition “Millet to Matisse”: Nineteenth and Twentieth-century French painting that has attracted around 50,000 tourists. Take a look at Chihuly in Kalamazoo, Lorna Simpson’s Illusion Exhibition, “Figure Revealed Show” celebrating the revival of American allegorical painting.

Collection of the Institute

The institute has more than 4,600 original works of American art of the twentieth century. This collection has been created by great artists like Alexander Calder, Chuck Close, Marry Cassatt, and Edward Hopper. In this collection, you can find European structures from the twentieth century, African, Japanese, Chinese, pre-Columbian, Oceanic work, as well as American structures from the 19th century and 18th centuries.

Kalamazoo institute of arts and fair

One of the main attractions here is the Art Fair, which showcases the works of regional and local artists. You can buy prints, photographs, drawings, jewelry, sculpture, art, paintings, ceramics, fiber ware, and more in these creations. Enjoy a walk here, seeing the amazing art performances of around 200 artists. Be sure to visit this spectacular destination in Michigan. The fair started in 1952 as a clothesline art show.

Facts:

  1. Established in 1924, the main objective of this school is to provide workshops and affordable classes including drawing and painting for persons of all ages.
  2. The touring exhibit is “Black Refraction Highlights from the studio museum in Harlem” which offers a few exciting exhibits.

 

Activities:-Kalamazoo Institute of Arts welcomes you in any season throughout the year with world-class exhibitions, galleries, film screenings, performances, and artist lectures. There is everything to do here, from kids to old people. Be sure to come here for children’s programs, book discussions, talks, child-led tours, a library, and a gallery of shops. Enjoy watching the Knas holiday sale which takes place in November and the art fair in June.

What to expect:-This Institute of Kalamazoo focuses on American art where you can see the permanent collection galleries in the 11 galleries of the Museum of Visual Arts. Here you can have a lot of entertainment with a book nook, pegboard, art making, and black light corner for kids above 2 years. Be sure to come here to see art like the gathering of spies on the second Saturday of the month and the art hop on the first Friday.

 

Plan to visit:- Be sure to visit Kalamazoo full of arts and performances with your family, kids, and friends. It is open for 12 months of the year in the service of the visitors. You can enter here from Wednesday to Saturday from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm and on Sundays from 12:00 to 4:00 pm. It is closed on Monday and Tuesday. The entrance fee is $2 for those 12 years of age or younger and $5 for the rest.

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