Kalamazoo Arts Collaborative

Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem

Reflecting nearly 100 years of art history in America, the exhibition reflects the breadth of The Studio Museum’s 50 years of supporting and incubating artists of African descent. The exhibition will fill all four of the main floor KIA galleries.
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Where We Stand: Black Artists in Southwest Michigan

The exhibition features ten Michigan artists working in sculpture, photography, painting, ceramics, and printmaking. They are emerging artists and veterans in their field who address issues as diverse as the environment, mass incarceration, the criminal justice system, and concepts of beauty.
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Resilience: African American Artists As Agents of Change

The exhibition features more than 60 paintings, photographs, works on paper, and sculpture from our collection, and explores the museum’s holdings by African American artists from 1870 to the present, reflecting their vital contributions to the story of American art and history.
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Local Artists

Learn about the artists of the Where We Stand: Black Artists in Southwest Michigan exhibition.

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studiomuseum avatarThe Studio Museum in Harlem@studiomuseum·
8 Oct 1181640160095690754

Is he a vision of the future of domestic work or a parallel future in which chattel slavery never ended? See how #OtobongNkanga explores history, value, experience, and memory in #BlackRefractions on view through December 8 at @1KIA1. https://t.co/LN5cm7x05z

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1 Oct 1179146482739318784

Kehinde Wiley's latest masterpiece is view in Times Square before heading to @VMFA in Richmond, VA. See more of his work in our touring exhibition #BlackRefractions. Now at @1KIA1 in Kalamazoo and visiting Northampton, Seattle, and Salt Lake City in 2020.
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20 Sep 1175082968886337537

#LynetteYiadomBoakye encourages a complex, non-linear understanding of blackness through her use of figurative representation. "Nous étions" is now on view at @1KIA1 in Michigan as part of #BlackRefractions. https://t.co/LN5cm7foGZ

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kalfound avatarKalamazoo Community Foundation@kalfound·
19 Sep 1174700947899146240

Belinda Tate, executive director of @1KIA1, shares her efforts to engage the entire community with the #BlackRefractions exhibition.

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