Winter 2018 Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
WINTER 2018 KALAMAZOO INSTITUTE OF ARTS SCHEDULE OF WINTER ART CLASSES DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE Belinda Tate and Daniel H. Weiss, President and CEO, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, were guests on a panel for the American Federation of Arts Museums Now: Relevance and Representation in New York City on September 26, which took place at Sothebys. Other panelists included leaders from the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. We are proud that the KIA is a regional to style, media, geography, and ethnicity. leader in identifying, teaching, collect- Through an array of programs, we aim to ing, and exhibiting important and varied capture the creativity, curiosity, liveliness, examples of American visual art. The and intellectual pursuits of Americans in a experience of serving as a panelist for meaningful way. The schedule of upcoming ArtPrize 9—now the largest arts fair in the exhibitions, from Round and Round: The world by visitors per day—was a firm Circle at Center Stage, to Dawoud Bey: reminder that our practice of being inclu- Harlem USA and Harlem Redux, promises a sive, addressing diversity in terms plethora of unique experiences that shape of people, place, and medium, not only an open learning lab, where all members attracts audiences, but keeps communities of the community can learn and explore a engaged. In its efforts to promote social wide array of ideas. On the cover: good, ArtPrize states that the experience is Hung Liu, Lady Lotus (detail), not just for “anyone,” it’s for “everyone.” It is gratifying to use our high-quality 2016, mixed media on panel.
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