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March 2024 Art Hop

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Downtown Kalamazoo
359 S Kalamazoo Mall
5:00pm - 8:00pm
CTE Art & Design + EFA Dance student cross curricular collaboration with dance instructor Francesca Pileci to execute an Art + Dance student led project inspired by world renown Chinese-American choreographer and painter, Shen Wei.
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Group Show
Downtown Kalamazoo
359 S Kalamazoo Mall
5:00pm - 8:00pm
The Midwest RAD Fest is hosted and supported by Southwest Michigan's oldest professional dance company, Wellspring/Cori Terry & Dancers. The festival is a juried event at the Epic Center in Kalamazoo, MI, featuring the best in modern, post-modern, and contemporary dance from all over the country.
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Group Show
Downtown Kalamazoo
359 S Kalamazoo Mall
5:00pm - 8:00pm
“RADfest has quickly become my favorite time of year to be a photographer. I am in awe of the beauty that graces the stage. Every dancer, every performance is an absolute honor to experience and capture”. - Robyn Hoing
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Downtown Kalamazoo
359 S. Kalamazoo Mall
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Whether you consider yourself a dancer or not, join RAD Fest for this Community Improv Jam. Movers will make their way through structured improvisation scores with live music. Non-movers can sit and watch the magic.
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Group Show
Downtown Kalamazoo
359 S Kalamazoo Mall
5:00pm - 8:00pm
This young artist creates acrylic paintings, watercolor paintings, and digital art in a variety of styles and themes.
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Group Show
Downtown Kalamazoo
359 S Kalamazoo Mall
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Sharmane Flanders is a multimedia, traditional artist. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Art and is currently working towards a Master's Degree in Art Therapy. She works with a wide variety of mediums and enjoys challenging herself by trying out new ways to create.
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Group Show
Downtown Kalamazoo
359 S Kalamazoo Mall
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Ballet Arts Ensemble is a nonprofit youth ballet company established in 1982 by Jerre James and Bette Joachimi. With the retirement of Jerre James in 2001, ballet mistress, Cathleen Huling became BAE's artistic director until 2023. BAE welcomes Betty Kondo as Interim Artistic Director!
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Group Show
Downtown Kalamazoo
359 S Kalamazoo Mall
5:00pm - 8:00pm
We are a safe and welcoming studio family. Together, WE ARE BSD. We currently offer instruction in Tap, Ballet, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Lyrical, Pre-pointe, Pointe, Contemporary, Poms, Heels, Musical Theater, and Acro. Classes offered for Toddler to Adults.
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Group Show
Downtown Kalamazoo
359 S Kalamazoo Mall
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Jasper Hursley is a ceramic artist who's work depicts themes of nature through the use of color, texture and imagery.
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Downtown Kalamazoo
359 S Kalamazoo Mall
5:00pm - 8:00pm
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Downtown Kalamazoo
346 S. Kalamazoo Mall
5:00pm - 8:00pm
DiRTst is a traditional acrylic painter deeply rooted in Kalamazoo. With a career spanning two decades, DiRTst has dedicated their artistic endeavors to capturing pop characters through the dynamic medium of acrylic paint.
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Downtown Kalamazoo
330 S. Kalamazoo Mall
5:00pm - 8:00pm
MRC artWorks offers unique and affordable art created by individuals with disabilities, providing an outlet to achieve creative self‐expression in a way that promotes personal growth, dignity, and self-confidence.
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Downtown Kalamazoo
116 West South Street
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Jasper Lee, He/They, is a self-taught Artist based in Kalamazoo, Michigan. They focus on encapsulating abstract fluid acrylic work with photographic representations of nature.
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Group Show
Downtown Kalamazoo
240 S Kalamazoo Mall
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Lauren Parker Lasater is an American painter and photographer from Nashville, Tennessee.
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Group Show
Downtown Kalamazoo
240 S Kalamazoo Mall
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Lizbeth’s exhibition Where is Life? depicting earthy flora and fauna are placed in a cosmic universe where the relation between space and figure is greatly altered.
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Downtown Kalamazoo
154 S. Kalamazoo Mall
8:00pm - 5:00pm
Alexis Bailey provides consumers at CDS the ability to actively engage in meaningful art-based activities designed to create aesthetically pleasing wheelchair wheel enhancements, while promoting pride, self-expression, and self-efficacy for individuals with various physical and/or intellectual disabilities.
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Downtown Kalamazoo
166 S Kalamazoo Mall
5:00pm - 8:00pm
The artwork of Jacqlynn Patterson communicates a personal narrative conveying elements of prescribed female gender roles in the context of womanhood as it is so often imbued by larger socio-cultural manifestations.
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Downtown Kalamazoo
146 S Kalamazoo Mall
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Just having fun doing what comes naturally.
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Downtown Kalamazoo
132 S Kalamazoo Mall
5:00pm - 9:00pm
This is the release of Amy's "Back from Tucson" jewelry collection! Amy has recently returned from the worlds #1 gem show, and has had the delightful task of turning that beauty into jewelry! Come be the first to see some of her favorite finds!
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Downtown Kalamazoo
101 S Kalamazoo Mall
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Join Detroit area artist Anna Marie Pederson in her whimsical world of Bunny, Bee and Friends. Her series of hand mounted canvas prints from original collage work will delight your soul.
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Downtown Kalamazoo
101 E Michigan Ave.
5:30pm - 8:00pm
As a predominantly self-taught abstract artist, Julie Stanley’s creations emanate boldness, a riot of colors, and an undercurrent of emotion.
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Group Show
Downtown Kalamazoo
180 E Water St
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Marita Mukantwali was born in Rwanda and moved to the USA at 11 years old. Marita graduated from Western Michigan University with a bachelor's in fine art with an Emphasis in painting.
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Group Show
Downtown Kalamazoo
180 E Water St
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Elyse Yost is a painter and multi-media artist from Kalamazoo and a graduate of Kalamazoo College.
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Group Show
Downtown Kalamazoo
180 E Water St
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Nanette Anderson is a watercolor artist who’s work evokes warm feelings of familiarity and home.
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Group Show
Downtown Kalamazoo
180 E Water St
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Cassandra Tank is an Animator, Illustrator, and Kalamazoo local.
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Downtown Kalamazoo
355 E. KALAMAZOO AVE.
5:00pm - 8:00pm
WMU photography students present black and white traditional photographic prints. Subject matter includes insightful studies of landscapes, portraiture & still life.
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Northside
567 E Ransom St
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Marilyn Bean is a contemporary abstract painter. Her work examines the fragmented self. Performance, tension, the relationship between fluidity and containment; freedom and inhibition.
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Group Show
Downtown Kalamazoo
200 West Michigan Ave
4:00pm - 7:00pm
Anna loves exploring the natural world through various forms of art. She is best known for her vivid pet portraits of beloved furry friends.
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Group Show
Downtown Kalamazoo
200 West Michigan Ave
4:00pm - 7:00pm
Austin Rounds is a twenty-year-old artist who has used his art as an outlet and a way to express himself when the world around him may feel off kilter, beautiful, and even challenging.
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Group Show
Northside
326 W Kalamazoo Ave
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Cozy up in the hot shop as our Glass Blowers create a team project from molten glass. Watch our Journey Bead volunteers and boro artists at work in the torch studio. Make your own Fused Glass project (for a small fee), and shop a gallery full of gorgeous glass art!
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Group Show
Northside
326 W Kalamazoo Ave
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Cozy up in the hot shop as our Glass Blowers create a team project from molten glass. Watch our Journey Bead volunteers and boro artists at work in the torch studio. Make your own Fused Glass project (for a small fee), and shop a gallery full of gorgeous glass art!
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Northside
326 W Kalamazoo Avenue
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Open to all emerging and established artists, this exhibition focuses on books created in the accordion form.
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Northside
326 W Kalamazoo Ave
5:00pm - 8:00pm
The Starlite Collective is a group of over 120 members, existing to connect and uplift established and emerging creators!
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Northside
326 W Kalamazoo Ave
5:00pm - 8:00pm
We are a co-op of friendly potters with a studio in the Park Trades Center. Each of us has our own style and aesthetic approach to our pottery which makes for a variety of art and function.
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Vine
833 W South St
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Anastasia Vague is a self-taught collage artist. Her work is heavily influenced by the divine feminine and nature.
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Downtown Kalamazoo
314 S Park St
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Each year, RAD Fest showcases the works of local, national, and international screendance makers selected by an adjudication panel. Drop by during Art Hop to view a selection of films from 2023 RAD Fest and a special teaser of this year’s chosen works.
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Downtown Kalamazoo
205 W Lovell St
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Brendan Barnes makes digital collages which express his relationship with nature and the unknown, exploring their ability to cause an experience of wonder.
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Downtown Kalamazoo
340 S Rose
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Felix Sunflower is a multimedia artist who focuses on themes of growth, death, and rebirth.
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Group Show
Downtown Kalamazoo
315 S Rose Street
5:00pm - 8:00pm
L Sam Zhang is the author and illustrator of the picture book series The First Chinese Festivals. Behind each festival lies a fantastic tale steeped in history and legends thousands of years old. She aims to make these stories available in English so more people can enjoy the festivities throughout the year in a meaningful way.
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Group Show
Downtown Kalamazoo
315 S Rose Street
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Adam Harris is a photographer who captures the beauty in the world around us. Sometimes right in his own backyard...
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Group Show
Downtown Kalamazoo
315 S Rose Street
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Dede Alder is crossover, jazz artist, specializing in percussion--including marimba and hand drums--and sultry vocals. She will be doing a blend of music from around the world, jazz standards, and funky layers with her looper.
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Group Show
Vine
213 W Walnut St
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Erin Hoffman is an award winning printmaker living in Southwest Michigan.
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Group Show
Vine
213 W Walnut St
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Lee Ann Frame is an award winning printmaker living in Southwest Michigan.
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Northside
436 North Park St.
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Judith Konesni and Michael Fortin have been creating glass art together for more than 20 years. With a repertoire of Functional, Decorative, Sculptural and Wearable the artistic duo has something for everyone for every season.
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Group Show
Downtown Kalamazoo
123 South Westnedge Ave
5:00pm - 8:00pm
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Group Show
Downtown Kalamazoo
123 South Westnedge Ave
5:00pm - 8:00pm
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Group Show
Downtown Kalamazoo
123 South Westnedge Ave
5:00pm - 8:00pm
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Vine
802 S. Westnedge Ave
5:00pm - 8:00pm
RAWK’n Shop is a storefront located at 802 S. Westnedge Avenue in the Vine Neighborhood whose goal is to be a space where youth entrepreneurs can sell their products and promote their businesses.
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Group Show
Vine
806 S Westnedge Ave
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Ellen Nelson has been a Kalamazoo artist since graduating from the University of Michigan in 2013. Her oil paintings and large-scale mural work seek to find the beauty, truth, and meaning in the chaotic patterns of everyday life.
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Group Show
Vine
806 S Westnedge Ave
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Stacy Belinsky, owner of Serendipity Spot, LLC, creates themed coloring books to promote creativity and stress relief. Stacy is also a writer and a mixed media maker living in Kalamazoo.
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Downtown Kalamazoo
243 S Kalamazoo Mall
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Julia approaches her work with positive intention, and mindfulness.
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