West Michigan Area Show Peoples’ Choice Award Announcement
Artist Statement
Join us at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts for the announcement of the West Michigan Area Shows 2025 People’s Choice Award! The People’s Choice Award is sponsored by the Arts Council of Great Kalamazoo; voting will be open until July 6th!
The work of West Michigan’s talented artistic community is on view during the annual West Michigan Area Show June 14- September 14. This crowd-pleasing annual juried exhibition is carefully curated from more than 300 submitted entries, ranging from paintings, prints, and photos to mosaics, ceramics, jewelry, sculpture, and mixed-media works.
The 2025 juror is Detroit artist and teacher Hubert Massey. Hubert Massey is an award-winning Kresge Fine Arts Fellow. His distinctive fresco murals grace the halls of such visible Michigan destinations as the Flint Institute of the Arts, Detroit Athletic Club, and his alma mater, Grand Valley State University. He studied at the University of London’s Slade Institute of Fine Arts and later learned the centuries-old fresco technique from former assistants of legendary artist Diego Rivera.
Support for the West Michigan Area Show is provided by CWS Financial Advisors and David Isaacson in memory of his wife, Helen Sheridan.
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