Explore Art Hop

This is a show created for the artistic talents from children to adults taught and led by Julia Wang. It showcases the technique and artistic legacy passed down from art masters of the past and present. The work showcase encompasses a large range of media from drawing, painting, photography and design.

Arlette creates stunning crochet pieces to express her creativity and love for crocheting.

For Jazzie, painting is an act of expression and trust. She works to create a space for learning, self reflection, storytelling and a lot of coffee.

Greg King works with a variety of mediums to convey a massage or to put on canvas/ paper what inspires him. Various things inspire him such as animals and nature specifically African species, African culture, dreams, The Lion King, etc.

As a former public servant turned artist in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Iris Lubbert creates original painted works in a cozy home studio, usually with music playing and a warm drink in hand.

"I create artwork that invites the viewer into a world that feels lived-in—places filled with ancient ruins, strange creatures, forgotten heroes, dangerous monsters, and stories waiting to be discovered."

Jumping Cholla Yarns are hand-dyed in small batches to create unique, colorful skeins to capture your imagination and inspire your creativity.

M&T Woodworks is the creative collab between partners, Mac & Tracy. Together in their home garage shop, they specialize in snarky art, bathymetric maps (also known as lake art), as well as unique home goods and accessories.

Mushroom head is an acrylic painter.

Liam is an artist that focuses on extremely detailed ink pieces.

Katherine Knight paints sapphic love with vibrant rainbow colors and a passion for fashion

Sharmane Flanders creates mostly surrealism paintings, and also likes to experiment with different 3D elements in her work.

Artist Valentina Sadovskaya creates acrylic paintings of our beautiful Earth and nature. She is making jewelry, using resin.

Violet Mae makes watercolor and pencil art that is whimsical and reflects themes of nature and peace.

Austin Rounds is a twenty-four-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.

David likes to be an encouraging force in people creating their own art.

Felix Sunflower is a printmaker based in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Giuliana Tartari Bush is a 19 year-old Brazilian-American artist who enjoys using watercolor paint and alcohol markers to principally draw animals using vibrant colors and abstract elements.

Landon Icarus Tyler is a freestyle artist who specializes in whimsical and macabre pieces. His mediums include Graphite, Watercolor, and Acrylic.

A collective quilted exhibition by the BACC called "Stitching Our Stories"

Students in 6th-12th grade are encouraged to step out of their comfort zone in their art and jump right into an acrylic painting of still lives.

Kalamazoo Violin Choir aims to connect young violinists to their communities through innovative repertoire and stories and to bring a new tone and color to young people’s live music performances.

Layla Law is a digital and traditional artist based in the Kalamazoo area. Drawing inspiration from creation, specifically fruit, and female portraits, Layla particularly excels in Acrylic and Charcoal mediums and is dedicated to detail and precision.

MRC artWorks is a professional working art studio and retail gallery located on the historical Kalamazoo Mall in the heart of downtown Kalamazoo.

MRC Skill building clients work on employability-based skills for future employment in the community. Our food services clients specifically made the food items being sold for this ArtHop event.

Stainless chainmail, the material Elaine Unzicker primarily works with, is constantly flowing from her fingertips, oftentimes slinking off the bench into a pile on the floor.

Rebecca Ramirez is a versatile vocalist, arranger, and educator from Downey, California, with a passion for jazz, R&B, and pop. She has performed as a featured vocalist with a wide range of ensembles across the Los Angeles area.

Brian Fritz creates vibrant wildlife and nature paintings with a contemporary edge.

Local painter, muralist and woodworker Conrad Kaufman's work brings nature and the great outdoors to the forefront of our senses.

Kathryn Barnes creates paintings and sculpture

A mixed-media artist, Silver explores shapes and colors expressing her feelings and imagination. She is often surprised by what shows up in her art.

The Fourth Wall is a lifestyle brand and cultural museum that uses clothing as its exhibit.

WaterWood Studio was created by Jason Reicherts of Scotts, Michigan. The lake continues to be the source of inspiration for most of the art that he creates. The paintings are primarily watercolor paint and black archival ink on watercolor paper.

Leah creates vibrant acrylic pieces on canvas that explore the experiences of motherhood and Michigan living.

Erica Smith is the owner and artist behind Fortunate Fourth Creations & Media, where creativity meets wellness and self-expression.

An avid photographer with a passion for travel, Jim Wheeler draws inspiration from nature’s most beautiful landscapes and wildlife.

Jordan Vanas-Peterson is an interdisciplinary Artist creating with oil paint, watercolor, charcoal.

Adam Harris is a musician, music educator, and photographer from Portage, Michigan.

Working with bold, layered palettes and sculpted texture, the artist bridges organic natural scenes with abstract expression, inviting viewers to experience quiet moments of visual resonance and emotional transformation.

"I use watercolor and acrylic paints, along with embroidery to create my images."

Jacqlynn Patterson is a fine artist whose practice investigates memory, perception, imagination, and the shifting boundaries between reality and fantasy.

Stan Stansfield creates unique images of nature and other.

The November Art Hop will feature artwork from Kalamazoo Valley Community College staff and faculty.

"I am a full time KPS teacher and I play gigs on the side as music is my first love."

Jade Nitro (she/her) is a multimedia artist who has found her purpose in bringing some love and excitement to those around her.

Shelby is a Kalamazoo based artist who pulls inspiration from both the beauty and chaos that is nature in her mixed media work

"I construct images that blur the boundary between the flatness of painting and the spatial illusion of objects emerging from it."

Aurore Uwase Munyabera explores the relationship between inherited memory and unfolding experience. Her figurative watercolor paintings reflect on cultural memory, belonging, and the stories carried across generations, while her abstract pigment studies embrace movement, transformation, and the unknown possibilities of what comes next.

Based in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Latino photographer Oscar Contreras finds beauty in the places and moments that are easy to overlook. His work is rooted in a simple act of paying attention—watching the light change, noticing a landscape, or pausing long enough to see something familiar in a new way.

David Richter is a mathematician and mathematics professor who hand-builds ceramic polyhedron models.

Gerald Myers, former downtown businessman, self taught painter and sculpture enjoying the creative life. Come see!

Brídín Clements Cotton is a multidisciplinary artist interested in the ways nature reflects and complicates our understanding of being human.

Paige Goodwin is an artist who uses gouache to depict the love and connection people have with their pets.

Andrhaya Bright brings vibrant global rhythms to life through Bellydance, Brazilian, and Spanish-style performances.

Ruth is Artist and a Photographer who works with multiple cameras including film, Polaroid, digital and cell phone cameras.

SarahMarie is a paper crafter who enjoys making homemade cards for many occasions.

Sara Engman-Slaughter is an artist, illustrator, and freelance graphic/web designer working out of Kalamazoo, MI. 

Mandi Kay is Kalamazoo area artist and photographer who makes handmade jewelry and dream catchers inspired by her Anishinaabe roots.

Senora Paints is a self-taught abstract artist based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Denise Miller’s art is a lyric and narrative movement towards witness and response. Their art is mixed media incorporating primary sources, watercolor, printmaking, and found objects.

Cathy Germay has been a working artist since receiving her BFA in Fine Arts from College for Creative Studies in 2005. Her artwork mainly focuses on her personal experiences living with a rare disease called HHT, her numerous surgeries (in April 2026 she reached the milestone of 20 surgeries), and chronic pain.

For Jutta Wilberding, the forge isn't just a workspace: it is quite literally a legacy. Every piece she makes is part of a tradition of hands-on craft, of fire and iron shaped by patience and intention, and she thinks of herself as one link in a much longer chain of makers who came before her.

Stop by the studios at Glass Art Kalamazoo for exciting glass blowing and torch working demonstrations, a hands-on fused glass project for a small fee, and a brand new glass art gallery exhibit.

Talia uses acrylic paint to create artwork derived from on-the-spot inspiration reflecting the essence of nature, culture, lifestyle, inner feelings, and spiritual expressions presented in abstract paintings.

Kalamazoo ARTisans is a small cooperative pottery studio located in the Park Trades Center. The members produce a varied and eclectic collection of functional and decorative pottery for display and sale in our studio gallery.

Julie Chen is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is an internationally recognized book artist and founder of Flying Fish Press, where she has been publishing limited-edition artists’ books for over 36 years.

Betty Hamilton is a Michigan-based figurative artist working in watercolor, acrylic, and oil. Her work explores sensuality, femininity, and the female gaze through expressive depictions of the female form.

Anthony Vecchioni’s art celebrates the ancient Maya principle of a/b = (a+b)/a. He works in oil paint and ink.

Alex Menzor is a Kalamazoo-based acrylic artist and illustrator whose paintings explore themes of change, growth, and human connection.

Starlite Collective presents MINI (art) MART! Featuring 20+ local creators all in one historical location!

Margot is an artist who finds clarity in complexity. Her abstract geometric works are meditations on simplicity, born from a personal redefinition of success.

Valleyfolk Press is the collection of Kalamazoo-based printmaker Hana Holmgren, whose work focuses on and takes inspiration from history, music, mythology, and literature

Over 25 Years of Crazy Ideas and Bright Colors. Acrylic and Sharpie Markers. DiRTst.com

Mandy Buehler, a career visual designer, creates darkroom prints of her film photography, shot on 35mm film along the desert coastlines of Baja, Mexico.

Waterstreet Coffee has always supported creativity in our community and are thrilled to be featuring artwork from our talented staff.

Josh Holcomb uses the electric violin, sampling, and live looping to explore sonic frontiers and express his thoughts and feelings through mostly instrumental tunes.

The KIA's latest exhibition "Statement Pieces: Fashioning the Self & Society" juxtaposes works from the KIA’s collection with contemporary fashion from the Barrett Barrera Projects collection to examine how self-presentation and identity have been shaped and reimagined over the last 200 years.

The Southwest Michigan Printmakers (SWMP) group is comprised of regional artists dedicated to creating prints using traditional techniques.

Delaney McKenzie is an artist out of Kalamazoo, MI. She goes between Watercolor and Acrylic paints to create colorful and textured abstract works using inspiration from the world around her.

Joseph Welch uses a range of mediums and styles to explore memory, nostalgia, and shared culture.

Nora Sanborn is a senior photography student at Western Michigan University working on her BFA in Photography. Her work consists of a variety of concepts revolving around identity, memory, and nostalgia.

Spare Threads Sewing creates a wide variety of textiles and beaded pieces.

Covering a span of over 150 years, this show will highlight American, Michigan, Kalamazoo, and Vine Neighborhood history. Through photographs, paintings, newspaper clippings, writing, and more. Using firsthand sources, this show will highlight African American families, fathers, and resilience despite 250 years of racial terrorism.

Emily Betros is the owner and creator at Earth Body Pottery. Handmade in Kalamazoo, her pottery invites you to slow down and be more present in your everyday living.

Monica Kovach is the printmaker behind Blue Hare Print Shop. She draws from her background in graphic design to create simple yet striking compositions inspired by her passions: growing flowers, reading fantasy, and studying all things mystical.

A Little Threaded, creates one of a kind textile arts, emphasizing preloved and upcycled materials to reduce environmental impact.

Gabriel Flandes is a photographer whose work explores the relationship between place, memory, and perspective. Through landscapes, architecture, and scenes from everyday life, he seeks to reveal the quiet beauty that often goes unnoticed.

Janelle creates whimsical dreamscapes inspired by the legacy left to us by natures.

For Ruth Tietjen Councell, making art is serious fun. Color delights her. Forms and the space between them intrigue her. She is passionate about light, energy, harmony, and feeling in a painting.

Karen Bondarchuk is an award winning artist and professor in the Frostic School of Art at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI

Colors & Cocktails proudly features over 30 local artists, makers, and vendors and is deeply committed to supporting small businesses, especially women-owned businesses.