Current Exhibitions at the KIA

This annual exhibition presents the diversity of work produced by young artists enrolled in Kalamazoo County schools (private, public, and charter). Teachers select examples of 2D and 3D work by their students (kindergarten through eighth grade) created in class this year.

This mid-career retrospective exhibition surveys Annette Lemieux's work over the past 25 years, tracing themes such as the relationship between personal memory and cultural history, content and medium, and text as image.

With his wife Leona, the late Harry Hefner (1911-2006), who was a prominent artist and professor of art at Western Michigan University, formed a distinguished collection of East Asian art - Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ceramics, metal objects, prints, and paintings. Featured in the Joy Light Gallery of Asian Art, selections from the Hefner Collection have been generously loaned by members of the Hefner family.

In this exhibition of his recent work, photographer Christopher Light explores the urban and natural world through infrared digital photographs. Photographs taken with infrared light seem at once precise (due to the absence of atmospheric haze) and dreamlike (skies appear dark and natural foliage-tree leaves and grass-appear very light as they reflect the infrared light).

This exhibition marks the premiere of a special installation of the KIA's collection of works by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Collected over the past four years, the KIA has acquired glass vases, a glass and bronze lamp, a painting, a drawing, two jeweled brooches, and numerous examples of mosaics and ceramics.