2025 West Michigan Area Show

June 14, 2025 - September 14, 2025

The work of West Michigan’s talented artistic community is on view during the annual West Michigan Area Show. Opening Saturday, June 14, this crowd-pleasing annual juried exhibition was carefully curated from more than 300 submitted entries, ranging from paintings, prints, and photos to mosaics, ceramics, jewelry, sculpture, and mixed-media works.

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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.

The winner of the People’s Choice Award, sponsored by the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo, will be announced during Art Hop on July 11.

2025 Awards

  • $1,000 Helen Sheridan Memorial Grand Prize
  • $ 500 Second Place
  • $ 400 Third Place
  • $ 300 Fourth Place
  • $ 200 Fifth Place
  • Portage Community Art Award
  • Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo’s People’s Choice Award
  • The Martin Maddox Prize for Imaginative Realism
  • Ninth Wave Studio Award for Ingenuity in Mixed Media or Intermedia
  • Art League Award
  • Signature Artists, LLC, Award
  • Eclectic Glass Guild of Southwest Michigan
  • Kalamazoo Log Cabin Quilters’ Art Quilt Award
  • Southwest Michigan Printmakers Excellence in Printmaking Award
  • Kalamazoo Book Arts Center Book, Print, and Paper Award
  • West Michigan Potters Guild Award for Ceramics
  • The Ward H. and Cora E. Nay Director’s Purchase Prize

West Michigan Area Show Juror

Hubert Massey

The 2025 juror will be 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.

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2025 West Michigan Area Show photo by Colleen Woolpert
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Exhibition Sponsor

David Isaacson in memory of his wife, Helen Sheridan