Alliance of Kalamazoo Artists

05/05/2022

Spring is sprung - the grass is riz - wonder where the ART HOP IS? Its at the PARK TRADES CENTER NORTH! Come visit the artists at the studios from 5-9pm and enjoy viewing and purchasing unique gifts for all of those summer weddings and graduations.

11/02/2021

Kalamazoo Artisans is OPEN for Art Hopping on Friday 5-9pm.
Masks required.

05/10/2021

Come vote for Cathy Germay: Fine Artist artwork at the Westminster Art Festival!
1515 Helen Ave., Portage, MI, 49002.
The art exhibit will be on view through June 30. Open times:
Mondays & Wednesdays 10:30 am - 4:30 pm (closed Memorial Day)
Fridays 6-8 pm May 7, June 4
Sundays 10:30 am -1 pm May 16, 23, June 6, 13, 27
and other times by arrangement. Contact the church!
They'd love to host your small group.

12/04/2020

Hello everyone! We haven seen you in ages and we miss you! While we’re still waiting until it is safe to have a real live art show, please take a look at our online holiday sale- a small sampling of available paintings, prints, pottery, woodworking and jewelry to help round out your holiday shopping. Each artist has their own instructions for how to purchase. Thank you for shopping small and supporting your local artists!

Browse through each page to find a wide variety of beautiful and unique art pieces, in a range of sizes and prices. Each artist’s page will have information on how to make a purchase from that...

11/28/2020

Show the first responders in your life how much you appreciate them with the bundle! 1 hardcover copy of 12 Days in Dispatch 1 hardcover copy of The ABCs of EMS: An Educational Children's Book for Adults 1 Everyday Heroes pin 1 Everyday Heroes keychain 1 Everyday Heroes sticker 1 Everyday Heroes mag...

08/02/2020

Check out AKA members Cathy Germay: Fine Artist and Dabblebag- The Art of Anna Barnhart art at the Westminster Art Festival.

06/18/2020

We asked historians to weigh in on the role that artists have played in past instances of social, economic, and cultural unrest.

06/17/2020

Send your healing thoughts and positive vibes to Gerry Hess, Medullary Studios!

It is always the intent on this page to share inherent beauty, most often of our favorite medium, wood, usually as displayed in handcrafted pieces. Today however, the best we can offer is the image of some flowering, woody plants.

The veritable storm of world events changes all that we do, and it is an easy thing to cling to and mourn those things that are withheld; interaction with the Artists' community in the Park Trades Center, the chance to meet friends, guests, and visitors, in our showcase studio for Art Hop, so that we can converse, conspire, inspire, aspire, and problem solve together. These may, or may not, come back to us in the in-determinant future. We will all adapt and change as we need.

Sadly, it is yet one more of these challenging events which is the cause of so few social media posts from Medullary Studios: I have seriously injured my back, soon I will need to have surgery to repair the damage. After the healing and recovery time, I will need to change and adapt my work habits and processes to reflect my own personal "new normal" (and yes I hate that phrase as much as all of you do).

Medullary Studios the business, and the business plan behind it are strong, complete, solvent, and ongoing. We are still here. We are not going anywhere. We have a variety of partially completed projects "in the pipeline", all of those projects will be completed and delivered, albeit on an extended timeline.

So please, stay safe, look for the beauty around us, and Medullary Studios will be back shortly!

06/16/2020

June is HHT Awareness Month!
Cathy Germay: Fine Artist, HHT patient and AKA member, is raising awareness for HHT! Please read the fact sheets and donate if you can!

06/15/2020

Some new things in the works by Ellen Nelson Artist:

06/12/2020

06/11/2020

Support your local artists, support anti-racism, support your community!

More than 20 artists worked over the weekend to create murals on the Kalamazoo Mall.

06/10/2020

In a system that treats people as objects to be counted, chained, searched and assigned a number, art is a way for prisoners to reassert their agency – and reclaim their lives.

06/01/2020

Happy Monday, everyone! Here is a cool book by Sofia De Jong:

05/29/2020

A beautifully painted lavender field, by Anna Barnhart-Davis:

05/27/2020

How do you stay inspired?

We asked art-world heavyweights to tell us what work of art is bringing them joy in these long days of social distancing.

05/26/2020

We never did share the final products of these intriguing pieces by Cathy Germay: Fine Artist:

This series came about as an experiment, where I painted a figure on paper and then tore up that painting and stitched it back together. I didn't think the effect was strong enough, so for the second piece, instead of just stitching the painting back together, I sculpted several wounds on the painting with paper clay and stitched them up with thread. In this series I aim to portray the beauty of the fragility of the human body paired with the resiliency of the human spirit. Even though we are torn apart, we pick up the pieces and continue on as best we can.