Welcome to the 72nd season of the Kalamazoo Art League.

For more than seven decades, our community has gathered to celebrate the ideas, voices, and creative practices that shape the art world, and this season is no exception. Our lecture series brings esteemed artists from across the United States to Kalamazoo to share their work, their process, and the stories behind what they make. Each talk is a chance to see art from a new perspective, ask questions, and connect with fellow art lovers. Whether you’ve been with us for years or are joining for the first time, we’re glad you’re here, and we hope you’ll join us for the rest of this season’s talks.

Upcoming Events

Wednesday, November 4th, 2026

Mark Joshua Epstein: “Recent Works”

10:00 AM Lecture | KIA Auditorium

Epstein’s work formulates an abstract visual language embedded with markers of personal history and cultural identity. The simultaneously discordant and harmonious shapes that play across the surfaces of his work encode reference points drawn from aspects of his Jewish and queer identities, inviting questions about the coordinates where they may intersect.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2026

10:30 AM

Celebrate the season with your fellow Art League members at our annual holiday event! This members-only gathering is a chance to slow down, reconnect, and share a festive evening with the people who make our community so vibrant. Please sign up via email!

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2027

Marissa Voytenko: “Encaustic Painting”

6:30 PM | KIA Auditorium

Marissa Voytenko will discuss her work exploring the relationship between the physical world and the spiritual realm through geometric shapes, patterns, and grids in structured compositions with expressive, layered encaustic techniques, often drawing inspiration from historical architecture and personal psychological themes.

Wednesday, May 5th, 2027

Peter d’Agostino: ”World Wide Walks/Great Lakes & Beyond”

6:30 pm | KIA Auditorium

Peter d’Agostino, Artist and Professor Emeritus, will survey his walking art practice. Initiated as video ‘documentation-performances’ in San Francsico, 1973, these place-oriented projects now span six continents for over five decades. A focus of tonight’s presentation is the World-Wide-Walks / between earth & water / LAKES video installation.

Become a member of the Kalamazoo Art League

Members’ dues support this great series of lectures. And free admission to lectures and receptions makes membership a great value!

Check out previous speakers and enjoy- or revisit- their recorded programs.

ART LEAGUE is a motivated and dedicated volunteer organization founded to organize annual lecture series at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. Annual dues (valid July 1st thru the next June 30th) are $45.

Since 1955, lecturers have been selected from across the US from the forefront of experts who create, curate, study, or write about art. Art League programs promote understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of the visual arts for its members, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts and our community.