Mark your calendar now for Art League’s 70th season—days and times vary this season!
Kalamazoo Art League returns for its 70th season with a variety of intriguing speakers and exciting programs. Art League membership is open to any KIA member. Enjoy free admission to Art League’s lectures and discounts on our depARTure travel adventures.
Upcoming Events
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Heidi Weiss: Collaboration as Practice
10:00 am | KIA Auditorium
Reception following Lecture
Our scheduled speaker, Mark Joshua Epstein needed to cancel his lecture scheduled for April 29. Cat Crotchett from the Programs Committee and former KAL board member, was able to contact Heidi Weiss who has graciously agreed to present in lieu of Mark. Mark will return for the 2026-2027 Art League season. Heidi has expressed her thanks for the opportunity to present for the Kalamazoo Art League and is looking forward to speaking about Brush the Block and her collaborative mural work/practice.
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Eric Souther: Kinetic Imaging: New materialism, Anthropology, Ritual, Deep time, and Toolmaking
6:30 pm | KIA Auditorium
Reception following Lecture
Using a multiplicity of disciplines and pathways, including interactive installation, audio-visual performance, single-channel video, and software, Souther coalesces technological assemblages that form emergent systems or software for exploring relations and result in unexpected images/meaning making.
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.
Check out what our past lecturers have been doing since they spoke to Art League!
October 9, 2019
Crime Scene Conservation: Preserving the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
April 10, 2019