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
Thursday, October 16, 2025
KIA Annual Joy Light Lecture in East Asian Art
Dr. Robert Mintz: East Asian Birding in the Galleries
5:30pm Reception | 5:00 pm Lecture
KIA Auditorium
Art League is delighted to help sponsor the KIA’s Joy Light Lecture which will feature Dr. Robert Mintz, Deputy Director of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. With a collection of more than 20,000 artworks, the museum celebrates the importance of Asian and Asian American artists. This program is free and open to the public.
Learn more and register at the KIA’s website for this free program.
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Abbas Daneshvari: American and European Art in the Crucible of Postmodernism
10:00 am | KIA Auditorium
Reception following lecture
Explore the cultural transformations anticipated and reflected in the arts of Europe and the United States from the Surrealists to the Postmodernists.
Professor Abbas Daneshvari is the former Chair of the Department of Art and Professor of Art History at California State University, Los Angeles. He is the author of Amazingly Original: Contemporary Iranian Art at Crossroads as well as numerous publications on various aspects of Islamic art’s iconography.
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