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April 9, 2025

Mary Brodbeck Woodblock Printmaker: Influences and Evolution

10:00 am | KIA Auditorium
Reception following Lecture

Mary Brodbeck worked as an Industrial Designer in the West Michigan furniture industry for a dozen years – many of her designs hold US patents – before shifting to image-making in the 1990s. In her Art League presentation, Mary will reveal why she left the corporate environment to pursue an art career, who and what influenced her along the way, how she evolved into specializing in Japanese printmaking techniques, and where she is now.

Learn more HERE.

Join Art League’s depARTure to Detroit
May 20, 2025

This day trip will take you to some of Detroit’s outstanding and famous buildings. See them with your own eyes. Enjoy the tours; be surprised by something you learn or see. Celebrate the restoration of Michigan Central. Look up at ceilings, and old bronze chandeliers. Look at murals, sculptures, paintings — all kinds of artwork all in one depARTure!

Nominations Sought!

Interested in becoming more involved with Art League? Consider running for the Board of Directors! Learn more about our organization HERE and find a Board Nomination Form HERE.

Become a member of the Kalamazoo Art League

SPECIAL OFFER: $30 Art League member membership valid through June 2025. Find details and special offer membership form HERE.

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.