March 12, 2025 10 am Program Cancelled
Unfortunately, Dr. Abbas Daneshvari’s program American and European Art in the Crucible of Postmodernism has been cancelled due to illness.
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.
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Crime Scene Conservation: Preserving the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
April 10, 2019