2026 – 2027 Lectures and Events
Lectures are free for Art League members, $10 for KIA members, $12 public, $3 students.
Non-members can pay at the door.
Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
Laurence Holland and Touray Holland: “Loïs Mailou Jones: Her Family, Martha’s Vineyard and Her Art”
6:30 PM | KIA Auditorium
Join Laurence Holland, great-nephew of Loïs Mailou Jones, for a personal look at the artist’s seven-decade career from the Harlem Renaissance through the 20th century. A painter, educator, and textile designer, Jones is known for work ranging from landscapes to African-inspired abstraction, shaped by her travels in Europe, Haiti, and Africa and her time with family on Martha’s Vineyard. A longtime Howard University professor, her work celebrates African heritage and is held in major museums worldwide.
Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
Mark Joshua Epstein: “Works on Paper”
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
KIA Tour
10:30 AM
Celebrate the KIA and the season holiday goodies and a docent led tour. Members will receive an invitation will follow on the website and by eblast.
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.