kalamazoo institute of arts

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  9kerrys

  Great place to see an exhibit. Lots of interesting themes and exhibits come to the KIA. Be sure to check with the desk or the local paper as to what is currently showing. Lots of hard work goes into what will be shown and the museum staff is very educated about each exhibit. This is also a terrific place to have a function, fundraiser, wedding reception, gala or ball. The KIA also offers art classes on numerous subjects for the young and young at heart. The gift shop is wonderful and it is a great place to find unique gifts. Definitely worth a trip to check this place out.

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  233kathyg

  and that's how you welcome art lovers!!! A nice place to enjoy the many offerings, they change out exhibits regularly so you never know what will interest you on this visit...or your next one!!

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  elo716

  It's right next to the B&B at which we stayed AND the Louis Comfort Tiffany exhibit was going on and it was wonderful. The chihuly hanging in the foyer is AMAZING!!!!!!

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  cecilias527

  Amazing and astounding is this exhibit. I very rarely exclaim "Wow!" at exhibits, but I did over and over for this one.

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  RoseK677

  easy to find and the art was of very good quality- they had a visiting show using wire mesh screening that was fantastic and unlike anything I've seen.

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  CD205

  so many terrific exhibits....easy to walk though...Really enjoyed the gift shop...so many really unique gifts...found something for everyone.I've seen the Chuhuli exhibit before at a different galley but this was just as well planned and organized.

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  elliote933

  It's about a six hour drive from Ann Arbor to Chicago. Ann Arbor is more or less Exit 172 on I-94 in Michigan, while the Kalamazoo Institute of Art is best reached off Exit 76. Four miles or so north (on the left) on something called Westnedge Avenue is the KIA, a Fifties or Sixties style building which in another life might have been a school. Actually the sign out front says it includes a school so it all makes sense.It was one of those public service announcements on Michigan Public Radio which had drawn me here, en route to Chicago. For the next month or so, KIA is hosting an exhibition of the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany.Several of the lamps in my small apartment are in the Tiffany style (two I think bought by mail from the Chicago Arts Institute) and I have to thank my ex wife for choosing the Stickley furniture in common rooms. So I suppose this all makes me a prime prospect for the Louis Comfort Tiffany exhibit.Included in the exhibit are lamps, decorative glass, vases and pottery, and representative tile pieces. It was the lamps and glasswork that I had gone to see, and I was not disappointed. Easy enough to say 'Tiffany style lamps', but the quality of what is displayed is so obviously superior that it may be a disappointment going back soon to my own.The tile samples to me were unimpressive, as if they had been scavenged from a construction site. Which may well be true. Everything else, however, was a marvel.I have been (a number of years ago) to the workshop off Route 10 in New Jersey that the Stickley brothers used as a working residence. No question, the furnishings there are in Arts and Crafts mode, seemingly comfortable and attractive. Yet nothing in the New Jersey museum screams 'genius' or 'magnificent' in the way that Tiffany's work shown in Kalamazoo does.I almost didn't go downstairs to see the jewelry. Which would have been a mistake, as the creativity and artivity evident in the glassworks is in evidence downstairs as well. Imagine a cowl style necklace made to resemble an assemblage of grape vines, each leaf in detail as if original, and each grape made from a semi precious stone. Of a quality befitting either royalty or -- in this case -- a museum exhibit.Worth the trip if exhibition travels near you.

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  Lilquiz

  Great exhibits from glasswork to textiles to mixed media. There is something on display to appeal to all tastes of art. Really glad my friend took me here.

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  303SharonP

  The Kzoo Institute of Art is a small art space but they always use it effectively. It is a pleasure to have space around objects and floor space to avoid bumping into someone when looking at art. This was true for the bamboo exhibit last year and applies to the current Tiffany lamp exhibit that I saw with a few friends. There are often interesting traveling exhibits at this museum but their growing permanent collection always surprises me. Please take time to visit the art institute while downtown...free parking is available across the street.

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  cwhite209

  We saw the Featured Tiffany exhibit as well as a very small art exhibit from China and Japan and wandered the other exhibits halls. The institute provides great information along with their exhibits and we thoroughly enjoyed walking through the galleries.