Legendary Selections from the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts

A handbook to the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.

Delve into a collection a century in the making with Legendary Selections from the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, a handbook highlighting the museum’s collection of legendary artworks from the United States and around the world, encompassing works by celebrated artists from Ansel Adams to Kay Walking Stick.

For one hundred years, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts has served regional and national audiences as an art museum and community-based art school. This handbook highlights its collection of nearly five thousand works, including an exceptional group of artworks from the United States and around the world. Explore majestic and compelling photographs by Ansel Adams to Dawoud Bey; depictions of the immigrant experience by Diego Rivera to Dulce Pinzón; the awe-inspiring and dynamic paintings of Robert Seldon Duncansen to Helen Frankenthaler; and singular sculptural works by Deborah Butterfield to Richard Hunt. Be inspired by the stories of local, regional, and national artists and curatorial voices that will illuminate the expansiveness of this unique Michigan-based collection.

Rehema C. Barber is the Director of Curatorial Affairs for the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. She has participated in the Art Writing Workshop sponsored by the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and AICA-USA, the Getty Leadership Institute, the Japan Foundation’s Curatorial Exchange Program, and was a Saint Louis Art Museum Romare Bearden Fellow. Recent writing by Barber can be found in: Unmasking Masculinity for the 21st Century, Shape of Abstraction: Selections from the Ollie Collection, and The Routledge Companion to African American Art History, edited by Eddie Chambers.