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Conrad Kaufman

Conrad is self-taught artist and has a B.S. in Anthropology from WMU. His many public murals can be seen at Food Dance Café, the People’s Food Co-op, the Kalamazoo Valley Museum, the Portage and Kalamazoo Public Libraries and illuminating poems on walls all around Kalamazoo. He has painted over 100 residential murals as well .

Linda Kekic

Visual Artist: Glass; Visual Artist: Jewelry

My interest in kiln fused glass and jewelry began in the fall of 2003 when I signed up for a glass art class at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. I was immediately hooked. Since then I have been having more fun than I could imagine – creating beautiful, colorful pieces of glass to incorporate into jewelry, sculptures, bowls and vases. The beauty of teaching in the Metals and Jewelry Department at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts is the opportunity to experiment with a variety of techniques and processes. My work includes hand designed glass art pieces that I shape on a lapidary and fire polish in the kiln, some of which are beveled to a pyramid shape. I also cut and shape a variety of stones and slabs including Fordite, Leland Bluestone, beach glass and 2000 year old Roman Glass. I enjoy traveling the world and wherever I go, I look for local stones, glass and other interesting elements to include in my work. My jewelry pieces frequently are set and paired with metals including sterling silver, copper, brass and Precious Metal Clay. I incorporate a variety of techniques for setting stones and glass including bezel setting, prong setting and tube setting. I also incorporate fold forming, corrugating, forging and a variety of texturing techniques. A recent series called “Junk Yard” jewelry involves soldering metal scrap to sheet metal and designing pendants, earrings, rings and bracelets from asymmetrical materials. I enjoy creating larger glass art sculptures, wall pieces, bowls and vases. I love to pair kiln fused and lamp worked glass with other media including handmade paper, water colors, metals, and encaustics. It is interesting to see how different media complement and interact with each other. I enjoy teaching both jewelry making and kiln fused glass art to students of a variety of ages and skill levels. Teaching art inspires me to continuously improve and expand my skills and interests. Thanks so much for your interest in my work. I love to share my experiences and ideas with others.

Chuck Kelley

Mary Kenney

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Danny Kim

Film Maker

Pamela Kirkham

Visual Artist: Painting

Pamela Kirkham Artist’s Statement & Resumé 9762 Church Street Bridgman, Michigan 49106 269.861.3899 Artist’s Statement Pamela Kirkham is an energetic, expressive painter who works primarily in acrylics. Her work incorporates both the abstract and realistic. Each piece is rich with textures and layer after layer of thin and thick paint. Kirkham found that acrylic paint, with its transparent to opaque consistencies, is the ideal medium for expressing the multi-layered, healing nature of the human mind and its ability to morph from the abstraction of dreams to reality. Many life experiences with native cultures living in New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma have led to the development of her signature artistic theme: healing of the body through the mind. Kirkham combines layers of abstraction and realism, compositionally weaving the viewer’s eye back and forth across diagonal grid patterns, and cleverly leads the viewer upward toward the light with sweeping motions in the abstract backgrounds. Healing of the mind takes place when viewed through a state of reflection or meditation, helping individuals escape from their life struggles and heal from within. Light is an important element in the artist’s work as the flying creatures are always gravitating toward the light, symbolizing a place of inner peace. Basic structure of each piece implies the magnetic fields of Gaia. Upon further familiarity with Kirkham’s unique biography and the sources of inspiration behind her oeuvre, an artist is uncovered who has skillfully marshaled passion, a deep understanding of nature and it’s connection with the human mind, and solid technique to create a genuinely original body of work. Resumé Pamela Kirkham graduated from Kendall College of Art & Design, Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1976. There, she learned how to work in many different styles, including photo-realism and abstraction. From a class, which originally numbered 150 students, she graduated as 1 of 12 worthy of graduating as illustrators in her class. In 2010, she received her Bachelor of Science Associates Degree from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh with a 3.99 GPA. From 1992-2000, she became very involved in her New Mexico community as a visual artist, an art educator through San Juan College, a vocalist, and a thespian. She was heavily involved with the Northwest New Mexico Arts Council between 1996 and 2000, ending her stint as President the last year. Between 2001 and 2004, Kirkham lived in Enid, Oklahoma where she executed a dozen murals throughout the city in churches, businesses, and homes. She was one of 100 artists from all fields chosen to be an artist-in-residence through the Oklahoma (state) Arts Council. Through this program, she taught in public schools throughout Oklahoma from Kindergartners in Frederick to alternative high school students in Collinsville, north of Tulsa. Pamela’s designs for painting two, life-size, fiberglass bison were chosen by the Nature Conservancy in Oklahoma to be painted as part of a fundraiser to benefit the survival of Bison. One buffalo was commissioned by the Bank of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City and the other by the Harris Foundation, Oklahoma City, who donated it to the Enid Main Street Association. In 2004, the artist returned to Michigan where she now works as a fine artist and art instructor. Recently, she participated as a 2014 and 2015 ArtPrize artist in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Through ArtBox.Project New York 1.0, her work will be shown on the large LED wall at the Stricoff Gallery, New York City, NY March 5-16th, 2018. Education Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Bachelor of Science, Associates Degree in Graphic Design Kendall College of Art & Design, Grand Rapids, Michigan – Graduated with major in Illustration Exhibitions The Buchanan Arts Center – Buchanan, Michigan 2015 ArtPrize Artist, Grand Rapids, Michigan 2014 ArtPrize Artist, Grand Rapids, Michigan Artist-in-Residence – Oklahoma Arts Council, state-wide Toh Atin Gallery – Durango, Colorado The Artworks Gallery – The Woodland, Texas Illusions – The Woodlands, Texas Nueces Street Gallery – Austin, Texas Toh-Atin Gallery – Durango, Colorado Morgan Stanley Dean Witter – Farmington, New Mexico West Chaco Gallery – Aztec, New Mexico Nominated: New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts Art in Public Places, 1% for the Arts – New Mexico Purchase: Mural, We Are One, by Bloomfield School District (Charlie Y. Brown Secondary School) Purchase: Mural, Safety City Mural, by Farmington Police Department Purchase: Original mixed media piece, Visitation of the Hopi Spirits, by San Juan College, Farmington, New Mexico Awards Southwest Biological Photographers’ Association Show – Albuquerque, New Mexico Award: Best of Show Award: First Place, Natural Science Illustration Whirpool Art Exhibition – St. Joseph, Michigan Award: Best of Show Northwest New Mexico Arts Council Regional Juried Show – Farmington, New Mexico Award: Second Place, All Media Riverfest – Farmington, New Mexico – Award: Second Place, Oils and Acrylics Invited Juror Totah Festival Fine Art Exhibitions – Farmington, New Mexico (five years) Invited Artist The Day Studio Group, San Francisco, California – Murals for renovation of the Enid Symphony Center, Enid, Oklahoma Studied Under Sandra L. Ringlever, Robert Divita, and Curtis Johnson – Grand Rapids, Michigan and Rob Hubble – Santa Fe, New Mexico Selected Corporate/College Permanent Collections Mitchell Energy and Development Corporation – The Woodlands, Texas The Whitley Company – Houston, Texas Color Tech – Dallas, Texas San Juan Regional Medical Center and the Cancer Treatment Center – Farmington, New Mexico San Juan College – Farmington, New Mexico Selected Private Collections Dr. Lynn Hayes, P.H.D. – Austin, Texas Ms. Amy Symons – Denver, Colorado Mr. Bill Marone, – Saint Joseph, Michigan Mr. & Mrs. Rockford Coscia – Long Island, New York Mr. Otis Halverson – Cheyenne, Wyoming Mrs. Vern Schroeder – Aiken, Minnesota Mr. and Mrs. Rick Breon – Iowa City, Iowa Mr. & Mrs. Marvin B. Steinberg – Baltimore, Maryland Teaching The Box Factory for the Arts – St. Joseph, Michigan The Krasl Art Center – St. Joseph, Michigan Oklahoma Artist-in-Residence San Juan College East – Aztec, New Mexico Kirkham Fine Art Studio – Michigan, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas Community Involvement Northwest New Mexico Arts Council – Farmington, New Mexico: Served as President and Vice President Anasazi, the Ancient Ones – Farmington, New Mexico: Played the characters of Effie Tate and Juanita Ingram with solos both years in this summer dinner theater/ historical musical University Debs (musical performing group) – Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana First United Methodist Church of Aztec, New Mexico – Choir Director and soloist

Marissa Klee-Peregon

Visual Artist: Painting; Visual Artist: Prints / Digital Art / Graphic Design; Visual Artist: Installation

Marissa Klee-Peregon is an artist based in Kalamazoo, MI. She received her BA in studio art & art history from Wellesley College in 2016, and is now the Post Baccalaureate Fellow in Art at Kalamazoo College. She spent the summer of 2018 as a resident at The Birdsell Project in South Bend, Indiana. She currently has a solo show on view at the Light Fine Arts Gallery at Kalamazoo College, and a two-person show with Patrick Kinne on view at InForm Architecture.

Bill Klinesteker

Tracy Klinesteker

Visual Artist: Painting

Pastel painting has allowed me to express the joy of our surrounding world. I paint to show my happiness with being alive. Member Great Lakes Pastel Society

Gene Knific

Composer; Film Maker; Musician; Producer; Singer; Teacher / Instructor

Hannah Knoll

I am an artist/designer/aspiring architect base in Kalamazoo, Mi where I recently graduated from Kalamazoo College. While my degree is in physics (with minors in mathematics and studio art) my passion is in design, a field that challenge my on a cross-disciplinary level I enjoy. I am interested primarily in the relationship between community and the physical landscape, leading to my desired career in architecture or urban design, fields I have begun to explore through jobs, internships and my study abroad experience in Copenhagen, Denmark. I am currently working for the Kalamazoo College both at the Office of Facilities Management updating architecturally drawings and serving as the Post-Baccalaureate Fellow in Art for the 2013-2014 academic year.