Art Drawn from Nature Friday, January 7 – Sunday, April 10, 2022  

Opening Reception: Friday, February 11, 6pm – 8pm. Dance performance by Carolyn Pampalone Rabbers of Wellspring Dance Company.

A new year of renovation and rebirth.

Celebrating the Kalamazoo Nature Center’s renovation reopening, eight local artists will grace the new halls with paintings, prints, vessels and sculpture speaking to the natural world. For as long as there has been art, artists have been innervated by nature. In the upcoming exhibition, artists tell stories of their relationship with renovation and rebirth.  Weaving visual stories from the oral traditions or endangered indigenous plants, and native fauna the exhibition will explore ways we tell our stories of nature.

“...along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly unfolding all around us, participants within the vast imagination, or Dreaming, of the world.”
― David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

Artists featured include Brent Harris, Sharon Gill, Maryellen Hains, Anna Z. Ill, Courtney S. Nelson, Carolyn Pampalone Rabbers, Gayle Reyes, Corinn Rutkoski, and Maria Scott.