Nice location for my photography show 3 weeks ago. Nice and bright to display my large sized…read moreacrylic photographs and meet people. Had a good help from the manager to organize my show.

I love the Epic Center - it's truly a great resource for the arts. And while there is much to say…read moreabout each business that is here, I'd like to just give a nod to the Crescendo Academy of Music. Our daughter takes voice lessons here (she loves Shannon!), and this is an extremely high quality program for music education for people of all ages. I love seeing people walk in with huge instruments and tiny ones, all with big smiles on their faces. I also love sitting and waiting for her while members of the KSO practice. It's a lovely concert while I'm waiting. Take a look around - there is art on the walls, holiday events, art hop events throughout the building each month, and plenty of arts businesses that we support and enjoy.

What a great find! I want to keep this a hidden gem but I can't. It's too good!…read more Check out their concerts and summer series! The staff is helpful and attentive. I was even provided with a full list of events and a couple of extras so I can stay connected. The best thing about this gallery is that it's also a design store in a way. Come in and feel inspired ! Please check them out if you're in the area !

LaFontsee Galleries is a place you shouldn't miss. Everything they do, they excel at. They…read morerepresent some of the best artists in the Grand Rapids area and beyond. I love supporting them. They started out as a "hole-in-the-wall" frame shop over on Grand Avenue. Then they moved to their two-story space over on Monroe Avenue a few blocks north of the old Grand Rapids Press. Now they have two sites. I love that they have continued to grow. Their success is well deserved. They support artists in a big way. They help you with your presentation, ie., framing, installation, giclee printing, etc., and they have the perfect gallery space to showcase great work. Their quality of work is always top notch. When you leave your work in their hands, you know it will be handled with great care and an immense attention to detail. I've never felt fully confident with picking out frames on my own for my work, but the staff at LaFontsee Galleries has never let me down. Our combined work is still on my walls from over the years all the way to the 1990s when I moved to Grand Rapids and they opened their first frame shop. This summer, I needed to have several canvases stretched on bars for my ArtPrize entry. Linda LaFontsee and her staff performed an excellent job and helped to make my artwork a success. If I were you, I wouldn't go anywhere else in West Michigan for preparing my work for a gallery show. LaFontsee cares and it shows.

I've been a long-time fan of Underground Creations founder Cathy Germany's artwork, so it was…read morereally informative to see her speak at a Park Trades Center event this year about how her medical struggles have informed her artistry (much of her work is anatomical anomalies, and one piece pictures an insurance card and a butcher's knife). She does both large and small-format paintings, mixed media, jewelry, you name it, and most of her works are also available as super-affordable prints and cards. Other talented artists are often featured in the Underground Creations space as well, but Germany's the mainstay. She also offers classes and commissioned works.

artWorks has such unique, affordable art and supports a great cause! There's new art every week so…read moreI reccomend making this a regular stop.

This art gallery, studio and retail store was previously in Park Trades Center but has expanded to…read morea larger space on the Kalamazoo Mall/S. Burdick St., and is such an awesome addition to our community. MRC's mission is to encourage and support individuals living with a disability, and through their artWorks branch they do so by mentoring artistic abilities and providing the opportunity to participate in art hops, develop customer skills and earn commissions from artwork sales. We were fortunate that when we purchased a triptych of floral paintings at MRC, the artist who painted our pieces happened to be on hand that evening. She was over the moon delighted to have sold three of her pieces, and the beaming smile on her face is mirrored by my own each time I look at them on my wall. This is always a very busy stop on the Art Hop circuit and it's a joy to interact with the artists.

This place is always an explosion of color as the mainstay paintings in the gallery are very vivid…read moreabstractions that look like a storey-tall petri dish of protozoa infused with Crayola. We always wander through here at the Art Hop, although they were closed for the August hop. I was a little bummed because they had several new mobile/sculptures that looked like some sort of pom-pons or Fraggles hanging from the ceiling I would've liked a closer glance at (fortunately, since their walls are floor-to-ceiling windows you can still get a great glimpse of the artwork when they're closed both from the Kalamazoo Mall itself and the hallway leading to Down Dog Yoga).

This is an impressive small city museum, and I love that it is community-focused and has an art…read morelibrary and school along with the gallery space. My favorite of the current exhibits is the 'Cobalt to Indigo' Asian display. The high school pieces are impressive too. The museum is free on Thursdays and has a free parking lot across from the back of the building.

I love art museums, so I was excited to check out KIA while in town recently. Entry is only $5 for…read moreadults, $2 for students, and free for members, children through age 12, and active military personnel. There is free parking available in parking lots across from entrances on South and Lovell streets. The museum wasn't busy when we were there, which was nice as we were able to leisurely wander the galleries. It's not a huge museum, but I loved the Kyungmi Shin: A Story to Finding Us exhibit (through May 12, 2024). The artworks were stunning and I loved trying to find hidden images in each. The other main exhibit was American Realism: Visions of America, 1900-1950, which didn't resonate with me personally as much, but it was still interesting to see. The permanent collection downstairs was nice - I especially liked the Tiffany lamps and jewelry. There is a Chihuly sculpture hanging in the entryway, which is really cool to see. The gift shop is nicely curated with lots of great books, gifts, and more. Nate got a cute little cat shaped ceramic chopstick rest!

A fun store to wander through. Tons of original art at very reasonable prices. I found a couple…read moregifts... if I decide to part with them.

Holy bejeezus, I can't believe I'm the first to review The Zane's... This shop is a MUST if you're…read moredowntown! This is a fun stop during Kalamazoo Art Hops, too. This is a cozy consignment shop featuring works from Michigan artists. Prices rang from extremely affordable to higher ticker pieces. The variety of stuff is endless and all of the artists are incredibly talented. Amy Zane also sells her own jewelry that showcases the natural beauty that Earth's precious stones and minerals posses. Amy's staff is incredibly friendly and ready to help! I was very appreciative of the patience one employee had with me as I decided which jewelry I was going to purchase. The prints attached to this review were (and still may be) for sale there and I love them both! "Turtle in a Lighting Storm" is pure genius.

This was a really cool space with lots of interesting and affordable art. It's not often you walk…read moreinto a gallery and find many items under $50! What makes the place really remarkable, though, is the people who work there. I don't know if I have ever met friendlier or more helpful people! They happily made multiple recommendations for places to shop and eat, googled things for us, drew us maps. They told us to stop into the cycle shop to meet the new puppy (awww!). And they made sure to point out that the street and sidewalk in the downtown area are heated since it was VERY cold (the last bit seems a bit excessive on the part of the city of Kalamazoo, but it was pretty awesome. No snow.). Their exhibits change every month, so be sure to visit again and again!