Although everyone will enjoy the spectacular vehicles as well as the vehicles’ owners there are other activities the family will enjoy.  Here are a few activities that you will enjoy:  the Commercial Exhibitors, Swap Meet and a Women’s World (exhibitors with items that will interest women as well as men and children) Held at the Kalamazoo County Fairgrounds in Kalamazoo, Mic...

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June 18 - September 18, 2016 - The exhibition demonstrates an abstract painter working in acrylics, Barbara Takenaga is known for her swirling, dot-based paintings of saturated color and undulating patterns. Her simple forms, arranged into dense and detailed composition, radiate and recede in what seems to be infinite space.

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June 25-October 2, 2016 - The exhibition demonstrates the technique of egg tempera painting has been practiced since ancient times. The exacting process of mixing pigment with egg yolk and water, then applying thin layers of paint to a carved wooden panel creates images of great detail and luminescence. Fred Wessel is among the artists today working in egg tempera and he has emerged as a true mast...

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July 2 - November 6, 2016 - An exhibition of light sculptures displayed in the darkened Joy Light Gallery of Asian Art, Reaching into Infinity shows the work of a sculptor exploring light, color, and illusion as he muses on infinite space and spirituality.

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July 23-October 23, 2016 - The exhibition focuses on the artist's assumed role through an array of works in various media. As Stout explains, "The common thread running through bodies of my work of the past several years is the continuing need for self-discovery and the need to understand and make sense of human motives and the way we relate and respond to each other."

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September 9, 2016 - September 11, 2016 - 2,500 street rods, customs, muscle cars and street machines will be on hand at the Kalamazoo County Expo Center on the Kalamazoo County Fairgrounds.

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October 1 - December 31, 2016 - In large and small scale, her exhibition distilled fundamental human relationships and basic elements of nature into sculptural forms.

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November 5, 2016 - February 19, 2017 - This exhibition ​represents work by five painters rebuts the idea that representational imagery has gone into hiding. According to exhibition curator Jerome Witkin, Bill Murphy, Gillian Pederson-Krag, Joel Sheesley, Tim Lowly, and Robert Birmelin continue to "hone to perfection a body of work that I feel will last beyond our time.

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November 19, 2016 - March 19, 2017 - With this exhibition you will see a gallery transformed into a magical, "underwater" installation of colorful and glowing "fish, jellies, and coral" by Sayaka Ganz. Guided by sensitivity to the environment and human habits of discarding objects, Ganz rescues and repurposes plastic utensils and household items as the material of her sculptura...

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January 14 - March 12, 2017 - This exhibition features work by some of the finest ceramic artists in the U.S.  Although we may think of ceramics as a material used to create functional objects like vases, bowls, plates, and mugs, in the mid-20th century, ceramics moved from a traditional craft form to a material used to create unique sculptural works of art.

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