Art
- Art
The Krasl Art Center in downtown St. Joseph, Michigan collects and publicly displays contemporary sculpture. On our campus and throughout the community, indoors and out, you can engage with dynamic artworks by Dale Chihuly, Richard Hunt, George Rickey, and many more artists – 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Explore the Krasl Art Center’s public sculpture sites and you will learn about more than art; you will discover the community in which it lives.
Education
- Education
Krasl Art Center offers youth and adult education programs in a variety of media, including drawing, painting, photography, stop-motion animation, ceramics, and sculpture. Stay up-to-date on classes by subscribing to our e-newsletter

KAC is proud to offer virtual programs and Krasl Kits you can enjoy from home in addition to limited in-person classes.
Events
- Events
Something is always happening at Krasl Art Center. From the Krasl Art Fair on the Bluff to ongoing public events indoors and out to our volunteer gatherings, Krasl is a vibrant year ’round gathering spot. See what’s coming soon. We’d love to see you at Krasl Art Center in beautiful downtown St. Joseph, Michigan.
Art Fair
- Art Fair
Join us for the 2021 Krasl Art Fair on the Bluff presented by 1st Source Bank Wealth Advisory Services and Krasl Art Center in person on Saturday, July 10 from 10AM – 6PM, and Sunday, July 11 from 10AM – 5PM for as little as $5 a person!
Support & Join
- Support & Join
- SPONSORSHIP
The non-profit Krasl Art Center provides southwest Michigan residents and visitors the opportunity to experience high quality art exhibitions, installations, and events, and to participate in art classes, camps, guest artist workshops, and outreach opportunities. Always changing indoors and out, Krasl is grateful for the support of our generous donors, volunteers and members. If you haven’t yet, please consider volunteering, becoming a member and/or making a donation. It all matters.

ART & WELLNESS POP-UP

Krasl Art Center (KAC) and Spectrum Health Lakeland’s Population Health Department (SHL/PH) have developed an innovative partnership. Together, the organizations are developing an Art & Wellness Pop-Up based on the Trauma Resource Institute’s Community Resilience Model (CRM) ® that will help address the behavioral health challenges faced by the community. The goal is to increase understanding of mental health, destigmatize mental illness, introduce the concept of resilience, and invite community members to participate in hands-on, arts-based activities that provide opportunities to practice and build resiliency skills.

THE COMMUNITY RESILIENCE MODEL (CRM) ®

CRM ® is a skills-based wellness approach to stabilizing the human central nervous system, which, if left destabilized over long periods of time due to chronic stress and trauma, can lead to serious mental (and physical) health challenges. The model is designed to provide individuals and communities with:

A common understanding of the impacts of chronic stress and trauma
A common language with which to talk about the impacts of chronic stress and trauma
Easily accessible skills to address the impacts of chronic stress and trauma – skills that help to re-stabilize the nervous system and increase resilience.

As a result of this work, individuals and the community at large will have increased capacity to:

Mitigate the behavioral health effects of past trauma and chronic stress
Rebound in the wake of future trauma and chronic stress
Avoid the behavioral health effects of future trauma and chronic stress.

POP-UP PILOT LOCATIONS

- April – June 2021 | St. Joseph / Maud Preston Palenske Memorial Library
- July – August 2021 | Benton Harbor Public Library
- & More community locations Fall 2021!

THE CREATIVE TEAM

Lynn Todman, Executive Director for Population Health, SHL
Tasha Turner, Program Director for Trauma Informed Initiatives, SHL
Tami Miller, Deputy Director & Curator, KAC
Laura Winkle, Interpretation & Engagement Coordinator, KAC
Emily McKenna, School & Community Programs Coordinator, KAC
Gene Ullery-Smith, Designer, (Traverse City, MI)
Sergio Gomez, Artist (Chicago)
Darrell Willis Humbles, Artist (Benton Harbor, MI)
Martina Nehrling, Artist (Chicago)
Jake Zapor, Artist (Bridgman, MI)

The Art & Wellness Pop-Up offers the opportunity to address real needs within the community. The power of art to strengthen and transform individuals and communities alike is well-documented; combining its strength with the expertise of Spectrum Health Lakeland’s Population Health team is an exciting partnership that truly blends two areas of expertise to affect meaningful change. ~ Tami Miller, Deputy Director & Curator, KAC.

I am proud of this true collaboration. The shared visioning and decision-making by Krasl Art Center and Spectrum Health Lakeland will expose hundreds of people to the Community Resiliency Model, and provide them with skills to build their personal resilience and the resilience of their family, friends, and neighbors. ~ Lynn Todman, Executive Director for Population Health, SHL.

RESOURCES

In preparation for this project, KAC and SHL/PL co-curated the exhibition Resiliency in KAC’s galleries October 4 – December 1, 2019. Artists that were in the exhibition: Rachel Corbin, Drawing, Nashville, TN; Alli Farkas, Painting, Dowagiac, MI; Christina E. Fontenelle, Visual Art & Dance, Chicago; John Gutoskey, Printmaking, Ann Arbor, MI; Ginnie Hsu, Illustration, Upstate New York; Olivia Hunter, Photography, New York; the monarq, Painting, Seattle,WA; Sergio Gomez, Painting, Chicago; Martina Nehrling, Painting, Chicago.