THE GALLERIES

The Galleries host a rotating display of historical, contemporary, and thematic exhibitions that feature national and global artists.

THANK YOU 2025 EXHIBITION SPONSORS

MID-WEST FAMILY MARKETING & MEDIA, BOULEVARD INN & BISTRO, SILVER BEACH PIZZA, KRUGGEL LAWTON CPA, THE JOHN DEVRIES INSURANCE AGENCY, and KZOOM

Material Memory

February 07-May 09

Material Memory explores how knowledge, history, and cultural memory are carried through objects and the act of making. Bringing together four artists working in ceramics, fiber, tapestry, and print, the exhibition centers analog processes, material investigation, and the slow accumulation of gesture and meaning.

Through hand-built ceramics, bead-encrusted vessels, pony-bead tapestries, and meticulously carved relief prints, the artists in Material Memory examine how culture and personal histories are inherited, learned, and reinterpreted through labor, repetition, and intimate engagement with material. These works ask viewers to consider how objects embody memory, mediate identity, and carry stories across generations.

Featuring:

Chris Salas (Ceramics)
Salas’s hand-built ceramic forms emerge through intuitive, iterative processes informed by personal relationships, historical research, and the ongoing legacy of colonization in the Americas. Clay becomes a vessel for cultural reckoning, holding layered histories through time-intensive making and surface.

Katie Mongoven (Fiber, Beading)
Mongoven transforms found blue-and-white ceramic vessels with intricate beadwork and embroidery. Her labor-intensive practice explores diasporic memory, identity reconstruction, and the reclamation of Orientalist objects through touch, repetition, and bodily presence.

akeylah wellington (Sculpture, Tapestry)
Wellington’s pony-bead tapestries and mixed-media sculptures blend humor, endurance, and personal history. Drawing on childhood imagery, early digital culture, and found materials, her work preserves stories of displacement, resilience, and generational inheritance.

Ramiro Rodriguez (Printmaking)
Rodriguez’s woodblock and linoleum relief prints document familial and cultural narratives rooted in Mexican-American print traditions. Through carving and layered printing, his work embeds memory, transformation, and inherited knowledge into the physical act of making.

Together, the artists in Material Memory use material as language—foregrounding slow, analog processes as acts of remembering, learning, and transmission. Their works are deeply personal yet culturally resonant, tracing the invisible threads of inheritance that bind past, present, and future.

2025 COMMUNITY ⇄ MEMBERS’ SHOW

November 22-January 10

KAC proudly presents The 2025 Community ⇄ Members’ Show, our annual opportunity to exhibit our community’s art created over the last year. Any resident of Berrien County or member of Krasl Art Center is welcome to submit artwork, regardless of whether you consider yourself an artist or something else entirely! 

NOTEWORTHY DETAILS:

  • Any Berrien County resident OR current or member of Krasl Art Center can participate.
  • Existing KAC Member Artists who also bring a non-member to exhibit can receive a free Fan-level membership renewal for 2025 and a free Fan-level membership for their friend. 
  • KAC Member Artists are eligible to enter for a special juried award. 
  • All artists are eligible for the People’s Choice Award.

ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES

Interested in exhibiting at Krasl Art Center? KAC displays contemporary art indoors and out year-round. We value experimentation, innovation, excellence, timeliness and relevance.

If you are an artist or curator with an exhibition concept or body of work that meets these values, please submit a proposal to curatorial@krasl.org.

Exhibition proposals are reviewed on an ongoing basis and held for 2 years. Due to the quantity received, we will contact you only in the event of an exhibition opportunity. 

Artists and curators are encouraged to review the gallery plan by clicking here to ensure proposals are scaled appropriately.

Zoals krasl.org kunst gebruikt om intuïtie en expressie te verkennen, zo nodigt Rakoo Casino spelers uit om hun gevoel voor ritme en balans te ontdekken. Net als in een galerie draait het hier om beleving en timing — elke beslissing is een penseelstreek, elke zet een vorm van creatieve spanning die logica en emotie verenigt.