PROJECT SPACE

Project Space is a dedicated venue for installation, time-based media, sound, and light. It is not afraid to showcase the fruit of visual experimentation, and it does not require a ‘finished product’ or an ‘established artist.’

THANK YOU 2026 EXHIBITION SPONSORS

BOULEVARD INN & BISTRO, MID-WEST FAMILY MARKETING & MEDIA, SILVER BEACH PIZZA, THE JOHN DEVRIES INSURANCE AGENCY, SVEN ERICKSON AND CHRISTOPHER FLORIAN, and VISIT SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN.

Maryangela Sanchez Rocca

May 16-August 09

The next Project Space exhibition features designer and artist Maryangela Sanchez Rocca, whose work spans furniture, sculpture, and domestic objects. Sanchez Rocca’s practice emphasizes materials often overlooked and systems of making rooted in care, ritual, and collective labor.

For this exhibition, Sanchez Rocca focuses on ixtle (EESH-tleh), a fiber extracted from the lechuguilla plant, native to northern Mexico. Historically used for brushes, ropes, sacks, and baskets, ixtle is closely tied to agricultural labor, land stewardship, and resistance within ejido farming communities. Drawing from knowledge shared by farmworkers in Coahuila, Mexico, Sanchez Rocca traces the material’s significance across Indigenous cultivation practices, colonial economies, and contemporary labor systems.

Through sculptural furniture, screens, and immersive installations made from raw ixtle and Douglas fir, Sanchez Rocca transforms utilitarian tools such as brooms and brushes into forms that resist usefulness. The works challenge assumptions about labor, value, and beauty while honoring the many hands that shape materials. In Project Space, the exhibition becomes an environment for reflection, rest, and quiet power.

Malcolm Taylor Prologue: The State of Play

February 07-May 09

Krasl Art Center presents Malcolm Taylor Prologue: The State of Play on view February 7 through May 9, 2026 in the ArtLab. The exhibition opens with a free public reception on Thursday, February 6, from 6 – 8 PM.The State of Play marks Benton Harbor–based photographer Malcolm Taylor’s first gallery exhibition, offering an adventurous exploration of storytelling through action figure photography. Taylor stages intricate miniature sets and captures them in vivid, cinematic photographs that blur the line between play and narrative. Featuring characters drawn from comics, video games, and popular culture, the works are infused with humor, nostalgia, and imagination, inviting viewers into fully realized worlds at a toy-sized scale.

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ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES

Interested in exhibiting in the Project Space? Any emerging visual artist residing in the United States is welcome to apply. Participants must propose an art installation to fit within a 367-square-foot gallery space by completing our online Exhibition Proposal Form, available by clicking here. Materials will vary and may include time-based media, sound, and light.

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 Project Space gallery plan by clicking here to ensure proposals are scaled appropriately.