In the Gallery – Lines with Power and Purpose: Editorial Cartoons

Krasl Art Center 707 Lake Blvd, St. Joseph, MI, United States

Featuring fifty-one original editorial cartoons from metropolitan newspapers in the United States, the exhibition spans across two world wars and the great depression. It represents a bygone era when printed matter was the status quo and cartoonists were part of the newsroom staff.

In the artLab: Barbara Cooper

Krasl Art Center 707 Lake Blvd, St. Joseph, MI, United States

Chicago-based sculptor Barbara Cooper uses wood, books and glue to create elegantly structured artworks.

In the Galleries: Dex R. Jones: Storied Portraits

Krasl Art Center 707 Lake Blvd, St. Joseph, MI, United States

Influenced by the cultural richness of his Caribbean heritage and Pan-African studies, Dexter R. Jones removes the veil of self-conscious inhibition by eliminating preconceived notions of beauty. Encompassing a mixture of texture, hues, flesh and heavy contrast in his editorial photography, his expertise in justly capturing women of vast shades is indicative of his strong matriarchal upbringing.