The Shadow Caster Variations: Andrew Light Exhibition
2025-10-04 08:00 - 2025-11-17 17:00 (America/Detroit) | Krasl Art Center, 707 Lake Blvd, St. Joseph, MI, 49085, United States
Krasl Art Center is pleased to present Andrew Light: The Shadow Caster Variations, an exhibition that reflects on two decades of sculptural exploration by artist Andrew Light. On view October 4 through November 16, the exhibition features new and recent works that explore the correspondence between images and ideas, and how shadows shape perception.

FAMILY DAY at Krasl Art Center | Colorful Leaf Animals!
2025-11-08 11:00 - 12:30 | MI
Saturday, November 8th, 11 am – 12:30 pm
Free & Open to All Ages
Join Miss Jessica on Saturday, November 8th from 11 – 12:30pm at the Krasl Art Center
Come create adorable fall creatures with collaged leaves! All ages welcome—drop in and have fun!
On the second Saturday of every month, Krasl Art Center has free artmaking activities for the whole family!

Projects have included DIY Bubble Wands, Rock Painting, Ski Slope Racing, and much more! See what we have planned this month at krasl.org/events/featured-events/

Come down to 707 Lake Boulevard from 11 am – 12:30 pm and create something special.

Artist Talk with Foster Willey
2025-11-15 13:00 - 14:30 | Krasl Art Center Libary, 707 Lake Blvd., St. Joseph, MI, 49085, United States
In KAC’s Library, join us for an artist talk with sculptor and St. Joseph native Foster Willey, whose exhibition A Sculpture Proposal is on view in the ArtLab through November 16. Willey will share his vision for Lake Deity — a proposed large-scale sculpture honoring the spiritual and ecological significance of Lake Michigan. Discover how public art takes shape, from concept to community collaboration, and how Willey’s design seeks to celebrate nature and enrich our shared environment. The artist talk will conclude with a performance by Hickory Creek Revival at 2:00 in the galleries

2025 COMMUNITY ⇄ MEMBERS’ SHOW: Public Preview Party
2025-11-21 18:00 - 20:00 | Krasl Art Center, 707 Lake Blvd, St. Joseph, MI, 49085, United States
Admission: Free & Open to the Public
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!

We hope you submit your work no matter your age, background, or skill set. The show will exhibit over the winter holidays, so please take it as your opportunity to come in and celebrate the work of your friends, family, and neighbors. More details below.

FOLLOW THIS LINK TO SUBMIT YOUR REGISTRATION.
Artwork dropoff is Thursday, November 13 – Saturday, November 15. You must register online before bringing your work to the Krasl Art Center.

GUIDELINES:

1 artwork per artist or collaborating artist group.
Artwork must have been completed within the past year.
2D Artwork dimensions may not exceed 36” x 36”.
3D Artwork dimensions may not have a footprint larger than 36” x 36”.
Artworks must be display-ready (no additional hardware required for installation).
This is an open exhibition. However, KAC reserves the right to decline exhibiting artworks based on space constraints or other considerations.

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.

2025 COMMUNITY ⇄ MEMBERS’ SHOW EXHIBITION
2025-11-22 11:00 - 2026-01-11 18:00 | Krasl Art Center, 707 Lake Blvd, St. Joseph, MI, 49085, United States
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!

We hope you submit your work no matter your age, background, or skill set. The show will exhibit over the winter holidays, so please take it as your opportunity to come in and celebrate the work of your friends, family, and neighbors. More details below.

FOLLOW THIS LINK TO SUBMIT YOUR REGISTRATION.
Artwork dropoff is Thursday, November 13 – Saturday, November 15. You must register online before bringing your work to the Krasl Art Center.

GUIDELINES:

1 artwork per artist or collaborating artist group.
Artwork must have been completed within the past year.
2D Artwork dimensions may not exceed 36” x 36”.
3D Artwork dimensions may not have a footprint larger than 36” x 36”.
Artworks must be display-ready (no additional hardware required for installation).
This is an open exhibition. However, KAC reserves the right to decline exhibiting artworks based on space constraints or other considerations.

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.

The Clay Guild Merry Makers Market
2025-12-04 11:00 - 2025-12-06 17:00 | MI
Looking for a unique one of a kind holiday gift? Stop by the weekend of December 4-6, 2025 to shop Krasl’s Clay Guild Merry Makers Market. Our talented guild members will be showcasing their work and selling it to support future studio needs.

Fall Finale/Annual Meeting
2025-12-04 18:00 - 20:00 | Krasl Art Center, 707 Lake Blvd, St. Joseph, MI, 49085, United States
Celebrate creativity and community at Krasl Art Center’s Fall Finale & Annual Meeting. This free event invites art lovers and community members to explore, connect, and celebrate the transformative power of art. Whether you’re an artist, a supporter of the arts, or simply curious about what happens in Krasl’s studios, this event offers a chance to connect with students, faculty, staff, and fellow art enthusiasts.
Don’t miss this first ever event for the Krasl Ceramic Clay Guild, our Holiday Throw Down at 7 PM in our Clay Studios! Participants will compete in four different challenges including:1. One minute teapot2. Tallest Cyclinder3. 3 Minute Blindfolded Vessel4. Plate Sgraffito Design Challenge

Holiday Throw Down
2025-12-04 19:00 - 20:00 | Krasl Art Center Clay Studio, 707 Lake Blvd., St. Joseph, 49085, United States
Artists will compete in a series of challenges in our Clay Studios. Don’t miss watching 3 Minute Blindfolded Vessel, 1 Minute Teapot, Tallest Cylinder, and Sgraffito Plate Design Competition!

Warm Up During Light Up the Bluff
2025-12-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Krasl Art Center, 707 Lake Blvd, St. Joseph, MI, 49085, United States
Kick off your holiday season at Krasl! Stop by during the City of St. Joseph’s Annual Light Up the Bluff event to enjoy hot chocolate, artists sketching Santa, and more! You can even get a jump on your holiday shopping by stopping by the Annual Clay Guild Merry Makers Market. Brought to you by 1st Source Bank and Forte Coffee. Ben’s Pretzels will be on site as well.

XL Family Fun Fest
2025-12-06 10:00 - 14:00 | Krasl Art Center, 707 Lake Blvd, St. Joseph, MI, 49085, United States
Purchase a punchcard for just $10 to enjoy a day of fun!
From 10 AM to 2 PM, join the fun with a $10 punch card, giving access to a range of engaging activities tailored for children ages 5 to 12 (though all ages are welcome!). There will be free-no punch card events too! The Clay Guild Merry Maker’s Market Sales will be going on as well where you can explore a treasure of offerings!
Holiday Inspired Costume Parade at 12 PM — an opportunity to show off your best holiday-inspired attire. (Ex. reindeer, elf, santa, tree, train, present, etc.) At 1 PM, enjoy Puppeteer Jean Kuecher performing T’was the Night Before Christmas.There will be a family group photo opportunity with a holiday backdrop. This is great for including for Holiday cards and creating a holiday memory as a family! Provide your email to the photographer to receive your group picture after the event.
Throughout the day, visitors can enjoy a variety of family-friendly activities for FREE, including:

Photo board for fun snapshots.
Scavenger Hunt to test your detective skills.
Snacks
As well as others.

Punch Card Activities

Holiday-themed carnival games for all ages.
Craft stations to create your own keepsake.
Get into the holiday spirit by getting your face painted.
Cupcake or cookie decorating station for a sweet creative treat and much more.

FAMILY NIGHT at Benton Harbor Public Library | Holiday Cookie Decorating!
2025-12-10 17:00 - 18:30 | MI
Family Night at BHPL | Holiday Cookie Decorating!
Wednesday, December 10th, 5 – 6:30 PM
Free & Open to All Ages at the Benton Harbor Public Library
Families are invited to join Miss Jessica for a joyful Holiday Cookie and Cupcake Decorating Night filled with sweet treats, colorful icing, and festive fun for all ages. All supplies are provided, and everyone is welcome! Bring your family, bring a friend, or come make a new one!
On the second Wednesday of every month, KAC hosts free artmaking activities in the evening for the whole family at the Benton Harbor Public Library!

Projects have included DIY Button Making, Pumpkin Painting, Pinewood Racing, and more! See what we have planned this month at krasl.org/events/featured-events/

Come to 213 E. Wall St, Benton Harbor from 5 – 6:30 pm and create something special.

2025 COMMUNITY ⇄ MEMBERS’ SHOW: Pizza With the Artists
2026-01-11 16:00 - 18:00 | Krasl Art Center, 707 Lake Blvd, St. Joseph, MI, 49085, United States
Join us on January 11, 4 – 6 PM, for our time-honored tour of the Community ⇄ Members’ Show. During this walk-through, participating artists who wish to speak will share a brief reflection on their work. You’ll have the chance to hear directly from them about their inspiration, creative process, the story behind their piece, or even their broader journey as an artist.
It’s a warm, welcoming way to connect with the makers in our community and gain a deeper understanding of the artwork on view. After the tour, enjoy pizza generously provided by Silver Beach Pizza. Come for the art, stay for the conversation (and the pizza!).

Material Memory Exhibition Public Preview Party
2026-02-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Krasl Art Center, 707 Lake Blvd, St. Joseph, MI, 49085, United States
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.
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.

Opening Reception for Malcolm Taylor: The State of Play
2026-02-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Krasl Art Center ArtLab, 707 Lake BLVD, St. Joesph, MI, 49085, United States
Krasl Art Center presents Malcolm Taylor: Prologue, The State of Play, on view February 7 through May 10, 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.

Material Memory Exhibition
2026-02-07 - 2026-05-09 | Krasl Art Center, 707 Lake Blvd, St. Joseph, MI, 49085, United States
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.

Material Memory Exhibition: Coffee with the Curator
2026-02-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Krasl Art Center, 707 Lake Blvd, St. Joseph, MI, 49085, United States
Learn how the KAC Curator put together the first 2026 exhibition!
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.

Family Day with Miss Jessica
2026-02-14 14:00 - 15:30 | Krasl Art Center, 707 Lake Blvd, St. Joseph, MI, 49085, United States
MATERIAL MEMORY | LOOM BEADING : AKEYLAH WELLINGTON
Saturday, February 14th, 2 – 3:30 pm
Free & Open to All Ages
Join Miss Jessica this Saturday, February 14th from 2 – 3:30 PM at the Krasl Art Center for Family Day in the Galleries!
Come learn about artist akeylah wellington who is a part of our current exhibition Material Memory in the galleries! We will be loom beading and having a look through the galleries with a docent guide.
All ages welcome—drop in and have fun!
On the second Saturday of every month, Krasl Art Center has free artmaking activities for the whole family!

Summer Art Market: May 30
2026-05-30 10:00 - 17:00 | Krasl Art Center, 707 Lake Blvd, St. Joseph, MI, 49085, United States
The Summer Art Markets are curated artist markets on Krasl Art Center’s (KAC) beautiful Oval Lawn.
The 2026 Summer Markets are held from 10 am – 5 pm. Dates for 2026 are May 30, July 18, August 15, and September 5. This is the same date and time as the St. Joe Today Artisan Fair. St. Joe Today and Krasl Art Center will work together to promote both events to optimize foot traffic. Average foot traffic in 2025 was over 1,850 each date.
To apply to participate in the 2026 Summer Art Markets: apply here.

Summer Art Market: July 18
2026-07-18 10:00 - 17:00 | Krasl Art Center, 707 Lake Blvd, St. Joseph, MI, 49085, United States

Summer Art Market: August 15
2026-08-15 10:00 - 17:00 | Krasl Art Center, 707 Lake Blvd, St. Joseph, MI, 49085, United States

Summer Art Market: September 5
2026-09-05 08:00 - 17:00 | Krasl Art Center, 707 Lake Blvd, St. Joseph, MI, 49085, United States
