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 KAC’s public sculpture sites and you will learn about more than art; you will discover the community in which it lives.
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 offers in-person programs including youth camps & classes, teen/adult classes, and visiting artist workshops year-round.
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.
Head to Lake Bluff Park on the second weekend of July for the Krasl Art Fair on the Bluff presented by 1st Source Bank Wealth Advisory Services and Krasl Art Center! 2025 dates are Saturday, July 12 from 10 am – 6 pm, and Sunday, July 13 from 10 am – 5 pm.
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.
Free and open to the public. It all begins on January 31, 6 - 8 pm, with a first look at A Beautiful Mess: Weavers & Knotters of the Vanguard. Kira Dominguez Hultgren will kick us off with opening remarks at 6:15 pm. Cash bar and lite bites will be provided. A Beautiful Mess: Weavers […]
Free & open to the public Participating artist Kira Dominguez Hultgren joins KAC for a conversation with our local fiber community. Afterward, visitors have the opportunity to participate in an interactive backstrap loom demonstration. Dominguez Hultgren weaves with the material afterlife of a so-called multiracial family: Chicanx-Indigenous-Indian-Hollywood Hawaiian-Brown-Black. Questions about cultural appropriation and codeswitching, exoticism, […]
Tour the recently opened exhibition, A Beautiful Mess: Weavers & Knotters of the Vanguard, with Chief Curator Tami Fauver. Coffee with the Curator is a free, informal tour over the lunch hour at KAC. Sponsored by Forté Coffee. FREE & Open to the public Image: Executive Director and Chief Curator Tami Fauver leads a conversation […]
Free & open to the public Each month, guest artists walk us through a different step of the weaving process with live demos, from fleece to masterpiece. This month's topic: Shear. Artist Vera Videnovich of Videnovich Farms joins KAC to share insights and hands-on conversation about the very beginning of the weaving process - wool! […]
Saturday, February 8th, 11 am - 12:30 pm Free & Open to All Ages Enslaved people of African descent used secret messages encoded into songs and sewn into quilts to safely traverse the Underground Railroad Network. Learn about the history of the designs used in these quilt squares by freedom seekers. We will make squares […]
Wednesday, February 12th, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Free & Open to All Ages at the Benton Harbor Public Library Enslaved people of African descent used secret messages encoded into songs and sewn into quilts to safely traverse the Underground Railroad Network. Learn about the history of the designs used in these quilt squares by […]