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SUMMARY:Material Memory Exhibition
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThrough 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. \nFeaturing: \nChris Salas (Ceramics)\n 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. \nKatie Mongoven (Fiber\, Beading)\n 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. \nakeylah wellington (Sculpture\, Tapestry)\nWellington’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. \nRamiro Rodriguez (Printmaking)\nRodriguez’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. \nTogether\, 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.
URL:https://krasl.org/event/material-memory-exhibition/
LOCATION:Krasl Art Center\, 707 Lake Blvd\, St. Joseph\, MI\, 49085\, United States
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SUMMARY:Material Memory Exhibition: Coffee with the Curator
DESCRIPTION:Learn how the KAC Curator put together the first 2026 exhibition! \nMaterial 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. \nThrough 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.
URL:https://krasl.org/event/material-memory-exhibition-coffee-with-the-curator/
LOCATION:Krasl Art Center\, 707 Lake Blvd\, St. Joseph\, MI\, 49085\, United States
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SUMMARY:Family Day with Miss Jessica
DESCRIPTION:MATERIAL MEMORY | LOOM BEADING : AKEYLAH WELLINGTON\nSaturday\, February 14th\, 2 – 3:30 pm\nFree & Open to All Ages \nJoin Miss Jessica this Saturday\, February 14th from 2 – 3:30 PM at the Krasl Art Center for Family Day in the Galleries! \nCome 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. \nAll ages welcome—drop in and have fun! \nOn the second Saturday of every month\, Krasl Art Center has free artmaking activities for the whole family!
URL:https://krasl.org/event/family-day-with-miss-jessica/
LOCATION:Krasl Art Center\, 707 Lake Blvd\, St. Joseph\, MI\, 49085\, United States
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