Makeshift

In honor of our current recent resident artist, Beverly Fitzpatrick (Heavyweight Collager of the World), Makeshift invited Kalamazoo to collage with us for a night of creativity, conversation, and community engagement. The turnout was a diverse group of new and familiar faces, all of which contributed to a total of 64 collages! As the night progressed, our blank gallery walls slowly filled with some pretty amazing work. Thanks, Kalamazoo! Feel free to include your name in the comment section if you see your collage in this gallery.

(Don't forget – if you would like to retrieve your work, you must be present to pick it up at one of our next events. Stay tuned for dates.)

http://www.makeshiftkzoo.com/cutandpastekzoo

Another successful gallery visit with the Advanced Studio class from Kalamazoo College. Thanks again to Colleen Woolpert for a thoughtful conversation on her exhibition Kalamazoo & Park.

Check out a new, Kalamazoo-based podcast by friend to Makeshift, Elisabeth Blair. Great work, Elisabeth – can't wait for episode 2 of Listening to Ladies

Ingrid Stölzel Ingrid Stölzel (b. 1971) has been hailed as "a composer of considerable gifts” who is “musically confident and bold” by NPR’s classical music critic. Her music has been described as “tender and beautiful” (American Record Guide) and as creating a “haunting feeling of lyrical reflection and suspensio...

Makeshift is pleased to introduce our newest artist-in-residence, Beverly Fitzpatrick! A staple of Kalamazoo's independent art scene, Beverly has been consistently engaged in making and sharing her work in a variety of mediums and formats throughout Greater Kalamazoo.

Learn more about Beverly and her work at http://www.makeshiftkzoo.com/beverlyfitzpatrick