Sean Hollins and Sonya Bernard-Hollins recognized for contributions to Kalamazoo and arts community
Couple helps authors bring their stories to life through words and art. And she helps girls see the possibilities in the world.
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For 15 years Kalamazoo Book Arts Center has kept the art of bookmaking and all things book alive
Kalamazoo has a really strong history of papermaking, printing industry, and education in the humanities. For 15 years the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center has been drawing on that history to make sure book making (and more) lives on.
Grants for school arts programs available through the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo
“As an art teacher, I want to provide as many resources and exposure opportunities as possible to my students," says Mandy Clearwaters, head of the KPS art department. That's why she writes grants to bolster funding for arts programs.
Students learn the skills employers want in the YOU MyCity Program
YOU MyCity summer program where students learn about life in the real world of work makes adjustments for COVID-19 realities.
An attempt to flee 2020 with a 556-mile roundtrip bike ride into the woods
A bicycle ride through 90-degree weather, over dirt roads, through sand pits, up and down hills, hills, hills, and more hills. While towing a Burley Coho trailer with a Surly Troll loaded with camping gear. It doesn't get more 2020 than this.
Kalamazoo Literacy Council helps parents navigate digital childhood and screen time decisions
Kalamazoo Literacy Council teaches parents to be comfortable with technology and how to work with their children online.
Kalamazoo’s director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is on the job at a critical time
Ten years ago, Dorla Bonner joined the City of Kalamazoo staff in community development and investment. In February she was named the city's first director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Then the world changed.
Middle school bike program helps kids with fitness and focus in Portage
Bike Friendly Kalamazoo is supporting the "Riding for Focus" curriculum at Portage Central and Portage West Middle Schools. The program is based on studies that show biking reduces ADHD symptoms in youth
Eradicating racism in the arts in Kalamazoo starts with a discussion
White privilege, bringing in more people of color in both the creative and management areas of the arts, inclusivity in arts education, and artistic responses to changing attitudes on race were all part of a recent discussion on eradicating racism in the arts.
Kalamazoo’s systemic inequities in housing and efforts to correct them
Since the days of redlining in mid-1930s blacks have found it nearly impossible to live wherever they wanted and where they could afford to live in Kalamazoo. Steps are underway to change that.
