Community Day: Cool Kicks

Step into a day all about shoes! Wear your favorite pair for fun photo ops. Discover incredible footwear in Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting Edge Kicks and then get creative with shoe inspired art projects.

Have shoes that need some flair? Bring them along and stop by the auditorium between 12:30 and 1:30pm to decorate, bedazzle, or totally reinvent them! Supplies will be provided.

Image credit: Mr. Bailey, Octopus Shoe, 2018. Collection of Mr. Bailey. Image courtesy of Mr. Bailey. Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks is co-organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Bata Shoe Museum, and curated by Elizabeth Semmelhack, Director and Senior Curator of the Bata Shoe Museum.

You may also like the following events from Kalamazoo Institute of Arts:

• Next Wednesday, 25th February, 12:00 pm, ArtBreak: The Poetry of Shoes in Kalamazoo
• Next Thursday, 26th February, 06:00 pm, Nuestro Futuro in Kalamazoo
• Next Friday, 27th February, 04:00 pm, Member Meetup at Wax Wings Brewing Company in Kalamazoo

Also check out other Arts events in Kalamazoo.