New York City has been pummeled with winter’s wrath this year, but a warm reception greeted Kendall alumni at the first Big Apple alumni gathering on January 18. Our venue was the prestigious Art Directors Club. We selected it not knowing that several alumni are members. What a pleasant surprise when we found out! We already have two other Kendall reunions that take place during other national events: the gathering that takes place in June during NeoCon in Chicago, which is attended by graphic designers, photographers, interior designers, furniture designers, and industrial designers. The other takes place during the International High Point Market in October, and attracts alumni whose professions are affiliated with the furniture industry. Because our out-of-Grand Rapids reunions have been slanted toward the design industries, we wanted to offer our fine art graduates an opportunity and a cool place where they could gather. And gather they did! Nearly 50 people attended, split 50/50 between alums and their friends and colleagues, representing illustration, jewelry design, graphic design, industrial design, photography, drawing, painting Read More…

    "If you want to make it in the film industry, get yourself adopted by Michael Douglas or George Lucas,” joked George Bradshaw, Kendall Faculty at Read More…

    I sat in the back row of a room filled with Kendall photography students recently and listened to two young professional photographers give advice, thinking Read More…

  “Some of the images are vulgar; most will offend members of the audience. The presenter did not mean to shock, but to stimulate honest discussion. Many of these Read More…

  Several hundred design professionals and Kendall students gathered recently in the Student Commons to hear a panel discussion organized by Design West Michigan (DWM) Read More…

      If you happened to walk by room 408 on Tuesday night recently, you would have seen eight students hunched over their laptops, laughing Read More…

  Shrea Dooley and Andrea Sherburn, both seniors in the interior design department, are getting a real life, hands on experience at Kendall as participants in the Read More…

When Justin Quinn gave a gallery talk last week about his exhibit at the Kendall Gallery, he easily conversed with the 70 or so students who showed up to hear about his Read More…

After twenty continuous years of dedicated service to Kendall, Art History Program Chair Professor Robert Sheardy retired in May 2010. On Monday November 8, a retirement reception Read More…

On October 22, the opening reception was shoulder-to-shoulder, as 700 guests enjoyed hors d’oeuvres in the shadow of an indoor rock-climbing wall. Sparkling grape juice Read More…