Among the Beasts explores the many roles that animals have played in artistic expression for millennia. Through diverse media, artists depict animals as subjects of labor and companionship, symbols of the natural world, and figures of imagination that blur the boundaries between reality and myth. Organized into three thematic sections—domesticated, wild, and fantastical—the exhibition traces how cultural values, environmental perspectives, and storytelling traditions shape these representations.
Education for the Arts is proud to partner with the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts for this exhibition.
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This activity is supported in part by an award from the Michigan Arts and Culture Council.
Image: Jacques Hnizdovsky, Tiger Cat (detail), 1978, woodcut. Collection of the Kalamazoo Institute.
Image: Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, Flying Dove (detail), 1952, lithograph. Collection of the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts; Gift of Suzanne U. DeLano Parish in memory of her mother, Mrs. Dorothy Upjohn Dalton.
