Exhibition: Farmscapes to Forests, Celebrating the 2025 KBS Artists-in-Residence

Date/Time
Date(s) - 07.17.2026
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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Location
W.K. Kellogg Biological Station

Categories

• Kellogg Biological Station
• Bird Sanctuary

What to expect:

Please join us Friday, July 17th, from 4-7 P.M. for the first-ever group public exhibition, bringing together three MSU College of Arts & Letters faculty artists who served as 2025 Artists-in-Residence with the Kellogg Biological Station’s Long-term Ecological Research program.

This evening event will explore the intersection of art and science and will feature new work by the artists.

Meet the artists:

• Blaire Morseau is an Assistant Professor and 1855 Professor of Great Lakes Anishinaabe Knowledge, Spiritualities, and Cultural Practices in MSU’s Department of Religious Studies and an affiliate faculty in American Indian and Indigenous Studies. A citizen of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Morseau is a beadwork artist.
• Liv Furman is an Assistant Professor in MSU’s Department of African American and African Studies and an Assistant Project Director of the Quilt Index’s Black Diaspora Quilt History Project at MSU. Furman’s primary mediums include multimedia and digital collage, ceramics, quilting, and the written and spoken word.
• Mikayla Thompson is a poet with Cherokee Nation descent who graduated from MSU in December 2023 with a B.A. in Linguistics and a minor in Indigenous Studies from Michigan State University. She is a Professional Aide for the American Indian and Indigenous Studies program and the Beal Botanical Garden.

The event will be held in the beautiful Overlook Gallery at the Kellogg Bird Sanctuary. Enjoy refreshments, mingling, and an opportunity to meet with local artists and scientists, including our featured artists-in-residence. This free event is open to the public, and includes admission to the Kellogg Bird Sanctuary.

Event information:

• Time and date: 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday July 17
• Location:  Bird Sanctuary **THIS EVENT HAS BEEN MOVED TO A FULLY INDOOR VENUE DUE TO POOR OUTDOOR AIR QUALITY.  THE NEW LOCATION FOR THIS EVENT IS THE AUDITORIUM IN THE KBS ACADEMIC BUILDING, A FULLY INDOOR VENUE- 3700 E. Gull Lake Dr., Hickory Corners****

 New Location- Parking map and route into building:
  Follow the event signs towards the main Academic Building.
  Enter through the main doors into the Atrium, and Auditorium is on your right .
  (see Building 1 and black dashed line on map)

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• Audience: KBS community and General Public
• Cost: Free
• Registration: Register by July 16, 2026.

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This KBS LTER event is organized by Liz Schultheis and hosted by the Kellogg Bird Sanctuary.

Questions? Please call (269) 671-2510 or email birdsanctuary@kbs.msu.edu.