Don Kimes

Don Kimes, right, speaks with Mike Sullivan at the reception honoring the retirement of Kimes as VACI Artistic Director and

One week after Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution Artistic Director Don Kimes dropped out of graduate school and moved to

Looking ahead to the 2018 season, Don Kimes plans to bring the artwork of one of his favorite teachers to

As Don Kimes, artistic director for the Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution, recalls, the request was for something “interesting.” John

Unlike art exhibitions organized around a predetermined theme, the defining characteristic of the VACI Open Members Exhibition is simply that

For artists, an exhibition is equivalent to an orchestra performing on the stage, said Don Kimes, artistic director of the

Art lovers interested in the process of organizing an exhibition can satisfy their curiosity at Tuesday’s Visual Arts at Chautauqua

All four art exhibits opening at Chautauqua Institution this Sunday are unique, but only one can claim to be the

What do Pompeii, jazz, the Information Age and art have in common? Interruption. And this interruption inspires the kind of creativity seen in some of the most ambitious and successful pieces of art, said Don Kimes, the artistic director of Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution.