Issue 02

Belinda Tate’s passion for art led to finding home in Southwest Michigan.  Belinda Tate Executive Director Kalamazoo Institute of Arts 314 South Park Street Kalamazoo, MI 49007 www.kiarts.org Where did you move from? Winston-Salem, North Carolina. I was Director of The Diggs Gallery of Winston-Salem State University. Before that I was a corporate banker for […]

John Korycki may be Director for Culinary Education at Kalamazoo Valley, but his love for food and cooking goes all over the place. John Korycki Director for Culinary Education, Kalamazoo Valley Community College, June 2015—present Executive Chef, Greenleaf Hospitality Group, August 2004—April 2015 Founding Chef, Zazios Kendall College, Associate of Arts and Sciences, Culinary Arts, […]

It’s All About the Handmade Art COMPANY Journeyman Distillery LOCATION 109 Generations Drive, Three Oaks, MI 49128 COUNTY Berrien YEAR FOUNDED 2011 WHAT THEY MAKE Journeyman Distillery creates spirits the artisanal way, crafting organic-certified and locally-sourced whiskey, gin, vodka, rum, and more in a 19th-century building that once housed a corset and buggy whip factory. […]