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Impart: Brooklyn artist Mark Reigelman argues art should trigger sensory experience

Submitted 09-20-2013 under NEWS

As part of the Impart Series, Mark Reigelman answers a few important questions about art. His installation piece is an ArtPrize entry at Kendall College of Art and Design.

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Impart: Artist Gil Lelazhe Jariq asserts "art heals"

Submitted 09-20-2013 under NEWS

Local abstract painter Gil Lelazhe Jariq answers a few important questions about art.

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Grand Rapids, it's time to send the circus packing

Submitted 09-20-2013 under OPINION

Elephants, lions and tigers are calling the Van Andel Arena parking lot home this week. But circuses are wrong, and it's time for the City of Grand Rapids and its leaders to look at model ordinances, and enact a ban on this horrific practice.

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How to Look at Art, Part 4

Submitted 09-19-2013 under OPINION

This is the last in a four part series on how to look at art, using the DRIO process: Description, Relationships, Interpretation and Opinion. I discuss the "opinion" step in today's article.

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Interview with Manon Slome, ArtPrize 2013 Grand Prize Juror

Submitted 09-19-2013 under NONPROFITS

This series of interviews is serving as a prelude to a panel discussion that will feature the three Grand Prize jurors, titled "Can Art Save Cities?" The free event will take place at 7:00 pm on Thursday, September 26 at Ladies Literary Club.

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Poetry and sculpture collaboration installed for ArtPrize

Submitted 09-18-2013 under NEWS

Artist Sara Weimer has collaborated with GVSU professor Patricia Clark's poetry class and artist Sarah Koupal for ArtPrize.

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How to Look at Art, Part 3

Submitted 09-18-2013 under OPINION

This is the third in a four part series on how to look at art, using the DRIO process: Description, Relationships, Interpretation and Opinion. I discuss the "interpretation" step in today's article.

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Interview with Mel Chin, ArtPrize 2013 Grand Prize Juror

Submitted 09-18-2013 under NONPROFITS

Kevin Buist, ArtPrize Exhibitions Director, talks to Mel Chin, one of three grand jurors this year and a conceptual artist and activist since the 1970's.

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Thomas MacEntee, Genealogy Ninja featured at West Michigan Genealogy Seminar

Submitted 09-18-2013 under NONPROFITS

Each year the Western Michigan Genealogical Society sponsors a seminar in the fall. On October 11 and 12, we welcome from Chicago, Thomas MacEntee, the Genealogy Ninja to the Prince Conference Center.

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Tell your story in the story fort

Submitted 09-17-2013 under NONPROFITS

You'll find The Rapidian setting up a story fort to collect your story during ArtPrize at a variety of times and places for their Story Matters project.

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