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Juror Susan Szenasy looking for surprises

Submitted 09-18-2012 under NEWS

One of my personal highlights of ArtPrize are the juried awards.  Listening to the jurors respond to the artwork they see and ArtPrize as an event and competition widens my own perspective and perceptions in viewing the art on display. This...

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How I Learned to Look at Art: An interview with Adam Lerner

Submitted 09-18-2012 under NEWS

  This past Saturday afternoon, ArtPrize hosted Adam Lerner, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, at the HUB to discuss How [he] Learned to Look at Art.  Initially creeped out by the barrage of greetings from HUB...

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Catalyst Radio: Feeding America hitting the trail to raise 1m meals

Submitted 09-17-2012 under NEWS

Don't have time to listen now? Download the mp3 and listen at your leisure.   INTERVIEW Feeding America West Michigan Food Bank reports that it distributes 20 million meals a year to the nearly 400,000 people who are ‘food...

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Foremost museum director to lead conversation about art fitness

Submitted 09-14-2012 under NEWS

Adam Lerner, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, says he wants to capture the spirit of art-and that this may even be more important, in his view, than the art itself. "Lerner teaches us that if we can understand how contemporary...

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Grand Raggidy Roller Girls gear up for fall season

Submitted 09-14-2012 under NEWS

The Grand Raggidy Roller Girls is a roller derby league based in Grandville. The league consists of three teams: The Grand Raggidy All Stars, the WFTDA ranked competition level team; The G-Rap Attack!, the mid-level team; and The Rapid Assault, made...

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Dreams and Wings touches down, soars in Grand Rapids

Submitted 09-13-2012 under NEWS

Jack Lewis had always been adventurous. As a teen growing up on a farm, he rode horses bareback. As a young man, he drove race cars.  Then the accident happened. In 1981 Lewis, then 37, was working under his jacked-up pickup truck. The truck...

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Jay Starkey: Servicing the community one pair of shoes, one donation at a time

Submitted 09-13-2012 under NEWS

Jay Starkey reaches out to the community one donation and one pair of shoes at a time. Starkey is executive director of In the Image, a non-profit organization on Grand Rapids southwest side. In the Image is a faith-based non-profit that turns...

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Politics beat seeks passionate individuals to join the conversation

Submitted 09-11-2012 under NEWS

The political season is once again upon us. In Grand Rapids alone there are plenty of important events to attend and candidates to meet. Many of us may have grown tired of hearing about politics and the never-ending debates, but that doesn’t...

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ArtPrize and The Rapid partner to offer cost-effective transportation

Submitted 09-10-2012 under NEWS

ArtPrize and The Rapid will be joining forces to again offer ArtPrize-goers an alternative to parking downtown for the event. For five dollars, you can purchase two wristbands that permit two riders on any of the shuttles that run from seven area...

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Catalyst Radio: DDA's Kris Larson enthused about Grand Rapids' future

Submitted 09-07-2012 under NEWS

Don't have time to listen now? Download the mp3 and listen at your leisure.   INTERVIEW In this edition of Catalyst Radio, we speak with Kristopher Larson, the new executive director of the Downtown Development Authority (DDA). The DDA...

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