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ArtPrize 10 brings more art, local student work to Grand Rapids Downtown Market
by (Downtown Market GR)
Submitted 09-18-2018 under NONPROFITS
With ArtPrize 10 beginning this week, there are hundreds of great venues across the city to take in amazing public art installations. This year, visitors to the Downtown Market can not only see more art than ever before, with eleven large-scale...
UICA Outside draws together diverse artists to create permanent artworks energizing, accessible to all
by (KCAD)
Submitted 09-18-2018 under NONPROFITS
The Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA) 2018 ArtPrize exhibition is an expansion of their current public art initiative, the Exit Space Project. Featuring five mural projects in three Grand Rapids neighborhoods, UICA Outside draws together...
SORT stations help WMEAC, ArtPrize divert waste from landfill
by (Kiran Sood Patel)
Submitted 09-11-2018 under PLACE-MATTERS
When ArtPrize 10 begins on September 19, 2018, thousands of visitors and art lovers will descend upon downtown Grand Rapids. These visitors and onlookers will buy food, snacks and beverages to help satisfy their hunger and quench their thirst as...
ArtPrize 10: An appreciation from a non-artist perspective
by (Beth Fisher)
Submitted 09-04-2018 under PLACE-MATTERS
I moved to Grand Rapids a little less than two years ago from Fort Wayne, Indiana. After living and raising my daughter there for eighteen years, it goes without saying that it holds many memories and a special affinity for me. The second largest...
Meijer Gardens' fall exhibition celebrates contemporary disability sculpture
by (Meijer Gardens)
Submitted 08-20-2018 under NONPROFITS
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is honored to host 16 contemporary sculptors in an innovative exhibition jointly organized by DisArt, a Grand Rapids based arts and cultural organization promoting the full participation of Disabled...
ArtPrize leadership looks ahead, plots course for the future
by (Kiran Sood Patel)
Submitted 07-10-2018 under PLACE-MATTERS
In June, ArtPrize announced some major changes ahead as the art festival approaches its tenth anniversary this year. Beginning this year, ArtPrize will be held biennially, meaning the next competition will take place in Fall 2020. In Fall 2019, a...
ArtPrize announces changes as tenth anniversary approaches this fall
by (Kiran Sood Patel)
Submitted 06-21-2018 under NEWS
ArtPrize announced this afternoon the celebration will switch to every other year after ArtPrize 10 takes place this fall. At a press conference at Belknap Park, ArtPrize officials announced a new art project called "Project 1 by ArtPrize...
Is ArtPrize hurting our homeless population?
by (courtneymburrows)
Submitted 10-05-2017 under OPINION
As ArtPrize 9 is underway the streets of Grand Rapids flood with thousands of art-lovers pushed into every over-pass, under-pass, crevice and walkway in hopes of viewing art that will inspire and entertain. To the average Grand Rapidian or tourist...
Community responds to 'Why These Finalists? Part 2'
by (The Rapidian)
Submitted 10-05-2017 under NEWS
Art critics discussed 'Why These Finalists? Part 2' at the ArtPrize Studio at the ArtPrize Hub Tuesday night, October 3, 2017 on 41 Sheldon Boulevard SE in front of a live audience. The Rapidian and GRTV interviewed a variety of audience...
Community responds to 'Why These Finalists? Part 2': Kulapat Yantrasast
by (The Rapidian)
Submitted 10-05-2017 under NONPROFITS
Art critics discussed 'Why These Finalists? Part 2' at the ArtPrize Studio at the ArtPrize Hub Tuesday night, October 3, 2017 on 41 Sheldon Boulevard SE in front of a live audience. The Rapidian and GRTV interviewed a variety of audience...