Submitted 10-03-2011 under OPINION
Our choices for this year's ArtPrize winners reveal some of our culture's problematic preferences.
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Art and Dying Cities: two issues Grand Rapids has recently tackled, between the Top Ten lists of ArtPrize and Newsweek. In this article, I ask the question: How do Top Ten lists come to be and what are they really saying?
Submitted 10-02-2011 under NONPROFITS
Kendall College ArtPrize exhibit features felt gowns employing earth motifs and innovative approaches to conventional techniques.
Submitted 10-02-2011 under LOCAL LIFE
There is still time to enter and be part of the Grand Rapids Urban Adventure Race. The adventure challenge is open to more than just jocks and marathoners: "If you can read a map, you can do the race."
Submitted 10-02-2011 under OPINION
Actors' Theatre presents the premiere of local playwright Austin Bunn's RUST, a play chronicling the impact of General Motor's closing of the Wyoming, Michigan stamping plant in 2008.
Submitted 10-01-2011 under NONPROFITS
Joseph Kurnik's 2011 ArtPrize entry, Maybe the Sky is Falling, is exhibited at God's Kitchen and employs a deft use of design to create an ironic statement about the media's ability to elicit feelings of helplessness and paranoia from the public .
The Grand Rapids Public Museum displays a multitude of ArtPrize artist among its permanent collections in a manner that highlights and enhances the experience of both.
Curatorial issues aside, the venue at Monroe Community Church is a successful example of what is arguably the most relevant aspect of Artprize: the bringing together of community and art.
The setting at United Methodist is lovely, and the works of Christina Vagenius and Jennifer Longfellow are compelling.
Good Morning Revolution is putting the support of its little zine behind the efforts of Occupy Grand Rapids.
