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Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: economic development, economy, Local First, shop local, Shopping, small business
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: artprize 2011, Grand Rapids Public Schools
Students and teachers from the Grand Rapids Public School's Kent Vocational Options and Community Based Occupational Training program (KVO & CBOT), First Place 1 Classroom found a...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
A headline in the Sunday, Oct. 9 Grand Rapids Press, published hours after...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: Burton Elementary, GRPS, Hispanic Heritage Month
On Thursday, October 6, Zulema Moret, Ph.D, came to Burton Elementary to read a story to a classroom of 2nd grade students. Her visit marks one of the first in a series in which GRPS is...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: artprize, Grand Rapids Urban Adventure, Michigan, races, running
Saturday, October 8 was a perfect day for running and biking, cool and crisp with the promise of sun. My partner Laura Caprara and I were ready for...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: artprize, GAAH Press Club, GRCYC, The Inbetween, Women's City Club, Zach Mory
On Sunday, October 1, The GAAH Press Club visited ArtPrize and each wrote a review of a work of art that they found particularly interesting. The following is Kathy's review...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: artprize, Cook Arts Center, GAAH Press Club, GRCYC, Leticia M., Metaphorest, Tracy Van Duinen
On Sunday, October 1, The GAAH Press Club visited ArtPrize and each wrote a review of a work of art that they found particularly interesting. The following is Leticia M's review...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: Alex Hoekstra, Diana Barrett, east side, fashion, Fred Quillin, Grand Rapids History Commission, Grand Rapids Shirt Company, Jen Lee Reeves, Kickstarter, local history, ownership, PRIDE, West Side
All summer, Fred Quillin has been working on a campaign. He shut off his social life to focus completely on...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: Calder Plaza, Occupy Grand Rapids, protest, Scott Warren
Local artist and activist Scott Warren released video of...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: Calder Plaza, Grand Rapids, Occupy Grand Rapids, Scott Warren
Video of 10-08-2011 Occupy Grand Rapids general assembly reading of the NYC statement. According to...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: Occupy Grand Rapids, OccupyGR
Occupy Wall Street is in its third week in New York City, with sister movements popping up in solidarity all over the country, including right here in Grand Rapids. In this past week,...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: Occupy Grand Rapids, Occupy Wall Street
The Occupy Wall Street demonstrations have been going on for about three weeks now. Many other Occupy [Insert City Here] demonstrations have spread all over...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: Charlie Balogh, concert, Gina Bivins, organ, Pink Panther, pipes, public museum, series, Star Wars, Wurlitzer
Don't have time to listen right now? Download the episode and...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
On the Eve of Protest; An Open Letter to the City of Grand Rapids:
In regards to the upcoming ...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Inspired by the unexpected live latin jazz filling the Commerce Ave corridor between Fulton and Wealthy, this is an impromptu video-interview with the president of the Hispanic Latino...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: Adam Eckstrom, artprize, GAAH Press Club, Ghost of a Dream, GRCYC, Lauren Was, Omar V., UICA
On Sunday, October 1, The GAAH Press Club visited ArtPrize and each wrote a review of a work of art that they found particularly interesting. The following is Omar's review of an...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: ArtPrize2011
Richard Roane wasn’t an artist when he decided he wanted to somehow participate in ArtPrize; he was a lawyer with a love of art. But after a year of working on his entry, “I think I am...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: categories, taxonomy, The Rapidian
It’s been over two weeks since The Rapidian relaunched, high time we start talking about what we did and why we did it. This is the first part in a brief series of recaps detailing...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Wondering how to buy food locally, but not sure where to start? Look no further than Nourish Organic Market. Located at 634 Wealthy St SE, Nourish sells...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: ap2011b, ArtPrize2011, collaboration, EECO, erwin erkfitz, Grand Rapids, Jeff Vandenberg, mural, Pyramid Scheme
It would be hard to miss the brightly colored mural "Schematic in Two Parts" on the corner of Commerce and Oakes street, located alongside The...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: art as therapy, Downtown, gallery, heartside, self-taught art
This article was written in collaboration with the artist.
Our featured artist for October is Alyssa.
Here's a little bit...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: ArtPrize2011, jewelry, metal arts, metalsmithing
“An artist should be able to create with any material they are given,” states Christine Dexter, local jewelry artist and mother of three young children. Dexter currently enjoys ...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: ArtPrize2011, Evelyn A. Sagbay, Kathy Christensen, Kellyanne Wank, Melania Plasko, Tara Ellis, upcycling
by Melodee Jackson, Hope College student
Goodwill Avant Garde is an exhibit of dresses featured in the vitrines of the Goodwill Store on Division Avenue. Seen from the sidewalk...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: Charles Garfield, Charles Zublin, Glance at the Past, Grand Rapids, Historical Commission, history; parks, playground association, playgrounds, WYCE
'Glance at the Past' shares the story of the Playground Association of Grand Rapids.
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: blight, charlie ransford, community development, elizabeth ransford-hoffman, house by house, housing, Michael Tuffelmire, Ryan VanderMeer, urban planning, warren
Thriving blocks make an attractive neighborhood. Thus far, House by House has primarily covered, well... individual homes. We’re expanding...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: Good Morning Revolution, OccupyGrandRapids, OccupyMichigan, OccupyWallSt, OccupyWallStreet, zine
23 days ago, some people started something. They marched on Wall Street. Inspired by the tactics used by the Arab Spring protesters (a leaderless, decentralized occupation of a public space), they...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: artprize, ArtPrize2011, Sunti Pichetchaiyakul, top ten
Sunti Pichetchaiyakul answers The Rapidian's five artist questions about his piece, President Gerald Ford Visits ArtPrize:
1. How did you come up...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: ap2012info, artprize, ArtPrize2011, ArtPrize2012, Mia Tavonatti, top ten
Mia Tavonatti answers The Rapidian's five artist questions about her piece, Crucifixion:
1. How did you come up with the idea for this piece?
2. How did you make...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: artprize 2011, Llew (Doc) TIlma, top ten
Llew (Doc) Tilma answers The Rapidian's five artist questions about his piece, Grizzlies on the Ford:
1. How did you come up with the idea for this piece?...
Posted: 12 years 38 weeks
Tagged: artprize, ArtPrize2011, Paul Baliker, top ten
Paul Baliker answers The Rapidian's five artist questions about his piece, Ocean Exodus:
1. How did you come up with the idea for this piece...