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No, this isn’t a beauty salon. It is the roof of the Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts and it is what ArtPrize is all about…….. creativity in many forms. Questions. Aha moments. Major Wows. Smiles. Connections. ArtPrize has totally taken over Grand Rapids, the...
ArtPrize has taken over our town and wonderfully so. Grand Rapids is packed with young and old, families, old folks using walkers, groups and singles. The diversity is palpable. For example on Friday I visited the tony Grand Rapids Art Museum, the massive white Modernist box filled with...
It feels like the world is descending on Grand Rapids this week. The media is hyped—we’re getting coverage in prestigious publications like New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Bloggers are blogging and photographers racing around, hoping to be the first to get the really fabulous shot of...
With just two busy weeks to go before the official start of ArtPrize, I simply had to see how Jeff Zimmermann, the Chicago artist who is painting an absolutely huge mural on the side of the Kendall College of Art and Design building, is progressing. Here are a few shots to compare with...
Watching the progress of the giant mural on the side of the Kendall College of Art and Design wall is a special treat. I find myself drawn to the sidewalk across the street, camera in hand to capture the transformation of an urban wall. Enjoy.
I am so geeked about ArtPrize. The first ArtPrize stories are hitting Facebook, MLive.com, TV stations and blog and web pages like Social Diary and I’m sure national publications. What has me immediately excited is the larger than life mural already in the works on the side of the seven-story...
Before I let ArtPrize lay dormant until September 2010 when Grand Rapids buzzes and twitters about hundreds, maybe thousands of works of art installed around the city, I’d like to re visit ArtPrize 2009 to take a look at one of my favorite artists and her submission. Ok, right up front, with...
ArtPrize: I really blew it. Well, just when a major and I mean Major Art World Moment was occurring in Grand Rapids, my home town, I was off with my husband lallygagging around Colorado, Utah and New Mexico. It was all very fun and beautiful but, oh my gosh! Like many people, I was caught...
“After Vermeer, Rachel as a 9th Grader” by Dennis Grantz This ArtPrize entry is a photomosiac created from 8,480 images from student file folders on the network server of the school where Dennis Grantz teaches. In the artist’s statement, he says, “It’s a face...