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Local Artist Highlight: An Introduction to Cocoon Art Space at 327 Division Avenue South

by (Avenueforthearts)

Submitted 08-11-2023 under NONPROFITS

  In recent years, South Division has overseen the revival of one vintage Grand Rapids storefront after another, capitalizing on the inherent beauty of its historic buildings. Anchoring one end of this spectacular row, Cocoon Art Space makes...

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Grand Rapids Art Museum Presents Message from Our Planet: Digital Art from the Thoma Collection

by (Grand Rapids Ar...)

Submitted 05-24-2023 under NONPROFITS

Twenty-three software, video, and light-based works of art will be on view this summer at the Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) in Message from Our Planet: Digital Art from the Thoma Foundation. On view June 17 through September 9, 2023, the...

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Grand Rapids Art Museum Welcomes Cindy Meyers Foley as New Director and CEO

by (Grand Rapids Ar...)

Submitted 03-27-2023 under NONPROFITS

The Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) Board of Trustees recently announced the appointment of Cindy Meyers Foley as its next Director and CEO. Foley comes to GRAM after a 17-year tenure at the Columbus Museum of Art, where she most recently served...

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Powerful Art: Creating and Impacting Social Change

by (cicadmin)

Submitted 02-01-2023 under NONPROFITS

Thursday, February 9, 7-8:30 p.m. EST Art can inspire; it can also challenge our assumptions. Explore the history and the power of how the performing arts have created opportunities for social change. Presented by Edye Evans Hyde is the...

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Wealthy Theatre and UICA Announce Return of Open Projector Night

by (wealthytheatre)

Submitted 09-20-2022 under LOCAL LIFE

In 2012, the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA) introduced the first Open Projector Night - a seasonal event that provided both local and regional filmmakers with the chance to share their art with the community. Then, eight years later,...

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The Grand Rapids Art Museum Celebrates the Creative Vision of Jim Henson in The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited

by (Grand Rapids Ar...)

Submitted 09-15-2022 under NONPROFITS

The Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) recently announced the opening of The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited, with presenting support from PNC Bank. Organized by the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), the traveling exhibition...

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Ebony Road Players Perform SHEEPDOG by Kevin Artigue at the Grand Rapids Art Museum

by (Grand Rapids Ar...)

Submitted 06-08-2022 under NONPROFITS

Ebony Road Players will perform Sheepdog (Kevin Artigue) at the Grand Rapids Art Museum on June 16, 17, and 18, 2022. Each performance will be followed up with a community dialogue around race, policing and mental health. This performance...

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GRAM Announces First Major American Impressionism Exhibition in over a Decade

by (Grand Rapids Ar...)

Submitted 05-26-2022 under NONPROFITS

The Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) recently announced the opening of In A New Light: American Impressionism 1870 – 1940 | Works from the Bank of America Collection, on view at the Museum from June 11 through August 27, 2022...

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The Return of Absurdism

by (emilybeeman00)

Submitted 05-20-2022 under OPINION

I’m writing this on the toilet. Maybe you’re reading this somewhere like that, too. Maybe we’re connected somehow by our Catholic-imbued terror of an idle mind.  Absurdism characterizes our time. I don’t just mean 2022,...

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GRAM Presents An Extraordinary Legacy: The Miner S. and Mary Ann Keeler Collection

by (Grand Rapids Ar...)

Submitted 05-12-2022 under NONPROFITS

The Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) recently announced the opening of An Extraordinary Legacy: The Miner S. and Mary Ann Keeler Collection, an exhibition of 65 works of modern and contemporary art at GRAM. Opening May 17 and on view through...

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