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Open letter to our leaders: time to prohibit use of wild animals in entertainment
by (Matthew C. Halteman)
Submitted 09-19-2014 under OPINION
I recently sent the following letter to the Mayor and our City Commissioners as part of the End Circus Cruelty campaign, in which a significant and rapidly growing number of concerned Grand Rapidians are asking the city to pass an ordinance that...
Grand Rapids, it's time to send the circus packing
by (jon_dunn)
Submitted 09-20-2013 under OPINION
As the city celebrates everything that is great about West Michigan during ArtPrize, a traveling sideshow of cruelty overshadows the festivities. Elephants, lions and tigers are calling the Van Andel Arena parking lot home this week. Before...
Art Beat visits current GRAM exhibitions
by (laurelgreen)
Submitted 10-26-2012 under OPINION
Last Friday night The Rapidian Art Beat met up at the GRAM to view the “Real/Surreal” show, the Salvador Dali exhibit and “Elephants,” this year’s winning ArtPrize entry. We arrived and began wandering throughout the...
Elephants takes home top public vote, Displacement the juried grand prize
by (laurelgreen)
Submitted 10-06-2012 under NEWS
On the old loading dock of the Grand Rapids Press, transformed for the occasion, winners for this year’s ArtPrize competition were awarded well over half of a million dollars in various public and juried awards. The event culminated in the...