Submitted 10-04-2011 under LOCAL LIFE
Dixie Olin shares the importance of art to the individual, the community, and society as a whole.
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Steve Samson, UICA Director of Exhibitions and Facilities, offers suggestions to the novice on how to appreciate and evaluate contemporary art.
Submitted 10-04-2011 under OPINION
Video interviews with Gary Albrecht formerly of Rowe International, Marty Green of GM and Al Berry of Michigan Works! following the first performance of "RUST" by Austin Bunn.
Artist Leigh Ann Cobb shares her experience with SiTE:LAB, her appreciation for art, and her love for Grand Rapids.
Submitted 10-03-2011 under NONPROFITS
The people that attend the 'Free Radical 2011' will be the people that sincerely care what the future of the arts is not only in Heartside, but the whole of Grand Rapids. They were here before Artprize overshadowed them, and they’ll be here after its annual furor has gone into hibernation.
Submitted 10-03-2011 under OPINION
Our choices for this year's ArtPrize winners reveal some of our culture's problematic preferences.
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.
