"It was a good run," said Marty Green, former employee of the General Motors Metal Fabrication plant in Wyoming, Mich. Marty sums up much of the sentiment radiating from "RUST." Namely, that the...
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Posted: 12 years 36 weeks
Tagged: al berry, assembly, Austin Bunn, Economics, Factory, Gary Albrecht, gm, Manufacturing, Marty Green, mechanization, metal fabrication, michigan works!, NAFTA, North American Fair Trade Agreement, plant, Rowe International, Rust
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: artprize, ArtPrize2011, Site Lab, Site:Lab
One of the most interesting things about ArtPrize is the vast range of venues that exhibit entries. Restaurants, schools, local businesses, sometimes completely atypical spaces allow us to...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: art, Avenue for the Arts, Downtown, heartside
After a bout of persistent e-mailing- Jenn Schaub of Dwelling Place has given me the chance to learn some of what it takes to organize the annual arts event...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: Anne Ellegood, ap2011a, art, ArtPrize2011, Kendall College, public, UICA
Let me first clarify by saying that I realize the term public is general and does not directly represent the many who didn’t participate in the ArtPrize hullabaloo. If all...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: #ArtPrize, ap2011a, art, ArtPrize2011, Dying City, Newsweek, top ten
ArtPrize: This event opens many cans of worms for me from the nature of art (and craft) to the value of success. I’m questioning the concept and the nature of the Top Ten. In this...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
By Audrey Schultz, Hope College student
Mother Earth is an installation featuring a collection of felted dresses which has drawn a lot of attention among the works featured at...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: artprize, biking, navigation, running
Too busy or too Type A for a leisurely stroll around ArtPrize? More concerned about working out than spending time with a work of art? With the...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
If the stories of individuals impacted by the closing of the Wyoming General Motors plant were not told with the actual words of those interviewed, Austin Bunn’s play ...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: artprize 2011, God's Kitchen, Joseph Kurnik
By Austin DeJonge, Hope College student
The voice of popular media and resulting anxiety surrounding concerns such as the war on terror, failing economy, and global warming can seem to the...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: Alpha/Omega Monument, art from found materials, art from unconventional materials, ArtPrize2011, Glass Forest, Interactive installations, Jeremy Tubbs “TBA”, John Melvin, Lynda Cole Rain, Nathan Sawaya Yellow, Public Museum of Grand Rapids, Susan Rankin
By Becca Robinett, Hope College student
Waves of people move among the Grand Rapids Public Museum’s ArtPrize exhibits, which expand into the surrounding environment,...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
By Emily Rediger, Hope College student
Artprize offers the unique opportunity experience the communion of city and art. Being a first time attendant of Artprize, I had no set...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: art as catharsis, ArtPrize2011, cancer, Christina Vagenius, First United Methodist Church, Grand Rapids First United Methodist Church, Heart Box Studio, Jennifer Longfellow
By Leah Carroll, Hope College student
One venue in particular that must be experienced is the United Methodist Church located in the basement at 227 East Fulton...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Nineteen days ago some people started something. They marched onto Wall Street. Inspired by the movements created by the Arab Spring, they're not leaving. Not leaving until something changes....
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: ArtPrize2011, Hopcat, How it Ends and Begins, Joe Horton, Sarah Laman, The Laman Family Portrait Project
By Becca Hawkins, Hope College student
Care for some art with your beer? No, it’s not a sarcastic joke about the bar economy during ArtPrize. It’s a legitimate question if...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
By Anna Swartz, Hope College student
Those wanting to experience ArtPrize often overlook art featured in venues that are smaller or not centrally located. One venue very much worth...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
By Alison Zdan, Hope College student
City Art Gallery, a recent addition to the local art scene, is located north of...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: ap2011a, ArtPrize2011
The top ten is out. The majority of the pieces are bad. Now what?
ArtPrize has a problem. If this is the kind of work that gets awarded colossal sums of...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: ArtPrize2011, Duke Greene, Eastown
Duke Greene, Grand Rapids local poet and hip-hop writer, has no formal artistic training. He does say that some of his teachers at Northview High School were the first to push him for...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: 2-D design, artprize, artprize 2011, ArtPrize2011, Understanding art
Processing art becomes the subject of focus for many Grand Rapidians with the arrival of ArtPrize, yet many of us truly do not know how to judge or critique...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: Catalyst Radio, fork fest, local food
Don't have time to listen? Download the MP3 and tune in...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: Global Justice, nonprofit, poverty alleviatation
Grand Rapids, MI is one of the locations selected to premiere 58: The Film, a documentary that invites audiences to discover the...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: Adam Devers, Deppe, farm, farm to table, food, Francesca Beckwith, fresh, Jana Deppe, Lubbers, Lubbers Family Farm, restaurant, Rockwells, Rockwells Republic, Slow Food, Steve Beckwith, Tilling to Table
What if you could have a full meal made from the freshest local food possible? Imagine if you knew that everything on your plate was fresh picked, freshly slaughtered and cooked in front of you....
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: Aquinas College, Gary Eberle, Grand Rapids Historical Society, haunted places, Holmdene Hall
With Halloween fast approaching, what better time to spend an evening learning about spooky haunted places in Grand Rapids -- or at least the stories that helped earn them that reputation? ...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: ap2011b, ArtPrize2011, Bomarito, Mosaic, Tavonatti, Van Duinen
by Kelsey Fegan, Hope College student
Historically, mosaic was a medium regarded as equal to fresco or oil painting. Highly durable, mosaic was used as decoration on the floors or...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: art, artprize, ArtPrize2011, criteria, critics, curate, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Meijer Sculpture Gardens, UICA, voting
Today is the last day to cast wide your votes. Until today I was a staunch non-voter for several reasons. I believe that art is intrinsically awarding on its own, both for the maker and the viewer...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: ArtPrize2011, contemporary art, Hope College, Shelly Arnold
by Shelly Arnold, Hope College student
Exaggerated colors virtually explode from the canvases of artist Susan Gersch-Supanich’s Venetian Waters collection. Certain observers...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
At a panel discussion last Friday at GVSU, ArtPrize...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Fulton Street Farmer's Market was the backdrop for the local kickoff of a Day of Action for the Fair Farm Bill Campaign.
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Your feet, fun shoes, pink paint, road dirt and white t-shirts are helping create an interactive ArtPrize 2011 entry for Assocreation. The finished t-shirts, Annamarie and Assocreation...
Posted: 12 years 37 weeks
Tagged: art, ArtPrize2011, colorinc, kitsch, picturesque
Thanks to the generous support of Colorinc Prolab, we are able to continue our Picturesque series throughout the year. For the fall Picturesque, we...