art & antiques Features
Ruth Terry
Thursday, October 01, 2009
This 80-foot-long mural gracing the side of the Grand Rapids Community Foundation headquarters will remain when ArtPrize 2009 ends next week, one of several artworks that have permanently changed the Grand Rapids cityscape. Lasting marks of ArtPrize abound in the city.
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Matthew Gryczan
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Grant Carmichael and his colleagues at ActiveSite think one great way of predicting the future is to have a hand in inventing it, and you can catch of glimpse of coming times next week at the launch of ArtPrize. The competition has encouraged the fusion of art and technology with some stunning results.
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Rick DeVos
Thursday, September 17, 2009
For the next few days, Rick DeVos will post a blog in Rapid Growth that offers what ArtPrize means and how it may change the way art is experienced in Michigan. He's used social media to decentralize control of the event, a gutsy move that has excited some and rankled others. Whichever side you fall on, one thing is certain: This inaugural year represents a huge social experiment.
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Matt Vande Bunte
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Take a step back in time to the 18th century at Guarneri House in Grand Rapids, where master craftsmen construct and repair some of the finest stringed instruments and bows in the world.
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Kelly Quintanilla
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Artists Rick Beerhorst and his wife Brenda try to live life the same way they create art -- strip it to its bare essentials and enjoy it to the fullest. Learn about life in the Family Beerhorst.
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Ruth Terry
Thursday, May 14, 2009
The world of Hugo Claudin consists of luchadores -- Mexican wrestlers
-- captured on canvas in vivid colors, but it also has a more
contemplative side
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Nancy Davis
Thursday, November 29, 2007
The reclaimed D.A. Blodgett Home will serve as the headquarters for a local nonprofit organization. But with plans for regularly rotating exhibits of paintings and pictures, the building will also function like a mini museum. Renowned Canadian artist William Kurelek is the first painter on display.
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Andy Dragt
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Nancy Davis
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Young, inspired and driven, Kelly Allen is a native Grand Rapids artist who strives to imagine alternate dimensions, awaken your inner child, and give you the heebeegeebees
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Liz Klimas
Thursday, October 04, 2007
The experts say Michigan is short on creativity, lacking entrepreneurial fire, and repelling talented people. But Susan Hathaway, owner of Heather Lane Pottery, is living proof otherwise
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