Grand Rapids area businesses and organizations have begun dreaming up ways to attract and maximize their opportunities when huge crowds are expected for the second ArtPrize planned for Sept. 22 through Oct. 10 next year.
ArtPrize Director Bill Holsinger-Robinson says he expects the community to become more involved with next year's event, now that businesses see the possibilities created by the art competition. Hosting and sponsoring venues and artists are two ways to maximize on the opportunity, but only imagination is the limit.
According to excerpts from the story:
“Ultimately, underlying the core of ArtPrize is this spirit of, “How do we as a region better enable entrepreneurialism?” It’s something we wholeheartedly believe in,” Holsinger-Robinson said.
ArtPrize organizers have been asked in the past month or so “how much more control you guys are going to take” and “what kind of tighter programming are you guys going to do,” he said. People are “asking us to take more of a command-and-control approach, which is something that we just aren’t going to do.”
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