Drawing attention to Grand Rapids' namesake is the goal of a local artist whose metal sculpture will draw eyes to the Grand River during ArtPrize. One of two works using the river as the basis for art, the work will be illuminated for nighttime appeal.
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David Lubbers picked his ArtPrize venue 15 years ago. The unconventional art competition Sept. 23 through Oct. 10 was the excuse he needed to finally get support and permission to place a kinetic sculpture in the Grand River on the old rock piling, located between the Grand Rapids Public Museum and the JW Marriott. Early next week, Lubbers and nine other area businesses that helped create "Grand Dance" will begin to install the 30-by-35-foot steel and aluminum sculpture. About 16 fish-shaped icons attached by ball bearings to steel branches will turn and "school" with the wind. Two softly lit spotlights -- one on top of the museum and the other on a building by the JW Marriott -- will illuminate the pearl-white-painted fish, making them appear as if freely suspended above the river.
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