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Thousands of ArtPrize visitors gather in Rosa Parks Circle in downtown Grand Rapids. ArtPrize was conceived by Rick DeVos as an untraditional art contest with its goals being: any artist in the world could compete; anyone with property in downtown Grand Rapids could turn their space into a venue; and any visitor could vote for their favorite artwork.
ArtPrize celebrated the midpoint of the massive art competition with a party Friday night. HalfTime: ArtPrize announces 100 top vote-getters at midpoint of competition Skip to main content
A 104-pound oil and acrylic painting of Lake Michigan dubbed "Dynamic Sunset" won the public vote grand prize at ArtPrize 2024, earning artist John Katerberg $125,000.
Throughout ArtPrize 2024, the News 8 Live Desk will be giving you a closer look at some of the about 900 pieces being displayed throughout the city and hearing from the artists behind them.
The Festival of the Arts – known locally as simply Festival, typically with the year added (e.g. "Festival 2005") – was a three-day multimedia arts festival, held annually at the La Grande Vitesse sculpture in Grand Rapids, Michigan on the first Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of June. The event was free and open to all.
The Dick and Betsy DeVos Foundation has supported ArtPrize, an art competition in Grand Rapids, since 2009. In 2010 Betsy and Dick DeVos committed $22.5 million to the Kennedy Center Institute of Arts Management, which was thereupon renamed the DeVos Institute of Arts Management at the Kennedy Center. It offers "practical training to arts ...
Anishinaabe artist Jason Quigno installed his 7,000-pound sculpture on Thursday outside Grand Valley State University’s L.V. Eberhard Center as an entry in the bi-annual Artprize competition in ...
Grand Rapids is also home to Art Prize, the largest art exposition in the U.S. Art Prize began in 2009 with the over 200,000 visitors and has since doubled the number of visitors it receives each year. Artprize receives many international visitors each year and is still growing with over 1,500 entries from 48 countries across 200+ venues in 2015.