One of the great things I love about Grand Rapids is ArtPrize. I don't remember writing about it last year but it's absolutely amazing. Over 1,000 artists exhibit their pieces all across the downtown area. In fact, an adjunct art professor at Aquinas where I work ended up winning the entire contest for his 300 square foot pencil drawing of a calvary unit from WWI. So cool to see our downtown bustling with folks and that art is the reason for all of it.
Plus it provides a perfect opportunity for us to take Megan downtown and wander through all the pieces. There are lots for her to play with and touch, and several we have to tackle her from touching, but that was to be expected. The picture at the top with Megan next to the lioness was part of a family of lions all made by welding steel nails together. And below is a piece next to the Children's Museum that featured iron elephants whose heads bobbed up and down. The picture captures Megan's delight in getting to move the head up and down.
I promise not all the art was made from iron. There were more traditional forms as well as several extreme pieces (think ice sculptures, oversized greeting cards, human blood as a medium, etc.) But another cool piece that we weren't able to see was a gigantic penny ... made from thousands of actual pennies.
Not much else to say except ArtPrize is awesome and one of the cool things about the city. Plus to expose Megan to a whole bunch of cool artwork.
1 comment:
This is awesome....why didn't we get to go play there? You know how much I love elephants!!
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