The ArtPrize 2012 Top 10

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - The Top 10 of ArtPrize 2012 was announced Sunday afternoon at Rosa Parks Circle. Public voting continues on these, with the winner announced Friday night. You can only vote for one piece in the Top 10, but you can change your vote up until when voting ends at 11:59 p.m. Thursday.

Out of more than 1,500 entries, only one will take home a $200,000 prize and the bragging rights -- and it will be one of these.

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Photos: The ArtPrize 2012 Top 10

Photos: Around ArtPrize, Sept. 29, 2012

Complete ArtPrize 2012 photo galleries

Printable map: Juried category finalists (pdf)

Printable map: Locations of Top 10 finalists (pdf)

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Top 10 (Listed in alphabetical order by name of art piece, followed by venue):

• "City Band" by Chris LaPorte - GRAM
• "Elephants" Adonna Khare - GRAM
• "Lights in the Night" by Mike Carpenter and Dan Johnson
• "Life in Wood" by Dan Heffron - The B.O.B.
• "Origami" by Kumi Yamashita - GRAM
• "Rebirth of Spring" by Frits Hoendervanger - Amway Grand Plaza Hotel
• "Return to Eden" by Sandra Bryant - Grand Rapids Public Museum
• "Song of Lift" by Martijn van Wagtendonk - UICA
• "Stick-to-it-ive-ness: Unwavering pertinacity; perseverance" by Richard Morse - Grand River
• "The Chase" by Artistry of Wildlife (Dennis Harris, Paul Thompson, Andrew Harris, Joseph Miles and Jamie Outman) - Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum

The winners of ArtPrize 2012 will be announced in a one-hour special Oct. 5 at 8 p.m. on WOOD TV8.

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The finalists for the juried awards in five categories (2D art, 3D art, time/performance, urban space and outstanding venue) were announced on Monday, Sept. 25, 2012:

2D

• "Disabilities and Sexuality" by Robert Coombs - Fountain Street Church
• "East View 1" by Connor Foy - Pub 43
• "Father's Fathers" by Gudmundur Thoroddsen - SITE: LAB
• "Habitat" by Alois Kronschlaeger - SITE: LAB
• "Identity Process Kings Queens" by Lora Robertson - Fountain Street Church

Time-based

• "Drawing Apparatus" by Robert Howsare - GRAM
• "Mr. Weekend" by Mike Simi - Kendall
• "Public Museum" by Gary Schwartz - SITE: LAB
• "Three Phases" by Complex Movements - SITE: LAB
• "Whole" by Hillerbrand and Magsamen - Kendall

3D

• "Collective Cover Project" by Ann Morton - UICA
• "Habitat" Alois Kronschlaeger - SITE: LAB
• "More or Less" by ABCD 83 - UICA
• "Mr. Weekend" by Mike Simi - Kendall
• "Song of Lift" by Martijn van Wagtendonk - UICA

Urban Space

• "Bell on Wheels" by Chip VanderWier - St. Mark's Episcopal Church
• "Flight" by Dale Roger - Ah-Nab-Awen Park
• "Installation" by Katharine Renee Gaudy - Ottawa-Fulton Parking Ramp
• "10000 Hours La Grande Vitesse" by Laura Isaac - Calder Plaza
• "Stick-to-it-ive-ness: Unwavering pertinacity; perseverance" by Richard Morse - in the Grand River    

Venue    

• Calvin College - (106) Gallery
• [Fashion Has Heart]
• Fountain Street Church
• SiTE:LAB @ 54 Jefferson
• Take Hold Church

In all, $560,000 in total prize money -- $360,000 awarded by public vote, $200,000 awarded by a select group of art experts -- will be awarded.

All ArtPrize entries will remain in place until ArtPrize 2012 ends on Oct. 7.