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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) – With more than 1,300 entries and just 19 days of ArtPrize Nine, it’s nearly impossible to see all that this year’s competition has to offer.
That’s why ArtPrize and WOOD TV8 turned to a panel of experienced art critics for their top picks. The jurors for the following categories include:
- Installation: Anila Quayyum Agha, associate professor of drawing at Herron School of Art in Indianapolis
- Time-Based: Scott Stulen, director and president of the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Okla.
- Outstanding Venue: Larry Ossei-Mensah, independent curator in New York and Co-Founder of ARTNOIR
- Three-Dimensional: Rachel Adams, senior curator of exhibitions for the University at Buffalo Art Galleries
- Two-Dimensional: Miranda Lash, curator of contemporary art at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville
>>PDF MAP: ArtPrize Juried Awards Shortlist entries
Category: Installation
Canceled Edition by Pippen Frisbie Calder
Location: Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA), 2 Fulton St. West
Display hours: Monday & Tuesday: 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Wednesday & Thursday: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Friday & Saturday: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Sunday: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Enmesh by Leroi DeRubertis
Location: Grand Rapids Art Museum, 101 Monroe Center
Display hours: Monday – Saturday: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Sunday: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Two-way Protocols by Zane Miller
Location: The Fed Galleries @ KCAD, Kendall College of Art and Design, 17 Pearl St. NW
Display hours: Monday: 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Tuesday – Thursday: 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Friday & Saturday: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Sunday: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Society of 23’s Locker Dressing Room by Jeffrey Augustine Songco
Location:The city water building by the Richard App Gallery, 1101 Monroe Ave. NW
Display hours: Monday – Wednesday: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Thursday – Saturday: 12 p.m. – 9 p.m.; Sunday: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Bushcraft… Radical Stimulus by Jessica Wildman
Location: Grand Rapids Art Museum, 101 Monroe Center
Display hours: Monday – Saturday: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Sunday: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Category: Time-Based
Go-Rilla Means War by Crystal Z Campbell
Location: Cultura Collective at Rumsey Street, 333 Rumsey St. SW
Display hours: Monday – Thursday: 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Friday & Saturday: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Sunday: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Red Dirt Rug Monument by Rena Detrixhe
Location: Western Michigan University – Grand Rapids, 200 Ionia Ave. SW
Display hours: Monday – Thursday: 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Friday & Saturday: 12 p.m. – 5 p.m.; Sunday: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
The Heartside Community Meal by Seitu Jones
Location: Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA), 2 Fulton St. West
Display hours: Monday & Tuesday: 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Wednesday & Thursday: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Friday & Saturday: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Sunday: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Remission by Paul Kaiser and John Charter
Location:The city water building by the Richard App Gallery, 1101 Monroe Ave. NW
Display hours: Monday – Wednesday: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Thursday – Saturday: 12 p.m. – 9 p.m.; Sunday: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Searching by Le’Andra LeSeur
Location: The Fed Galleries @ KCAD, Kendall College of Art and Design, 17 Pearl St. NW
Display hours: Monday: 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Tuesday – Thursday: 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Friday & Saturday: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Sunday: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Category: Outstanding Venue
Monroe Community Church
There are 13 entries at this venue for ArtPrize Nine.
Location: 800 Monroe NW
Display hours: Monday – Thursday: 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Friday: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Saturday: 9 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Sunday: 12 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts
There are seven entries at this venue for ArtPrize Nine.
Location: 2 Fulton St. West
Display hours: Monday & Tuesday: 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Wednesday & Thursday: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Friday & Saturday: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Sunday: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Western Michigan University – Grand Rapids
There are 19 entries at this venue for ArtPrize Nine.
Location: 200 Ionia Ave. SW
Display hours: Monday – Thursday: 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Friday & Saturday: 12 p.m. – 5 p.m.; Sunday: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
The Fed Galleries @ KCAD, Kendall College of Art and Design
There are six entries at this venue for ArtPrize Nine.
Location: 17 Pearl St. NW
Display hours: Monday: 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Tuesday – Thursday: 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Friday & Saturday: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Sunday: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Cultura Collective at Rumsey Street
There are six entries at this venue for ArtPrize Nine.
Location: 333 Rumsey St. SW
Display hours: Monday – Thursday: 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Friday & Saturday: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Sunday: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Category: Three-Dimensional
Recovery of Icarus by Rolf Jacobsen
Location: Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, 1000 E. Beltline Ave. NE
Display hours: Monday, Wednesday-Saturday: 9 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Tuesday: 9 a.m. – 9 p.m.; Sunday: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Frontiers by Benjamin Jones
Location:The city water building by the Richard App Gallery, 1101 Monroe Ave. NW
Display hours: Monday – Wednesday: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Thursday – Saturday: 12 p.m. – 9 p.m.; Sunday: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Flint by Ti-Rock Moore
Location: Fountain Street Church, 24 Fountain St. NE
Display hours: Monday – Saturday: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Sunday: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Bloodline by Holly Wilson
Location: Monroe Community Church, 800 Monroe NW
Display hours: Monday – Thursday: 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Friday: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Saturday: 9 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Sunday: 12 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Laborer by Mike Wsol
Location: Grand Rapids Public Museum, 272 Pearl St. NW
Display hours: Monday – Saturday: 9 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Sunday: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Category: Two-Dimensional
“Sofia Draws Every Day: Years 2, 3 and 4” by Sofia Ramírez Hernández
Location: Cultura Collective at Rumsey Street, 333 Rumsey St. SW
Display hours: Monday – Thursday: 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Friday & Saturday: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Sunday: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
“HERO [series]” by Michael Hyacinthe
Location: [HAS HEART] at Veterans Memorial Park, 22 Sheldon NE
Display hours: Monday – Thursday: 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Friday & Saturday: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Sunday: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
“820 Ebony/Jet” by Barbara Karant
Location: The Ruse Escape Rooms, 25 Division Ave. S, Suite 125
Display hours: Monday – Saturday: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Sunday: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
“El Sueño Americano (The American Dream)” by Tom Kiefer
Location: DeVos Place Convention Center, 303 Monroe Ave. NW
Display hours: Monday – Thursday: 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Friday: 8 a.m. – 10 p.m.; Saturday: 9 a.m. – 10 p.m.; Sunday: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
“‘Virtue Virtu Vertu’ by HIPKISS” by Alpha and Chris Mason
Location: GRCC Collins Art Gallery, 142 Bostwick St. NE
Display hours: Monday – Thursday: 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Friday & Saturday: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Sunday: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
The public vote Final 20 will be announced Saturday. New to the competition this year, pieces in the Final 20 and the jurors’ Shortlist are all eligible to win the public vote category and grand prizes — which means that one artist could take home $400,000.
