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2009. (2009) Founder. Rick DeVos. Website. artprize.org. ArtPrize is an art competition and festival in Grand Rapids, Michigan. [1] Anyone over the age of 18 can display their art, and any space within the three-square-mile ArtPrize district can be a venue. There are typically over 160 venues such as museums, galleries, bars, restaurants ...
Photo by Michael Moran. Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is a 158-acre (64 ha) botanical garden, art museum, [3] and outdoor sculpture park located in Grand Rapids Township, Michigan, United States. Opened in 1995, Meijer Gardens quickly established itself in the Midwest as a major cultural attraction jointly focused on horticulture and ...
Website. festivalgr.org. The Festival of the Arts – known locally as simply Festival, typically with the year added (e.g. "Festival 2005") – is 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 is free and open to all.
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.
Description. Heritage Hill is adjacent to downtown Grand Rapids and is the city's oldest residential district. Its 1,300 homes date from 1843 and represent Michigan's largest and finest concentration of nineteenth and early twentieth-century houses. Nearly every style of American architecture, from Greek Revival to Prairie is represented.
Location in Michigan. The Meijer LPGA Classic is a women's professional golf tournament in Michigan on the LPGA Tour. Founded in 2014, it is played at Blythefield Country Club in Belmont, a suburb northeast of Grand Rapids. Mirim Lee won the inaugural tournament in a playoff with Inbee Park for her first LPGA Tour win.
The Amway River Bank Run is an annual road running race hosted by Amway in U.S. city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the month of May.The 25K run was created and first held in 1978 by Old Kent Bank as the Old Kent River Bank Run and continued under that name until 2000, when its name was changed to the Fifth Third River Bank Run. [1]
Painted steel. Dimensions. 13 m × 9.1 m × 16 m (43 ft × 30 ft × 54 ft) Location. Vandenberg Plaza, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Coordinates. 42°58′10″N 85°40′15″W / 42.96937°N 85.67075°W / 42.96937; -85.67075. La Grande Vitesse, a public sculpture by American artist Alexander Calder, is located on the large concrete plaza ...