Sunday Paper: Commission models, millage benefits, and celebrating a new space

You’re invited to help culturedGR celebrate their new office space! Plus, a full run-down of your opportunities to get cultured in the upcoming week.

WEEK IN REVIEW

Competition to commission: How the new ArtPrize cadence opens new opportunities

The new ArtPrize calendar has its now-biennial competition taking turns with a biennial immersive city-wide public art project, starting with Project 1 in 2019.

Work by FriendsWithYou at a previous ArtPrize event. Image credit Holly Bechiri.

“It was about minute 6 in the interview when I realized I had it all wrong. This new shift wasn’t going to be a break in the excitement — not for me as media, not for ArtPrize staff, and not for all the families that come down to experience contemporary art every fall. It might be a break in competition and a (welcome) break in the toll on energy and resources for venues and artists. But there would be no pause in art.”- Holly Bechiri

Read the full article here.

Want more details? Read the original announcement here.

Gift of the real: How the Kent County millage is panning out at our Public Museum

Image courtesy Grand Rapids Public Museum.

A November 2016 millage made it possible for the Grand Rapids Public Museum to offer free admission to Kent County residing children — and just $5 for their parents.

“People crave engagement and communal experiences,” Kocienski says. “Something interactive. The real thing. And we have so much of the real thing here and so much for people to experience.”

Images courtesy Grand Rapids Public Museum.

Read the full article here.

GVSU concert series to feature carillonneurs from around the country

Carillonneurs from around the U.S. will travel to Grand Valley State University this summer to fill the air around both campuses with music during the International Carillon Concert Series.

Beckering Carillon. Photo credit Amanda Pitts, courtesy Grand Valley State University Communications.

Read the full article and get the full schedule of free concerts here.

Anila Agha’s “Intersections,” dual-award winner at ArtPrize in 2014, is back at the GRAM this summer, along with a new piece by her. Photo credit Holly Bechiri.

WHAT NOT TO MISS THIS WEEK

You are invited to an open house

The view from our new office, photo credit Eric Tank.

culturedGR now has an office, and we’re opening up the place to the public this Wednesday night! Please join us to toast to future success, see our new space shared with photographer Eric Tank (and plenty of other creatives!).

When: Wednesday, June 27, 5–8 pm.
Where: 342 Market Ave. SW, Floor 2
What: Plenty of hipster-approved beers and sodas, snacks, and art-loving friends!
RSVP on Facebook here.
The trick to getting to the parking at the front of our building:

From Market, take Ney Avenue around. From Wealthy Street, you also take Ney. We look forward to seeing you there!

Learn embroidery with the Insect Embroidery workshop this Wednesday with Solstice Handmade at Lions & Rabbits.

Camp Rock the Musical, with stageGR, this weekend only.

Hay Yah House Show #4 this Friday includes musicians Jes Kramer and Cloudlight, and artists Egan Franks Holzhausen and Reb Roberts.

Stellar exhibits at the Grand Rapids Art Museum include Oswaldo Vigas, Anila Quayyum Agha, and Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, through August.

UICA: Pantone Color of the Year, through July 29.

The incredible Masayuki Koorida exhibit at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is up in the galleries (along with a temporary sculpture & his permanent sculptures outside) through August 19.

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