Photo Credit: Bryan Esler PhotoThis essay is from the Project 1 by ArtPrize catalog. By Kevin BuistArtistic Director of ArtPrize “There are parts where even individual trees are crosshatched, where Ul Qoman children and Besz children clamber past each other, each obeying their parents’ whispered strictures to unsee the other.” — China Miéville, The City […]
Last week ArtPrize announced the community events scheduled to take place during Project 1 on September 7 through October 27. There are a multitude of performances, talks, and celebrations happening across Project 1 locations around Grand Rapids, but one event in particular has generated a lot of questions and even some controversy. Drag Syndrome is […]
Last week we announced the three sites that will host large-scale public art installations and performance programming for Project 1: Crossed Lines. A number of pieces will be downtown, in spots that are familiar to ArtPrize visitors. New for Project 1, we’re also placing major installations at Martin Luther King Jr. Park on the Southeast […]