SepAPVEN2024

An innovative 12-foot tall projection sculpture. Viewers are encouraged to climb into the central ring and enjoy the experience. Good selfie spot.

Fish sculpture that shows how pollution that goes into the rivers and oceans affect the food on our dinner tables.

Sculpture made from steel rods that once held together an old water tower.

3-D art showing auras above and below us.

Color! Pattern!

A huge 10' x 6' bright and colorful striped painting to remind us not to take life too seriously.

Four Fused Glass squares inspired by the beautiful colors of coral in the ocean.

What hurts? What helps?
The centerpiece of the installation is an oversized cork band-aid message board, measuring an impressive 4 feet by 17 feet.

Participants will actively contribute to the artwork by creating and mounting their own personalized band-aid.

"Old Stories" is an art series that retells famous myths about characters who feel trapped and alone, like Icarus, the Minotaur, Prometheus, Narcissus, and Orpheus. Each sculpture shows a moment where these characters hope to escape or find freedom, even though their stories seem already decided.

An iron stag made from discarded pieces of metal.

"Jungle Couture" is an art series that reimagines the majesty of big cats as high-fashion muses, featuring three species adorned in outfits crafted from animal hide and mixed media.

Miniature dioramas depicting various scenes give this art collection a whimsical, fairy garden-like atmosphere.

A 3-D art piece of a ship on waves of water.

This artwork is like a fun mirror maze where you see many versions of yourself reflected all around! It uses round mirrors and sticks to make you think about how we see ourselves and how others see us.

The artist, Kim Jung Soo, wants people to explore and play with these reflections, noticing how our feelings and thoughts can change depending on where we are and who we are with.

Spray-painting live right in front of you. Paintings are done by Froggy in 5 minutes or less.

2024 ArtPrize SCHEDULE
11 AM, 1 & 6 PM MOST DAYS (Sept 18-28)
1 & 6 PM: (Tue Sept 24, Fri Sept 27)
*Off Mon, Sept 16; Wed Sept 18, Mon Sept 23

This artwork is made from old objects like beads, buttons, and toys to create a portrait of musician Leon Russell, showing details like his sunglasses, hat, hair, and beard in a colorful, creative way.

Be sure to look at it up close.

An interactive 3D reverse perspective.

What to look for: The painting appears to change shape and move as you move by.

A motorcycle created from musical instruments. From drums to trumpets, see how many musical instruments you can count in this piece.

This sculpture of an eye shows how two people can look at the same thing but see it differently.

It uses pieces from real eye surgeries to show a blue-eyed and a brown-eyed person looking in opposite directions with a rainbow between them, sparkling and changing as you move around.

This piece of art was created out of the sense of calm one can experience while meditating.

A collaboration of artists and artforms celebrating what has been passed down from their grandparents including pressed flowers, embroidery, origami, and felting.

a sixty-pound, queen-size bedspread portrait made of woven glass beads.

Landscape paintings containing living plants that make you feel like you're in a mossy terrarium

Walk through the pathways and archways of this abstract garden installation.

An amazingly colorful collection from nature - each specimen carefully selected, pinned and mounted - the artist sourced most of his specimens from a private collection he acquired that dates back to the 1970's.

A mesmerizing collection of faces.

A woven tapestry of repurposed vinyl banners - the kind you see on signs along the highway.

An installation using film and slide photography negatives sewn together to pay homage to anyone who has experienced homelessness.

A collection of small paintings by students from Walker Charter Academy, VFW Camp Trotter, and Caledonia elementary, intermediate, and middle schools of the people, places, and things that symbolize America.

A large painting of women and men of African descent who gave so much in the performing arts, civil activism, writing, and other fields. Featuring great actors, writers, and performers of all creeds and colors.

A sculpture tribute to Emperor, the artist's first service dog. Emperor was assigned to SEAL Team 3 for bomb detection and deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan. This monument stands for the memory of all warriors who have stood on the wall protecting us all every day.

Photographs of women veterans.

A lunar module art piece made from 438 separate pieces of wood.

An eagle drawing by a local veteran who assists other veterans in the creative arts.

A Charming snail and colorful mushrooms are featured in this mixed-media collage made of magazine clippings and sheet music.

A 12 foot tall colorful statue made out of steel armature and a dish glove made of crocheted plastic rope. This art structure is designed to envoke thoughts around the realities of the distribution of labor in the home.

A giant skeleton slurping a silly straw of oil or gas pipline from a large soda cup.

It includes a working waterfall!
Stand inside this cave and watch the mitten shape come to life. This 3D scan of Scott Falls in Michigan's U.P. is crafted from hand-shaped plaster panels.

Painting of McKay's reflection in the PNC Bank building.

Sculptures made of recycled, reclaimed and reused items.

A thought-provoking piece on how deities can help us save the planet and ourselves

Get a poem on the spot from Endlesswill, a spoken word poet, author, and typewriter artist. You give him one word, and he crafts a custom poem for you right then (on a vintage typewriter.)

SCHEDULE
Fri 09/13 to Sat 09/28
8 AM - 8 PM Daily
Lunch break is from 12-1 PM

"LEGOS" is an artwork that tells a story about people trying to bring something back to life, showing how we like to build things, even if it’s tricky or mysterious, just like building with LEGO bricks. (There are no LEGOS in this artwork.)

Hand carved and painted life size wooden replica of King Tut’s coffin, Tomb and Artifacts from his Tomb. Movement, Lights, Sounds.

This Detroit-native reminds us to remember our childlike innocence, no matter how tough life gets

A mixed media piece that reflects how life can be overwhelming and full of too much information

This 8-foot-tall drawing of Princess Diana was made using a single continuous pen and ink line on paper.

Our emotions are the core of who we are and it's okay to express them

Live statue performance - Outdoors- corner of Monroe Ave NW and Pearl St (near Amway Grand Plaza Hotel)

SCHEDULE (Sept 13 -26)
Fridays from 5 PM - 8 PM
Saturdays from 12 PM - 8 PM
Sundays from 12 PM - 6 PM
Mon - Thur from 5 PM - 8 PM

Large community-painted paint-by-number of the Calder that was made during ArtPrize 2023.

Three cute puppy sculptures.

Striking painting of a lion using the Detroit Lions color palette.

A digital art experience featuring the faces of donors from Grand Rapids and around the world who have given $10 to help alleviate the financial and emotional burdens of cancer treatment.

Anyone can donate, and if you give $10, your face will be featured too!

Intricate build

A Music Machine - made from broken instruments and discarded furniture - is activated when visitors turn a large copper crank. Cogs trigger a woodpecker keeping the beat, a skunk on washboard, and a squirrel adding his jam.

Hand-dyed, hand-hooked wool strips covering a 5.5 ft x 2 ft linen backing.

Giant! Thousands of multicolored tape strips were used to recreate iconic figure Frida Kahlo.

Intricate mechanical-pencil drawings of whitetail deer that passed through the artist's yard.

24 images of the grounds left in the bottom of a stainless steel mug after drinking his coffee.

5 paintings of the same 4 friends through the trials, triumphs, celebrations, secrets , vacation days, contemplation days of life. Enjoyment (childhood), Expectation (young adulthood), Encouragement (middle age), Endurance (seniors), Enrichment (friends of varying ages).

Vibrant oil painting that zooms in on the structural components of kites and the spindle of string needed to make the kites soar.

PO (Art)Box is ArtPrize's smallest venue. Inside each mailbox cubby is art from a collection of artists that came together to create the dioramas or micro-installations that you see here.

Nine larger than life Ragamuffin cat sculptures on display in the front display windows of Courage and Soar.

Watercolor paintings of playful, whimsical and imaginative monsters, the kind you'd actually want to find under your bed!

A cheery sunflower built from over 14,000 LEGO® pieces.

A series of paintings showing the movement of a beautiful dancer.

Hand-Painted cartoon creatures inhabiting iconic Michigan Lighthouses.

Forest painting of changing light and the dramatic shifts in the environment caused by seasonal changes.

Colorful painting of the most common butterflies seen in west Michigan.

Have you ever gone rock hunting in a painting? Well, this vibrant landscape painting of northern Michigan at the peak of fall is stocked with gemstones. We even found some petoskey stones!

Vibrant dot-making painting

A piece that shows the “hard reality” of a photograph and the softer quality of quilted fabric in one work.

Interactive art inviting you to write your hurts/pains on a white heart sculpture that will be filled in with black ink handwriting throughout ArtPrize, turning the heart dark.

Steel Reef Shark Sculpture