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ArtPrize 2022 kicks off Thursday and runs for nearly three weeks, through Oct. 2, with 742 artists showing work at 150 venues, primarily in downtown Grand Rapids.

Critics linked DeSantis's education crackdown to donations from the DeVos clan and other deep-pocketed conservatives.

The winning piece of ArtPrize 2011 is being donated to the Diocese of Grand Rapids.

Start Garden has made its presence felt in this region’s business community ever since it was founded nine years ago by Rick DeVos.

How student debtors took a radical idea to the mainstream Illustrations by Lyndon Hayes In the summer of 2007, Thomas Gokey had just graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and he was thinking about how much his degree had cost him. His diploma was a simple piece of paper, but it came with a price tag of thousands of dollars—dollars that were themselves pieces of paper, transmitted to him in the form of student loans, which he now owed to the federal government. While chewi...

ArtPrize is Coming Back in 2021 We’ve dont have a lot of information on this yet, but ArtPrize is making a comeback to West Michigan. Originally created in 2009, the art competition was a yearly staple in the Grand Rapids area until 2018 when organizers announced it would be switching to a biannual event. Prior to that announcement Art Prize was considered the largest contemporary art exhibit and contest in the United States. In 2019, they tried a scaled-back version of the event called Proje...