Winning Art and Your Health
When something unexpected happens, I just have to go with it. It wasn’t my intention to follow-up Saturday’s message, but this is just too powerful to ignore.
The ArtPrize entry that Paula chose to put in the Saturday message, a 6.5 foot cube with a light inside, won and won big—it won the public vote, the juror’s vote of art professionals, and the Grand Prize in the Installation category as well. For her efforts, artist Anila Quayyum Agha will take home $300,000.
ArtPrize and Your Health
Each fall for the past six years, artists from all over the world bring or send their work to Grand Rapids to compete for over $500,000 in cash prizes. ArtPrize was the first of its kind when it began in 2009 and this year displayed over 1,500 entries by over 1,800 artists; it’s physically impossible to see them all. It has benefitted both the artists and the economy of West Michigan, because people come from all over the world to see the art.
Paula and I visited just a few of the venues to see some . . .
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