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Steve & I spent Saturday afternoon touring the wonderful world of ArtPrize<\/a> in downtown Grand Rapids and highly recommend you make the trip to this fantastic temporary – truly public art museum.<\/p>\n

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There is something for everybody – from a pink room spackled in frosting, a sweet dream sequence video short<\/a>, oodles of doodles and even giant photographs of painted ladies…
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If memory serves me right, I believe that ribbon tree was from Grand Rapid Public Schools and each ribbon has names of students\/teachers on it.  <\/p>\n

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That balloon sculpture is in the top 10 and the artist, Jason Hackenwerth is from New York…Check out how they made it<\/a> right on site and take a look at his awesome wearable creations in action<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Loved this concept and am tempted to create my own shelf of scent memories.<\/p>\n

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The blue bridge was full of lovely large works of art… including a giant table & chair set painted by the wonderful furniture company, Sticks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/span>I thought this wonder woman photo series was quite amusing and our friend's little girl, Sylvia favorite piece of art was this t-shirt tunnel.  As you can tell by her blurriness – she loved running laps through it.<\/p>\n

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I'm really drawn to the imagery of the figures on the window.<\/p>\n

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I think it's funny how the monkey is in charge of the bronze colored live street performer statue.<\/p>\n

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This installation blew me away.  As you can see, this block has been damaged by some curious hands – but it shows how fragile it is.  I don't know how he transferred such a clear image entirely made out of powder… amazing.  He should have landed in the top 10.<\/p>\n

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The top portrait is of Michael Jordan's mom – made entirely out of Michael's classic Air Jordan silhouette.  And the one below it is made entirely from push pins<\/a>!  That one get's my vote for the top 10.  I really admire how one can take such an ordinary object and create an amazing portrait.  (you can see the model talking about the piece)<\/p>\n

We ended the night with watching this…
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And wish we were to there witness this…
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So glad we got to be a part of this very first ArtPrize experience!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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