Category Archives: Artists & Galleries

February 6th EXPOSURE.Detroit Exhibit Opening

The EXPOSURE.Detroit photography group opens their February Photography Exhibit   on Saturday, February 6th, 2010 from 7-10 PM at the  Bean & Leaf Cafe in Royal Oak. The exhibit will feature the work of   five talented photographers: Jesse Speelman Chris Hardy Tafari Stevenson-Howard Mike Neubauer Patti Margarita Share this:

ArtPrize 2010 and the diamond in the dust

dot to dot by powerbooktrance The phenomenal ArtPrize returns to Grand Rapids for a second year. The dates will be September 22 – October 10, 2010 with a top prize of $250,000. Speaking of Grand Rapids and ArtPrize, Rob Bliss had an interesting editorial that I think holds a lesson (as does ArtPrize itself) for [...]

Art is Everywhere, for Everyone

Guardian by Ralph Krawczyk Jr Our years of neglect of the ongoing structural problems in our budget has left Michigan in a position where we’re cutting all kinds of services drastically. When you’re taking millions from classrooms, public safety and basic human services for our most needy, it’s hard to advocate against cuts for the [...]

Let’s Save Michigan poster contest

The AP reports that the Detroit Institute of Arts and Let’s Save Michigan are calling on people to create posters in the fashion of Works Progress Administration artwork of the Great Depression to highlight turnaround efforts and rally Michigan residents to revive the state: “There’s so many different ideas about how to turn around Michigan,” [...]

2009 Absolute Michigan Holiday Gift Guide

Photo by Cherie S. Think Globally, Shop Locally with our Michigan Holiday Gift Guide, designed to help you find the perfect Michigan gifts online or off. Feel free to add your Michigan based gift suggestions in the comments section below! The photo in this post was taken by Cherie S. and is titled “Don’t worry [...]

Winners of the 2009 Grand Rapids ArtPrize

ArtPrize 09-Open Water no.24 by deviant_anomaly ART PRIZE 2009-0032 by RichardD72 AND THE WINNER IS… by rkramer62 DETAIL FROM WINNERS CANVAS by bitsorf The first-ever ArtPrize in Grand Rapids has ended with Open Water no. 24, a 6′ x 19′ oil painting by Ran Ortner being chosen as the winner by public vote from 1,262 [...]

Michigan Goes Nationwide with Art & Wine

ART PRIZE 2009 by RichardD72 Michigan has taken the national stage with one eye on the ArtPrize competition in Grand Rapids and the other on it’s burgeoning and award winning wine industry which gaining credibility amongst wine experts and wine lovers. This is truly a positive and a definite 180 degree flip from most of [...]

Snapshots from the Grand Rapids ArtPrize

Here’s a video produced by Absolute Michigan featuring audio from Brad Aspey of Interlochen Public Radio along with photographs from the Absolute Michigan pool and the Creative Commons. The music is Octopussy by Juanitos. There’s so much more to see – definitely go to Grand Rapids if at all possible to check out ArtPrize – [...]

Wine, Music & Microbrew in Traverse City

Over the last two weekends, The Village at Grand Traverse Commons hosted two new celebrations: the Traverse City Wine & Art Festival and the Traverse City Microbrew & Music Festival. Traverse City Wine & Art Festival by M’Lynn Heartwell Mike Brenton from the Lansing City Pulse attended the wine fest. In Sampling the Champs he [...]

Hoxeyville August 21 – 23, 2009

Nestled on 75 + acres of pristine north country farmland and natural hardwood forest — within the Manistee National Forest — is a testament to pure north country peace and hootenanny. Hoxeyville will boast 2 stages of national touring artists as well as a 3rd stage featuring the best and brightest talent from around our [...]