This is the third year Grand Rapids has held an event called Art Prize (you can check it out at www.artprize.org ). Here's their really brief description of it...
- Grand Rapids, MI USA
- $474,000 prize ($250,000 to 1st place)
- Top 10 entries receive a prize
- Artists can submit one entry
- Any property in downtown Grand Rapids can be a venue
- Venues choose the artists they exhibit
- Anyone attending the event can vote
- Winner is determined by public vote
It's the largest amount of prize money for any art competition in the world. There were over 1500 entries all throughout the downtown area. It's amazing!! This year many people were very disappointed in the pieces chose to be in the top ten. (myself included) But, I would sing praises for this event all day long! Matt and I had been down the two of us, but yesterday was our first chance to take the kids this year. It was awesome! The kids had SO much fun! They were so excited to go after remembering it from the past two years. They loved walking around, checking out the exhibits, talking about them, choosing their favorites. It's such a unique experience for a child to have with art and their city! We will be back this weekend ...and next year and the next year ... when you get to see this event through the eyes of a child there is no way you can be disappointed, it's amazing!!
Enjoying the beautiful night in our beautiful city...
One of the kids favorites and a top 10... (got 6th place)
Love these 3!
We were not going to get a picture with all 4 of them looking :), but I love this one! It's all of their personalities! They liked these "trees" made of encyclopedia pages. 
Very cool. McLleyton is looking big! We want to see the winning art prize...
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