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Capturing the History of Grand Rapids: Cityscape Paintings

Capturing the History of Grand Rapids: Cityscape Paintings

What is your favorite view of Grand Rapids? If you were to paint a cityscape, what details of the city would be most important for you to portray to future viewers?

Apr 1, 2025

Shelter and Style: Umbrellas in Art

Shelter and Style: Umbrellas in Art

While the proverb April showers bring May flowers is a metaphor for spring, natures renewal, and better days to come, its also a suggestion to open those umbrellas (outside only, of course) and prepare for Michigans wet season.

Apr 1, 2025

Transgender Day of Visibility

Transgender Day of Visibility

Transgender Day of Visibility is a day to celebrate the lives and contributions of trans people while also drawing attention to the discrimination and violence the community faces.

Mar 14, 2025

Finding Inspiration from Nature: GVSUs Ravines

Finding Inspiration from Nature: GVSUs Ravines

GVSUs Allendale campus is built on a system of ravines cut into debris left behind by glaciers over 10,000 years ago. Many artists have been inspired by this unique Michigan landscape that surrounds us.

Mar 1, 2025

Artist Profile: Vera Klement

Artist Profile: Vera Klement

Vera Klement was born in the Free City of Danzig, a city-state in Germany, only a few years before the Nazi party took over the region, an even that would forever influence Klement's life and artwork.

Feb 24, 2025

Artist Profile: Gloria Baker Feinstein

Artist Profile: Gloria Baker Feinstein

Since the young age of two years old, Portland, Oregon-based Jewish photographer Gloria Baker Feinstein had a camera in her hand. Her reflections, stories, and connections in her images ask viewers to find beauty in tragedy.

Feb 24, 2025

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