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ArtPosts: A Year of Unconventional Art
November 01, 2022
Artposts are
five outdoor, miniature art galleries organized in collaboration with
the Avenue for the
Arts that provide the public with an opportunity to see
small-scale artworks in an unconventional venue. Artposts debuted in
Grand Rapids for ArtPrize 2021 and two artposts were installed on the
GVSU Pew Grand Rapids campus in November 2021; one outside the Richard
M. DeVos Center and the other outside the L. William Seidman Center.
They will remain on view through December 2022.
Artposts have featured multiple works of art by a variety of
artists beginning with work curated by GVSU students of the Fall 2021
Curatorial Studio course. Curatorial Studio is an upper-level studio
art course within the Visual & Media Arts Department. The course
has experiential and collaborative learning throughout, including a
culminating exhibition practicum. The students of Curatorial Studio in
the Fall 2021 installed their exhibition titled Flux in both
Artposts on GVSU's Pew Grand Rapids Campus.
Other featured artists have included Bridgette "B" McGee, a multimedia artist based out of Grand Rapids; snicka, a printmaker, papermaker, and muralist working in Grand Rapids; Kristin Casaletto, a Grand Rapids artists whose work explores socio-political challenges facing the United States in its role as a twenty-first-century super power; and Detroit-based fiber artist Karen Hain.
The additional artposts can be found throughout downtown Grand Rapids.
To see past installations and learn more visit gvsu.edu/artgallery/artposts.