GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — ArtPrize organizers announced the schedule for Project 1 on Wednesday.
The event, which will take place in off years for ArtPrize, will be held from Sept. 7 to Oct. 27 next year.
ArtPrize announced in June that the annual Grand Rapids art competition would be moving to every other year after ArtPrize 10.
Project 1 will include events, performances and education programs that are all free and open to the public and “invite visitors to slow down and engage with cutting-edge public art on a grand scale.”
A curatorial advisory committee was also announced for Project 1, which includes:
- Joseph Becherer, Director of the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame
- Dan Cameron, Independent Curator
- Nicole Caruth, Independent Curator
- Alice Gray Stites, Chief Curator of 21c Museum Hotels
- Larry Ossei-Mensah, Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
- Rebecca Carbin, Independent Curator and founder of I Heart Your Work Art Futures