What's Up With ArtPrize? - Grand Rapids Chamber

What’s Up With ArtPrize?

ArtPrize recently announced they were ending their original experiment that started in 2009. This led to headlines like “ArtPrize is calling it quits.” ArtPrize is in fact, not calling it quits.

The original nonprofit is closing its doors, but ArtPrize is finding new life with Kendall College of Art and Design, the City of Grand Rapids, and Downtown Grand Rapids, Inc.

We sat down with Tara McCrackin, the President of Kendall College of Art and Design to learn more about what’s on the horizon for ArtPrize 2.0 and how students at Kendall and the Grand Rapids community will benefit with the refresh of ArtPrize.

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