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Is Sponsored by the Grand Rapids Children's Museum. GRCM Will grkids.com 2014 Family Art walk touris sponsored by the Grand Rapids Children’s Museum. GRCM will be hosting 10 ArtPrize artists and various hands-on art programs throughout ArtPrize, including the free Kids' ArtFest: A Celebration of the Arts on Sunday, September 28th, noon-5:00PM. 65 stops. Hundreds of exhibits. 5. Bridgewater Place | 333 Bridge St Where the Wild Things Grow – painted plastic bottles used to create hanging It is our hope that this list & map will help your family navigate ArtPrize in 2014. This list is sculpture best used with the interactive map found on grkids.com. Also visit grkids.com for a STROLLER Noah’s Art, The Promise - 9 foot by 50 foot ink pen drawing of Noah’s Ark Art walk Map and a FIELD TRIP edition of our Art walks. I’m Being Attacked by the 1812 Overture – collage shows ending of the famous song 1. Holiday In Grand Rapids Downtown | 310 Pearl St NW Great Plate State – 350+ license plates to create a Michigan outline The Great Seal - giant caricature celebrating America’s the fascinating history. From within - conceptual sculpture that consists of a high powered laser system Envision Yourself in Fantasy World – Mirrored fantasy painting that you refracting off of a silvered convex lens. become a part of as you approach. Dragon’s Lair - a layered Lego mosaic built with over 200,000 Lego pieces. 2. Gerald R Ford Museum | 303 Pearl St NW Build Bridges – colorful mosaic bridge. Rocks of the bridges were created by Waterwall - 24 prints & drawings with embedded fiber optic lighting to give the children from shoe prints on old jeans. appearance of moving water. Awakening – exquisite painting of water A Series of Handmade Japanese Paper Cut Sculptures – Life-sized swimming 6. Plante Moran | 634 Front Ave NW polar bear sculpture hand cut from (1) 3m x 3m sheet of paper. Bike Wreck – giant bike print NOW – 3D sculpture of more than 1200 clocks 7. Fish Ladder Park | 634 Front Ave NW Music Go-Round – Circular fence that visitors can play like a musical instrument playCAGE - a huge-scale, fully-interactive Chance Instruction sculpture. Guitar Looking for Alice – Mechanical Mad Hatter sculpture (from Alice in Wonderland) strings stretch over 128 feet, 24 feet across the base of the Fish Ladder, and 40 on a large tricycle feet along the rapids of the Grand River. Please Touch! kNights Watch – sculpture of Knights protecting a Golden Goose from a Dragon. 8. The Mitten Brewing Company | 527 Leonard St NW I LOVE MY RESCUE – animal sculpture A Dragon Trophy – Dragon sculpture has over 2100 hand cut meticulously I Hear the Train a Comin’ – large "in progress" train mural the artist will finish welded scales and 86 hand crafted ferocious teeth plus a sword. during ArtPrize. 9. Boardwalk Condominiums | 940 Monroe Ave NW Dawn of Chimes – a raptor created out of numerous musical instruments. The Shared Light of Consciousness – a careful arrangement of colorful lights and Color Out the Darkness – huge colorful pillars more than 200 handcrafted and glass-blown leaves 3. Ah-Nab-Awen Park | 303 Pearl Street NW Out of the Box – melted crayons and their boxes used to create a rainbow Before I Die – Public art wall where people share personal aspirations of what waterfall picture they want to do before they die. Nature’s Ultimatum – walk by from each direction to see a different/outcome Metanoia: You Are Here - life-sized human figures cut from mirror polished view of the tree stainless steel to show diversity. Fiesta In GR - an interactive piece that combines folk dance, sculpture and live 4. Gillette Bridge art forms. The Grand River Check Point - this checkpoint will be complete with Extraterrestrial Succulence – large colorful mural painted on building guardhouse, Gillette Bridge border control officer, and an array of regulatory Dinosaurs Don’t Wear Wigs - a large scale, functioning, children's book. and informational signs grkids.com 2014 Family Art walk tour is sponsored by Ada Christian School. At Ada Christian School everything in the classroom, on the athletic field, on the stage, and in the community is done with a Christ-centered perspective. Our mission is to equip your children for service in God’s world. Call 616.676.1289 to schedule a tour and find out more. grkids.com 2014 Family Art walk touris sponsored by the Grand Rapids Children’s Museum. GRCM will be hosting 10 ArtPrize artists and various hands-on art programs throughout ArtPrize, including the free Kids' ArtFest: A Celebration of the Arts on Sunday, September 28th, noon-5:00PM. 10. Monroe Community Church | 800 Monroe NW Kevin Connolly Gillespie - four large panels depicting waves crashing off the east Pods – Put your head inside of these pods and become part of the sculpture coast as a storm approaches. Murmuration – 10’x10’x18’ hanging display of crochet thread and feathers. Fly – colorful hanging strips of “flypaper” Itswell wave – wave made from found wood after Hurricane Sandy Figures in Motion - a group of figurative steel sculptures ranging in size from 3 11. Auto Fixit Body Shop | 805 Ottawa Avenue NW to 20 feet tall. There will be a very large central kinetic figure surrounded by Da Race ArtPrize- Spray painted race cars and ice cream trucks in a race multiple smaller figures. 12. DeVos Place Convention Center | 303 Monroe Avenue NW A Baling Wire Horse - approximately 10 feet tall and with a depth of about 6 Think – Giant thinking head made of multiple objects. feet, it is a life-sized recreation of a quarter horse rearing up in its own air space. On a Golden Autumn Day – neon autumn leaves Autumn Cathedral - a watercolor consisting of 25 panels which all connect to Michigan in Motion- walk past to get visual experience of multiple Michigan form a view of a towering canopy decked out in fall colors found in a Michigan paintings forest. Liquid Rock - 3-D "painting" or lava using foil and acrylic 15. Kent County Courthouse | 180 Ottawa Avenue JARTPRIZE – giant lawn darts display Joy’s Horizon, Bridging Communities - Rainbow fence made out of recycled Gold Fever – Large horse sculpture made from recycled materials bottles Einstein- 4’x6’ painting of Einstein 16. St Mark’s Episcopal Church | 134 North Division Ave Building Neighbors - 1000 handmade paper house shaped drawings, ranging in The Queens Silver Steed – giant aluminum rocking giraffe size from 1 inch to about 10 inches tall. 17. Kendall College of Art and Design | 17 Pearl St NW Big Michigan – giant rotating, kinetic cherry Capitalism Works For Me – Interactive voting on capitalism Back to nature – walk into the cube to view nature scene diorama Operation Paydirt/Fundred Dollar Bill Project – draw your own Fundred dollar 13. Calder Plaza | 300 Monroe NW bills to help raise awareness of childhood lead poisoning WebJutsu – large, inflated plastic pillows illuminated with color The Hair Craft Project – photographs document hairstyles Two Birds – Vegetable oil-powered school bus/house 18. Downtown GR INC | 29 Pearl NW Loveness - an over-sized sculpture of a "sphinx like seated lion with a space After Mardi Gras- leftover bead used to bead a bike helmet on... 35 feet long, 8 feet wide, 15 feet high. 19. Sundance Grill| 151 Ottawa Ave NW Waters Building Gorilla!!!- large-scale inflatable gorilla that will be customized during ArtPrize. Bubble’s Wild Ride – paint on aluminum depicting a wild, red headed mermaid 14. Fifth Third Bank | 111 Lyon NW rides sidesaddle on a fiery hippocampus, careening through the sea, with Protect Our Children – large sculpture of a mother whale with a baby close at "Bubbles" the sea turtle whipping behind in the wake, hanging on for dear life! her side. 20. Kilwin’s | 146 Monroe Center Mijimendan vta Ziibi (Remember the River) - wrapping the 5/3 Bank building in Rolando - an enormous version of the upcoming Goo Guys & Gals ®™ book downtown Grand Rapids with neon blue ribbon/fabric intended to look like "Rolando Responsible" – including (28) 4’x4’ pages meandering river waters. Additional luminous piece built from various widths of Paints – large tile art painting loosely woven fabric will radiate out from the building to visually invoke the Grand River. Audience members will be able to walk under and through hundreds of feet of rippling and glowing strips of fabric. grkids.com 2014 Family Art walk tour is sponsored by Ada Christian School. At Ada Christian School everything in the classroom, on the athletic field, on the stage, and in the community is done with a Christ-centered perspective. Our mission is to equip your children for service in God’s world. Call 616.676.1289 to schedule a tour and find out more. grkids.com 2014 Family Art walk touris sponsored by the Grand Rapids Children’s Museum. GRCM will be hosting 10 ArtPrize artists and various hands-on art programs throughout ArtPrize, including the free Kids' ArtFest: A Celebration of the Arts on Sunday, September 28th, noon-5:00PM. 21. Amway Grand Hotel | 187 Monroe Ave. NW Gentlemen, Don’t Start Your Engines – large play on match box cars and race Weeping Willow – 10’ steel sculpture. Each leaflet is individually hung to allow a tracks subtle movement and reflection of light. 30. The B.O.B. | 20 Monroe Ave NW tReE – 8’x10’ interconnected tree sculpture Wild Horses - a 23’x7’ wood wall sculpture depicting a colorful stampede of Red The Pond – 8’x12’ pond made of hundreds of carved ripples and raindrop and White Paint horses. splashes They call the wind Mariah – Life-sized hood ornament Blackfish – large sculpture with 10 Orcas and 3 ice forms. Teepee at the BOB – hand-carved stone sculptures of 4 Native American chiefs 22.
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