What if I don’t see my venue on the itinerary? Send an email to hello@oliverhevans.com and let me know. You will be immediately added. My hope is that some artists will meet me at their work so we can talk about their work and about ArtPrize itself.

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Wednesday

152 - The Lyon Den - 200 Ionia NW

50 - Fed Sq Bldg "The SPOT" - 29 Pearl NW

158 - Waters Bldg - 161 Ottawa NW Suite 104

51 - Fifth Third/ WN&J - 111 Lyon NW

105 - Mojo's - 180 Monroe NW

12 - Amway Grand Hotel - 187 Monroe NW

90 - JW Marriott - 235 Louis NW

164 - Z's Bar - 168 Louis Campau NW

98 - Louis Campau Promenade - 125 Monroe NW

3 - GRAM - 101 Monroe Center

112 - Open Concept Gallery - 50 Louis NW

102 - Mercantile Bank - 48 West Fulton

14 - Arts Council of GGR - 38 West Fulton

131 - San Chez - 38 West Fulton

43 - Dept of Corrections - 1 Division NW

72 - GR Police Dept - 1 Monroe Center NW

159 - West Coast Coffee - 55 Monroe Center NW

97 - Louis Benton Steak House - 77 Monroe Center NW

128 - Royal Securities - 89 Ionia NW

37 - Cornerstone Bldg - 89 Ionia NW

46 - Diversions Nightclub - 10 Fountain NW

56 - Fountain Street Church - 24 Fountain NE

65 - GRCC -Collins Art Gallery - 143 Bostwick NE

137 - Saint Mark's Episcopal Church - 134 North Division

Thursday Morning

67 - GR Children's Museum - 11 Sheldon NE

161 - WMCAT - 98 East Fulton

52 - First (Park) Congreg Church - 10 East Park Place NE

6 - St Cecilia Music Ctr - 24 Ransom NE

53 - First UM Church - 227 East Fulton

8 - Women's City Club - 254 East Fulton

75 - GreenLion Gallery - 150 East Fulton

160 - Westminster Pres - 47 Jefferson SE

1 - Diocese of GR - 360 South Division Ave

20 - Bethlehem Luth Church - 250 Commerce SW

27 - Calvin Coll Gallery - 106 South Division, Suite 1

34 - CODA - 44 South Division Ave

127 - Rockwell's Kitchen - 45 South Division Ave

123 - Pyramid Scheme - 68 Commerce SW

140 - Stella's Lounge - 53 Commerce SW

76 - Grid 70 - 70 Ionia SW

101 - McFadden's - 58 Ionia SW

9 - 25 Kitchen and Bar - 25 Ottawa SW

147 - The BOB - 20 Monroe NW

119 - Plaza Towers -- Eenhorn - 201 West Fulton

47 - Downtown Courtyard - 11 Monroe NW

84 - Huntington/ 50 Monroe - 50 Monroe NW

Thursday Afternoon

4 - GR Public Museum - 272 Pearl St NW

59 - Gerald Ford Museum - 303 Pearl NW

93 - Kent County Republicans - 725 Lake Michigan NW

110 - O'Toole's Public House - 448 Bridge NW

155 - Vander Hyde Mechanical - 1058 Scribner NW

29 - Carpe Diem Volleyball - 1010 Front NW

31 - City Art Gallery - 1168 Ionia NW

106 - Monroe Community Church - 800 Monroe NW

45 - DeVos Place - 303 Monroe NW

86 - Immanuel Lutheran Church - 2 Michigan NE

134 - Spectrum/Butterworth - 100 Michigan NE

135 - Spect./Lemmen Holton - 145 Michigan NE

On Wednesday, September 28th, and Thursday, September 29th, I plan to visit each work in ArtPrize that has a Kendall connection, starting with the work by outside artists who are exhibiting at Kendall itself. Most of the time, however, will be spent observing work—and when possible, visiting with artists—who are associated with Kendall, either by being current students, staff, faculty, alumni, including artists associated with Kendall through the Continuing Studies Program.

I will be touring ArtPrize because, on the simplest level, I love the excitement and diversity of ArtPrize—so many people looking at so much creative work. And I want to recognize and celebrate the Kendall people who are participating in ArtPrize. There are too many of them to try to hold a reception or a similar event—and besides, such an event asks busy and committed artists to come to me, whereas I would rather go to them.

I will be publishing an itinerary of the tour early next week. I will also announce when I am heading to a given venue or to the work of a given artist on Twitter and Facebook.

What if I don’t see my venue on the itinerary?

Send an email to hello@oliverhevans.com and let me know. You will be immediately added.

My hope is that some artists will meet me at their work so we can talk about their work and about ArtPrize itself.

If I meet you, what are you likely to ask me?

In addition to celebrating the quality of your work and simply discussing it, I am interested in how an artist decides to participate in ArtPrize, how much advance planning went into that decision, what was the process that led you to submit the work you chose, what expectations/hopes do you have of the audience for your work? And we might talk a little about ArtPrize and the democratization of art. ArtPrize is absolutely right when it says that the important thing is the conversation about art. So what I really seek is a brief conversation—preferably videoed with you and probably lasting fifteen to twenty minutes.

Last Wednesday, for example, I had the chance to start this kind of conversation with Jonathan Brilliant, who is showing in the Kendall Gallery. Tuesday was his last night in Grand Rapids; and his answers to my questions, his perceptions of ArtPrize, and his interest in being part of ArtPrize were intriguing and illuminating. I look forward to sharing them next week when the tour itself will appear in video, images, and text here on my Blog.

I am intrigued by the questions I just outlined and by the kind of conversation those questions can trigger. So I look forward to Observing ArtPrize in a very special way the middle of next week.

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- Oliver