ArtPrize - Sep. 23 - Oct. 8, 2009 - Grand Rapids, MI

About ArtPrizeĀ®

Designed as a very different art competition, the goal is for the general public and artists to collide, exchange ideas and come away changed.


2010 in brief

Grand Rapids, MI USA

September 22 - October 10

  • $449,000 prize ($250,000 to 1st place)
  • Top 10 entries receive a prize
  • Artists can submit one entry
  • Property in downtown Grand Rapids can be a venue
  • Venues choose the artists they exhibit
  • Anyone attending the event can vote
  • Winner is determined by public vote

ArtPrize = _______

Part arts festival, part social experiment--this international contest is decided solely by public vote.


The event is designed for you to take it into your own hands and make it what you want it to be.

The outcomes of ArtPrize are infinite. What will you bring to the equation?


You = Creator

ArtPrize is a platform for creation. The event's organizers are just a small part of the whole.


Everyone brings something unique to the table, and we're excited to see what you will bring.


Art = Community

Art is the focus of the competition, but the main event is community. Artists take over the city, visitors explore and new relationships form. Communities open to new ideas organically.


The community keeps growing, even after the event is over.

How will you be a part of it?

In 2009

449,000 dollars

334,219 votes cast

200,000 visitors

1,262 artists

159 venues

41 states/14 countries

16 days

What people said

There was something magical about how ArtPrize saturated the city with more than 1,200 pieces of new art and galvanized public conversation...

Mark Stryker, Arts Critic

DETROIT FREE PRESS



It will make the art world sit up... It will confuse the art world.

Peter Murray, Director of Yorkshire Sculpture Park

GOOD MAGAZINE



Every conversation I've had here for the past two weeks has been about art.

Dustin Dwyer, Michigan Radio Reporter

NEW YORK TIMES