As we anticipated, the ArtPrize team is scrambling around like a bunch of ants to take care of anything and everything that pops up (or drops out, like the servers for our website did temporarily at 4PM Wednesday). There is so much going on. Inevitably, I’m going to miss some of it while I’m busy explaining something like text voting. Enter Nicole Caruth.

Nicole is a freelance writer and curator living in New York and a frequent contributor to the Art21 blog. She’s agreed to be our hired gun for this blog. For the next week, she’ll walk around, observe, listen and write about her experience here. It’s not been 24 hours since Nicole arrived in Grand Rapids, but she’s determined to get oriented and see everything offered this first week of ArtPrize.

Nicole’s thoughts and opinions are her own and in no way represent an endorsement or objection from ArtPrize toward an individual artist or venue.

Look for Nicole’s posts about ArtPrize here on the blog.

Nicole’s bio:
Nicole J. Caruth is a freelance writer and curator based in Brooklyn. She frequently contributes to the Art21 blog, where she writes a monthly column about the intersections of art and food; and …might be good, a contemporary art e-journal produced by Fluent~Collaborative. Her writing has been published by the Studio Museum in Harlem; Taipei Fine Arts Museum; CUE Art Foundation; the Center for Book Arts; NYFA Current, and Gastronomica among others. Recent curatorial projects include Near Sighted—Far Out, a video art festival for Harvestworks Digital Media Art Center; and Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection at the Brooklyn Museum. Visit her personal blog, www.sweetcontemporary.com.