ArtPrize winners announced

TO FOX-17-ONLINE DOT COM.IT’S WHAT ARTISTS HAVE WAITEDNEARLY TWO WEEKS TO HEAR.THE WINNERS OF ARTPRIZE ARE NOWOUAND PRIZES RANGE FROM 2-GRANDALL THE WAY UP TO 50-THOUSANDDOLLARS.NATS?A BIG NIGHT IN GRAND RAPIDS ASARTPRIZE GETS READY TO WRAP UP.THE OFFICIAL CLOSING CELEBRATIONHELD FRIDAY NIGHTT ATHEATRIUM AT UCCELLOS.MAYBE SOT?THE VIEWG INPARTY GAVE PEOPLETHE CHANCE TO MEET AND GREET THEWINNERS.AND HERE THEY ARE..BRIAN WHITFIELD’S "PLANTED BYTHE SACRED STREAMS OF GRACE" AWINNER IN THE CONTEMPORARY BLACKART AWARD.HE’LL GET $2,0.00"ILE ITAJA - SHOPPINGLIST" ALSOWON IN THAT CATEGORY FORANOTHER 2-GRAND.THERE WERE ALSO TWO WINNERS FORTHE ASIAN ART AWARD."PAPER CINDERELLA" BY MICHALOVERHOLTS..AND "BEFORE YOU GO" ASUBMISSION FROM CHRISTIANREICHLE AND MONICA PRITCHARD.BOTH WIN $2,0.00$2,000LSO AGOES TO "GUARDIAN OFSACRED SPACE" FOR THE ARTISTALATINO ARD.WARUSSELL COOPER ALSO WINS2-GRAND IN THE SAME CATEGORYOR F"THE 20THS OF JANUARY LUNARECLIPSE OVER JANUARY LUNAR"THE 20THS OF CATEGORY FOR INTHE SAME ALSO WINS 2-GRANDRUSSELL COOPER LATINO AWARD.FOR THE ARTISTA SACRED SPACE" TO"GUARDIAN OF SACRED SPACE" FORTHE ARTISTA LATINO AWARD.RUSSELL COOPER ALSO WINS2-GRAND IN THE SAME CATEGORY FOR"THE 20THS OF JAARNUY LUNARECLIPSE OVER GRAND RAPS".IDFOR THE 2-D JURIED AWARDT-J LICK IS RUNNER UP WITH "ASKTHE ANALS IMAND THEY WILL"THAT EARNED THE SUBMISSION25-HUNDRED DOLLARS.AND THE WINNER FOR A10-THOUSAND DOLLAR PRIZE..

WAS"AGING OUT/18 YEARS OLD"HIGHLIGHTING CHALLENGES KIDSFACE WHEN THEY LEAVE THE FOSTERCARE SYSTEM.IN THE 3-D JURIED AWARDCATEGORY..RUNNER-UP..

"SWORD IN THESPHINX" EARNED 25-HUNDREDDOARS.LLAND HOLLY ROSS’S "SOAKED" CAMEOUT ON TOP WITH THE 10-THOUSANDDOLLAR PZE.RIA CERAMIC PIECE MIMICKING AWET CARDBOARD X.BOFOR THE INSTALLATION JURDIEAWARD."ILE ITAJA SHOPPINGLIST" WASTHE RUNNER-UP..

BRINGING IN$2500.WHILE 10-GRAND WAS GIVEN TO"PROJECT UNI TY10 MILESF OTRACK INNE D OAY."A VIDEO PROJECTION OF CHINESEMIGRANTS MEMORIALIZING THESILENT WORKERS WHO LAID RAILROADTRACKS IN UTAH.FOR THE TIME-BASED JURIED AWARDN "IMY DREAMS WE LEVITATE" WASTHE RUNNER UP EARNGNI25-HUNDRED DOLLARS.WHILE STEPHEN SMITH’S "ART POD"WON THE CATEGORY BRINGING IN10-GRAND.HE TURNED AN OLD SHIPPINGCONTAINER INTO A MICRO GALLE RYWITH MULTIPLE INSTALLATIONS.JIMMY COBB’S "LAKESHORE DRIVE"WAS THE BIG DESIGN AND DRIVEWINNER.HIS AQUATIC LANDSCAPE PAINTINGON THIS CAR GOT HIM A 2-YREAHONDA LEASE.AND THE BIG -T50HOUSAND DOLLARGRAND PRIZE THIS YEAR..GOES TO CHRISTIAN REICHEL ANDMONICA PRITCHARD.FOR THEIR SUBMISSION - "BEFOREYOU GO"THE AUDIO-BASED INSTALLATIONCOMPILED A SERIES OF INTERVIEWSFROM PEOPLE AROUND GRAND RAPIDSAND THE COUNTRY.PEOPLE COULD LISTEN TO TIRHERECORDINGS IN A PHONE BOOTHCOVERING A WIDE RANGE OF TOPICSFROM LIFE AND DEATH, HOPES ANDDREAMS AND REGRETS.WE CAUGHT UP WITH THE BIGWINNERS AFTER THEANNOUNCEMENT.WHO Y SATHE IDEA CAME ABOUTTWO YEARS AGO.11:51 " mMyom had been workingat a law fm anird they did a lotof estate planning working witholder clients and we were alsogoing through a death of one ofour family members.

And so wewanted to encourage empowerpeople to tell stories, rmalnopeople, regular people, to telltheir story and to encouragethem to ask questions ofhepeople around them and that’where it started from."YOU CAN CHECK OUT ALL THE ARTTHIS WEEKEND.ARTPRIZE OFFICIALLY WRAP