Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2012

ArtPrize , the grandaddy of visitor voting, just completed its fourth year in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This citywide festival showcased work by 1,517 artists competing for a $200,000 top cash prize awarded by public vote. 1,708 artists participated. Five artists out of sixty in the show were short-listed by a jury.

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Arts Artist Museum Award 47

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

A cheerful curly-haired deli owner stands in front of 30 of us and shares a quote he loves: "Artists live in the present and write detailed histories of the future." Last week, I attended a workshop on Creating a Vision of Greatness at ZingTrain , the training arm of Zingerman's Deli, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. WHAT IS A VISION?

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History Pennsylvania Michigan Indiana 26

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

It's like a giant, free, no-holds-barred focus group that represents a true range of arts users and non-users. Here are three of those assumptions and their substantiation in the Detroit Free Press: The arts are a private matter: Arts are about individual tastes, experiences and enrichment, and individual expression by artists.

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Detroit Arts Public Support 49