ArtPrize at GRCC!

By Janelle Yahne
Library Circulation Associate

GRCC is hosting ArtPrize artists at the Spectrum Theater, Collins Art Gallery and Bostwick Commons this year. Cast votes for your favorite artists September 21st – 28th. Need help registering to vote? Visit artprize.org to learn how to register or visit the Exhibition Centers throughout the city. The Top 10 will be announced September 29th.

Below is a list of the artists being shown here at GRCC:
Bostwick Commons

• Caleb Brennan
  Work: coup de grace

Spectrum Theater

• Ed Moralez
  Work: THE JOURNEY and BLUE HARVEST
• Roger Brady Bell
  Work: Untitled
• Patrick Chandler
  Work: Army Men
• Viorel Lupu
  Work: Mermaids
• Michael Pergiel
  Work: 1989 Dodge Caravan
• Jennifer VanderPloeg
  Work: Kampioen
• Matthew Beresford
  Work: The Campau Preschool Alphabet
• Christopher Hoyt
  Work: Mustache Yourself
• Zach Tolan
  Work: The Starry Night
• Kimberly Angelwood
  Work: My Treasure
• Taylor Bishop
  Work: High Dynamic Range Photography
• Federal Public Defender Western District of Michigan
  Work: Whodunit
• Eli Messinger Platt
  Work: Fractured
• Daryl Bruischat
  Work: Not So Fast

Collins Art Gallery (4th Floor, Main Building)

• Erin Anderson
  Work: Abstract Thinker
• Sharon Pollice
  Work: Efflorescence of a Garden
• Victoria Mullen
  Work: Creator of All That Is
• Gabriel Craig
  Work: Forging Fanfare
• Clay Stauffer
  Work: El Pital Pueblo Cane Workers
• William Meese
  Work: Architecture of Utopia: Transcended
• Justin Kellner
  Work: Consecutive Realizations of a Fragmented Landscape
• Kent Wiejaczka
  Work: Ice Break-up on Lake Michigan from Empire Bluffs
• Juan Fernandez
  Work: Facade

Pulitzer Prize Winner to speak at GRCC

The Race and Ethnicity Conference, part of GRCC’s ongoing commitment to creating an appreciation for diversity and inclusiveness, will be held April 4-7, 2011. The keynote speaker is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson, whose topic is discussion of her book, The Warmth of Other Suns. This event will be held from 7:30-9:00 p.m., in the Spectrum Theater. Following the keynote, there will be a reception and book signing from 9:00-10:00 p.m. See http://tinyurl.com/Wilkerson-GRCC for articles and podcasts about Wilkerson and her work.