Arts

A really cool and exciting event is back at The Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA).Its their 15th annual Live Coverage event presented by Wolverine Worldwide, on March 11, 2016, from 7 – 11 pm, at the Michigan art center’s spacious galleries at 2 Fulton West in Grand Rapids.

Anila Quayyum Agha’s "Intersections" won the Public Vote and was co-winner of the Juried Grand Prize at ArtPrize 2014. The popular entry is heading to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., just north of Boston. "Intersections" was also recently featured by National Geographic.

We made it! Oscar nominations day has finally arrived, putting to rest all of your endless predictions about the most ambiguous awards season in decades, until, of course, we start prognosticating about the nominees. The 2016 Oscar nominations will be announced at 8:30 a.m. E.T. and you can watch them live below.

Are you a singer, dancer, solo, group, choir, whatever? Do you have a desire to be on the "big stage?" Festival of the Arts 2016, the annual first of June entertainment and food extravaganza in Grand Rapids is accepting applications from all hopeful performers, but the deadline is near.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has announced applications are being accepted for the Porcupine Mountains Artist-in-Residence Program for the 2016 spring, summer and fall and 2017 winter residencies.

The Detroit News reports that artist Katherine Craig is suing building owner, Princeton Enterprises, to ensure that her 100-by-125-foot mural is protected at 2937 East Grand in Detroit. Princeton Enterprises is considering redeveloping the property on which Craig created The Illuminated Mural in 2009.

The producers of the national tour of THE BOOK OF MORMON, and Broadway Grand Rapids announced that single tickets for the Grand Rapids engagement at DeVos Performance Hall, will go on sale February 1st at 10:00 a.m.

Another exciting concert for Grand Rapids. Four internationally renowned pianists from The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will perform in concert at St. Cecilia Music Center on Thursday, January 21st entitled “Piano Extravaganza”. Two pianos will be played by multiple pianists throughout the performance. In Bartok’s The Miraculous Mandarin for Piano, Four Hands, Op. 19, two pianists will

Grand Rapids Festival of the Arts is now accepting applications for music, theatre and dance performances.

Angela Bassett, America Ferrera, Chloë Grace Moretz and Dennis Quaid have just announced the nominations for the 73rd annual Golden Globe Awards, which will be held January 10th at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles and broadcast live on NBC. Ricky Gervais will host. Denzel Washington will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award.

Broadway Grand Rapids is excited to announce that after six successful years on the road, Blue Man Group will circle the United States one more time and return to Grand Rapids on February 2nd and 3rd.

The Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA) will present Coming Home: Jerry Gretzinger opening this Saturday, November 21, 2015 – February 28, 2016. The centerpiece of the exhibition, Jerry’s Map, is a massive map created with a variety of mediums and dictated by an elaborate set of rules and randomly generated instructions created by Gretzinger himself.