grand rapids art museum

Two Grand Rapids museums are working to help the victimes of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy.The Grand Rapids Children's Museum and the Grand Rapids Art Museum are both giving a portion of their admission proceeds this Saturday to help build a museum in Newtown.

A fun-filled evening for the family is planned for November 30th to kick off the holiday season in Rosa Parks Circle. A few of downtown's most popular holiday events (the GRAM Tree Lighting, the opening of Rosa Parks Circle Ice Rink, and the free horse-drawn carriage rides) will be combined to make it into an event to truly kick off the holiday season in Grand Rapids.

The Grand Rapids Symphony Women’s Committee this week will unveil “Encore!” a beautiful new coffee table book celebrating the arts, life and food in Grand Rapids.

The Grand Rapids Art Museum is opening an exciting exhibit today, "Real/Surreal." Grand Rapids is the first city of several cities that will show the exhibition, part of a three-year partnership between the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, and the Grand Rapids Art Museum.

It's time for another Grand Rapids FREE 4 All!  A few months ago we you about the first Free 4 All that happened in January, and I am happy to tell you that it was a GREAT success! All of Grand Rapids was invited to take advantage of FREE ADMISSION to  4 Grand Rapids museums in the month of January. The tally at the end of the the very first Free 4 All was 14,000 people.  The second one was just a

For many years my wife Kathy and I loved spending time in the Grand Rapids Art Museum.  That's the "old" art museum, the Old Federal Building.  In it's past lives it had served as a court house, post office, government office building and, lastly, for years, the home of the Grand Rapids Art Museum before it moved to it's beautiful new building on Monroe at Rosa Parks Circle.

Kids say the darnedest things, didn't last years headliner Bill Cosby say something like that?  We've been seeing a lot of adult humor but are you ready for the kids to take the stage?  Ready or not, it's happening Sunday at the Grand Rapids Art Museum...

More good news for those of us who are short on cash but still love a culturally enriching experience!   Frederik Meijer Gardens, The Henry Ford Museum and six more Michigan museums and cultural destinations are free to all Bank of America customers this weekend...

Hard to believe it's already here but it is!  Venue registration opened yesterday, March 14th and continues through April14th, 5pm EST. Artist registration opens Monday, April 18th and continues though June 16th, 5pm EST.   ArtPrize 2011 dates to mark on your calendar are September 21-October 9th...

Well, Dan and Nick were in town last week from England to do a story on Diana, A Celebration.  This was the Sold Out exhibition that Pamela DeVos brought to the Grand Rapids Art Museum.  Dan, the camera guy, and Nick visited with me in the studio last week...

(The video is dark in the beginning but lightens up...)  Behind the scenes!  Thanks to Niki Bloem for filming them filming me;) How exciting was this today! Nick Dixon, a correspondent with Daybreak Television Show in London, England on ITV, stopped by 100...

It’s 100.5 The River’s Royal January! All month long, The River welcomes “Diana, A Celebration” an exhibition at the Grand Rapids Art Museum now through February 16th! Win tickets...  and get registered to win a trip to London!