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Website. festivalgr.org. The Festival of the Arts – known locally as simply Festival, typically with the year added (e.g. "Festival 2005") – is a three-day multimedia arts festival, held annually at the La Grande Vitesse sculpture in Grand Rapids, Michigan on the first Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of June. The event is free and open to all.
Rosa Parks Circle (2006) Rosa Parks Circle is a plaza located in the heart of Grand Rapids, Michigan. [1] During the warmer months it is a multipurpose facility, acting as a venue for events like concerts [2] or dances put on by the Grand Rapids Original Swing Society (GROSS). [3] In the winter the Circle is converted to an ice rink. [4]
Photo by Michael Moran. Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is a 158-acre (64 ha) botanical garden, art museum, [3] and outdoor sculpture park located in Grand Rapids Township, Michigan, United States. Opened in 1995, Meijer Gardens quickly established itself in the Midwest as a major cultural attraction jointly focused on horticulture and ...
artprize.org. ArtPrize is an art competition and festival in Grand Rapids, Michigan. [1] Anyone over the age of 18 can display their art, and any space within the three-square-mile ArtPrize district can be a venue. There are typically over 160 venues such as museums, galleries, bars, restaurants, hotels, public parks, bridges, laundromats, auto ...
La Grande Vitesse, a public sculpture by American artist Alexander Calder, is located on the large concrete plaza surrounding City Hall and the Kent County Building in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Popularly referred to as simply "the Calder", since its installation in 1969 it has come to be a symbol of Grand Rapids, and an abstraction ...
Description. Heritage Hill is adjacent to downtown Grand Rapids and is the city's oldest residential district. Its 1,300 homes date from 1843 and represent Michigan's largest and finest concentration of nineteenth and early twentieth-century houses. Nearly every style of American architecture, from Greek Revival to Prairie is represented.
Statue of John Ball in Grand Rapids. The original 40 acres (160,000 m 2) was donated to the city by noted pioneer and explorer John Ball upon his death in 1884. Shortly after, another 100 acres (0.40 km 2) was added and this marked the beginning of additional amenities, including ponds, a theater, a band shell, playgrounds, ball fields, trails, and the zoo.
Meyer May House. The Meyer May House is a Frank Lloyd Wright -designed house in the Heritage Hill Historic District of Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the United States. It was built in 1908–09, and is located at 450 Madison Avenue SE. It is considered a fine example of Wright's Prairie School era, and "Michigan's Prairie masterpiece". [1][2]