Avenue for the Arts hosts twelve local art Events year in Grand Rapids’ largest community art gallery, the 106 Gallery.

106 Gallery

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

April
GVSU Illustration Senior Exhibition
Opening Reception:
Friday 4/18 6–9pm

May
GRCC and KCAD Collaborative Student Show
Opening Reception: Friday 5/2 6–9pm

Main-ten-ance by Anthony Brazeau
Opening Reception: Thursday 5/15 from 5–9pm
Paintings and sculptures derived from the everyday materials of the maintenance worker in order to celebrate the nature of the job.

June
TBA

July
Critical Nostalgia
Opening Reception: Friday 7/11 6–9pm

August
Avenue for the Arts 20th Anniversary Exhibition
Opening Event: Friday 8/1 6pm

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Break IT Down | Make It Better

West Michigan’s longest-running professional development conference for artists is back on Friday Febuary, 28 from 10am–5pm. Tickets start at $45 and go on sale this January. The conference is organized through an ongoing partnership with Avenue for the Arts, ArtPrize, and AllArtWorks.

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Rapid Art Movement

Our one-of-a-kind arts festival returns in a whole new format.

Returning January 24–25, Rapid Art Movement is an arts festival that embraces the unique setting and culture of Grand Rapids. Passengers will board a DASH bus transformed through drawings, sculpture, poetry, and performance and take a ride like they’ve never experienced before. It’s all part of World of Winter, the largest winter festival in the US.

The event is free to attend. It runs six times and each run lasts approximately one hour:
Friday, January 24 at 5:30pm, 7pm, and 8:30pm.
Saturday, January 25
at 5:30pm, 7pm, and 8:30pm.
To attend, simply wait at the DASH stop along Monroe Ave at Rosa Park’s Circle.
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