GRAND RAPIDS ARTS COUNCIL EVENTS

2026 EASTER EGG HUNT

  • Saturday, March 28th- 10:00

        Grand Rapids Care Center


Sponsored by:

**The GR Care Center

**The GR Arts Council

**Elara Hospice

**Optum Insurance


Children hunt for over 1000 Easter Eggs filled with candy by the residents. We give away art-related baskets to winners

10:00 AM


2026 GRAC POETRY EVENT

       HAPPY 250TH AMERICA!


  • Read your own poem 
  • Even read song lyrics that mean a lot to you
  • We're exploring patriotic songs that were often written as poetry.
  • As we explore songs, we will explore patriotic artifacts and write short pieces about them to eventually read.
  • Thanks to Chuck Thomas, we're bringing back the 43522 poem!
  • Our themes: Independence, Patriotism, America, the Beautiful


WINNERS WILL BE READING AT THE GR TOWN HALL


  • Sunday, April 19- 2:00-3:30

            Grand Rapids Town Hall

2026 SUMMER ART CAMP

HAPPY BDAY AMERICA!

    AMERICAN ART

  • June 8-12
  • Old Fire Station
  • Monday - Friday/Friday program at 10:45-11:30
  • 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM daily


Teachers:

  • Kirstina Roberts
  • Halyley Babcock

       

2026 SUNSET JAZZ & ARTS FESTIVAL

  • Sunday, August 16, 2 - Sunset


Plein Air painters have been invited to 'create' during the

jazz fest along the towpath and around

charming areas of our village.

     

Join us on the Grand Rapids Towpath with Maumee River wildlife as your backdrop as you listen to soothing jazz music.  Bring lawn chairs/blankets; please leave coolers at home; adult beverages, sodas, water, & food will also be available; admission is free. 


                     2023 PIANO PAINTING

                                  Have fun looking at all the little pictures

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2026 Pop-Up Art Gallery

  • Thursday, May 14- 4:00-8:00


Public is welcome to come peruse art and maybe pick up a masterpiece for that hard-to-buy-for person!  Plein air artists will also paint along the Maumee River.  Hors D'ours are provided; live music is by Aaron Hertzfeld; wine & beer for sale as you stroll the artists' works.


Otsego Thompson Stone Hall, 20000 W. River Rd., B.G. 

  (corner of #235 & #65) on the beautiful Maumee River. 



Last year's flyer below

2026 Rapids Rally Days


Fri, July 10:

     GRAC is bringing Teeth, a street artist to the Kick-Off party; along the towpath. Tater is the live music; adult beverages. will be available; Food available from Snyders pizza & Barbecued beef sandwiches by Knuckleheads. $100 duck drop at 7.


Sat,July 11:

      GRAC is hosting a corn-hole tourney with a D.J.; adult beverages will be available. $1 buck a duck drop at 3.


  PLEIN AIR ARTISTS  The "Plein Air"  movement was pioneered

    by John Constable in Britain; then in 1860, it became fundamental to

    "impressionism".The popularity of painting en plein air (in open air)

    increased in the 1870s with the introduction of paints in tubes.


2026 Harvest Moon Benefit for the Arts

  • November 1, 5:30 PM - 8:30  


  • Silent Auction                                              
  • Nazareth Hall dinner
  • Entertainment TBA
  • Award Volunteer of the Year


Congrats to our volunteer year, last year, David Fowler-

Look in our gallery to see pics


This is last year's flyer

 2026 GINGERBREAD HOUSE DECORATING


  • Saturday, November 21st  DURING CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE
  • Noon - 2:00 PM
  • The Old Fire Station


 -120 houses were made last year


        This is a past flyer- newer flyer will be posted closer to the date...