GRAND RAPIDS ARTS COUNCIL EVENTS
2025 EASTER EGG HUNT
Saturday, April 12
Grand Rapids Care Center
Children hunt for Easter Eggs filled with candy by the residents. We give away art-related baskets to winners
10:00 AM. We sponsor this with
2025 GRAC POETRY CONTEST
- Read your own poem or one you love
- Read song lyrics that mean a lot to you!
WINNERS READING AT THE GRAND RAPIDS TOWN HALL
Sunday, April 13 at 2:00
Grand Rapids Town Hall
2025 SUMMER ART CAMP
June 9-13
Old Fire Station
Monday - Friday/Friday program at 11:00-11:30
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
This year's theme: Up-cycled Art
Teachers are educators
2024 SUNSET JAZZ & ARTS FESTIVAL
Sunday, August 18, 2 - sunset
Join us on the Grand Rapids Towpath with Maumee River wildlife as your backdrop, and listen to soothing jazz music.
Jazz performances line-up:
Lake Erie Jazz Band: 2:30-3:15
Morgen Hammer Quintet: 3:30-4:30
The 6th Edition: 4:45 - 5:45
Keigo Hirakawa: 6:00 to D
Bring lawn chairs/blankets; please leave coolers at home; adult beverages, sodas, water, & food will also be available; the festival also hosts a juried art show; admission is free.
Apply to be a juried artist for the Jazz Fest
by contacting us on our GRAC FB page-
read 'Call to Artists' flyer above.
2023 PIANO PAINTING
*have fun looking at all the little pictures
2025 Pop-Up Art Gallery
Thursday, May 23
4:00-8:00 PM
Area artists display and sell art to visitors at the Thompson Stone Hall Otsego Park. Plein air artists will also paint in the area around the Stone Hall Hors D'ours are provided- wine & beer for sale as people stroll the artists' works.
Otsego Thompson Stone Hall, 20000 W. River Rd., Bowling Green (at the junction of #235 & #65) on the beautiful Maumee River.
2025 Rapids Rally Days
July 11, 12 & 13
GRAC is bringing a street artist on Friday to the the
Kick-Off party; a street artist along the towpath on
Saturday, Towpath Radio & live music, adult
beverages, a corn-hole tournament & Fernando's
Mexican Cuisine.
PLEIN AIR HISTORY 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.
2025 Harvest Moon Benefit for the Arts
October
or November (date TBD)
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
- Silent Auction
- Nazareth Hall
(award Volunteer of the Year)
Last year's flyer below
2024 Entertainment was the wonderful Dueling Pianos!
2024 GINGERBREAD HOUSE DECORATING
Pics from past years in the Gallery (upper right)
EVERY YEAR DURING CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE
Saturday, November 16
Noon - 2:00 PM
The Old Fire Station
-115 houses were made last year
2025 GRAC Float-'Light up the Night' Parade
Saturday, December 13
7:00
Down Front Street in the Village
