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EVENTS

GRAND RAPIDS ARTS COUNCIL EVENTS

2024 EASTER EGG HUNT

Saturday,  March 23, 2024

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


2024 GRAC POETRY CONTEST/READING


  • Read your own poem or one you love
  • Read song lyrics that mean a lot to you!


GRAND RAPIDS TOWN HALL


Saturday,  May 4, 2024

Grand Rapids Town Hall

2:00 PM


2024 SUMMER ART CAMP

June 10-14, 2024

Old Fire Station

Monday - Friday/Friday program at 11:00

9:00 AM - 11:30 AM


Last year's theme:  Waters of the World 


Teachers are educators

       

2024 Sunset Jazz & Art Festival


Sunday, August 18,  2 - sunset

     

On the Grand Rapids Towpath


Live jazz performances include: 


  • 2:30 Scott Kretzer Quartet
  • 3:45 Organic Ingredients
  • 5:00 6th Edition
  • 6:15 "Jazz Giant" Gene Parker & Friends - to dusk


Leave coolers at home, bring lawn chairs/blankets.  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;

 click on the "down arrow icon" below.

 2024 APPLEBUTTER FESTIVAL


Sunday October 6, 2022

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM


  • Children's Entertainment on Front Street


2023 PIANO PAINTING

 *have fun looking at all the little pictures


2024 Pop-Up Art Gallery

Thursday,  May 23, 2024

4:00-8:00 PM


Area artists display and sell (If they choose) paintings/drawings to visitors at the Thompson Stone Hall Otsego Park.  Plein air artists will be invited to paint in the area around the Stone Hall and then sell their works.  Wine, beer and hors D'ours will be available 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.

Letter to Pop-Up Gallery Artists/Application



2024 PLEIN AIR ARTISTS

During Rapids Rally Days, July 12,13,14


Along the towpath & throughout the village

9:00 - 2:00

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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.




2024 HARVEST MOON GALA
(Benefit for the Arts)


Sunday, November 3

5:00 PM - 8:30  PM 

                                                                                                                                 

  • Silent Auction- our major fundraiser                                               
  • Nazareth Hall

         (award Volunteer of the Year that evening)

 

2024 Entertainment

Dueling Pianos

2024 GHOSTLY GILEAD 'REMASTERED'


We are doing this in tandem with the Town Hall Committee & Hocus Pocus in and around Halloween wknd- dates forthcoming


2024 GINGERBREAD HOUSE-MAKING 


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

2024 HONORARY Snowflakes

     We're tossing this idea around:

         HEARTS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY?


Otsego Food Pantry fundraiser


     Purchase a $5 snowflake?  heart? for friends or loved ones



THANK YOU EVERYONE!

  WE'VE RAISED 500.00 FOR THE OTSEGO FOOD PANTRY

FOR THE PAST 2 YEARS


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