ArtPrize

Today, a conversation with multidisciplinary artist Jeffrey Augustine Songco about his conceptual approach to art, his family, and inspiration.

Today, how community resources have improved for rural Michiganders dealing with opioid addiction. Then, we meet a West Michigan sculpture and portraiture artist, whose work was recently in the Gerald R. Ford International Airport. Plus, how an Ability Garden in Traverse City is offering kids with disabilities services they miss during summer break. Additionally, we revisit a conversation with BMX freestyle Olympian Hannah Roberts.

Piles of federal cash await economically stressed Michigan renters—do they know how to get it? Also, what one Grand Rapids artist learned from listening in, and Rashaun Rucker’s new exhibition channels the surveillance and vulnerability experienced by Black men and pigeons.

The popular Grand Rapids ArtPrize event has returned after a COVID hiatus with major changes to award voting. Plus, a spotlight on one of this year's artists, Tiffany Manning, who collected 100 local women's stories for the Feminine Soul Project.

Today on Stateside, what election day looks like on the other side of the Detroit River. Also, the Mackinac Policy Conference gets underway, hoping to show Michigan can still get along. And we check in with Art Prize in Grand Rapids.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan and a Grand Rapids-based organization are planning to file a formal complaint of discrimination…

The Grand Rapids Art Prize festival will no longer be an annual event after this fall. In 2019 and every alternating year afterward, there will be a…

Stateside loves to hear from listeners with ideas for stories and people we should cover. Here's a great tip we got from Stateside listener, George…

Each time a show opened at the Ann Arbor Civic Theatre, Alexandra Berneis would send an email. As the theater's executive director, Berneis had a strong…

Downtown Grand Rapids will surely be less busy now that the ninth annual Grand Rapids ArtPrize competition is over.Artists from all over the world come to…