Visitor Resources
Whoever you are and wherever you’re from, we want to welcome you to the celebration. ArtPrize aims to ensure your visit to the event and to downtown Grand Rapids is filled with discovery and inspiration.
Whether you’re a first-timer finding your bearings or a longtime ArtPrize visitor eager to see what's new, you'll find helpful resources here. Scroll down for information to help you plan and navigate your 2024 ArtPrize experience.
Plan Your Visit
Grand Rapids offers a wide range of lodging options, including different preferences and budgets for everyone who plans to stay in the city before, during, or after the event.
Experience Grand Rapids
Experience Grand Rapids has built a website that’s an excellent resource when planning your visit to the city. They offer information on Things To Do, Events, Restaurants, and Planning Your Stay. Their Restaurant page offers options for all cultures and experiences. And their hotel page features filters including Categories, Region, Rates Per Night, and the ability to narrow your search by exploring specific amenities.
To use this resource, visit the Experience Grand Rapids website.
Official Hotel Partners of ArtPrize:
Hotel Partner for Public Rates during ArtPrize:
Holiday Inn Grand Rapids Downtown
310 Pearl St. NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504
Phone: (616) 235-7611
Fax: (616) 459-4998
Offer Details:
Rates starting at $189 per night plus tax and fees. Guests will receive complimentary parking, Wi-Fi and area shuttle (2-mile radius of hotel).
Offer Term: April 23, 2024 to October 1, 2024
*Rates valid from September 9, 2024 - October 1, 2024
How to Claim: Book using the link provided or reference the ArtPrize public rate by phone during your booking.
Artprize Clubhouse
The ArtPrize ClubHouse (located at 61 Commerce Ave SW) is the central hub for visitors and artists. Inside, find merchandise, beverages, and art workshops, as well as friendly customer support at the Concierge. Participants can enjoy the amenities of the Artist Lounge, while those lending a hand for this year’s event can gather at the Volunteer Lounge.
Priceless Gallery
Presented by Haworth and supported by TiiCKER
The Priceless Gallery features a collection of entries curated by the ArtPrize Exhibitions Team. This exhibition explores the human experience through contemporary art and design. The ways in which we understand the world around us are priceless. How we contextualize our lived experiences is priceless. How we learn about ourselves and each other is priceless. How we grow and change is priceless. Art is a priceless expression of the enduring human experience. Even ArtPrize itself is… priceless.
This gallery space will also play host to numerous activations and events throughout the sixteen days of ArtPrize.
ArtPrize Concierge Desk
The Concierge Desk is designed to enhance the ArtPrize experience, offering resources, support, and a place to connect with the event before venturing through the districts and venues that reside in them.
ArtPrize Voting Kiosks
Voting kiosks are returning to ArtPrize! This year, we’ll have two kiosks available for visitors to register and vote, located on the first floor of the ArtPrize ClubHouse. We understand that not everyone enjoys using their mobile devices to cast their votes. For those who prefer a larger screen, we recommend starting at the ClubHouse to register and pick up a ballot to mark down your preferred entries.
On your way out, you can choose to stop by the ClubHouse to cast your votes or take the list home and vote later.
2024 Merchandise
We’ll have a variety of merchandise for purchase on the first floor of the ClubHouse. Stop by to discover limited edition items illustrated by Elijah Haswell, as well as 2024 merchandise and vintage collectibles.
Public Voting
Click here to view a short onboarding video for the voting webapp (no download required).
Why Is Voting Important?
The Grand Prize Award is determined by participants and the general public, who cast their votes on eligible ArtPrize entries. Voting spans across six categories of art and design throughout the duration of the event. This year, the Grand Prize is $125,000. In addition, ArtPrize will award $10,000 based on the top-voted entries within each of the six categories: 2D, 3D, Installation, Time-Based, New Media, and +Design.
Who Is Eligible to Vote?
Anyone 13 years or older is welcome to participate in the voting process. This means artists, venues, and the general public. There’s also a Juried Grand Prize and juried category awards granting additional monetary prizes.
When Is the Voting Window?
Voting will begin on September 13, 2024 at 12 p.m. and remain open until September 26 at 10 p.m.
How to Vote for ArtPrize Entries
To vote on ArtPrize entries, voters need to register. Registration can be done on either a mobile device within the ArtPrize Boundary, or in person at the ArtPrize ClubHouse. When registering at the ClubHouse, you’ll receive a physical ballot to keep track of votable artworks. Once registered, you can cast as many votes as you’d like and continue voting after leaving ArtPrize. Voters should be advised that while you can place unlimited votes on entries, you can only vote for those entries once per day. Once 24 hours have passed, you’ll be able to re-vote for them.
Click here to view a short onboarding video for our voting webapp (no download required).
Announcing Winners!
The prize winners will be announced at the Closing Ceremony on Sept, 27 starting at 7 p.m. They’ll also be listed on the website and in publications after the ceremony has concluded. All of the works will be left up to view until the end of the event on September 28, 2024.
PUBLIC AND JURIED AWARDS
All the buzz, all the excitement—all the creative energy crackling through venues and city streets—culminates in the awards themselves.
Artists are the beating heart that makes the ArtPrize experience possible, and one of the great joys of the event is recognizing their extraordinary talents and rewarding the most exceptional among them.
As an open, international art competition, our core mission is to elevate and celebrate amazing art, making Grand Rapids a premier destination for the arts community. This year, we’ll honor outstanding artists by awarding a total of $390,000 in prizes.
Public Vote Grand Prize: $125,000
This is the headliner. The prize that gave ArtPrize its name.
Because the visitors who experience ArtPrize do so not only as spectators but as judges. They drive the conversation. They cast their votes. And from among all the entries across all the categories, they change the life of one gifted artist by choosing the one that wowed them the most.
The Grand Prize Award is determined by the general public who cast their votes on eligible ArtPrize entries spanning across all categories of art and design throughout the duration of the event, taking place September 13, 2024–September 28, 2024 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This is a publicly juried prize, recognizing the aesthetic opinion of over 700,000 attendees.
Public Vote Awards—Category: (6) $10,000 awards
From its inception, ArtPrize revolutionized the idea of an art festival by democratizing it. And that’s as true today as ever.
This year, we feature six categories of entries. That means the public will vote for its favorites in each, awarding six different prizes of $10,000. Art comes in many forms, and we’re here to celebrate a brilliant creative array.
ArtPrize will award $10,000 based on the top publicly voted entry within each of six categories: 2D, 3D, Installation, Time-Based, New Media, and +Design.
(For detailed category information, please visit our FAQ page.)
Artist to Artist Award: $10,000
Few things mean more than respect from one’s peers. Which is why we’re thrilled to bring back the Artist to Artist Award for 2024. This year’s cohort of artists will cast votes to recognize one of their own, conferring $10,000 to an entry of exceptional prowess.
Yes, ArtPrize is a competition. But at its heart it’s also a community.
ArtPrize creates a convergence of incredibly talented individuals from all over the world to share their creative visions with the public, the jury, and each other. ArtPrize is excited for this year’s cohort of artists and designers to cast their own votes and collectively confer one of their peers this $10,000 award in recognition of exceptional merit and skill.
Juried Visibility Awards: (5) $15,000 awards
Presented by:
ArtPrize is a platform on which artists and their work can be seen, appreciated, and celebrated. And we want that to be especially true for those from underrepresented communities.
The five Visibility Awards shine a spotlight on exceptional work by artists of diverse backgrounds. Selected by an equally diverse group of jurors, these awards strive to showcase the broad range of experience and expertise participants bring to enrich our annual event.
A select panel of jurists will recognize five entries by artists from underrepresented communities to be recognized for excellence in their work and exceptional execution of their vision. A representative group of national jurists will consider the work of all eligible entries—BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and artists with disabilities—to select five winning entries.
Juried Grand Prize: $50,000
Just as the public has its say, so do the experts.
We’re once again inviting a group of notables from the world of art to honor works of exemplary merit. And from among the elite works in each category, these experts will convene to determine a single winner—the best of the best—as the recipient of the $50,000 Juried Grand Prize.
Along with public and peer selected winning entries, ArtPrize engages a select group of notable critics, curators, educators, and gallerists to consider all entries and select one outstanding Artist’s work to be recognized as the Juried Grand Prize selection.
Juried Awards—Category: (6) $10,000 awards
For each of the six categories, one juror from that respective field—a critic, curator, educator, or gallerists—will select a work of exemplary merit for a $10,000 prize.
Sometimes, the public and the experts agree on a work of art. Sometimes, they don’t. But the conversations that arise among all involved are an invaluable feature of the ArtPrize experience.
Jurors within their respective field of artistic expertise will select winners who are outstanding within each category to be recognized with a $10,000 award and recognition of artistic excellence.
The categories are as follows. (For more detailed category information, visit our FAQ page.)
2-D – Entries that exist primarily on a flat plane
3-D – Entries that occupy space and are intended to be viewed from multiple angles
Time-Based – Entries that are durational and change over time
Installation – Entries that are dependent on the site in which they are installed
New Media – Entries that are created using a wide range of emerging digital art technologies
+Design – Entries that are physical expressions of purpose with the intent to impact the way life is experienced
Outstanding Venue Award: $10,000
The annual ArtPrize event is really a constellation of venues, and this year, we want to recognize the brightest star among them. A $10,000 award will go to the venue that best displays thoughtful curation, features talented artists from across categories, and that uses their space in ways that encourage delight and discovery for visitors.
While ArtPrize jurors tour the city looking for the best entries to award prizes, they'll also look for the most Outstanding Venue. That means looking for venues that display thoughtful curation, engaging talented artists across all categories, and exemplify the spirit of ArtPrize—a creative use of space that displays sheer visual talent and spurs discovery.