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 or 'any' one you love
- 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!
WINNERS WILL BE READING AT THE GR TOWN HALL
- Sunday, April 19- 2:00
Grand Rapids Town Hall
2026 SUMMER ART CAMP
- June 8-12
- Old Fire Station
- Monday - Friday/Friday program at 11:00-11:30
- 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM daily
This year's theme: HAPPY BDAY AMERICA!
Teachers:
- Kirstina Roberts
- Halyley Babcock
2026 SUNSET JAZZ & ARTS FESTIVAL
- Sunday, August 16, 2 - sunset
last year's flyer
Plein Air painters have been invited to 'create' during the
jazz fest along the towpath and around the
charming areas of our village.
Join us on the Grand Rapids Towpath with Maumee River wildlife as your backdrop, and 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
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
During Rapids Rally Days
- Fri, Sat, Sun, July 7-12th
GRAC is bringing a street artist to the Kick-Off party; along
the towpath on Saturday, Towpath Radio & live music,
'Dougaritas', adult beverages, a corn-hole tournament
& food TBA.
WE INVITE 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 coming...
2026 GRAC Float-'Light up the Night'
- Saturday, December 12 @ 7:00
- Down Front Street in the Village
