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EVENTS

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


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 14 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


Last year's theme:  Critters by Our River


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.

 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

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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.

Letter to Pop-Up Gallery Artists/Application



  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


Sunday, October 25th or November 3 (date update soon)

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


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