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Who : Urban Institute for Contemporary Art

What : " ...a vibrant research and development center for the art of today and tomorrow."

Basically a center for all varieties of art including dance,
film, literature, music, performing arts, and visual arts.

Where : 41 Sheldon Boulevard SE
Grand Rapids Michigan 49503-4227

When : Sunday: Noon - 7PM
Monday: Closed
Tuesday - Saturday: Noon - 10PM

Why : Because besides being a fun place to experience the arts of Grand Rapids, they
can help you. Services they offer to the public include; Refugee Services, Grief & Loss
Therapy, Substance Abuse Treatment, Veteran's Services, and Buisness Retreats.

Becomming a member isn't that hard either.

But you don't have to be a member to attend any of these great upcoming events...

Films (with showtimes) :

2046

“A rare, sumptuous movie treat.” - San Francisco Chronicle

Showtimes
11/15 Tuesday - 4:30, 9:00 PM
11/16 Wednesday - 4:30, 9:00 PM
11/17 Thursday - 9:00 PM


The Baxter

“A tender love story and a dead-on lampoon of the genre” – Los Angeles Times

Showtimes
11/18 Friday – No Showings due to Art Battle 5
11/19 Saturday – 1:00, 5:00, 9:00 PM
11/20 Sunday – 1:00, 5:00 PM
11/21 Monday – 5:00, 9:00 PM
11/22 Tuesday - 5:00, 9:00 PM
11/23 Wednesday - 5:00, 9:00 PM
11/24 Thursday - 5:00, 9:00 PM


Grizzly Man

“A mesmerizing work of disturbing power and unease. “ – Entertainment Weekly

Showtimes
11/18 Friday – 1:00, 3:00, 5:00 PM
11/19 Saturday – 3:00, 7:00 PM
11/20 Sunday – 3:00, 7:00 PM
11/21 Monday – 7:00 PM
11/22 Tuesday - 7:00 PM
11/23 Wednesday - 7:00 PM
11/24 Thursday - 7:00 PM
11/25 Friday – 1:00, 5:00, 9:00 PM
11/26 Saturday - 1:00, 5:00, 9:00 PM
11/27 Sunday – 1:00, 5:00 PM
11/28 Monday – 5:00, 9:00 PM
11/29 Tuesday - 5:00, 9:00 PM
11/30 Wednesday - 5:00, 9:00 PM
12/1 Thursday - 5:00, 9:00 PM


Junebug

“Brilliantly detailed, richly painted portrait.” - Philadelphia Inquirer

Showtimes
11/25 Friday – 3:00, 7:00 PM
11/26 Saturday - 3:00, 7:00 PM
11/27 Sunday – 3:00, 7:00 PM
11/28 Monday – 7:00 PM
11/29 Tuesday - 7:00 PM
11/30 Wednesday - 7:00 PM
12/1 Thursday - 7:00 PM

Music :

CASTANETS
Performing Friday, November 18
8 PM

FLATLANDS COLLECTIVE
with special guests WINDY & CARL
Performing Saturday, December 10
8 PM

MI and L'AU
Performing Friday, February 3
8 PM

Visual Arts :

Interlubricous
Through November 26
New York artists Richard Metzgar and Paul Bartow both received their Masters of Fine Arts with an emphasis in painting from the Rochester Institute of Technology and will display a collaborative installation entitled Interlubricous in the Race Street Gallery beginning October 20 through November 26. This piece explores the relationships of objects in the world, addressing affect, movement and intensity. As pieces that simultaneously create and disrupt space, “hybrids and infections are allowed to contaminate utilitarian modalities, thereby informing a structure of becoming.” The folds of both three dimensional and two dimensional modalities into each other unleash contradiction, leaving voids where lines of leakage are explored. Interlubricous addresses the question of what it means to rethink structure as agency, or as something other than utility driven.


Leslie Kendall Rech
Through November 26
South Carolina artist and South Carolina State University Professor Leslie Kendall Rech is interested in methods through which a three-dimensional environment can strengthen visual metaphors. She will install a site-specific exhibition in UICA’s In Space beginning October 20 through November 26. Rech believes that when an artist provides a distinct context for their work, she/he offers clues to lives of objects within the artist’s own mind. Rech uses mixed media installation as a vehicle for concepts involving sexuality, gender, femininity, history, tradition, desire and visual pleasure.


Juan Garcia & Erika Hanson
Through November 26
A recent college graduate, Juan Garcia received his Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in drawing at Calvin College. Erika Hanson is currently attending Kendall College of Art and Design and is working on obtaining her Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in drawing, as well as a Bachelor of Science with an emphasis in art history. Garcia and Hanson will be working together to create a collaborative body of art that will be displayed in the Front Street Gallery from October 20 through November 26. In these narrative drawings, the artists use ambiguous narrative elements to create a sort of alternate universe and a sense of allegory. The viewer is able to accept traditional pictorial elements such as landscapes or basic figures, but yet sense that something else may also be going on. Often depicting dark themes, these minimalist drawings provoke a sense of mystery by offering viewers several interpretations of the work.

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