“I Have Autism, But Autism Doesn’t Have Me.” Walker Aurand said, “I think I’m ready. I think I’m ready to let kids my age know that I have autism, but autism doesn’t have me…” Walker wrote the paper on living with autism—and soon he had an opportunity to share his story with an even larger…
ArtPrize Seven (2015): Hometown Hero is being privately shown this week, and a select group of veterans will have the opportunity to sign an additional panel that has been added to the work.
We are so excited. ArtPrize Eight visitors voted Color Me Orange—Color Me Kind into the Top 25 Time-Based! Thousands have interacted with our anti-bullying entry Color Me Orange—Color Me Kind at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum. 100,000 ribbons have been tied onto the artwork to illustrate solidarity in the movement to eliminate bullying. By…
Thank you to the thousands of ArtPrize visitors for helping us to successfully complete our eight years of ArtPrize. It has been an amazing journey. I would like to acknowledge and thank over fifty volunteers—plus the Girl Scouts of Michigan Shore to Shore. You did a fabulous job serving the ArtPrize guests and showing compassion.…
The first half of this video features Pamela Alderman and Girl Scout volunteers talking about Color Me Orange—Color Me Kind during an interview with WOTV’s Maranda and the impact the installation had at ArtPrize and on the Girl Scouts themselves as they handed out orange ribbons to the public.
Violet, 7 When I was playing outside, a girl told me to do a backbend. I said, “No!” But she said, “Do it now.” I kept saying “No.” Finally, I said, “If you stop bullying me, I will do a backbend.” Then she stopped so I did a backbend. A special thank you to the…