UICA: Live Coverage 2017
See Pamela paint live with her hands. Don’t miss Live Coverage at the UICA on Friday, March 31, 2017 from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
UICA Members: $10
General Public: $25
Dress: 70’s Flair
An ArtPrize Artist’s Journey and Live Painting with Pamela Alderman
Spring Luncheon at Calvin College, Wednesday, March 29, 2017
ArtPrize has opened surprising doors for artist Pamela Alderman. Over the past eight years, her interactive exhibits have touched thousands of visitors with the message of hope and healing. Pamela creates unique exhibits that focus on the viewers and their needs. Every year visitors express appreciation for the sacred space to talk about their stories.
Alderman’s presentation will include an inside look of creating her 2016 ArtPrize installation called Color Me Orange—Color Me Kind where visitors tied 100,000 orange ribbons as a promise to be kind in addition to a live painting demonstration with her hands.
Spring luncheon and presentation
Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at noon
Calvin College Chapel Undercroft
3201 Burton Street SE
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49546
Cost: $19.00
Call (616) 526-8777 or email call@calvin.edu
Healing in Arts at Calvin Noontime Series
Art has the unique potential to touch deep places within the human spirit. ArtPrize artist Pamela Alderman seeks just that: “to enter into the hearts of the wounded.” Her mission that focuses on the viewers and their needs through interactive art is unique and compelling. Dozens of stories have been captured within her healing spaces as people identify their struggles and release their hurts.
Alderman’s presentation will include highlights from her eight-year ArtPrize journey—where over 100,000 people have encountered art’s healing catalyst within her work—and a short video filmed in Phoenix during the 2015 Super Bowl at her sex trafficking art installation. By creating meaningful installations about challenging issues like cancer, autism, or sex trafficking, Alderman’s art invites transformation and hope.
Healing in Arts: A Pathway to Flourishing by ArtPrize artist Pamela Alderman
Noontime Series
Thursday, February 23, 2017 at 12-1 PM
Free one-hour program
Calvin College Chapel
3201 Burton SE • Grand Rapids, MI 49546
ArtPrize Mockup at Museum School
Don’t miss this great opportunity for fun and learning! Pamela will be teaching a middle school art class at the Grand Rapids Public Museum School. For this art-making adventure, students will be guided through the steps of creating an ArtPrize installation—including a mini ArtPrize exhibit for family and friends on the last day of class.
Grand Rapids Public Museum School
January 12, 2017 through April 20, 2017
Celebrating Our Hometown Heroes
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.
Healing in Arts Featured at Q Commons
In 2006, while attending the Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College, I met—would you believe?—Makoto Fujimura. In his book signing line, I showed him my out-of-date Xerox portfolio. Mako kindly leafed through the poorly printed images and said something that changed my paradigm: “Your art speaks of healing.” Within five minutes, Mako named my calling, though, at the time, I didn’t fully understand what he meant.
Ten years, and eight years of ArtPrize later, since Fujimura first empowered my creativity, thousands of visitors have encountered art’s healing catalyst. By creating meaningful installations about challenging issues like autism or sex trafficking, my interactive installations have helped people process pain and experience healing.
Join us for Q Commons at the Calvin College Ladies Literary Club on Thursday, October 13. Hear how “Healing in Arts” is creating community with a new paradigm for art making. We can hardly wait to debut a new addition to ArtPrize 2014: The Scarlet Cord collection.
Healing in Arts: A Pathway to Flourishing
By Artist Pamela Alderman
Calvin Ladies Literary Club
61 Sheldon Blvd SE, Grand Rapids
Thursday, October, 13, 2016
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
ArtPrize 8: Color Me Orange—Color Me Kind
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can…Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can… Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kindness matters. The paintings of the koi fish swimming against the strong currents in Color Me Orange—Color Me Kind depicts our struggles with difficult relationships. No one is immune from hate. The words “Stop bullying” don’t cause change. But words like “Be kind” empower us to bring out the best in others. Deliberate small acts of kindness—like encouragement, forgiveness, and love—display strength.
Color Me Orange—Color Me Kind invites visitors to tie an orange ribbon on a mesh canvas representing our commitment to live by the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” If we choose to treat others with kindness—even those hard to like or who are different—we are swimming upstream. When kindness colors over hate, we can impact our culture with the message of love and healing.
I would like to thank Macy’s at the Woodland Mall for showcasing one of the Color Me Orange—Color Me Kind paintings during ArtPrize 8.
Color Me Orange—Color Me Kind
Coloring with Kindness
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum
September 21 to October 9, 2016
Vote 62626
(Located outside on the museum plaza)
Tell Us Your Story. #ColorMeKind