Sneak Preview of the new UICA
Grab your hardhat and tag along with Brian Kelly and Jeffrey Meeuwsen as they tour the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts museum that is under construction at the corner of Division and Fulton streets in Grand Rapids. When it’s done in September in time for ArtPrize, the museum will immerse people everyday in art.
The new Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts museum will make an offer hard to refuse: an open invitation to engage in art — indoors and out, 24/7. Anyone strolling between downtown Grand Rapids clubs and restaurants will be able to peer through the museum’s fascade to see artists working at all hours of the day, says UICA Executive Director Jeffrey Meeuwsen. Inside will be equally inviting with an emerging artists gallery, theater for film and four-story atrium. Take a hard hat tour with Meeuwsen and UICA board member Brian Kelly and use your imagination on how the beams and concrete today will someday be a showpiece art museum.
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