Can’t Stand the Midwest: Best of 2018
Favorite albums of 2018: Exploded View - Obey (Sacred Bones)We almost missed Exploded View in Detroit. We walked into the venue as they were playing. Not enough people were paying attention. The [Read more...]
Visual Arts
A Walk With Jeff Martin
Last fall, Andy Warhol had been dead for thirty years, eight months, and thirty days when Jeff Martin and I examined the timeline on the wall of the Grand Rapids Art Museum. It prefaced their exhibit [Read more...]
Palatte Art & Coffee Interview Series: Jesse Wallace
By Jess Kwiatkowski This is the last article in a series featuring the artists in PaLatte Art & Coffee from 4/06/18 to 06/30/18. Read the introduction and first article here. Jesse Wallace [Read more...]
Palatte Art & Coffee Interview Series: Haley Ellis
By Jess Kwiatkowski This is the fourth article in a series featuring the artists in PaLatte Art & Coffee from 4/06/18 to 06/30/18. Read the introduction and first article here. Haley Ellis [Read more...]
Palatte Art & Coffee Interview Series: Cassidy Villanos
By Jess Kwiatkowski This is the third article in a series featuring the artists in PaLatte Art & Coffee from 4/06/18 to 06/30/18. Read the introduction and first article here. Cassidy [Read more...]
PaLatte Art & Coffee Interview Series: Michi Farias
By Jess Kwiatkowski PaLatte Coffe & Art is a cozy café located on Fulton St between Jefferson & La Grave in downtown Grand Rapids. The menu offers both traditional coffees and teas [Read more...]
Featured Artist & Poet: Justin Rogers
Matilda visits a Well of Empty Buckets "They’re all still alive in you." - Taylor Steele Scene - Matilda can’t clean the house in the [Read more...]
Crossworm – “Drowning In Restricted Thought”
Crossworm is almost annoyingly talented. Musician, artist, poet, and essayist, he’s seemingly a potential threat in almost any artistic medium you drop him into. To that end, in what I can only [Read more...]
Whitney Becker: Digital Artist Q&A
Q: Tell me a little bit about the site and some of your work you have been doing? A: My website happened when I realized how I could be putting my skills to use for local artists and entrepreneurs [Read more...]