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• Josiah Willink (who finished #4 in the competition), a senior at City High Middle School, who is considering art education as a major. He explains in detail his work titled "Sunclimbers."

• Art teacher Marci Hanley of University Preparatory Academy, who had two students who made the Top 20. She explains the SmartArt competition.
• Winner Joshua Kortenhoven joins in next to talk about his winning artwork.
• Art teacher Teagan Burns of Museum High School, whose student Mathew Pierce was the People's Choice winner, talks about how important it is for students to be validated

• Art teacher Marci Hanley of University Preparatory Academy, who had two students who made the Top 20. She explains the SmartArt competition.
• Winner Joshua Kortenhoven joins in next to talk about his winning artwork.
• Art teacher Teagan Burns of Museum High School, whose student Mathew Pierce was the People's Choice winner, talks about how important it is for students to be validated.
• And Josiah Willink (who finished #4 in the competition), a senior at City High Middle School, who is considering art education as a major. He explains in detail his work titled "Sunclimbers."

• Quinlyn Angstman, Connected, 9th, Museum HS
• Zy'Aira Blackmon, If I Could Wear It On My Shell, 9th, Innovation Central
• Alice Cork, A Better Future, 10th, City HMS
• Imoni Curry, Healing, 9th, U-Prep
• Yoselin Diaz-Deleon, Imagine, 11th, C.A. Frost
• Jacey Doyle, Reusable Energy, 11th, Museum HS
• Amelia Ferenczi, Military vs. Future, 9th, Union
• Chloe Gust, Reaching for the Sun, 10th, C.A. Frost
• A'Nyah Harris, Just Another Rainforest of the Sea, 9th, Museum HS
• Carneiscia Harris, Power Cleaner Greener World, 11th, Innovation Central
• Precious Herrera, Una Hermosa Bendicion, 11th, Southwest MHS
• Emma Hoogewind, Stories, 9th, C.A. Frost
• Clara Kirkbride, Whales, 9th, C.A. Frost
• Joshua Kortenhoven, Green Shoes, 9th, City HMS
• Mathew Pierce, Striped Hyena, 10th, Ottawa Hills HS
• Azaria Powell, Mother Earth, 9th, U-Prep
• Eliot Redwine, Biomass, 11th, City HMS
• Rachel Sackett, The Veil, 11th, City HMS
• Connor Thompson, Economic Greed, 9th, Museum HS
• Josiah Willink, Sunclimbers, 11th, City HMS

DIStopia co-hosts Jill and Chris visit Cultura Collective and chat with Stefanie Rosales, curator and Program Director for the Cook Arts Center, and local artist, Javier Torres. As you listen to these brief interviews, consider the relationship between disability and culture and how two artists, Reyna Garcia and Javier Torres, draws the viewer into conversations about their lived experience of disability.

In this episode of DIStopia’s ArtPrize 9 series, Chris and Jilly discuss whether or not you have to be in Grand Rapids to get value from the ArtPrize experience. Rennick, to consider ways that ArtPrize is working to make the festival more accessible to those of us choose not to head downtown for one reason or another.

In this first episode of DIStopia’s ArtPrize 9 series, DisArt co-directors Chris Smit and Jill Vyn offer reflections of the independent films It Ain’t Over and Dina (pronounced “Deena”) from Wednesday evening’s ArtPrize on-screen event that was held at the Ladies Literary Club.