JIMMY KUEHNLE

Emily Richett of FOX 17 News in Grand Rapids, Michigan interviewed me live on the morning news during the ArtPrize competition. If you are in Grand Rapids, register to vote and text vote24921 to 878787.

Albion has an annual three day festival called the Festival of the Forks. I heard that the festival had a parade on Saturday morning and decided to take Big Red down to check everything out. After inflating the suit, it did not take long for me to crash my way into the parade. I slippedContinue Reading

I returned to Grand Rapids to finish my installation at the Old Federal Building. While there I noticed on the front page of The Grand Rapids Press an article by Troy Reimink about Larry Moss, Jason Hackenwerth and myself titled, “Take a deep breath and put on your wearable balloon art.” All three of usContinue Reading

press release Wednesday, September 23, 2009 Performance at ArtPrize Opening & Registration Fair | 4:00 Location: Lyon Square, Grand Rapids, MI (west of Monroe Ave) Performance at UICA Opening Reception | 5:00 – ? Location: 41 Sheldon Blvd SE, Grand Rapids, MI Thursday, September 24, 2009 Performance Trek Starting at Old Federal Building | 2:00Continue Reading

Today Mimi and I drove to Grand Rapids to install work for ArtPrize. Mimi is exhibiting at the Grand Rapids Art Museum and I am at the Old Federal Building. We spent the morning installing Mimi’s work and then I headed to my venue to beginning installation of You Wear What I Wear. Everything wentContinue Reading

Today, You Wear What I Wear, made its debut performance in Albion, Michigan. This afternoon I inflated the suit and began to march around the campus. Similar to other inflatable suits, it gets the look and the cell phone picture. Students did not know quite what to make of the suit with many appendages thatContinue Reading

After returning from Finland and a nice summer break in St. Louis, I am back. This time I am at Albion College in Albion, Michigan. For the fall semester I will be a resident artist here at the college. Today I began to move stuff into the studio. While setting up my second welding studioContinue Reading

ArtPrize is a new open art competition that will take place from September 23 to October 8, 2009. Rick DeVos, an Amway heir, came up with the idea to host an art competition in Grand Rapids, Michigan with $500,000 dollars of prize money to be given away through a public voting process. Artists are matchedContinue Reading