Frederik Meijer Gardens

ArtPrize exhibition center spotlight: Meijer Gardens

ArtPrize 2010, which begins Sept. 22, features seven exhibition centers as starting and stopping points for your tour. Here's a look at one:

Frederik Meijer Gardens
1000 East Beltline Ave. NE (957-1580, meijergardens.org)

ArtPrize hours: Wednesday through Oct. 10: 6-10 p.m. Wednesday; noon-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday; noon-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday; noon-6 p.m. Sunday.

What you'll see: Twenty-six mostly outdoor works, from the surreal to the abstract and from the beautiful to intentionally rough.

Where the artists are from: Five from Michigan, seven from Chicago. The rest span the country from Massachusetts to California.

Highlights: Media range from steel and wood to limestone, ceramics and steam-bent wood.

Returning: Terrence Karpowicz, from Chicago, a Top 25 finisher last year with "Pettite Passe" on the Blue Bridge.

What you won't see anywhere else:
"Collective Conductivity," by Julia Rogers, of Bowling Green, Ohio, is an Internet/interactive sculpture with solar panels and motion centers; "Winding Road," by Steve Maloney, of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., is made from a deconstructed, hybrid SUV.

Drop by for: Dale Chihuly's "A New Eden," with 15 installations of glass art. Normal admission fees apply to the rest of Meijer Gardens. Hours: 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.