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Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park

Index Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park

Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is a botanical garden and outdoor sculpture park located in Grand Rapids Township, Michigan in Kent County. [1]

59 relations: Ai Weiwei, Alexander Calder, Andy Goldsworthy, Anish Kapoor, Anthony Caro, Antony Gormley, Arnaldo Pomodoro, ArtPrize, Auguste Rodin, Azalea, B.B. King, Bamboo, Banana, Botanical garden, Claes Oldenburg, Coconut, Dale Chihuly, David Nash (artist), Dicentra, Edgar Degas, Fern, Frederik Meijer, George Rickey, Grand Rapids Charter Township, Michigan, Gwen Frostic, Harry Connick Jr., Henry Moore, Hoichi Kurisu, Hosta, Jaume Plensa, Jenny Holzer, Joan Miró, Jonathan Borofsky, Keith Haring, Kenneth Snelson, Kent County, Michigan, Laura Ford, Leonardo da Vinci, List of botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States, List of rulers of Milan, Louise Bourgeois, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Mark di Suvero, Marshall Fredericks, Meijer, Midwestern United States, Nina Akamu, Orchidaceae, Penelope Hobhouse, Rhododendron, ..., Richard Hunt (sculptor), Saguaro, Sculpture, Sheryl Crow, Steve Miller Band, The Wall Street Journal, Tom Otterness, Tony Smith (sculptor), Wynton Marsalis. Expand index (9 more) »

Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei (born 28 August 1957 in Beijing) is a Chinese contemporary artist and activist.

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Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder (July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) is widely considered to be one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century.

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Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy (born 26 July 1956) is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist producing site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings.

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Anish Kapoor

Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor, (born 12 March 1954) is a British sculptor.

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Anthony Caro

Sir Anthony Alfred Caro (8 March 192423 October 2013) was an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using 'found' industrial objects. His style was of the modernist school, having worked with Henry Moore early in his career. He was lauded as the greatest British sculptor of his generation.

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Antony Gormley

Sir Antony Mark David Gormley, (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor.

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Arnaldo Pomodoro

Arnaldo Pomodoro (born 23 June 1926) is an Italian sculptor.

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ArtPrize

is an open, independently organized international art competition and festival held annually in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Auguste Rodin

François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917), known as Auguste Rodin, was a French sculptor.

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Azalea

Azaleas are flowering shrubs in the genus Rhododendron, particularly the former sections Tsutsuji (evergreen) and Pentanthera (deciduous).

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B.B. King

Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer.

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Bamboo

The bamboos are evergreen perennial flowering plants in the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae.

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Banana

A banana is an edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.

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Botanical garden

A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms botanic and botanical and garden or gardens are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word botanic is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens.

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Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg (born January 28, 1929) is an American sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring large replicas of everyday objects.

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Coconut

The coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the family Arecaceae (palm family) and the only species of the genus Cocos.

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Dale Chihuly

Dale Chihuly (born September 20, 1941) is an American glass sculptor and entrepreneur.

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David Nash (artist)

David John Nash, OBE RA (born 14 November 1945) is a British sculptor based in Blaenau Ffestiniog.

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Dicentra

Dicentra (bleeding-heart; Greek dís "twice", kéntron "spur") is a genus of eight species of herbaceous plants with oddly shaped flowers and finely divided leaves, native to eastern Asia and North America.

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Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas (or; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas,; 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings.

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Fern

A fern is a member of a group of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers.

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Frederik Meijer

Frederik Gerhard Hendrik Meijer (December 7, 1919 – November 25, 2011) was an American businessman, the chairman of the Meijer hypermarket chain in Michigan, US.

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George Rickey

George Warren Rickey (June 6, 1907 – July 17, 2002) was an American kinetic sculptor.

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Grand Rapids Charter Township, Michigan

Grand Rapids Charter Township is a charter township of Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Gwen Frostic

Gwen Frostic (April 26, 1906 – April 25, 2001) born as Sara Gwendolen Frostic, was an artist, author, and Michigan Women's Hall of Fame inductee.

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Harry Connick Jr.

Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Jr. (born September 11, 1967) is an American singer, composer, actor, and television host.

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Henry Moore

Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist.

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Hoichi Kurisu

is a noted designer of Japanese gardens, active in the United States.

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Hosta

Hosta (syn. Funkia) is a genus of plants commonly known as hostas, plantain lilies (particularly in Britain) and occasionally by the Japanese name giboshi.

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Jaume Plensa

Jaume Plensa (born 1955) is a Spanish artist and sculptor.

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Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer (born July 29, 1950, Gallipolis, Ohio) is an American neo-conceptual artist, based in Hoosick Falls, New York.

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Joan Miró

Joan Miró i Ferrà (20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.

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Jonathan Borofsky

Jonathan Borofsky (born December 24, 1942) is an American sculptor and printmaker who lives and works in Ogunquit, Maine.

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Keith Haring

Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art and graffiti-like work grew out of the New York City street culture of the 1980s.

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Kenneth Snelson

Kenneth Duane Snelson (June 29, 1927 – December 22, 2016) was an American contemporary sculptor and photographer.

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Kent County, Michigan

Kent County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Laura Ford

Laura Ford (born 1961, Cardiff, Wales) is a British sculptor.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance, whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.

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List of botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States

This list is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States.

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List of rulers of Milan

The following is a list of rulers of Milan from the 13th century to 1814, after which it was incorporated into the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia by the Congress of Vienna.

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Louise Bourgeois

Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (25 December 191131 May 2010) was a French-American artist.

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Magdalena Abakanowicz

Magdalena Abakanowicz (20 June 1930 – 20 April 2017) was a Polish sculptor and fiber artist.

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Mark di Suvero

Marco Polo "Mark" di Suvero (born September 18, 1933) is an abstract expressionist sculptor and 2010 National Medal of Arts recipient.

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Marshall Fredericks

Marshall Maynard Fredericks (January 31, 1908 – April 4, 1998) was an American sculptor.

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Meijer

Meijer Inc. is a regional American supercenter chain with its corporate headquarters in Walker, Michigan, in the Grand Rapids metropolitan area.

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Midwestern United States

The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the American Midwest, Middle West, or simply the Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2").

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Nina Akamu

Nina Akamu is a Japanese American artist who was born in Midwest City, Oklahoma.

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Orchidaceae

The Orchidaceae are a diverse and widespread family of flowering plants, with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant, commonly known as the orchid family.

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Penelope Hobhouse

Penelope Hobhouse MBE (born 20 November 1929), née Chichester-Clark, is a British garden writer, designer, lecturer and television presenter.

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Rhododendron

Rhododendron (from Ancient Greek ῥόδον rhódon "rose" and δένδρον déndron "tree") is a genus of 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family (Ericaceae), either evergreen or deciduous, and found mainly in Asia, although it is also widespread throughout the highlands of the Appalachian Mountains of North America.

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Richard Hunt (sculptor)

Richard Hunt (born September 12, 1935) is an American sculptor with over 125 sculptures for public display in the United States.

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Saguaro

The saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea) is an arborescent (tree-like) cactus species in the monotypic genus Carnegiea, which can grow to be over tall.

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Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

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Sheryl Crow

Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and actress.

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Steve Miller Band

The Steve Miller Band is an American rock band formed in 1966 in San Francisco, California.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Tom Otterness

Tom Otterness (born 1952) is an American sculptor best known as one of America’s most prolific public artists.

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Tony Smith (sculptor)

Anthony Peter Smith (September 23, 1912 – December 26, 1980) was an American sculptor, visual artist, architectural designer, and a noted theorist on art.

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Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederik_Meijer_Gardens_%26_Sculpture_Park

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