SwtM - ArtPrize Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 5/8/2019
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Use information about the ArtPrize winners from 2009 - 2018 to solve this 2 stage puzzle cache. All information can be found online; if you are in the field and don't have access to online information, there are a set of cards with information on each winner at the first stage.

Final cache is at: N 42 AB.CDE W 085 FG.HIJ

A - the width, depth, and height of 2014's winner are all 6.A feet.
B - the number B dog is under the flag in 2016's winner.
C - the number of letters in the first word of the title of 2015's winner
D - Open Water No. 2D was the first ArtPrize winner in 2009.
E - Cavalry, American Officers, 192E was 2010's winner.

F - 2018's winner is F-dimensional.
G - The width in feet of 2011's winner.
H - Last digit of the year on the steel pennies used to create the shirt of 2017's winner.
I - the height in feet of 2012's winner.
J - the number of individual panels depicting the beach scene in 2013's winner.

You can use the geochecker at the bottom of this page to verify your solution.

[2010 series / Michigan Festivals]
ArtPrize is an art competition and festival in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Anyone over the age of 18 can display their art, and any space within the three-square-mile ArtPrize district can be a venue. There are typically over 160 venues such as museums, galleries, bars, restaurants, hotels, public parks, bridges, laundromats, auto body shops, and more.

ArtPrize lasts for 19 days beginning in late September, and during each festival $500,000 in cash prizes are awarded based on public voting and a jury of art experts. ArtPrize was originally an annual event; in 2018 it was switched to a biennial schedule.

ArtPrize was conceived by Rick DeVos as an untraditional art contest with its goals being: any artist in the world could compete; anyone with property in downtown Grand Rapids could turn their space into a venue; and any visitor could vote for their favorite artwork. Event organizers would provide no selection committees or curators. And the largest cash prize in the art world would be awarded entirely by popular vote.

At the inaugural ArtPrize, held in 2009, the winners were determined solely by the public, voting from mobile devices and the ArtPrize website. In 2010, ArtPrize added categories judged by art experts, and in 2014 restructured the awards format bringing two parallel tracks of public vote and juried awards with equal prize amounts. The updated award structure includes two Grand Prizes of $200,000, one chosen by public vote and one selected by a panel of three arts experts. An additional $100,000 in awards are given to artists in four entry categories—Two-Dimensional, Three-Dimensional, Time-Based, and Installation—as well as the Outstanding Venue Juried Award for best curatorial presentation.

In 2014, The Art Newspaper listed ArtPrize as one of the most-attended "big ticket" art events (those where visitors are often counted more than once), with ArtPrize's attendance of 440,000 being roughly one quarter of the 1.6 million who attended the Russian Imperial Costume exhibition at the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.

ArtPrize was highlighted along with Slows Bar BQ and the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park as one of the reasons to visit Grand Rapids in The New York Times’ "52 Places To Go in 2016."
Visit 14 geocaches in the SwtM series. At each geocache collect a letter and number combination. Insert them into the phrase: FiTS LIKe A GlOVE
Use the coordinates from the phrase to find the final geocache and become a Mitten Master
Tannery Falls S.S. Carl D. Bradley Fort Gratiot Lighthouse
Norway to Wakefield Gordy Howe Intl. Bridge ElvisFest
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