Ritch Branstrom is a little-known treasure of the U.P. art world, with his found-object art created in a workshop on U.S. 2 in the tiny town of Rapid River. He won fifth prize at the Grand Rapids ArtPrize competition recently, and here's the story of how.
Excerpt: In 1998, artist Ritch Branstrom left Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for life in the city. His studio may have been a Harry Potter-esque broom closet in his girlfriend’s Chicago apartment but the two years he worked there represented one of his most prolific periods as an artist. He had gallery shows displaying his found object sculpture, arts magazines tracking him down, and TV stations doing features on him.
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Source: ArtServe Michigan
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