Grand Rapids press takes on MOCAD
Grand Rapids’ Wood TV8 pays a visit to Midtown’s newest museum, MOCAD.
Grand Rapids’ Wood TV8 pays a visit to Midtown’s newest museum, MOCAD.
Excerpt:
And MOCAD hopes to help showcase the city’s strengths, which [one of the museums’ founders, Marsha] Miro said often are overlooked.
“We
feel like Detroit’s always lumped into this category as a failing
city,” Miro said. “Despite our problems, there’s a kind of vitality and
energy and a courage here that I don’t think you find in a lot of
cities.”
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