ArtPrize piece vandalized, thrown into river | News

GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) - ArtPrize 2012 hasn't even begun and already one artist says someone vandalized his entry.

Edward Casagrande's entry, called Bridging Humanity is a collection of sculptures, located on the Gillett Bridge, which spans from DeVos Place to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum.

Casagrande says over the weekend someone tore off a piece of his entry and threw it in the Grand River.

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"There was some ill will, we had a piece in the river, I guess maybe that probably was good to engage the water, we fished it out and put it right back where it was."

Casagrande has since recovered the missing piece and made repairs.