What is Rabbitmitten?
The Rabbitmitten is a representation of Michigan’s geopolitical boundaries…But the design represents far more than just land masses. It represents a people…A people with the ability to leap over obstacles!...And with a strong sense of community, our chances of being able to do so are even greater. Yoopers and Trolls have always felt a sense of difference, and rightly so. “Vive la difference!” our early French settlers would have said. However, identifying oneself as a Yooper or a Troll and as a Michigander only serves to strengthen ones sense of who we are -- that we are distinct and at the same time part of something bigger. And this applies to anyone living anywhere on the Rabbitmitten, be it on the tip of the rabbit’s ear or the edge of the mitten’s cuff.
It all started with the Rabbitmitten loge for T-shirt design. Then came the Rabbitmitten sculpture in Art Prize 2009. A children's book called "Rabbitmitten, the Story About the Rabbit Who Almost Stopped Believing in Himself "was next. And now...
The Rabbitmitten enters Art Prize 2011 in the new performance art category!
And if you like it, VOTE UP online at www.artprize.org using the voting code 53141 !!!
Come see a live performance of “Rabbitmitten, U.S.A.”, the final song in the new Michigan musical called Rabbitmitten, on Sunday Sep 25 at 4:30 at St. Cecilia's Music Center on Ransom and Fulton Streets, downtown Grand Rapids. 26 students from the East Grand Rapids High School drama department will perform the song which includes everything from musical theater to pop to rock to ballet to hip hop…all rolled into one! The song even includes a rap section in which dozens of clues to the mysterious Rabbitmitten’s true identity are rattled off in rapid-fire succession. See if YOU can guess the Rabbitmitten’s real name! Guaranteed fun! Best of all...IT’S FREE!! And if you can’t make the show, listen to a recording of it at St. Cecilia’s listening stations or see the performance on You Tube a day or two after the 25th.
