As ArtPrize 2025 approaches, News 8 is checking in with some of last year's winners. In 2024, Scoob the Artist was awarded the juried grand prize for the Trauma Project.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A year after winning ArtPrize's juried grand prize for the Trauma Project — a large-scale collaborative undertaking that featured 16 paintings and 18 musical tracks, all exploring the depths of trauma — Scoob the Artist says he's still working to bring people together and invest in the community.

"The Trauma Project was originally never for ArtPrize. It was something that was born through my struggles and what I went through as an artist," Scoob told News 8. "I herniated three discs in my lower back. It was the longest year and a half of my life of healing. Through that healing process, it op

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