tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87301631812728004432024-03-05T15:57:14.605-05:00Providence Art WindowsDirector, PAWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02606848416662752489noreply@blogger.comBlogger142125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8730163181272800443.post-22800897232271344202021-06-08T05:02:00.006-04:002021-06-08T05:09:39.564-04:00Thank you<p>Providence Art Windows lost many sites due to development and new owners of buildings in 2015. This is progress, not sadness, as the beginning of the project was to fill gaps in downtown Providence that were empty storefronts or spaces of darkness at night. The project lit up areas so passers by, by foot or car, could look at an upcoming artist or learn something new from a non-profit invited to participate in an artistic way. It helped to fund artists during the recession. During and after the project, I and former Director/founder Elizabeth Keithline have been contacted about the success of the project, how to run similar projects. What I learned is that this was a project for this particular time and space, and that the needs of any business area are unique. We could give advice, but it is thinking about what your community needs that is most important. It was a great decade filled with wonderful relationships with downtown business owners, over 200 artists creating installations, and interacting with the public on a more intimate scale-on the street, not in some gallery or a museum. </p><p>Thank you for visiting, and please take a look at all of the wonderful past installations on this site. </p><p><br /></p><p>Rebecca Siemering</p><p>Director, Providence Art Windows</p>Director, PAWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02606848416662752489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8730163181272800443.post-58564755366392891092015-10-13T21:09:00.002-04:002015-10-13T21:09:08.055-04:00Downtown Living Tour to Support Providence Art Windows<div class="clearfix" id="masthead" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6e70; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20.8px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;">
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<a href="http://downtownprovidence.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/DLT-vertical-2015.jpg" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(168, 168, 168); color: #ef4623;"><img alt="DLT vertical 2015" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-6575" height="300" src="http://downtownprovidence.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/DLT-vertical-2015-216x300.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="216" /></a>Interested in living downtown, or simply want to see the city’s newest renovations? Buy tickets for the <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/downtown-providence-living-tour-tickets-18474156700" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(168, 168, 168); color: #ef4623;" target="_blank">Downtown Providence Living Tour</a> on Saturday, October 17th, from 11 AM to 5 PM. Your ticket gives you access to 11 apartment and condo buildings, and you’ll have a chance to explore the neighborhood at your own pace. If your feet get tired, hop on a free shuttle or Sol Chariots pedicab!</div>
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Whether you <a href="https://downtownprovidencelivingtour2015.eventbrite.com/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(168, 168, 168); color: #ef4623;" target="_blank">buy tickets in advance</a> (for $6) or get them that day (for $10), you’ll check in at the registration site, AS220, 115 Empire Street, to receive wrist bands, programs and tote bags before moving on to the tour stops. This year, the tour will feature The 903, Arcade Providence, Avalon at Center Place, Conrad building, George C. Arnold building, Merchants Bank building, The Promenade, Providence G, Regency Plaza, and Westminster Lofts’ Kinsley building. You can also check out the amenities at Westminster Lofts’ Peerless building, including the atrium which features an exhibit on the 20th anniversary of Providence Preservation Society’s Most Endangered Properties List.</div>
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Children under age 12 are free. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Providence Art Windows program which exhibits juried art installations in gallery windows and underutilized retail spaces.</div>
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Discounted parking is available at two participating lots near AS220. The Civic Center Parking Garage, 165 Washington Street, will offer $3 parking with validation until 5:30 PM. At the Downcity Parking Lot at 357 Westminster Street, pay $10 upfront and receive $5 back when you return with a validated ticket by 6 PM.</div>
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If you’re interested in volunteering that day, or if you simply have questions about the plans, email <a href="mailto:jkanter@provfoundation.com" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(168, 168, 168); color: #ef4623;" target="_blank">Joelle Kanter</a> or complete this <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/H2CVRNJ" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(168, 168, 168); color: #ef4623;" target="_blank">volunteer survey form</a> by October 13th.</div>
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The 2015 Downtown Providence Living Tour has been generously supported by: <a href="http://www.buylocalri.org/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(168, 168, 168); color: #ef4623;" target="_blank">Buy Local RI</a>, <a href="http://newharvestcoffee.com/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(168, 168, 168); color: #ef4623;" target="_blank">New Harvest Coffee Roasters</a>, <a href="https://www.ripower.org/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(168, 168, 168); color: #ef4623;" target="_blank">People’s Power & Light</a>, <a href="http://www.chr-apartments.com/regency-plaza-apartments" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(168, 168, 168); color: #ef4623;" target="_blank">Regency Plaza</a>, <a href="http://unionstudioarch.com/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(168, 168, 168); color: #ef4623;" target="_blank">Union Studio Architecture & Community Design,</a><a href="http://www.yelp.com/providence" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(168, 168, 168); color: #ef4623;" target="_blank">Yelp</a> and <a href="http://www.zipcar.com/providence/find-cars" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(168, 168, 168); color: #ef4623;" target="_blank">Zipcar</a>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keri King is a cross-disciplinary artist, based in Providence, RI. She received her BFA in Illustration with a Concentration in Creative Writing from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2005. Upon graduation, Keri founded an experimental theater arts project. A joyfully irreverent feathers and sequins donning dance troop, the <i>Danger! Danger! Birds</i> performed musical vignettes and comedic skits that harkened back to turn of the century traditions of vaudeville and burlesque. Today, Keri’s visual art and writing reflect her love of art and entertainment history and are sprinkled with clues about her own personal history. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In addition to her creative practice, Keri is a dedicated educator and an active member of her arts community. Keri currently teaches art to students at the Wolf School, a K-8 private special education school located in East Providence, RI. She has also taught performing arts workshops on the subjects of vaudeville entertainment and the “Roaring Twenties” to students ages 8-14, through teaching artist programs such as I Was There at Vartan Gregorian Elementary School and Open Enrollment at Providence City Arts for Youth. Her professional service includes work with the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston, the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts, the Providence Children’s Film Festival and the RISD Museum. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In a recent review, art critic Don Wilkinson described Cahoon as “a high priestess” who creates paintings “which are expressionistic with an eye for detail (and an eye for the eyes, the “gateway to the soul”) (and) have controlled dripping and running of the paint, unapologetic brushstrokes and collage elements…”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Several series of recent works have been focused on well known personalities who have died but are remain alive if not deified in cultural consciousness. These sometimes haunting but also inspiring portraits presented in <i>Dia De Los Muertos</i> (Day Of the Dead) and <i>Sacred Heart</i> Portrait Series seem to be reaching from beyond to touch our lives as the influence of their work continues to speak about life and living. Cahoon says, “I was raised in the Catholic Church and Parochial School”and she seems comfortable letting the spirit of these individuals speak to and through her in these striking paintings that on the one hand bear a common core, yet are as unique as the individuals they portray.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some of those depicted are still alive, such as Led Zeppelin lead singer Robert Plant, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (cleverly immersed in a Van Gogh starry, starry night) and actor Tim Curry of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” fame. It is apropos that the painting of Curry is — unlike any other portrait in the exhibition — not named for him but for his best known role. In “Frank-N-Furter’s Sacred Heart,” Curry is the campy “sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania,” complete with a Dracula-inspired high curved collar, an overabundance of makeup, and a skull-headed dagger piercing his blood red heart. Curry as hermaphrodite trickster god/goddess works.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most of the paintings, which are expressionistic with an eye for detail (and an eye for the eyes, the “gateway to the soul”) have controlled dripping and running of the paint, unapologetic brushstrokes and collage elements, including fragments of wrapping paper, stylized cursive writing and fragments of pages from a dictionary.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The depictions include the late Robin Williams, smiling but gray, literally and figuratively, and the martial artist and actor Bruce Lee (who some still believe is hiding in seclusion somewhere and others believe was killed for revealing secret ancient Asian fighting techniques to the West).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prominent members of The 27 Club (a seemingly ever-growing group of musicians that died at the age of 27) are represented. They include Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and relatively new member Amy Winehouse. Joplin is in the nude save for purple beads and trinkets, her hands crossed in front of herself. Her sacred heart is topped with a symbolic torch and is emblazoned by a single eye (a recurrent element) and three teardrops.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Work is up June 1-30, with Gallery night Reception June 18 <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_767406569" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">5-9pm</span></span> in the Lobby Gallery</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">The “New Life” exhibit is a series of 30 x <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_767406568" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">30</span></span> acrylic on canvas uniquely designed butterflies presented in a full spectrum of color.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">With more than a dozen pieces, the viewer is at first inclined to peer closely to see the details of Eric’s hand and then step back and see the full joy of his imagination. Fine artist and photographer Eric Auger is pleased to present his “New Life” exhibit to raise awareness of suicide prevention especially in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ)* youth community.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Eric J. Auger (ō zhāy) is a mixed media artist and costume designer living and working in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Born in 1969, he holds a BFA from Rhode Island College in Photography with minors in Graphic Design. He expresses his unique style in a variety of media including acrylic paint on canvas, pastel, colored pencil, photography and digital images. After his 14-year career as a Visual Merchandiser for one of the country’s top retailers, Eric became a performance artist.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Today, Eric is the Creative Director and Co-Owner of TEN31 Productions where he has created hundreds of handcrafted costumes. Best known locally as the “living statutes” at Waterfire, TEN31's performers have traveled around the world showcasing their one of a kind unique imagery, which when combined with theatrical choreography, leaves audiences breathless.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Fine artist and photographer Eric Auger is pleased to present his “New Life” exhibit to raise awareness of suicide prevention especially in the l</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">esbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ)* youth</span><span style="font-size: small;"> community.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“All youth, teens and young adults struggle to find their place and identity in their home, at school and in the community,” says Eric Auger, “and a satisfying future seems unreachable and often times unimaginable.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Certainly, those feelings are shared by gay and straight teens no matter where they live or their life’s situation.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But what made Eric journey different was the coming of age in a world that was only beginning to acknowledge the needs of the gay and lesbian community. There were no school based support programs and the adult gay world was out of reach so even role models were difficult to find.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">As a gay teen, Eric knew first-hand the raw emotions of struggling to first feel comfortable with his identity and all the while trying to gain the acceptance of family and friends “Suicide hovers over you when you are a gay teen”, says Auger, “and the future seems dark and colorless.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">“Because of my personal journey from gay teen to adult, I know first-hand how words can hurt and crush your spirit and your ambition. Along the way, I was fortunate to find my passion in the performing and visual arts, a place where I could express my own needs and wants and at the same time connect with my future. As time went on, I realized I had to distance myself from those around me who would try to use my sexuality as a reason to crush my hope. Over time, I knew I was more than a gay teen. I was a hardworking, talented, dedicated individual who deserved to dream of a future filled with optimism. I made up my mind to surround myself with people from the gay and straight community who valued the things that I valued – life, love and mutual respect. Once I made that decision, my life went from flat and lifeless to one of hope, possibility and endless color!”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It has been quite a winter! New installations are starting to pop up around town through April 3rd. Follow the map and enjoy these installations while they last. New installations by Suzanne Volmer and Judd Schiffman are installed especially for the <a href="http://nceca.net/2015-providence/">NCECA </a>conference in March, and will be up through mid-April All other through June.</span>Director, PAWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02606848416662752489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8730163181272800443.post-41250822452640006942015-04-03T14:14:00.004-04:002015-04-03T14:14:50.552-04:00191 Westminster<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A resident of Providence Rhode Island, Carolina was born in Santiago, Chile, and came to the USA in 1970. Carolina attended the Rhode Island School of Design and graduated in 1991 with a BFA in Illustration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She has been illustrating full-time since 1991, and has worked on a wide variety of assignments from book covers, posters, editorial and retail mural assignments for clients in North America, Europe and South America.Carolina has won several awards, the first upon her graduation from RISD, she received the John Randall Orth Award, given to one graduate every year, whose goal is to pursue a freelance illustration career. Within her first year as a freelance illustrator, she won first place for page presentation, by the New England Associated Press. Soon after she received more awards over the years by The Art Director’s Club of New Jersey, The Catholic Press Association, and has been included in Print Magazine’s Regional Design Annual. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Go to <a href="http://www.hintstudio.com/">hintstudio.com</a> for more about her.</span></div>
Director, PAWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02606848416662752489noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8730163181272800443.post-34363475210855155332015-04-03T14:13:00.001-04:002015-04-03T14:19:18.986-04:00Fulton Street<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“After a few years all that is left is the green grass of expectation. The pure green grass of Antarctic tundra and the simplistic struggle of man vs. supply, spitting up ancient virgin dust doing doughnuts in truck 120. The ultimate tragedy was to have traveled so far, only to find that it was not far enough, and perhaps no place was”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Craig is a Risd printmaking graduate currently working out of his studio in downtown Pawtucket, RI. These three works are part of a larger series that explore the memory and experience of his time working for the United States Antarctic Program in 2008. </span></div>
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Director, PAWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02606848416662752489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8730163181272800443.post-85570549930449402112015-03-19T18:43:00.002-04:002015-03-25T23:06:50.887-04:00The Arcade, Weybossett Street<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The most fundamental and difficult question a person can ask him or herself is “Who Am I?” It is challenging to truly know another person, and yet I think it is even more difficult to know oneself. We are all composed of a combination of culture, personality, family upbringing, past experiences, and genetics. These qualities inform the way we think about, experience and interpret the world. History can feel inescapable but how much of that history is true and if we can slip away, what are we left with? My work concentrates on the nuances of the question, “Who am I?” with a primary interest in the way that Jewish American culture constructs identity. Referring to information gathered in literature, art, film, television and history, I investigate the expressions of Jewish culture and how these values are perceived and demonstrated in society. Among other sources, my imagery is found in memories, episodes of Seinfeld and stories that my grandparents have told me and translated into pieces that appear to have been thoroughly touched. The touching is essential in delineating a reality from a memory, a stereotype from a truth. I am never searching to get it right, but am always hoping to expose another layer.</span></span><br />
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<i>NCECA cultivates and sustains networks for reflective and creative practice through an annual conference, special interest symposia, and national and regional exhibitions. NCECA’s annual conference features dozens of presenters, demonstrations networking opportunities and exhibitions over three and a half days each spring, each year in a different US city. NCECA’s Board of Directors and special appointees review hundreds of proposals for sessions and exhibitions gathered through open calls for submissions. Sponsored exhibitions include the NCECA Biennial, the NCECA Invitational and the National Student Juried Exhibition. In conjunction with the NCECA-sponsored exhibitions the organization also reviews, sites and promotes nearly 100 concurrent exhibitions in the host region surrounding the annual conference."</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New works by Johnny Adimando in the renewed Eddy Street window and fiber art by Michelle Leavitt will be installed in these two windows by December 2. Illustrator Mary Jane Begin fills the University of RI Library window as part of a larger exhibition inside the URI Gallery related to <i>ART AND HEALING:REMEMBERING CHRISTIANE CORBAT–</i><i>THE WORK CONTINUES. </i>Please print the map, see more information about the artists below, and enjoy the walk. Other windows will be changing later in winter.</span>Director, PAWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02606848416662752489noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8730163181272800443.post-39497494648686906352014-11-22T14:59:00.003-05:002014-12-02T16:02:57.516-05:00Two Brothers Beauty Supply, Eddy Street <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I learned the camouflaging properties of beauty, the navigation of intricately organized spaces, and the virtues of cleanliness and order at an early age. At this time, I was also made to understand the existence of the omnipresent “other.” As such, the images in my work are decidedly labyrinthine, implying a constantly shifting-scale, referencing the shuttle cockpit, religious conclave, and burial chamber. The visual dynamic is one of complex symmetry, coordinated patterns, and elaborate constructions that form symbiosis with spectral visions and occult symbology.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I believe the world; as we know it, is a panopticon, and the “divine” is an ever-present watchman. Through my work, I explore the good-intentioned processes of self-imprisonment by way of dogma, fear, and morality. I am interested in this notion of the pursuit of perfection while under surveillance, and I continue to explore the confounding notion that servitude to any outside source can truly function in an ever-expanding universe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Johnny currently lives and works in Providence, RI.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Johnny Adimando is currently part-time faculty in the departments of Painting and Printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design. He has also served on the Printmaking faculty at the Montserrat College of Art and Bucknell University. Adimando earned his BFA (’05) from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University and MFA (’09) from the Rhode Island School of Design. He is the recipient of several major awards including a two-year fellowship and artist residency at Bucknell University (’05-’07), the Temple Rome Grant, a Frogman’s Print and Paper Workshop scholarship, and most recently, a Faculty Professional Development Grant from RISD.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and is held by public and private collections including ; Philadelphia Free Library, Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University, and Tower Investments Gallery in Philadelphia, PA. His work also appears in a multitude of national print exchange projects and flat file programs. He is currently represented by Diane Birdsall Gallery in Old Lyme, CT and Yellow Peril Gallery in Providence, RI.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adimando’s practice is defined by a focus on intense detail, technical proficiency, and the harmonious mixture of various mediums. His work does not subscribe to one particular convention; bridging dedicated engagement with various print media processes into photography, sculpture, and video. It has been described as “art that speaks to a constantly shifting and material reality.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For more on Johnny Adimano’s work, please go to <a href="http://www.johnnyadimando.com/p/info.html">johnnyadimando.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cotton knit material behaves in interesting ways. Here, several tee shirts are cut to create two squares, the colors are shuffled and layered. The shoes - which are mine, my boys,' and their friends shoes - are 'drawn' on via machine stitching and then cut to reveal the images in color.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Problem solving is at the core of my practice, as ideas arise, I explore my media for the best ways to express these. The whole work becomes a challenge both in technical and pictorial terms. My work evolves from the available materials, the technical challenges, and my love of experimentation. Materials include paint and canvas, paper and pencil, watercolor, and especially collage and textiles. I did study art academically while I never had sewing lessons, instead I’ve made up techniques according to pictorial needs. The works express my personal reflections on living here now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Exploring these art forms for adaptation to new uses or another style intrigues me. For instance, there are several textiles in this category I fondly call frazzlin' appliques. My mom used the word frazzlin' to indicate a small frayed snippet of fabric. Here, frazzling scrapes of fabric - saved over decades as too interesting to toss out - are combined to describe familiar landscapes. Quilting, my original form of creative play, adapts to both pictorial and abstract applications.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The word frazzle is distantly related to the word fringe. The fringe is the end of the carpet or other textile where the fibers come apart into individual strands. This leads to the next group of works, hand knotted carpets.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For more on Michele’s work, please go to <a href="http://www.michelecleavitt.com/">michelleavitt.com</a></span><br />
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Director, PAWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02606848416662752489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8730163181272800443.post-32248295527021135652014-09-02T15:42:00.001-04:002014-09-02T15:42:33.728-04:00URI Providence Campus Library<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 20px;">Love Letters, or Other People’s Problems </span></span></b><br />
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Director, PAWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02606848416662752489noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8730163181272800443.post-5378445144458781372014-07-13T00:24:00.000-04:002014-08-21T21:35:43.785-04:00Summer Map<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">URI Providence Campus 1</span><sup><span style="color: black;">st</span></sup><span style="color: black;"> and 2</span><sup><span style="color: black;">nd</span></sup><span style="color: black;"> floor Gallery 80 Washington Street Providence. </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hours: M-TH 9-9, F&S 9-4 closed Sunday (evening and weekend summer hours may vary) </span><a href="mailto:uri.artsandculture@gmail.com" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"><span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">uri.artsandculture@gmail.com</span></span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.uri.edu/prov/arts" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.uri.edu/prov/arts</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Selected fiber works by the weavers, spinners, and dyers of the Octagon House. </span><span style="color: black;">The Octagon House is located in Carolina, RI and houses the Carolina Fiber and Fiction Center which offers a master weaving program under Jan Doyle, spinning instruction with Richard Muto, and for those who desire to spin their yarns with words Grace Farrell leads "Tuesdays at 10", a lively and supportive creative writing class.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The work often begins with salvaged afghans. Reminiscent of a near past, the afghan isnostalgic but not ‘beautiful.’ It is often </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘garish’ in color and made from synthetic acrylic yarn; so while it is hand-made and a reminder of the domestic, it is also reminiscent of mass production and industrialization. The afghan is kitsch, considered lowbrow living at the bottom of the hierarchy of taste as well as the hierarchy of craft. It is imbued with the culture of daily life, referring to our humanness in both its making and use. As a multimedia fiber artist, I engage with, weaving, beading, embroidery, crochet, and sewing as both an aesthetic and conceptual strategy. Through these modes of making, I explore different</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For more information about Samantha Fields work, please go to <a href="http://samanthafields.com/">samanthafields.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> myself later relocating to Providence, Rhode Island in 2001. In being a native Californian I feel both my culture and environment have strongly influenced my art. My desire to capture imaginative composition led me to a study of photography throughout all of high school and later at Santa Monica College. There, I gained a much needed knowledge of the structure and science of photographic arts. After gaining a strong foundation I began to infuse my work with the color and flavor of my eclectic and eccentric imag</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My work is contemporary and studied; everything is by design. A wide-ranging influence of styles in art, photography, fashion, creative locations, and set design, as well as traditional and pop culture inform my perspective. My trademarks of color, composition, and lighting are apparent as consistent threads throughout my work. All of these serve as a strong narrative in each piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Attention to detail and artful manipulation of the medium elevate my work beyond just photography. This process involves the creation of building sets, designing costumes and scouting unique locations. Each element is thought out and carefully placed as part of the story. In a sense, these sets and locations are installations and a platform for performance art constructed and acted solely by myself and my subjects. Through the addition of characters, my portraits show a deep interest in the human expression. Through the lens I create strange beauty and satire, eliciting emotional and social responses. Frozen in time through photography, the work becomes a window into a fantastic dream world, drawing my </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my world I take these icons from their original context and superimpose them into a new one, contrasting the traditional with the contemporary at times. My images are fresh and lively, and it is clear that I have as much fun making them, as the spectator has viewing them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two examples of my seeing if I could do this embroidery thing. A lovely way to not feel like I am wasting time if I am watching television. The Pieta piece is just me tackling a traditional, and beautiful, subject in art. While the “Chop Chop” patch is a now retired jacket from my earlier days in the What Cheer? Brigade. Providence’s own 20 piece renegade brass band.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Warren, R.I., artist, William Schaff is a mess. Much of his art deals with debt and loss, as well as the consequences of, and responses to, human violence. Stories from the Old Testament and memories learned from The Holocaust are recurrent in his work. A graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, Schaff has exhibited and lectured at numerous institutions including the United States Air Force Academy, the Rhode Island School of Design, Amherst College, and East Carolina University. With all that said, he manages to create lots of artwork for different folk. From private commissions, gallery exhibits, and fine authors, to such notable independent musicians as Okkervil River, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Songs: Ohia, and many more. The boy has chops! Chops and debt! Working hard at avoiding debt collectors and making as much art as possible before they catch up with him, this rascal is just trying to keep his lights on, his car insured and his mortgage paid. Well, one out of three ain’t bad..God Bless you, William Schaff</span><br />
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Director, PAWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02606848416662752489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8730163181272800443.post-28882662699968033582014-04-14T15:08:00.002-04:002014-04-15T09:21:52.194-04:00191 Westminster Street<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Light; font-size: medium;">The large stitched portraits represent the moment in time that Amanda Clayton, Urooj Khan, and Abraham Shakespeare each received a substantial monetary prize by result of playing the lottery. The bucket, bottle, and syringe symbolize the tragic end that each faced shortly after winning. The glittering pillows are meant to signify the excitement of easy money while simultaneously relating, in form, to the stones of Shirley Jackson’s famous short story, The Lottery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Light; font-size: medium;">Ricky spends late evenings in his basement studio, using the sewing machine as a drawing tool. In addition, he creates noise and visuals for an experimental group called Wind & Ghosts, performs with an international puppet troupe called Big Nazo, and spends every day designing girls toys for Hasbro. He lives in Cranston, RI with his wife, daughter, cockatiel, and dwarf hamster. His work can be seen at his personal blog, in the Todd Oldham board book - Sundance Film Festival A-Z, and on toy shelves around the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Light; font-size: medium;">For more about Ricky's work, please go <a href="http://stitchedbyrick.blogspot.com/">here.</a></span><br />
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Director, PAWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02606848416662752489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8730163181272800443.post-83185714822182554452014-04-08T09:16:00.004-04:002014-06-03T12:37:06.813-04:00Rhode Island Housing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Amy Leidtke, Janine A. Lee, and the fifth grade class at Community Preparatory School, including, Sophia-Joy Agbelese, Amida Akpan, Tessah Almonacy, Maeve Collins, Lesley Flores, Quincy Griffin, David Gutierrez, Ger Lee, Tamira Lopes, Yasira Paulino, Deijah Prak-Preaster, Jalia Ramos, Robert Rosas, Gianny Santos, Carina Santos, Irca Sian, Jasper Summers</span><br />
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<b>Student Reflection: </b><i>“This experience changed the way I look at the world. You realize how many shapes and details there are everywhere. If you look closer at your surroundings there’s a whole other world of shapes and colors that you can’t imagine. I didn’t know what I was capable of and Ms. Amy and Ms. Lee helped me find what I could do. The geometry that was mixed in help me comprehend shapes more. …(This project) helped me feel like I was doing a great job and (gave) me confidence.”</i> – Maeve, Grade 5<u></u><u></u></div>
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<b>Art Teacher's Reflection: </b><i>“Amy initiated us working together and I have been grateful and fortunate to welcome her into my creative arts classroom ever since. She is an exceptional artist and designer. She provides my students with the opportunity to interact with a professional who views them as young artists she can inspire and who can inspire her. Amy is a guiding force who leads us to inquiry, investigation, exploration and discovery. Through working with her have we been exposed to the world of design thinking, process and work; sharing that with others both within and outside of our school community. Every project exchange with Amy is a valuable, rewarding and unforgettable experience. It is through RISCA funding that these experiences are possible for Community Preparatory School.” </i>– Janine A. Lee, Community Preparatory School Arts Educator</div>
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<b>Master Teaching Artist's Reflection: </b><i>“As a professional industrial design practitioner, artist, and RISD faculty member, one of my goals is to practice ‘community-engaged scholarship’ (Boyer, 1996). </i><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=208d0b0c5b&view=lg&msg=145713e77939147c#145713e77939147c__ftn1" name="145713e77939147c__ftnref1" style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none;" title=""><b>[1]</b></a><i> I believe this work, which is focused on researching and designing academically integrated arts curriculum and products, in the pursuit of producing educational ‘gifts’, is an important way to positively impact the lives of young citizens in Rhode Island.<u></u><u></u></i></div>
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<i>Children benefit from access to practicing artists and designers, and I am happy that my background, education, faculty position, and research interests make it possible for me to serve in this role. Children need greater access to opportunities to experience the arts in meaningful and multidisciplinary ways.</i></div>
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<i>It is remarkably rewarding to co-create things with children and teachers! Janine is easy to work with and an amazingly capable and multidisciplinary arts educator. She is great with her students, patient, firm, and caring. The collaborative partnership that we developed together over the past several years is one that I highly value. She has been so generous to welcome me into her classroom, an environment that I consider to be crucial to the successful development of my work, as a designer and as an artist. </i></div>
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<i>It is important to note that the experiences we create in her arts classroom at Community Preparatory School are partially supported by RISCA funding. The funding for this particular project partially covered time and materials. Thank you to RISCA for helping to support this form of work.”</i> – Reflection from Amy Leidtke</div>
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<b>Photo credit: </b>Amy Leidtke<br />
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Director, PAWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02606848416662752489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8730163181272800443.post-22813858372425977112014-04-07T20:41:00.003-04:002014-04-21T13:29:36.834-04:00Spring and Summer 2014 <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz5OSBP3lEU91lulR1VEHywnNFBMr6xhggurR-mIoQ_7TzEAWU34qWgfEPiorlklmrJD4Yc7b9Myp-jHtAOKyCLNVh487XvjSYqTvfPOimVhcnLsqaS-MlsPBNmCc7zc0b3lBEuHoYbhI3/s1600/UK_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz5OSBP3lEU91lulR1VEHywnNFBMr6xhggurR-mIoQ_7TzEAWU34qWgfEPiorlklmrJD4Yc7b9Myp-jHtAOKyCLNVh487XvjSYqTvfPOimVhcnLsqaS-MlsPBNmCc7zc0b3lBEuHoYbhI3/s1600/UK_1.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></a>Spring and summer will bring color, beaded, threaded, embroidered, shredded and blinged out textiles to downtown Providence for the warm walking and viewing months of Providence Art Windows. Artists committed so far are Corey Grayhorse, Samantha Fields and Ricky Katowicz. Corey Grayhorse illustrates “nail culture” with her multimedia installation of her signature photography on Eddy Street within Two Brothers Beauty Supply. Corey worked with the owner of Two Brothers in utilizing supplies of rainbow hair extensions to round out her piece. Ricky Katowicz machine embroiders tales of lottery highs and lows at 191 Westminster Street. Samantha Fields dis-assembles a rainbow afghan, a symbol of kitsch and elevates it with threading with 206,720 beads. Installations start popping up<br />
April 7th and continue through the month of May, and lasting through September. More information and a map to follow, updated as new installations and committed artists appear.<br />
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