Jellyfish: An Evening of Animations by Steven Subotnick

Award winning animator Steven Subotnick will be screening a selection of his work tonight at the AS220 Perfomance Space. Doors open at 5:30pm & films start at 6pm. Free!

Steven's animated films are associative explorations of themes found in history, folklore, and his own unconscious; he treats each film as a poetic essay on a particular subject. His animations are alchemical - thought, motion, sound, art, narrative, and abstraction all combine to create a new substance. As a visual artist, he believes in the expressive power of materials - that technique and content are inseparable - that ideas only become real when they are tangible. His method is similar to documentary filmmaking in that he spends time intuitively creating images and animated scenes before he imposes a filmic structure. The film's final narrative grows organically out of the accumulated material through the process of editing and designing sound.

New Gallery Exhibitions for a New Decade!

January 3-29, 2010

opening reception

Sunday, January 3, 4-7pm

AS220 Main Gallery

Paintings & Drawings by Bill Killen

Wood Block Prints by Laura Shirreff

Open Window

New Drawings by Paul Holden

Youth Gallery

High Tech Design: New work BSS Youth & AS220 Labs

AS220 Project Space

TRASH: Groups Show with Lee Fearnside, Holly Hey, Scott Lapham, Caroline Kern, and Jo Dery

JELLYFISH: animations & paintings by Steven Subotnick

The AS220 starts the new year off with amazing animations, classical painting with a wry edge, innovative wood block prints, & lots of wonderful Trash.
The Youth Gallery continues with high tech meets art explorations of the Broad Street Studio featuring amazing work by Simcha Davis, Kafumba Bility, Benito Rios, and many more talented youth. The Main Gallery feature Bill Killen's silve point drawings and oil paintings, rendered in the "Flemish Painting Style" takes classical imagery that is subverted by improbable and often sarcastic use of the "female form". Laura Shirreff literally uses her body to create prints that explore materiality & presence in a luminous and intimate manner. In the Open Window, Paul Hogan exhibits drawings that render real and imagined places in pen and ink. Paul work invokes the fine line of the real and the dreamed in precise linear form. In the Project Space is Trash, a group exhibit curated by Lee Fearnside featuring her photography of waste treatment plants work , two delightful animations Jo Dery, a video critique of disposable patriotic culture by Holly Hey, sculptural works from Scott Lapham's Perfectly Preserved Shorline series & Caroline Paquita's recylced, re-used works. In the Side Room Steve Subotnicks exhibits drawings and prints from th emaking of his animation The Jelly Fishers. Amazing look glimpse into the process of animation.

Artist Talk with Lucia O'Reilly

Lucia O'Reilly will be talking this Thursday about her current exhibition "Corners" at the AS220 Project Space. The exhibition brings together three bodies of work that manipulates paint, collage, and delicate controlled burnings that explore the delicate intersection between the beauty of the formal design and the thorniness of the content. The talk starts at 6pm and is free. The AS220 Project Space is located at 93 Mathewson St.

Gallery Talk this Thursday with Julia Gandrud!

Julia Gandrud will be talking about her animations and artists' books currently on exhibit in the AS220 Project Space this Thursday, November 19th from 6-8pm. Julia's hand drawn animations and books use primordial motifs that tell stories of our most primitive and raw experiences of the beauty and magic of the world we encounter daily, a magic that speaks softly that could be easily overlooked.

Talk is free and at the AS220 Project Space at 93 Mathewson St. for more info contact neal@as220.org

November in the AS220 Galleries

November 1-28, 2009

opening reception

Sunday, November 1, 4-7pm

Great Shows coming up oh so soon in the merry month of November! Paintings dominate at AS220 Empire St. Complex. Emily Lisker's strange, visceral theaterscapes paintings explode in size and color in the new series "Three's a Crowd." Michelle L'Heurex new series "Gender Redux "explores the ambiguity of our identity as well as the ambiguity that exists within the multiple layers of the painted surface. John Bhogal rocks the Youth Gallery on the 2nd floor with "Handle It!" mixed media paintings spanning styles that hit just right. But let us not forget the photographic medium, Russ Pedro presents a series of photographic still lives in the Open Window gallery. The AS220 Project Space presents "Screening My Thoughts" videos and book works by Julia Gandrund. Delicate line & Primordial images twist & dance & open up to the magical beauty of the world, sometimes softly like a whisper.

& like a whisper that turns into monsoon we have a special autumn surprise: we have transformed our little side room exhibition space into a bookshop/reading room/printed ephemera exhibition space. we are looking to feature works by book artists & and makers of printed ephemera of all stripes! November brings us an exquisite project form Chicago, Illinois. The Green Lantern & Caroline Picard present Isolated Fictions: A Group Show featuring the work of Jason Dunda, Deb Sokolow, Nick Butcher & Rebecca Grady

AS220 Main Gallery New Paintings by Emily Lisker and Gender Redux Paintings by Michele L'Heureux

Open Window

Photography by Russ Pedro

Youth Gallery

Handle It ! : new paintings by John Bhogal

AS220 Project Space

Screening My Thoughts: new work by Julia Gandrud

October Artist Talk at the AS220 Project Space

Artist Holly Ewald, Folklorist Michael Bell, and photographer and book artist Erik Gould will talk about their current work and the role of *the book *in their practice. Thursday October 15, 6-8pm at the AS220 Project Space, 93 Mathewson St.

Ewald & Bell created the installation Languages of the Land, A Dialogue with The Downs. Stepping into the installation is like stepping into the pages of a book. The suspended pages surround the visitor in layered images of land, water, woods, sky and built environments haunted by silhouettes of past inhabitants and objects. With a loose sense of sequential order the viewer wanders through the images and creates his/her own story based on past experiences in similar places. Washed up treasures line the exterior walls of the installation and rest on pebbles, soils and grasses from the site. As one walks through the suspended pages of this book one hears voices of both long-time residents and newcomers share their experiences of Salter Grove. A handheld book of this installation is found in an adjacent room with other artists books sharing journeys to other places.

OCTOBER Gallery Exhibits!

October 4-24, 2009

opening reception (free admission) Sunday, October 4, 4-7pm

AS220 Main Gallery

Do it! Show it! Sing it! Work it!

AS220 Group Exhibition

Youth Gallery

New Photography by Miguel Rosario and Ray Min

AS220 Project Space

Languages of the Land

New Installation by Holly Ewald

In Place, Everywhere Artist Book exhibit

Welcome to autumn! October is here & we can hardly contain our excitement for the hauntingly enchanting shows this month....

At the Main Gallery we have: Do It! Show It! Sing It! Work It! An AS220 Group Exhibit with work by, staff, residents, volunteers, and other luminaries that shine upon the little valley of AS220! Head on over to the Project Space where artist Holly Ewald, working with Folklorist Michael Bell created a life sized book installation Languages of the Land, A Dialogue with The Downs.
As part of the the installation In Place, Elsewhere: Artists' Book exhibition will be exhibited in the side room of the AS220 Project Space. Artist Holly Ewald and AS220 Gallery Director Neal Walsh invited artists to contribute artists' books on the theme of Place, and the various ways we experience being in place. An artists talk with Holly Ewald and contributing artists is scheduled for Thursday October 15th from 6pm-8pm, at the As220 Project Space. And last but not least, we have new photography by Ray Min & Miguel Rosario in the Youth Gallery. Ray Min's work documents the world of local boxing clubs, while Miguel Rosario explores the life and culture of the Dominican Republic.

So while you're sippin' some cider and rotting your teeth with candy corn, don't forget to check out the AS220 galleries this month!

Gallery Opening Today! Sunday September 13, 4-7pm!

AS220 Main Gallery

Double Vision:

Nathan Fitch & the Artists of Top Drawer Art Center

Youth Gallery

BSS VISUALS:

New Works by Uriah, Eduardo, John Bhogal, NJ, Solomon Bass, Rev

AS220 Project Space

Love Songs New Work by Lydia Stein

& Live Music at the Project Space! starting at 7pm with:

The Underscore Orkestra (Portland, OR)

The Salt Wives (Providence-Boston)

The Extraordinary Rendition Band (Providence)

marching bands, gypsy tunes & balkan breadowns! wear your dancing shoes! $5 suggested donation!

New Gallery Exhibits!

September 4-26, 2009

opening reception Sunday, September 13, 4-7pm

AS220 Main Gallery

Double Vision:

Nathan Fitch & the Artists of Top Drawer Art Center

Youth Gallery

BSS VISUALS:

New Works by Uriah, Eduardo, John Bhogal, NJ, Solomon Bass, Rev

AS220 Project Space

Love Songs New Work by Lydia Stein

Hello, and happy Labor Day weekend and the unofficial end of summer, but an end of summer means the the start of an autumn gallery schedule of exhibitions full of wonder and surprises!

Coming up in September we have Double Vision, a dynamic collaborations between photographer Nathan Fitch & the artists from the Top Draw Art Center. Top Drawer is a nonprofit visual art center that provides art programs for adults with developmental disabilites. Nathan spent a year getting to know and working with the artist at Top Drawer. Over time he photographed portraits of each artist, then asked each artist to work into that portrait to create their own self-portrait. The Youth Gallery presents an exhibition of work created by the Summer Visuals workshop. Check out the new works by up and coming artists : Uriah, Eduardo, John Bhogal, NJ, Solomon Bass, & Rev. The AS220 Project Space presents Love Songs new works by Lydia Stein. Lydia's exhibit will comprise of a series of books of wood prints, paintings, and small altars of documenting the struggles of the heart and mind in troubled times with radical spirit.

Have You Seen Me?

*Elation #1 * by Christina Olszewski

*Elation #2 * by Christina Olszewski

*Elation #3 * by Christina Olszewski

Elation #1-3 collaged mixed media pieces by RI artist Christina Olszewski were hanging in the AS220 Window Gallery in the Bar/Taqueria space. They are no longer there & went missing at Foo Fest. If you have seen them or know of their whereabouts please call Neal at (401)490.6164 or e-mail at neal@as220.org. No questions asked, just please return them to AS220.

Thank You.

Gallery Talk this Thursday with Sharon Cutts!

Sharon Cutts "Providence"

At the AS220 Project Space at 93 Mathewson St. from 6-8pm. Free!

Sharon's process begins by painting loose canvas with oil paints, blending and shaping color swaths that will become a six-yard long palette.This palette is then subjected to a series of destructive processes, such as shooting it with a 12 gauge shotgun (at a gun club) and sanding, ripping or tearing it.  After that, the canvas is cut and stapled and glued in pieces onto a second painted stretched or otherwise stiffened canvas. The whole process is very time-consuming but satisfying, a slow march uphill with the aim of creating a painting that will draw the viewer with unusual textures, bright colors and arresting images.

to learn more & meet the artist in person, come on down Thursday night!

Gallery Opening! Sunday August 2, 4-7pm!

Sarah Samways, "Flock of Seagulls, #5" silver gelatin print

Sunday, August 2, 4-7pm

Featuring new work by 19 on Paper in the Main Gallery and New Collages by Christina Olszewski in the Open Window. In the Youth Gallery is Quiet Riot: New Work by Sarah Samways. Sarah is the fab Youth Gallery Coordinator & this her last hurrah at AS220 before heading off to college in September! Come on down & celebrate Sarah's fine art work & hard work organizing the Youth Gallery! & last but by no means least, at the AS220 Project Space we have paintings by Sharon N. Kahn Cutts and Wendyll Brown.

Sarah Samways, "Malakai's Grand Adventure" mixed media on canvas

August Gallery Exhibitions!

AUGUST 2-29, 2009

opening reception

Sunday, August 2, 4-7pm

AS220 Main Gallery

On-The-Line: 19 on Paper group exhibition

Open Window

New Collages by Christina Olszewski

Youth Gallery

Quiet Riot: New Work by Sarah Samways

AS220 Project Space

Pieces: New Work by Sharon N. Kahn Cutts and Wendyll Brown

l to r: Samways/Olszewski/Brown/Kahn-Cutts/19 on Paper: Bentley-Scheck

Artist Talk with C.W. Roelle

Hello, Please join us, this Thursday, July 16th from 6-8pm, at the AS220 Project Space at 93 Mathewson St. for a lively conversation with exhibiting artist C.W. Roelle. Learn the wonders of wire, cheese, metal detectors & how to read the newspaper! All for Free!

Gallery Talk with Nick Holligbaugh & Ben Watkins

Ben Watkins, "Division Series #2"

Artists' Talk with Nick Hollighbaugh & Ben Watkins Thursday June 18th from 6pm-8pm at the AS220 Project Space

The AS220 Project Space presents the fine art and craftmanship of Nick Holligbaugh & Ben Watkins. Nick and Ben, in their distinct ways, make meticulously crafted sculptures and paintings that blur boundaries and style. Ben and Nick will talk in-depth about their techniques and creative processes this Thursday, June 18th from 6pm-8pm at the AS220 Project Space. The talk is free and open to the public.

The AS220 Project Space is located at 93 Mathewson Street, in Providence, RI. For more information please contact Gallery Director Neal T. Walsh at 401.490.6164 or neal@as220.org

read the review of their exhibit here.

Nick Holligbaugh, "Lineage"

Gallery Opening Today! Sunday June 7, 4-7pm!

Leslie Friedman, "Fossil Fools Project: ANWR Walk"

We have eye poppin' , collage serigraphs by Leslie Friedman from her new series, The Fossil Fools Projects, social commentary in the vein of Corita Kent. Equally concerned with social commentary , but a bit more towards the Lenny Bruce end of the spectrum, comes the mixed media collages & paintings by Nathan Ventura. Nathan uses found materials, and innovative mediums like bleach, to create sweet, wry, scatological, twisted little works. Christine Manory 's exhibit in the Open Window, Dolls Freak Me Out, provides a baker's dozen of photographs on the reason why. In the Youth Gallery , Alex Bomberg is rockin' with work that spans the range of materials and style: paintings, chalk drawing to the awesome "wallface". The AS220 Project Space features the fine art and craftmanship of Nick Holligbaugh & Ben Watkins. Nick and Ben, in their own distinct ways, make meticulously crafted sculptures and paintings that blur boundaries and style. They will be talking about the magic they make Thursday June 18th from 6pm-8pm at the AS220 Project Space.

& there is more!

Visiting Artist-in-Residence William Buzzel will be exhibiting Liberal Arts new paintings about the Providence Library system, in AS220's Street Exhibition Space, at 115 Empire St. Will has be working away over the last month creating a new body of work the delves into the Providence Public Library's long history & evolution. Read more here & meet Will at Sunday's Gallery Reception from 4pm-7pm.

Exquisite Corpse Video Project

This Saturday Rhode Island artist Ambuja Magaji presents the Exquisite Corpse Video Project from 5:30-8:30pm in the AS220 Performance Space (free!)

The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration of 36 artists from 16 countries, inspired by the Surrealist invention, the "Exquisite Corpse". ECVP participants create video art in response to the final ten seconds of the previous member's work. The videos from the ECVP were created by artists who met online, at artreview.com, a networking site for artists, galleries, and collectors. The project was coordinated by Brazilian video‐artist, Kika Nicolela. Local ECVP participant Ambuja Magaji, will present volume one & discuss the project.

More information here.

Artist Talk Tonight with Liz Collins

Vein Dress by Liz Collins/ photo by Greg Cook

This Thursday, May 21, at 7pm artist & designer Liz Collins will talk about her current exhibition and past projects at the AS220 Project Space, 93 Mathewson St. The event is free and open to the public

Liz Collins is recognized internationally for her use of machine knitting to create ground breaking clothing, textiles, and installations. After five years as an independent designer of ready-to-wear collections in New York, in the fall of 2003 Collins returned to her alma mater, Rhode Island School of Design (BFA'91/ MFA'99), as an Assistant Professor in the Textile Department. In addition to teaching,Collins currently designs knitwear and collaborates with other designers, producing signature knit pieces and collections for them. In the spring of 2005, a new facet of Collins' work emerged: a series of performance-based installations called "KNITTING NATION", that employ uniformed machine knitters to create a multi-sensory experience that examines the relationship of humans to manufacturing and the process of machine knitting. Collins is a 2006 United States Artists Target Fellow in Crafts and Traditional Arts and a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Her work was included in the celebrated exhibition "Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting" at the Museum of Arts and Design in 2007, "Evolution/Revolution" at the RISD Museum of Art in 2008, and can be seen the books Fashioning Fabrics, by Sandy Black and Elyssa da Cruz, Knitknit: Presenting 27 Innovative Knitters and Their Projects, by Sabrina Gschwandtner, and Designing a Knitwear Collection:From Inspiration to Finished Garment, by Lisa Donofrio and Marylin Heffernen.

Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowships

APPLICATIONS FOR FULL FELLOWSHIP AWARDS DUE BY JUNE 15, 2009

The Vermont Studio Center is an international residency program open to all artists and writers. Year-round, VSC hosts 50 artists and writers per month, each of whom receives an individual studio, private room, and all meals. Residencies last from 2-12 weeks and provide uninterrupted time to work, a community of creative peers, and a beautiful village setting in northern Vermont. In addition, VSC's program includes a roster of Visiting Artists and Writers (2 painters, 2 sculptors and 2 writers per month) who offer slide talks/readings and individual studio visits/conferences. Applications and information available at www.vermontstudiocenter.org.

The following Full Fellowships and a variety of special fellowships will be awarded at the June 15th, 2009 deadline: Vermont Studio Center Fellowships (up to 16 awards) Open to all artists and writers, based on merit.

Awards open to artists and writers (4) fellowships based on merit and financial need supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Includes stipend.

Dedalus Foundation Fellowships 
(2) For painters working in the modernist tradition.

Frankel Anderson Chicago Artist Awards (1) For Chicago area visual artists.

Civil Society Institute Awards 
(3) For East Coast urban minority artists, based on merit and financial need. Includes travel stipend.

New England Artist Award 
(1 or 2) For visual artists living in New England.

Vermont Studio Center / Cave Canem Foundation Fellowship 
(1) For poets who are Cave Canem fellows. Click here for guidelines on specific fellowships and recently added awards.

OPEN SOURCE: A Scheme for art production and curating?

OPEN SOURCE: A Scheme for art production and curating?

Friday May 8, 2009

10am-Noon

AS220 Performance Space/115 Empire St.

FREE.

LIVE STREAM from Positions in Flux Symposium ,at The Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam, on the changing role of the artist and art institutes in the networked society.

Open Source - A scheme for art production and curating?

This session deals with the concept of open source for art production and its presentation. The open source movement is driven by the idea of collective, process-based, sustainable production and improvement. In software development this strategy has already proven to be valid; however can this model be applied to other products such as artworks or even exhibitions? In how far does the open source model differ from other forms of artistic collaboration? Is there a new role model for both the artist and the curator in the future? Which (economic) value and impact has expertise in open source production? How could institutions and organisations respond to this trend? How could institutions and organisations respond to this trend and create public domains?

Gallery Opening Today! 4-7pm!

(K. Lenore Siner, acrylic on panel)

Featuring in the AS220 Main Gallery: Jessica New works by Jim Shelton & Joanna Roux and New Paintings by K. Lenore Siner. The Open Window features New Psychedelic PrismaColors by Aaron Marks. Upstairs in the Youth Gallery is the Senior Show: Nine For '09 with Bethany Araujo,Daniel Boccato, Jonilka Calcano, Eliezer DeFaria, Ben Kicic, Mariah LaMontagne, Philip Marchese, Chris Masse and Rose Percy.

At the AS220 Project Space @ 93 Mathewson St. a new installation of work by Liz Collins; Veins/ New Life and Emily Quillen presents The Peaks and Valleys Series.

FREE!

Mobile Art Project: Call for Entries

Submission Deadline Extended to April 30, 2009

*Call for Entries:Looking for Site-specific Installation Artists *

Hera Gallery in Wakefield in collaboration with Independent Curator, Viera Levitt, is preparing the 'Mobile Art Project' as a pilot project for this June and is currently fundraising for its continuation.

The Mobile Art Project will bring contemporary art to communities in Southern Rhode Island where few or no formal art institutions currently exist. The art will be contained in a mobile home, panel truck or another vehicle. We are looking for artists to propose group or solo shows in various media, including video art. We would prefer site-specific installations created directly for the vehicle. We are considering organizing our first show around the topic of 'Goddess' but we welcome other suggestions. Preference will be given to local artists, however proposals from all of New England are also welcome. A small honorarium and budget will be provided.

complete details here.

Siglio Press: CALL FOR ARTISTS

IMAGE + TEXT

WORK BY WOMEN

Innovative image + text works by women artists and writers sought for new SIGLIO PRESS anthology.

The anthology asks: WHY AND HOW...

does hybridity play an extraordinary role in women's creative work? [i.e. Claude Cahun's textual subversions, Charlotte Salomon's autobiographical paintings, Nancy Spero's mytho-historical collages, Yoko Ono's instructions, Allison Knowles' notebook distillations, Eleanor Antin's psychological notations, Jenny Holzer's truisms, Ann Hamilton's burned book pages, Louise Bourgeois' embroidered psuedo-aphorisms, etc., etc. etc.]. We are looking for a wide range of image+text work: including--but definitely not limited to--comics and graphic narratives, collage, photo+text works, drawings, text driven by typographical play, altered bookpages/environments, etc. We are most interested in work that plays with new taxonomies, reinvents narrative forms, investigates language, disrupts paradigms, creates unsettling, illuminating juxtapositions, spills over in excess, creates multiples strands of conversation and meaning, and/or is uncontainable in any single medium.

GUIDELINES:

Submit 1 - 12 pages for consideration. It may be one complete work, a small, coherent collection of single works, or an excerpt from a longer work so long as it needs no introduction or explanation. The work must reproduce well as line art or b/w half-tones. Preference is given to works originally intended for print, created as 2-D works, or works whose end-product are photographic documents.

Works may have been previously published so long as the author/artist retains the copyright.

SiglioPressCall.pdf DEADLINE: MAY 12 Submit PDF to publisher@sigliopress.com

Artist Talk at AS220's Project Space April 16

Rhode Island stone carver Laura Travis will host an artist talk amidst the carvings and assemblage pieces that comprise her current exhibition, "Bridges and Doors", at the AS220 Project Space, 93 Matthewson St, Providence. The informal conversation will begin around 6 pm and the gallery will be open 5:30 until 8, the event is free and open to the public. The show will run until April 25.

A special highlight of this exhibition and the discussion is a selection of work from the artist group she helped found, An Droichead/The Bridge. The alliance was formed twelve years ago to set new standards in contemporary visual art and design which is based in artifact. The group has sponsored numerous exhibitions and forms the core of the art faculty at the heralded summer classes hosted annually in Goderich, Ontario.

Laura has exhibited in Baltimore, Toronto, New Bedford and Providence and teaches stone carving workshops internationally during the summers, including at the Young Artist program at RISD and at her own studio near the ocean. Her work is informed by stonework from Ireland and other Celtic historical and traditional material, including the music, with which she has been involved for over twenty five years as a radio show host, writer and dancer.

In 2007, Laura spearheaded an effort to salvage the limestone facing left when the Providence Police and Fire Headquarters was demolished. With much assistance from area artists, The Steelyard and AS220, the effort succeeded. Laura's students at Hope Arts High School have recently completed some work in this limestone, currently on display at AS220's Youth Gallery. Laura has taught Visual Art in the Providence Schools since 1989, holds an MFA in Sculpture from Maryland Institute, and was 2007's RI Art Educator of the Year (Secondary Level). She recently completed her National Board Certification.

For more information, please call 401-490-6164 or see the artist's web site at campus.digication.org/lauratravis

Sunday Gallery Openings at AS220!

McKenzie Burrua-Granger, "untitled" from the series New Beginings/affection & intention

Paintings & collages by Kim Yigit, Claudia Crevier, and Holly Gaboriault adorn the walls at Empire st. the work ranges from fanciful surreal works inspired by folk tales of Holly Gaboriault to the layered abstractions of text & figuration by Kim Yigit that explores movements & migration. Claudia Crevier's new work concentrate on an environmentalist theme, depicting natural scenes that sometimes contain darker, more sinister elements. The Youth Gallery has work by Laura Travis's students from Hope Arts High School, featuring limestone carvings made as part of Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Project in partnership with RISD and First Works Providence At the AS220 Project Space, Laura Travis presents an installation of new work entitled Bridges & Doors, and the role of stone as markers at the thresholds of transitions & McKenzie Burrus-Granger, in the series New Beginnings/affection & intention, uses color film and medium format cameras, to explore questions of belonging and how we define comfort and safety within the spaces that define us.

April 5-25, 2009

opening reception Sunday, April 5, 4-7pm

AS220 Main Gallery

New Paintings by Kim Yigit & Claudia Crevier

Open Window

New Work by Holly Gaboriault

Youth Gallery

Artwork from Hope High School

AS220 Project Space

Bridges and Doors

New Work by Laura Travis

New Beginings/affection & intention

New Photographs by McKenzie Burrus-Granger

OPEN STUDIO with Visiting Artist-In-Residence

This Saturday ,March 28th from 7-10pm, Francesca Lohmann, will open up her studio to share the work of her month long residency at AS220. All are welcome.

DE/CONSTRUCT 2

Site-specific installations related to themes of architecture curated by Allison Paschke, featuring:

Christopher Abrams, Lasse Antonsen, Natasha Maria Brooks-Sperduti, Alyn Carlson, Paul Clancy, Phoebe Danskin, Dan Denton, Shawn Gilheeney, Lynne Harlow Graham Heffernan, Jon Laustsen, Peter J Lutz, Agata Michalowska, JameyMorrill, Alison Owen, Peter Owen, Allison Paschke, Lisa Perez, Will Reeves & Andrew Sloan

opening Friday April 3 from 5-9pm at 150 Chestnut St. Floor 7.

more at http://www.deconstruct2.blogspot.com/

The Mobile Arts Project

Looking for Site-specific Installation Artists

Submission deadline April 15, 2009

Hera Gallery in Wakefield in collaboration with Independent Curator, Viera Levitt, is preparing the 'Mobile Art Project' as a pilot project for this June and is currently fundraising for its continuation.

The Mobile Art Project will bring contemporary art to communities in Southern Rhode Island where few or no formal art institutions currently exist. The art will be contained in a mobile home, panel truck or another vehicle. We are looking for artists to propose group or solo shows in various media, including video art. We would prefer site-specific installations created directly for the vehicle. We are considering organizing our first show around the topic of 'Goddess' but we welcome other suggestions. Preference will be given to local artists, however proposals from all of New England are also welcome. A small honorarium and budget will be provided.

The shows will include a leaflet and website with photographs from the exhibition, curatorial texts and comments from the public including excerpts from a questionnaire. At each stop on the truck/mobile home's tour, Mobile Art Project staff will be present to speak with visitors.

Please send your proposals by April 15, 2009 and be sure to include: some visuals of the proposal (drawings or collage), a complete image list, a brief artist's statement, resume, an estimated budget as well as a short description of the proposed show and why you think it will fit the 'Mobile Art Project'. Digital entries should be standard JPEG (.jpg) format. The label for each image should include your name. Please also include links to your online portfolio or other supporting materials. For the return of any supplemental materials please include a SASE. We don't accept slides.

Send applications by April 15, 2009 to: Hera Gallery Attn: Mobile Art Project PO Box 336 Wakefield, RI 02880

more info here.

For People Not On Phones

For People Not On Phones: an art installation by Purest Spiritual Pigs Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - February 25, 2009 At six undisclosed public locations

This project was fabricated as part of an artist residency at: AS220 115 Empire Street Providence, 02903

For People Not On Phones is the newest conceptual creation by Purest Spiritual Pigs, a solo and collaborative project lead by Helena Thompson. For this project the artists have created sound installations and placed them discreetly in public spaces, both inside and outdoors. The volume of these auditory compositions is extremely low, discernable only to passers-by who are fully present in their environment. Sounds created in and from the future locations of the six installations were used in creating the finished works that are heard in those very same places.

Thompson was a resident artist at AS220 from a few months after its inception in 1985, until 1990, when she relocated to San Francisco. For the month of February, Thompson returns again as an Artist in Residence by way of AS220's collective invitation. This Purest Spiritual Pigs project brings AS220 Labs in as one of Thompson's collaborator. AS220 Labs contributed the planning and fabrication of the sound devices used in the install, utilizing open-source Arduino chips and small laser cut handcrafted Plexi boxes. Susan Clausen, Bert Crenca, and Blue Wade also joined Purest Spiritual Pigs for this exciting collaboration, helping create the final recordings.

The artists hope that a number of people will happen upon the installations in the normal course of their week and have the opportunity to interact with the pieces, but is not formally releasing the whereabouts of the six soundscapes.

This is the first of a series Thompson plans to bring to public locations in multiple cities. AS220 is pleased to have been the springboard for this ambitious series.

For more information about the exhibit or AS220 please contact:

AS220 Communications Director 401.831.9327 x116 Cheryl Kaminsky cheryl@as220.org

or

Helena Thompson purestspiritualpigs@gmail.com www.purestspiritualpigs.com

calling all artists

calling all artists: painters, photographers, printers, sculptors, poets, playwrights, calligraphers, metalsmiths, ceramasists, who work in materials and mediums such as paper, metal, stiffened fabric, plastic, clay, glass, balsa wood, leather, embroidery canvas, acetate, heavy watercolor paper, textile arts, charcoal, photo gravure, acrylic, oil, collage, scratch board, mixed media, assemblage, digital art, letter forms, bead work, rubber stamps, carved soft block stamps, pen and ink, colored pencil, airbrush, pastels, sustainables, fuzzy yarn and many other materials to join together for an artist trading card night. Bring twenty pieces of original or limited edition work measuring 2.5" x 3.5" with your signature to Design Within Reach, 210 Westminster Street, Providence RI on February 18th from 6-8pm. No applications, slides, registration forms, fees, blood work, evaluations, statements, bios, fingerprints, censorship, or prostitution necessary. Just come and look and trade.

TradingCardPoster.pdf

Call For Art to support free Legal Services in RI

Roger Williams School of Law is looking for artists to donate artwork for a benefit auction to support it's free legal services program. Artists set the minimum bid price & all proceeds gained from the auctioning of an artwork is split evenly between the School & artist. Art work donations are fully tax deductible and all the necessary paperwork to document your donation will be provided. Work maybe dropped off at AS220 on Saturday February 21, between 1-4 pm. The Auction will take place on February 27 at the Federal Reserve in Providence, and will include live music, food, raffles, a silent auction and a live auction. All artists are invited to attend.

Auction proceeds support law students engaging in important, but unpaid, summer legal internships serving the disenfranchised and less fortunate populations across Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts. With the 27 Summer Public Interest Stipends funded by the Auction last year, law students were able to:

• represent people facing discrimination through the Rhode Island Commission on Human Rights.

• advocate for environmental legislation in Rhode Island.

• represent low-income Rhode Islanders losing homes through predatory lending and the foreclosure crisis

• avocate for victims of domestic violence, and many other worthy endeavors.

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If you have questions or need more information please contact Seth Aitken at ph: 508.989.8865, email: seththomasaitken@gmail.com or Marci Pereira at ph: 203.521.1529, email: marci.pereira@gmail.com.

Closing Reception at the AS220 Main Gallery

Global Influences by Andrew Sloan & Body Painting by Paul Roustan & The Sleep Series by Adrienne Adeyemi @ AS220 Main Gallery are having a Closing Reception/ Happy Hour - 5-7pm -Friday 23, 2009. Featuring Andrew Sloan's new work inspired by time spent in Miami, NYC, London, France, Jamaica, and Providence & Paul Roustan's awesome body painting photos.

(Show closes Sat Jan 24) Chips, salsa & beer. AS220 - 115 Empire Street (Downtown) - Providence

Cruz Bermudez

Cruz Bermudez is a Garifuna artist from Tela, Honduras. The Garifuan are an Afro-Caribbean people with communities along the north coast of Honduras, as well as Guatemela and Nicaragua. Cruz's paintings, currently on display at the AS220 Project Space with John Kotula's work, depict life in the traditional fishing village of Miami.

Cruz paints "recuerdos", mementos: paintings for tourists to remember their vacation by. But Cruz's paintings go beyond the typical tourist art. Cruz captures the lush Caribbean light and colors in his scenes of thatched huts, men fishing in dugout canoes, and brilliant sunsets. But he also captures the grittier day to day existence of fisherman laboring with thier nets, lighting up at day's end, and the tense moments before the start of a cock fight, where a the day's hard earn cash may be at stake.

The work exhibited at the AS220 Project Space is not for sale. John Kotula borrowed the work from friends that purchased them from Cruz while visiting John in Honduras. John met Cruz while serving in the Peace Corps and the two bonded over their shared love of art making. John relates a story of visiting Cruz in his home that is filled with paintings not for sale. Theses paintings are not "recuerdos", at least not the sort tourists would want to take home. These are paintings Cruz paints for himself, and his family, and friends. Take for instance the painting depicting a teachers' strike. The National Army is out in force. Streets are closed down and barricades are up but the teachers still hold classes in the park across from the school. The teachers quarrel is with the government that has slashed their wages not with children. So they continue to teach, to strike, and work towards a better future.

Since returning from the Peace Corps in 2007, John began teaching art at the East Bay Met School and in the fall of 2008 spent two weeks in Honduras with students in a "Learn and Serve" program. Called Project Sonaguera, students met and worked with Hondurans on civic projects to improve the local community. Planning is underway for future learn/serve trips to Honduras and as part of the fundraising, Cruz has agreed to have giclee prints sold in an edition of 100 of several paintings. Profits from the sales will be shared between the artist and the East Bay Met School.

Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowships

The Vermont Studio Center is an international residency program open to all artists and writers. Year-round, VSC hosts 50 artists and writers per month, each of whom receives an individual studio, private room, and all meals. Residencies last from 2-12 weeks and provide uninterrupted time to work, a community of creative peers, and a beautiful village setting in northern Vermont. In addition, VSC's program includes a roster of Visiting Artists and Writers (2 painters, 2 sculptors and 2 writers per month) who offer slide talks/readings and individual studio visits/conferences. Applications and information available at www.vermontstudiocenter.org.

VSC Full Fellowships and a variety of special fellowships will be awarded at the February 17th, 2009 deadline, including:

General VSC Fellowships All artists and writers

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Awards

In 2009, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation/VSC Fellowship Program for visual artists of outstanding talent will support (3) 4-week residencies for domestic artists and (1) 8-week residency for an international artist.

Golden Award

(1) Open to all painters, merit-based

Zoland Poetry Fellowships

(2) Open to writers of original English-language poetry and poetry translators.

Wheels for Wheels Award

(1) Open to an artist or writer who uses a wheelchair and/or has a spinal cord injury. Kay Evans Award (1) open to all poets, merit-based; award created in honor of Maine poet Kay Evans by her friends and family.

For Application and Guidelines:

Vermont Studio Center | PO Box 613 Johnson, VT 05656 | 802-635-2727

Call FOR ART to support Legal Services for the Underrepresented & Disenfranchised

Roger Williams University School of Law is hosting art auction on Feb. 27th to support summer internships that provide free legal services for those in need. The Auction will take place on February 27 at Conley's Wharf in Providence, and will include live music, food, raffles, a silent auction and a live auction.

The auction purchase price of all artworks will be split 50/50 between the artist and the Law school, and every piece sold is accompanied by the artists' contact & upcoming exhibition information. Additionally that information will be available during the auction to all attendees who may want to contact artists later and find out about their work. Art work donations are fully tax deductible and all the necessary paperwork to document your donation will be provided.

Auction proceeds support law students engaging in important, but unpaid, summer legal internships serving the disenfranchised and less fortunate populations across Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts. With the 27 Summer Public Interest Stipends funded by the Auction last year, law students were able to:

• represent people facing discrimination through the Rhode Island Commission on Human Rights.

• advocate for environmental legislation in Rhode Island.

• represent low-income Rhode Islanders losing homes through predatory lending and the foreclosure crisis

• avocate for victims of domestic violence, and many other worthy endeavors.

  If you have questions or need more information please contact Seth Aitken at ph: 508.989.8865, email: seththomasaitken@gmail.com or Marci Pereira at ph: 203.521.1529, email: marci.pereira@gmail.com.

Youth Gallery Artist Interview: Benito Rios

Interview with Benito Rios conducted via e-mail by AS220 Youth Gallery Coordinator Sarah Samways

1.) How did you get involved with AS220?

In order for my clinician to feel 100 percent about discharging me from the ITU (Devereux), I had to put together a plan. Not knowing exactly what to do, I made up shit in Providence and they were happy with it. Being discharged into the custody of Communities for People I had to make yet another plan to prove that I was ready to be released into society, that's when AS220 came into play.

2.) What types of things inspire your art? Why do you think that is?

Sex. It's a good thing.

3.) If you have one, what is your preferred medium?

Photography

4.) Do you plan to pursue art as a career?

Hopefully

5.) How would you describe your artwork? Why would you describe it in this way?

I try not to. For whoever the audience may be, it's their job to describe my artwork.

6.) Do you have a favorite artist (renowned or up the street)?

Alberto Giacometti

7.) How do you feel about the whole teenage angst stereotype? Does it apply to you? Did it ever?

I don't pay attention to that shit. Not enough time to spend worrying about it.

8.) If you weren't involved with art, what else do you think you'd do?

Drugs and a lot of 'em

9.) People often say, "Art is life", do you agree with this statement or do you believe art is a vehicle to get away from life, or a combination of the two?

This question has been asked numerous time by myself and I still haven't figured out my own solid answer. I guess Art is life no matter if you use it to "get away" or to send a message.

10.) Budgets in school districts across the state are being cut all the time and often the arts programs are the first to go. If you were ruler of the world (or at least Rhode Island) what would you do to remedy the situation?

If I was the ruler of Rhode Island I would make sure it wouldn't affect me by somehow stealing money or investing it somewhere. I would leave the rest to the RISD and factory living "poor" artists to protest it. Ha ha. Like they try to do everything else now-a-days.

Youth Gallery Artist Interview: Kourtnie Aileru

Interview with Koutnie Aileru conducted via e-mail by AS220 Youth Gallery Coordinator Sarah Samways

1.)How did you get involved with AS220?

I actually found about about AS220 through a google search. I was researching after-school programs at the time because I tired of being a hermit and Broad Street Studios sort of just popped-up. When I initially signed up for BSS, Merari was the coordinator at the time and when I told her how I found out about the program she was like "Wow. Really? That's a first."

2.) When did you first encounter photography?

I went to the South Side Boys and Girls Club when I was a kid. Well, my mother basically put me and and my brothers in daycare there (don't be mistaken, it was and after-school supervision program!), but anyway, they had an art class that I attended faithfully. It was more about sketching and painting but I remember this one particular assignment where I had to draw from a photograph. It was of a woman's eyes that had gems as tears. I absolutely swear to you, I was mesmerized by this photograph. I was more interested in learning how the photograph was created rather than the actual assignment at hand. I mean I drilled Ms. Sharon, my teacher, with photography questions. I think she was overwhelmed, but what can I say? I was an abrasive child.

My family is also big on photos. At family functions flashes are constantly going off and I am surprised that I am not completely blind by now (knock on wood!). I mean my relatives actually have arguments over who is entitled to which photo or who it belongs to. They even swipe them from each other.

3.) What types of things do you like to photograph? Why?

When I first started out, portraiture was my thing, especially when it conscerned my culture. Now, and it seems like it came out of nowhere, landscapes and nature shots are my new craze. The photographs still have relevence to my culture. I go to various reservations and photograph their lands.

4.) Do you plan to pursue photography as a career?

Um..... well I really want to pursue print journalism within the music industry. If I can fit photography into that mix, great! But if I can't, then I'll just do it for me.

5.) How would you describe your artwork? Why would you describe it in this way?

I believe my work has a tendency of being very critical. When I photograph people, it is on a conscious level. For example, I did a series entitled "We Are Still Standing." My intentions of those particular photographs were to change perconceived notions about what the modern indian should look like and break through stereotypes. Now on the other hand, when I photograph landscapes I tend to concentrate on the "small things" in nature that people have forgotten about or take for granted. My landscape photography still has relevence to my culture also. I like to compare and contrast my images of reservations and of the city.

6.) Do you have a favorite artist (renowned or up the street)?

My favorite photographer is Dorothy Houng. Although, she often does work for magazines and campaigns, her work still has that sort of rawness to it. Locally, I would have to say my favorite artists are my friends, Benito and Jonilka. Their portraits are fly. Sometimes I get jealous and wish some of their stuff was my own, but don't tell them that, their heads will blow up.

7.) How do you feel about the whole teenage angst stereotype? Does it apply to you? Did it ever?

Personally, I think it's a bunch of bull. I mean, yeah, yeah, teens do go through some emotional phases but that is just a side affect of puberty. I believe it all depends on the individual and their particular personality. You see, some teens handle the trials of life triumphantly, while others..... well they just sit around feeling sorry for themselves and won't get off their behinds and suck it up. Don't get me wrong, I'm not Iron Woman and I do have a heart but I've learned "life isn't fair, get over it and move on!" and "Who cares what people think anyway!?! They aren't living your life, the only person you have to please is you!" Honestly, yeah, I did go through the whole teenage angst bit when I was like 13 for like two seconds, but in my opinion, I was just vulnerable because my body and mind was out of wack while going through hormonal changes. I have been picked on all my life for my height and size and that was when it just finally got to me.

8.) If you weren't involved with art, what else do you think you'd do?

Quite frankly, I have no clue. I have always been involved with art whether it was through music or writing. My mother always encouraged it and never let me quit.

9.) People often say, "Art is life," do you agree with this statement or do you believe art is a vehicle to get away from life, or a combination of the two?

I believe that statement holds truth. No matter how much of a square someone is, through birth, love, lust, work, dreams, goals, achievement, etc., people have made choices that have formed their lives and lifestyles; even if it wasn't on purpose. Art equals creativity and people have created their own lives. If that makes any sense to you.

10.) Budgets in school districts across the state are being cut all the time and often the arts programs are the first to go. If you were ruler of the world (or at least Rhode Island) what would you do to remedy the situation?

I would create more safe spaces that are easily accessible where the materials and resources are available to all students to be creative and uncensored. That's how I was able to get into what I'm doing today and I love it. I never had the money to pursue art on my own and I am grateful for the people and organizations I was able to go to.

Boston Art Awards 2008 seeks Nominations

The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research seeks nominations for the best art of the last year in the New England region.

"The aim of the awards, which are organized by The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research, is to promote a more exciting local art scene by honoring the best art made here and exhibits organized here in 2008. And anyone can make nominations, which The Journal will compile into a ballot. Then winners will be chosen by votes of (1) local active art journalists and (2) anyone else who wants to vote - and will be announced in terms of these two categories of voters."

Some broad categories to consider: favorite local artist, local curator, local show, new media, photography, conceptually-driven installation/performance (including video thereof), favorite gallery show, favorite school show, favorite museum show, favorite historical show, favorite contemporary show, best survey/retrospective, favorite solo show, favorite group show, favorite public art (or best non-exhibition space project), favorite on-line project, favorite outdoors project, favorite art book/publication.

All the details can be found here.

You can send nominations here.

CALL FOR ARTISTS

THE SIGHT OF SOUND

GROUP SHOW 2009 March 6 - March 27, 2009

CURATED BY ALLISON COLE + LAUREN HOLT

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

-Open genre: illustration, painting, drawing, screenprints, photography, digital prints, sound, video, sculpture

-Subject of artwork must be related to sound in someway

-All work must be for sale and priced under $700

-Submit up to 3 images of completed work for consideration to gallery@machineswithmagnets.com or via snail mail

-Include name, contact info, artist bio / statement, CV, URL/website, examples of work, medium and dimensions of work

Submissions must be received by Feb 15, 2009.
All accepted work must be shipped to MWM by March 1, 2009.

Opening Reception: March 6 Closing Reception: March 27

AT

MACHINES WITH MAGNETS

400 Main Street Pawtucket, RI 02860

gallery@machineswithmagnets.com

http://www.machineswithmagnets.com

401.475.2655

Sonaguera

"Diego's Rooster II" by John Kotula

Songaguera is the title of South County artist John Kotula's upcoming exhibition at the AS220 Project. The exhibit open Sunday January 4 from 4pm-7pm. At 5pm John will give a talk entitled,"Art and AIDS in Honduras" and at 6pm local rockers Los Monos Locos will perform!

Sonaguera is the name of the town in Honduras where John and his wife, Deborah Drew, lived from 2005 - 2007, as Peace Corps volunteers working on health projects. John's exhibit grew out of his experience working on HIV/AIDS prevention. The work consists of direct documentation such as journal entries and photographs, but most of the exhibition is a painted visual record of living in Sonaguera that is personal to John.

John recently returned to Sonaguera accompanied by a group of students from the Eastbay Met School. The school is in the process of developing a program that students will visit Honduras and Sonaguera on future trips to learn and serve in this community. Plans are underway for a small group of students to spend a month in Sonaguera teaching English. As part of fund raising activities to make this possible, Honduran artist Cruz Bermudez has given the school permission to sell prints of his paintings. Seven of Cruz' paintings from private collections will be exhibited. Profits from sale of the prints will help support Project Sonaguera, educational travel by students from the East Bay Met School.

Cruz Bermudez is a Garifuna artist who lives and works in the city of Tela. The Garifuna are an Afro-Caribbean people with communities along the north coast of Honduras, as well as in Guatemala and Nicaragua. Cruz' paintings depict scenes from his culture including fishing, dancing, and cock fighting.

"Sonaguera" opens January 4 and is on view through Jan. 24th. Also on view in the AS220 Main Gallery* "Body Painting" by Paul Roustan and "Global Influences"* by Andrew Sloan. In the Open Window, "The Sleep Series" by Adrienne Adeyemi. The Youth Gallery features the work of Kourtnie Aileru, Benito Rios, and Joe Davis.

Gallery Hours are W-F 1pm-6pm and Saturdays noon-4pm and by appointment. Please call 401. 490.6164. to make an appointment or if you have any questions regarding the exhibitions.

Prints from the AS220 Flat Files!

"Invasive Species" drypoint by Leah Wolf

Currently hanging in the AS220 Project Space SideRoom are a selection of prints from the AS220 PrintLottery. The PrintLottery was held this past September featuring artwork donated by over 100 artists, locally and nationally, to support the AS220 Community Printshop. The prints represented in the AS220 FlatFile from the PrintLottery are multiples made available by the artists and are for sale. Works can be purchased at the AS220 Project Space or from our on-line store.

The AS220 Flat Files also has prints of our current exhibit in the AS220 Main Gallery, Sustainable: Visions of a Living Planet

The AS220 Project Space is open Wednesday-Friday, 1pm-6pm & Saturdays Noon-4pm, or by appointment. For more information please call:401.831.9327

"Nature Natura" drypoint by Umberto Crenca

"Talk of the Town", photogravure by Meg Turner

27m: an Interactive Sound Installation by Ilona Nemeth this Friday & Saturday at AS220

27m; an Interactive Sound Installation: A corner of Slovakia brought to Providence by NY Times recognized Hungarian/Slovak artist Ilona Nemeth

*The Sidewalk of Empire Street/AS 220 Friday, November 7, 2008, 1pm-6pm Saturday, November 8, 2008, noon-4pm * (artist talk & presentation by curator Viera Levitt from noon-1pm)

Internationally celebrated artist Ilona Nemeth, recently written up in the New York Times for her provocative survey/installation in Budapest is bringing her art to Providence by way of New York City, where she is a Fulbright scholar. Ms. Nemeth, whose sculptures and installations have been shown in Slovakia, Hungary, The Czech Republic, Italy, Japan, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, South Korea and New York, will bring her audio piece, 27 meters (30 yards) to the sidewalk outside AS 220 on Empire Street. Originally shown in Brno, Czech Republic in 2004, this piece contains six monologues of different people. For example, both a Czech hairdresser living in the town for 16 years and a randomly chosen Finnish manager who had spent one day in the city, are parts of the project. Visitors can take one of the available headphones and have a 'walk' with some chosen companion from the small Central-European town Dunajska Streda. The length of one of the three audio tracks corresponds to a real route in Ilona's hometown in the Slovak Republic, Dunajska Streda. The sound sequences were recorded at one of the busiest intersection in the town.

http://www.vieralevitt.org/nemeth.htm

http://www.ilonanemeth.sk/

DUNE SHACK RESIDENCIES

DEADLINE FEBRUARY 15, 2009 OPEN TO ALL.

C-SCAPE & FOWLER DUNE SHACK RESIDENCIES FOR VISUAL ARTISTS, WRITERS, & THE GENERAL PUBLIC ANNOUNCE 2009 SEASON; $500 VISUAL ARTIST FELLOWSHIP; WRITER FELLOWSHIP; The Provincetown Community Compact, Inc. is pleased to announce the 2009 residency program for C-Scape & Fowler Dune Shacks. This novel program, which is a collaboration with the Cape Cod National Seashore, offers one and three week residencies for artists and the general public beginning in April 2009. A $500 fellowship and a three-week summer residency will be offered to one visual artist, and two one-week residencies for writers. No fee. Contact: www.thecompact.org Application deadline is February 15, 2009. The Compact, a private non-profit tax exempt organization, was founded in 1993 by Jay Critchley to support the arts, environment and well being of Provincetown. It sponsors the annual Provincetown Swim for Life + Paddler Flotilla, set for September 12, 2009, and offers fiscal sponsorship for artist projects and grassroots community efforts.

The Compact POBox 819 Provincetown, MA 02657 thecompact@comcast.net

Gallery Talk with Troy West

This Thursday, October 16th at 6pm. Free and open to the public.

The AS220 Project Space presents Housing + Transportation + Civic Design, projects that chronicle South County architect Troy West's exploration of design issues from 1963 to the present.

On display will be Transportation Projects from the 1995 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Design Grant for Light Rail Transportation for South County to the 1997 Design Studies of Westport, Connecticut Railroad Station Competition, which was awarded First Prize.

Housing Designs include works from the 1984 New American House International Competition (Minneapolis, MN) that garnered First Prize to a 2008 prototype on sustainable/affordable housing (Providence, RI).

Civic Designs include 1998 2-stage Neighborhood Revitalization Design Competition where West's team was awarded First Prize for the Southside Broad Street Design Project (Providence, RI) to the ongoing design transformation project at Dale Carlia (Wakefield, RI) into a safe, sustainable, mixed use extension of Main Street from 2002 to present.

West received his architecture degrees (BArch/MArch) from Carnegie Mellon University and later joined the faculty and founded ARCHITECTURE 2001, the first university based community design center in the country. He is one of the original seven architects selected to form the new School of Architecture at New Jersey Institute of Technology, culminating in 45 years of professional practice and teaching.

Troy West practices architecture and design with his partners Anker West and Claudia Flynn. He is actively involved locally with the Hera Gallery and Educational Foundation, DOT Watch, Inc., the Sierra Club, South County Land Trust, and nationally with Architects, Designers, Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR/NY).

"Funhouse" a review of New Obstructions exhibition

Greg Cook reviews New Obstructions in this weeks Providence Phoenix:

"AS220's exhibit "New Obstructions" is one of those right-on ideas that seem to come so naturally to the institution. In July, AS220 acquired the Mercantile Block on Washington Street, with plans to redevelop it much as they did with the Dreyfus next door. Over the winter they'll begin turning it into studios, offices, and live-work spaces, with an anchor ground floor tenant like the Dreyfus' Local 121..."

Go here for the full article.

For a concise & up to date view of the latest art world affairs in our neck of the woods visit Mr. Cook here.

New Obstructions is on view at 135 Washington St. through October 19th, on Saturdays noon-4pm or by appointment. A closing reception is Friday October 17, 6-9pm.

New Obstructions

*NEW OBSTRUCTIONS*

installations & interventions with

Jacob Berendes, Eamon Brown, Kristina Brown, Jim Frain, Richard Goulis, Natalja Kent, Scott Lapham, Jon Laustsen, Jeremy Radtke, Nicole Reinert, Mike Taylor, Neal Walsh

at the Mercantile Block

135 Washington St

September 26 - October 19, 2008

opening reception

Friday, September 26, 6-9pm

closing reception

Friday, October 17, 6-9pm

hours saturdays noon-4pm and by appointment. more info at
401.831.9327

30 Days + 24 Hours

The Hera Gallery Presents:

July 19th - August 30th Opening: Saturday, July 19th , from 6:00 - 8:00pm

Hera Gallery is please to present 30 Days + 24 Hours: An all Rhode Island Comic Book Exhibition, Challenge, and Marketplace. This show will feature Rhode Island based artists working in the styles based or originating in the comic book format. This show will not only give the public a chance to view these creative and unique works of art, but will also provide an opportunity to purchase copies of locally made comic books.

Exhibition poster created by Mickey Zacchilli and Mike Taylor.

24 Hour Comic Book Challenge

Artists will be challenging themselves, individually or as part of a team, to create a soul stirring, heart thumping, thought provoking, mind bending comic book/graphic novel in just 24 hours. The gallery will be open from Noon, Saturday, July 19 to Noon, Sunday, July 20 for a concentrated blast of extreme drawing, painting, cutting and pasting. Coffee will be served. Sugar will be available in a variety of forms. Models will flex and bend and stretch and strut. Music will be performed. Movies will be shown. Artists will read from their graphic novels. Cots will be available for napping. Above all, ink will flow! Given this level of sleep deprivation, caffeine buzz, rock and roll, and collaborative energy, what will they come up with? Results of the 24-hour challenge will also go up on the gallery walls.

4:30 to 6:00 Comic Book Reading Alec Thibodeau reads from Dead in Desemboque: Historias de Amor y Sangre! Alec Thibodeau lives on plants and gleefully toils in Providence, Rhode Island. His drawing and printmaking work includes a history of fashioning posters for various events. He is one of three illustrators of Dead in Desemboque. His presentation will include photos of a research trip he made to the dessert.

6:00 to 8:00 Opening Reception for 30 Days + 24 Hours Zack Geaber and other Musicians will kick off the opening reception with African drumming from 6:00 to 6:30. Listen to the music and maybe dance a little.

8:00 to 10:00 Film Screening Jon B. Cooke will present his documentary Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist The full-length feature film documentary Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist is the culmination of a five-year mission by two South Kingstown High School graduates, Andrew D. and Jon B. Cooke, brothers who grew up in the 1970s buying comics at Healey's news store and making amateur Super-8 movies on the front yard of their Wakefield home. The motion picture, which debuted to acclaim at the Tribecca Film Festival, tells the story of the great Will Eisner (1917-2005), one of the founding fathers of the American comic book and perhaps its greatest practitioner. Eisner coined the term "sequential art," composed the medium's first textbook, taught generations of artists, and even created the graphic novel form, and served as the art form's elder statesman as well as mentor to countless aspiring cartoonists. The artist's remarkable life is covered in loving detail in this 96-minute film with particular emphasis on his beloved creation The Spirit in the 1940s (which has been adapted as a Hollywood movie to be released this upcoming Christmas Day, directed by Frank Miller, director of "Sin City" and creator of "300") and his later graphic novels, including the seminal "A Contract With God." Among those featured in the documentary are Kurt Vonnegut, Stan Lee, Frank Miller, Michael Chabon, Jack Kirby, Milton Caniff, and many others, including the participation of Eisner himself (who died during the film's production). Jeffrey Lyons, of NBC's Reel Talk called the film, "Fascinating... A valuable record of this unique form of American art, and the iconic characters it spawned." The filmmakers will attend this special "homecoming" screening.

Support and food for the artists is being supplied by a number of local businesses including Sweet Cakes Bakery, The Alternative Food Cooperative, Belmont Market, and DiVozzi Italian Bakery.

Music at the Project Space

"oscillator cabinets" by ben fino-radin

Rainbro, James Amoeba, and Global Credit Squeeze

SUNDAY JUNE 15 // 7pm sharp//FREE

intimate evening of sweet rumbles & electric purrs +maybe more special guest performers

Providence Art Windows

Seeking proposals for Providence Art Windows, Providence, RI.

Art will be installed by selected artists in windows downtown. Work may be pre-existing or site specific; 2D or 3D. Jury includes Diana Gaston, Associate Curator, Fidelity Investments. Two rounds of installations: opening 9/18/8 and 12/6/8. Deadline for both: postmarked 6/15/8. $100 stipend available. Send 10 jpegs on disk, proposal, resume and SASE to: 205 Kenyon Ave., E. Greenwich, RI, 02818. No email entries. Information: Liz Keithline, keithlineri@cox.net, (put 'Windows' in subject line), or 401/578-4313

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Art Trade-A-Thon Yankee Swap

Rhode Island artists Show us what you've got! AS220 will hold the first ever Artist's Trade-a-thon on Saturday November 11, 2006. This arty party is open to all Rhode Island artists - and it's free. Bring a piece of original art to 'swap' and join us in some high spirited fun.

The Artist's Trade-a-thon is the brainchild of Providence furniture artist, Jenna Goldberg. "I wanted to bring people in arts community together in a social way - something that was relaxed, informal and fun. I know there are many artists in RI but I am not familiar with all of their work.

The Trade-a-thon idea is based on the "yankee-swap" concept, and it is the focal point of what I think of as a pre-holiday party for RI artists and friends of the arts. For the artists, we are providing a unique opportunity to meet and mingle with other artists, to show off their talents to friends and peers - and, of course, have a lot of fun."

All artwork will be on display and identified with the artist's name, title and materials. By the end of the evening, everyone who has brought a piece of artwork will have the opportunity to leave with a work by another artist. It's fun and it's free! Don't miss this opportunity to come together socially - to share ideas and inspiration - with everyone having equal representation.

The Artist's Trade-A-Thon will be held Saturday, November 11, from 2pm to 5pm, FREE