COMMUNITY STUDIOS
The AS220 Community Studios are currently open to the public on Fridays and Saturdays from 10AM to 8 PM. There are different levels of access to our spaces depending on your membership level - please see our membership options below!
Community Studios is an art + design program for adults ages 18 and up looking to learn, practice, and grow their skills as artists. We are committed to providing programming that centers Black and Brown people, those who are formerly incarcerated, parents, and anyone else who has limited access to the arts, for whatever reason.
Our facilities include a printshop, fabrication lab, media arts studio, darkroom, visual arts studio, and an apparel design studio. We offer affordable access to equipment and education in the areas of printmaking, visual arts, music, woodworking, media, photography, apparel, maker technology, and more.
The AS220 Community Studios are located at AS220’s Mercantile Block building, 131 Washington Street in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. Our Printshop, Fab Lab, Media Arts Lab, and staff offices are located here. The entrance is located at the rear of the building on Lucie Way. The Darkroom is located a few blocks away at AS220’s Empire Street Complex, 115 Empire Street in downtown Providence.
FREE CLUB220 MEETUPS
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Screenprinting
Learn how to coat a screen with light sensitive emulsion, the first step in your screenprinting journey! Then learn how to make an acetate, which we'll use to make a screen with our exposure unit. We'll also have demo & printing time with art prepared for you to print. Learn how to safely use our heat press to permanently set designs on fabric so it won't wash out. Use all the skills you've acquired to print your art on your own!
Instructor:
Lizzy Sour is an interdisciplinary artist from Providence with a BFA in Sculpture + MA in Art Education from RISD. She is a Shop Lead for AS220 Community Studios and as a Public Art Project Manager for RISCA. She’s used silkscreen in her practice for 13 years and has been involved with AS220 for 14 years.
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Cuban Dance
This Cuban Dance CLUB220 starts with Salsa and moves through different rhythms and roots of Cuban music such as Rumba, Guaguanco, Chachacha and others. We will explore the history of the rhythms as we learn their dances. This club will also use Percussion on Tumbadoras alongside some dance styles. Beginners, solo dancers and partners welcome! Come dance Cuban style—bring comfortable shoes!
Instructor:
Evans Molina Fernandez is an Afro Cuban artist originally from Havana, Cuba currently residing in Providence, RI. He is a painter, performance artist, videographer, musician and instructor of Cuban dance. He has had multiple exhibitions and taught classes in various places in Rhode Island and beyond.
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CURRENT WORKSHOPS
PURCHASE SUPPLIES
PRINTSHOP
The AS220 Community Printshop offers affordable public access to printmaking workshops, equipment, and space in the areas of silkscreen, letterpress, offset, intaglio, relief printing, monotype, and bookbinding.
MEDIA ARTS
The Media Arts Studio offers affordable public access to workshops, equipment, and space related to photography, audio and video production, and computer / web applications.
FAB LAB
The Fab Lab offers affordable public access to workshops, tools, and space related to digital and traditional fabrication and making including laser cutting, vinyl cutting, CNC routing, 3D printing, and woodworking.
DARKROOM
