Art League RI was featured in an article in Art & Object. The article begins:
As the current President of the Board of Directors of Art League Rhode Island, Ruth Clegg combines her decades of experience serving on the boards of nonprofits with her expertise as a “digital native” selling her own fine art photography and commercial photography skills online.
Although Rhode Island is in proximity to Northeast cultural hubs in New York and Massachusetts, local artists recognized a void in the kinds of opportunities afforded them at home. It is the smallest state in the United States by size and is most known for the mansions and art of the ultra-rich industrialists from America’s past in Newport, rather than venues for living artists.
To address that need, Art League Rhode Island (ALRI) was founded in 2000 by local artist Nancy Gaucher-Thomas and her colleague Mark Simmons …
Read the full article on Art & Object.