PAWTUCKET – Local artists and creative types are being called on to add colorful installations to vacant and unadorned storefront windows in downtown Pawtucket for a new program dubbed Windows on Pawtucket. The organizers of the project, the Pawtucket Foundation and Art League RI, are describing the event as an “outdoor, downtown-wide open studio.” “I…Continue readingValley Breeze features “Windows On Pawtucket”
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Call for Art: Windows On Pawtucket
“Windows on Pawtucket” Public Art Installation, Submissions Due: September 1, 2020 Art League RI is seeking proposals for artwork to be installed in 20 vacant display windows in downtown Pawtucket. The call is open to artists living or working in Rhode Island. Preference will be given to Pawtucket and Central Falls artists. Artists working as a…Continue readingCall for Art: Windows On Pawtucket
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Project Synergy II
As we navigate the present and plan for the future, our expanded focus on art and education is ongoing. One example is our recent partnership with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) and MIT. Based on an original experiment designed by Whitney Bernstein, and Lizzie Kripke, with support from Brown University, WHOI and MIT, PROJECT…Continue readingProject Synergy II
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Windows on Pawtucket Project
In the public art sphere, Art League RI is partnering with the Pawtucket Foundation on a pilot program to place art installations in vacant storefront windows in the inner core of downtown Pawtucket. The goals of the project are to activate the storefronts with artwork, inspiring engagement with local residents and community and help to…Continue readingWindows on Pawtucket Project
Dear Art League RI Member, With Memorial Day behind us and summer not too far behind, I hope that you are spending time outdoors and enjoying the warm weather. The COVID-19 pandemic has surely changed our everyday lives and will likely continue to do so for the foreseeable future. For some, the sheltering-in-place has curbed…Continue readingExecutive Director’s Note (May-June 2020)
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HOPE “ONward & ARTward”
HOPE “ONward & ARTward”
~ looking towards the future
(theme open to interpretation)
Open to all art forms (electronic images only will be exhibited)
3 pieces of artwork per member
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The Trailing Quarter – Art Speak
Listen to members talk about their work in the online exhibition, The Trailing Quarter.Continue readingThe Trailing Quarter – Art Speak
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The Trailing Quarter
Artwork produced in quaranTHREEn. Check out the latest work from ALRI members produced during the last three months.Continue readingThe Trailing Quarter
My work is a contemporary approach to the enduring artistic concepts of transcendence and the sublime. Over the years, sublime art has taken many forms, but overwhelming and often contradictory emotions remain at its essence. Unlike historical painters of the sublime, I do not find the sublime in sensations of “man against nature” or in…Continue readingUnder the Spotlight ~ Heather Stivison
