RI Music Awards Winners
Profiles by Bobby Forand, John Fuzek, Marc Clarkin, Bradly VanDerStad, Meg Coss, Tess Lyons, Lee Adrain & Mike Ryan. There is a helmeted man in a reflective aluminum suit juggling […]
Events:
A Changing Reflection
This exhibition demonstrates Silver, Metalwork, and Jewelry in the 19th–21st Centuries.
February 4, 2022 - September 30, 2023Social Fabric: Textiles and Contemporary Issues
Featured artists include: Jim Arendt, Elizabeth Duffy, Brooke Erin Goldstein, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Letitia Huckaby, Tamara Kostianovsky, Dinh Q. Lê, Aubrey Longley-Cook, Veronica Mays, Alison Saar, Emma Welty, Nafis M. White,
December 3, 2022 @ 8:00 am - June 11, 2023 @ 5:00 pmPaintings by Gregory Ricci
December 9, 2022 - April 13, 2023Superimposed
January 25 - June 4Outsider Art: Harnessing Color
This exhibition joins six art spaces from the East Coast that support artists with disabilities: Artists’ Exchange, Center for Creative Works, Downtown Designs Gallery, Spindleworks, Out of the Box Studio
January 27 - April 1Grateful Dead
The Vintage Posters, 1966-1995.
January 27 - March 31Whodunit? An Improvised Murder Mystery
This time, it’s the French Revolution and the nobility are stabbing each other in the back…literally. Every week is different, so you – and the cast – never know what
February 4 - April 1Elisabeth Subrin’s The Listening Takes
February 9 - June 4Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I will not bend an inch
February 17 - August 4Red Series
by Jade Sisti
March 1 - March 31Annual Open Show
March 31Anvil/ Midnite Hellion
Heavy metal music
March 31 @ 7:00 pm - April 1 @ 12:30 amPaul Virzi
New York-born comedian is a Comedy Central regular with not one but two podcasts of his own.
March 31 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pmForeigners Journey
Foreigner & Journey tribute
March 31 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmAndrew Spatz
Acoustic
March 31 @ 9:00 pm - April 1 @ 12:00 amPaul Virzi
New York-born comedian is a Comedy Central regular with not one but two podcasts of his own.
March 31 @ 9:30 pm - 11:30 pmPaul Virzi
New York-born comedian is a Comedy Central regular with not one but two podcasts of his own.
April 1 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmThe English Beat
2-tone, ska, reggae and new wave
April 1 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmPopa Chubby
The king of NYC blues
April 1 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmJohn Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band
An American rock band from RI
April 1 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Roots Report
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Roots Report
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Les Misérables at PPAC: A show you’ll want to see 24601 times
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