Give Local Art as a Gift
Do you hate the hustle and bustle at the stores around December? Do you resort to asking Google what to get for a gift? Instead, read about local artists and […]
Events:
A Shared Journey
September 13, 2025 - March 5, 2026This Is a Thing, Recent Gifts to Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 2020–2025
September 14, 2025 - March 1, 2026The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Outside the Gift Box: The gift of experience teaches us to gift experiences.
Over the years we’ve all accumulated stuff, material goods (and bads) that engulf the homestead, sometimes overwhelming the dwellers. Some of us do not know how to declutter and reorganize. […]
Bartender Awards Winners 2025
On Monday night, September 29, Motif celebrated the denizens that keep this city liquored up! Thanks so much to R1 Indoor Karting for hosting and sponsoring us, and for musicians […]
Local Indigenous Author Spotlight: Vanessa Lillie
“What’s that saying, ‘We are our ancestors’ wildest dreams’?” (Quote from Blood Sisters by: Vanessa Lillie.) Vanessa Lillie is a best selling author, citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and lives […]
Children’s Books Written by Indigenous Authors
Coyote Christmas: A Lakota Story, by S.D. Nelson. The story is told of a Native American tradition and a sneaky coyote who jumps on the chance to impersonate Santa Claus. […]
Local Indigenous Artists and Crafters
My great, great grandmother was a Ramapough Lenape Indian and one of the only ancestors we have a picture of from that long ago, around the late 1800s. While we […]
SMALL, BUT SCARY: A list of RI’s haunts
We reach a point in the Autumn Equinox where the veil is thin and spirits take flight. As we wander this Earth, most of us rarely look for signs of […]
Providence’s Evil Eye: One author’s mission to revive Edgar Allen Poe
“Almighty God!-no,no! They heard!-they suspected!-they knew!-they were making a mockery of my horror!-this I thought, and this I think. But anything was better than this agony! Anything was more tolerable […]
Meso-American Time Keeping
Strolling through The Find on 6 in Johnston, I came across a beautifully, intricately carved, circular, wooden plaque. It stared at me as I was staring at it, intrigued by […]
Are Those Bagel Bites Vegan?: College food in a health-conscious era
From the east to the west, north to the south, cuisine all over the world varies from town to town. When you’re young, the choices you’re given are basic and […]