This exhibition demonstrates Silver, Metalwork, and Jewelry in the 19th–21st Centuries.
February 4, 2022 - September 30, 2023Explores the body as material and medium and photography as vehicle to consider ways artists use self-portraiture to enact the self, question history, and articulate identity.
May 13 - November 12Shaman Ladders and Other Stories.
May 20 @ 12:00 am - October 28 @ 11:59 pmJoin us for our annual RI Art Educator’s Showcase, an exhibition featuring artwork from those individuals who teach art to others. Art teachers have the unique gift of
September 1 - September 30Grateful Dead tribute.
September 22 @ 7:00 pm - 11:00 pmBlues-rock guitarist.
September 22 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmSoulful blues diva was Blues Foundation’s 2009 prestigious BB King Entertainer of the Year, becoming only the second woman to be so honored.
September 22 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmAn American alternative rock band formed in Santa Barbara, California.
September 22 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmA classic rock cover band.
September 22 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmChris Cornell tribute band.
September 22 @ 9:00 pm - September 23 @ 12:00 amLead by Brilliant pianist Anthony Geraci featuring Jeff Armstrong drums, Michael Mudcat Ward bass, Troy Gonyea guitar, and Dennis Brennan.
September 23 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmRockers with strong vocal harmonies playing well-known dance music.
September 24 @ 4:00 pm - 7:00 pmThe artist of all arts recounts strange life events pre-COVID and then when things got even stranger.
September 26 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmAcoustic folk with blues and country roots, joined by Chris Books on pedal steel guitar.
September 28 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmComedy show with comic legend Andrew “Dice” Clay.
September 29 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmStevie Nicks & Fleetwood Mac tribute.
September 29 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pmLed Zeppelin tribute
September 29 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmGuitarist, singer, and composer.
September 29 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmAlt-rock, reggae fusion
September 29 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmDouble record release party performing originals and tributes to Hank Williams.
September 29 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmMeg moved from Oakland, CA to PVD in May 2018 and works as a freelance writer and marketing specialist. For her, writing isn't a choice or even something she thinks about- it's her primary method of communication and the way she processes information. Meg is excited to write for Motif because ever since moving to PVD, she's been developing crushes on all these RI residents, so that's what she wants to write about – the people who make this strange little state so dreamy and worthwhile.
“I was born and raised in Providence. I’m locally grown organic,” says cartoonist and illustrator Matthew Kramer. Kramer graduated from Brown with an MFA in Literary Arts and works as […]
Five weeks before Wooly Fair, in the Nicholson File Mill studios, Dave Allyn stands on a ladder busy at work. He and Stephanie Grant are building large-scale lanterns with long […]
i.The manacles: heavy irons coursed through with rust, ghostly webs tracing the blood, sweat and tears of Africans, ripped from their lands and torn from their relations, herded across the […]
Photo: Meg Coss. In late summer, the dark purple drupe of the black cherry tree reaches maturity and the resident birds – the robins and sparrows, the finches and crows […]
Is there a moment in a horse’s stride when all four hooves are off the ground? was the question Leland Stanford wanted Eadweard Muybridge to investigate. In 1878, Muybridge, a […]
When art succeeds it inspires. It asks questions. It holds mirrors. Curating Commemoration: Poiesis / Remedy, on display at the WaterFire Arts Center, features the works of 45 area artists. […]
Two years ago Rob Pena began work as a community organizer for a marijuana justice campaign within Reclaim Rhode Island. He was campaigning to help craft the future of Rhode […]
On May 25, 2022, Gov. McKee signed the RI Cannabis Act into law. The law legalized cannabis for adult use and stated a three-member commission (aka the Cannabis Control Commission, […]
Photo courtesy of RI Film Office ‘90s movie nostalgia is alive and well in Rhode Island. 2021 saw the resurrection of the Sanderson sisters for the filming of Hocus Pocus […]
“I’ve yet to meet a little girl or a little boy who hasn’t told me they’ve always wanted to be a mermaid or a merman,” said Jessie Jewels, the recent […]
