“May your tattoo ink never run dry,” as the ancient Portlandian blessing goes, has rarely been more applicable. Motif is proud to partner again with Narragansett Brewery to bring you the RI Tattoo Awards, a recognition of one of the most prevalent day-to-day art forms, ever evolving in its technique, technology, social standing and emotional […]
On February 28, after 20 years of being a community staple for first dates, Super Tuesday regulars, and movie fanatics alike, CWTheaters (previously called CinemaWorld) was forced to shut its doors for good. The decline of the theater began in July of 2025, when the small theater company that owns CWTheaters, Starr, filed for Chapter […]
Last year, I had a blast and a half working on a fun commercial shoot. I landed the gig because the fella producing, Josh Kirk, asked around to find an actor to portray the client’s mother, and that is how I landed the role as Lawyer Twillie’s mom. Yes, that is the attorney’s real name. […]
Cover artist Elliott Italiano of Jamestown is a self-made glass artist. As a young adult, Italiano’s interests centered on fashion, inspiring thoughts of pursuing a degree in luxury marketing and design. He relates to his past self by being “very particular about how I look,” the artist explains. “I believe that how you present yourself […]
Cover artist Mina Miki of Providence calls her baby blanket her longest friend. “His name is Blankie, but now he looks less like a blanket and more like a piece of tangled silk,” she says. That’s because it’s been with her since the day she was born. “It’s a version of myself as a very […]
I am a hopeful romantic and a huge fan of romcoms. The films often have a woman in the lead navigating adventures in love, love lost, and love reclaimed. There’s always a happy ending. I sure was surprised to learn about a twist in that formula in a recently released film, Solo Mio, starring Kevin […]
I’ve never known much about growing flowers. The few gardens I’ve started in my life ended all too unceremoniously, in death. And I’ve never known much about 3-D printing, either. In fact, probably attributed to my lack of knowledge and skill in both realms, I never really cared much about either subject. But when my […]
Amid sharp cuts in federal monies to the arts by the Trump administration and a drop in funding from some other sources, The Steel Yard (TSY) in Providence’s Industrial Valley has been hit by a financial crisis. As Drake Patten, who was recently named interim director, put it: “The current fragility of the nonprofit world […]
In Sleepwalker, a one-man show created and performed by Andy Russ and stage managed by Ollie Crowe, at the Wilbury Theatre Group in Providence, an open-air cell claims center stage. Absent walls except for a floor panel, the metallic frame of the cube suggests an imprisonment while allowing for permeability. Its bars segment the blankness […]
The newly established Museum of Fine Tribal Art, MoFTA will host high-quality tribal art and is currently freely accessible to the public. Tribal art is the visual art and material culture of indigenous peoples, encompassing diverse forms like pottery, textiles, sculptures, painting, and masks (my favorite!). Masks are art and spiritual tools vital to continuity […]