A Gay Pride Dialogue
We’re John Kotula and Anthony DiPietro. A mutual friend put us together. We’re both writers who celebrate Pride. For several weeks we have been in dialogue by text, email, phone, […]
Events:
Howard Gardiner Cushing: A Harmony of Line and Color
July 12 - December 31Liz Collins
Motherlode.
July 19, 2025 - January 1, 2026ERIC-PAUL RIEGE
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September 3 - December 7Mill Town Art
September 13 - November 29A 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, 2026Revelations! Education: Behind The Curtain – In Words and Images
Reception: Sept 17, 4:30 – 7pm.
September 15 - December 11Creative Pilgrimage
by Karen McCann.
September 20 - October 26Abstraction
September 20 - October 26The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026Ralph Bucci, Bill Lamondy, Manjula Padmanabhan, Bill Reis
October 4 - October 26THE WHEELER SCHOOL ALUMNI SHOW
Judith Salomon ’71, Casey Blanchard ‘71, Nellie Congdon ’15, Ruby Goldstein ’22, Sam Green ’06, Shoshana Lowe ’20. Reception: Thursday, October 16, 5 – 8 pm.
October 16 - November 5In Bannister’s Footsteps: A Contemporary Journey
Opening Reception, Thursday, October 2, 4-7pm.
October 21 - October 24Festive Fine Arts & Artisans Holiday Marketplace
November 1 - December 23The Galileo Project: Works by Nancy Bockbrader, Doug Bosch, and Richard Whitten
Opening Reception, Thursday, November 6, 4-7pm.
November 6 - December 5DENNY MOERS / BC CRANE / JONATHAN SHARLIN
Reception: Thursday, November 20, 5 – 8 pm.
November 20 - December 10
Alienation of Affection
Thumb traces thumb, lines flat and forgotten until the lazy sun stretches to her highest and the past burns white hot — smooth as satin. Indifferent, a toaster hums through […]
Washington
i. ShearEighteen spans, massive Trembling softlySoothing and rocking, murmuringForgetfulness, abnegating the airThe space beneath The commuters hung aloft Steel and concrete, manmadePiles driven deep, riverbed anchorsTowering to braceHis vertebraeCooling drops […]
Motif’s 2024 RI Spoken Awards
And the winners are…
A poet, a comedian, and a storyteller walk into a bar… it sounds like the beginning of a joke, but on Tuesday, April 9, it was a beautiful reality manifested […]
Journey of Snowflakes
You can determine the shape of snowflakes by surrounding conditions, the symmetry of dust particles frozen into crystals that sprout arms and legs different directions off one central core based […]
Harlem Nights in Pawtucket
The Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading is about more than poetry, and more than Langston Hughes – it is about the impact each force has had, and continues to have, […]
Pics & Poets 2023
Motif put out an open call for visual artists and poets to submit work for an experimental new event: Pics & Poets. Artists and poets were randomly paired. Each participant […]
UNDONE
New poetry collection by Jeff Danielian
For many years, death wasn’t something poet Jeff Danielian had to face, but in recent years he has experienced multiple losses and found himself dealing with situations he had only […]
On the Beauty of Aging
I’ve never understoodthe glamorization of youth,the glorification ofthe unfinished brain,When every yearstretches itself out,longer than a decade feelsjust a decade or two later.I’ve never understoodthe nostalgia fornot knowing howyour life […]
2023 Pics & Poets
Visit this post to see the 2023 entries! When: Thursday, November 9, 6 – 9pm (Gallery Show) Where: WaterFire Arts Center, 475 Valley St, PVD Why: Exchange the submitted work […]