The Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival returns August 4 – 9, bringing over 300 films across the globe to nine venues in Rhode Island. Recognized as one of the top film festivals in the US, RIIFF received more than 7,000 submissions for its 2026 festival, celebrating the event’s 30th year. The festival has built […]
The Tattoo Awards featured a gallery wall populated by local artists. Here is a selection of the artwork on display!
I met Lily Spencer in an acting class taught by Eric Lutes, whom many television fans will remember from the 1990s sitcom “Caroline in the City.” Eric, who now lives in his home state of Rhode Island, hosts a small acting cohort that I joined last year. Lily has been studying with him for the […]
The Jaws franchise made you change your mind about going into the water, even on those hot summer nights. I do not know about you, but whenever I hear the word Jaws, I am transported back to my childhood, curled up with the blankets tucked under my chin and burying my face in a pillow. […]
An exhibit of an unusual kind is making its collective debut at the Atrium Gallery at One Capitol Hill in Providence. From May 29 through September 16th, the creative works of nearly 1000 people will be choreographed into a circus of color and form that was brought into being by an artist who cheerfully refuses […]
Favorite Animal/ Favorite Floral Tara D’Agostino – Iron Lion Tattoo By the numbers, Tara D’Agostino got her first tattoo at the age of 15, picked up her own tattoo machine at the age of 19, opened her own tattoo parlor 16 years ago, has been a tattoo artist for 20 years, and has won Motif […]
“It’s not about the clothes, it’s about the person wearing them,” I was told in Olneyville, under pouring rain that had ruined my own outfit, by an impeccably dressed young man, “Your fit can come from Walmart, it’s about how you pull it off.” I like this idea because it takes a different approach to […]
When cover artist Bob Eggleton of Warwick first got interested in art and started sketching nightmarish creatures, he recalls, an aunt asked him, “What’s drawing a monster gonna get you in life?” He’s spent the last forty-three years showing her, along with the rest of the world. Between 1994 and 2004, he won the Hugo […]
Quite some time ago, I read a quip that the art of diplomacy is how to tell a man to go to hell and have him enjoy the trip. If true, then the abstract expressionism of Sheila Isham offers an inverse corollary, as the diplomacy within her art suggests an inquiry toward the heavenly. Born […]
In his final year at college, cover artist William Schaff truly learned what it was like to work in a studio. “I developed a course of study in general fine arts with one of my professors, who would come see my work a few times a week, and the experience taught me how to work […]