ON THE COVER: Mina Miki
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 […]
Events:
The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
BTS with DMK: The Kinnane Brothers
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 […]
The Future of Flowers: A Garden of Paradise, Printed
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. […]
FACING FINANCIAL CRISIS, STEEL YARD HAMMERS OUT A PLAN: The industrial arts center taps its most valuable resource – people
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 […]
Life Flashes: Sleepwalker steps between imagination and illusion
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. […]
New RI Museum: Recently incorporated, the Museum of Fine Tribal Art seeks a home in RI.
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 […]
BTS with DMK: A Conversation with Sharon Contillo
According to The Inclusion List, of the 486 nominees for Best Director, only 10 have been women and only 3 women have won the title in the almost 100-year-old awards […]
The Blood of Kings: How the Pitts-Wileys of Mixed Magic Theatre build love into every aspect of their art
Ricardo and Bernadet Pitts-Wiley of the Mixed Magic Theatre in Pawtucket have been married for 48 years, and have been colleagues in the theatre space for 26. Over the last […]
ON THE COVER: Apollo Rios Lomba
“I want my artwork to resist this moment we’re in,” says Apollo Rios Lomba of Providence, who identifies as a Black Latino and transmasc, and created the cover for this […]
BTS with DMK: An interview with storyteller Kim Fuller
Rhode Island is bursting with creative energy. Providence calls itself the Creative Capital but that concept doesn’t stick to the confines of the city’s boundaries. The creatives that help make […]