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 […]
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 show. As an aspiring filmmaker, I don’t like those odds, although my end game in making a film is not to earn an Oscar. However, […]
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 few years, I’ve noticed how there are so many Black trauma narratives and painful histories being told in different forms of Black art. It’s almost […]
“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 issue. “Those and other identities will not change. They’ll just get stronger,” he emphasizes, referring to the White House’s continuing attacks on gender equality. His […]
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 the Ocean State one helluva place to live can be found in every jurisdiction and that includes on Aquidneck Island. Case in point: Kim Fuller […]
Rhode Island’s first feminist and gender-expansive cultural center has changed its name to The Alcove from Gather RI ,and moved to new digs at 189 Broadway from Atwells Avenue in Providence. Why the change? “We wanted a name that truly evokes the feeling of what we do,” said Amanda E. Strauss, the founding executive director […]
Cover artist Dalton Kaplan of Pawtucket always had the art bug. “When I was a kid, I watched way too many cartoons,” the illustrator and graphic designer laughs. While sitting in front of the TV he would always draw, sometimes cartoonish characters, sometimes scenes. And he really got bitten by the bug at Mount Blue […]
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