On the Cover: September 2022
Motif is excited to welcome illustrator and visual artist Jeremy Ferris to the cover of our 2022 Fall Guide. Ferris is currently living in PVD where he is the Digital […]
Events:
A Changing Reflection
This exhibition demonstrates Silver, Metalwork, and Jewelry in the 19th–21st Centuries.
February 4, 2022 - September 30, 2023IN RESIDENCE: NPS AIR + CAIR ALUMNI EXHIBITION
June 9 - November 19Georgia O’Keeffe: ‘Things I Had No Words For’
Curated by Dr. Francine Weiss.
July 16 - October 16Donnamaria Bruton: From Sense to Soul
Curated by Francine Weiss, Ph.D.
July 16 - October 16Herding Cats
Featured IFA Artist Howard Windham. Guest Artist Livia St. Florian. Opening Reception: Aug 27, 5 – 8pm.
August 25 - October 2Four Legged Friends
Opening Reception: Sept 3
August 31 - October 2
Rhode Island: Basics for Beginners
Welcome to Rhode Island! The nation’s Ocean State offers a plethora of quirks for visitors, students, and residents. With the school year starting off, an influx of new students are […]
Grassroots Bluegrass: Tending to a homegrown music fest
Rhode Island is known for iconic music festivals. For decades, Newport has been home to two iconic music festivals: folk and jazz. As time has progressed some festival goers have […]
Rhythm & Roots Goes On: A brief history in Tradition
It’s 1978 and Chuck Wentworth is lugging vinyl records to WRIU to host his Monday night radio show Traditions. For the next 37 years, as the host of Traditions and […]
Mane Character Energy: Leo season’s fiercest, fanciest foodie finds
Like it or not, it’s Leo Season, y’all! From July 22nd to August 22nd every year, the planet becomes just a little bit more extra while those of us lucky […]
Motif’s 2022 Food Truck and Drink Award Nominees
RI has no shortage of fantastic food trucks, breweries and distilleries, and we at Motif can’t wait to celebrate them at our Food Truck and Drink awards this month. With […]
Something Weird This Way Comes: NecronomiCon PVD is revived
NecronomiCon Providence is a four-day convention held in the city Aug 18-21, calling itself the “International Festival of Weird Fiction, Art, and Academia.” Previously held every two years since 2013, […]
Squid’s Ink: Top 10 Whines and Breaking News…
Before we get to our Top 10 Whines, this just in… Our hackers uncovered three subversive plots! One comes from a cowardly corporation, and another by what we call the […]
Phillipe & Jorge’s Cool Cool World: The Ads & The Influence
Under the Influence The legendary writer and public provocateur H.L. Mencken once wrote that a serious journalist had to do two things: Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. That […]
August Holidays, Ranked: Our hottest month lacks hot holidays
Folks, it is HOT. I’m writing this in the middle of a stinkin’ heat wave. There are times I wish my apartment wasn’t built before the Great Depression, and this […]
