Thomas Kinkaide Died
Wow, only 54. Thomas Kinkaide has dabbed his last high-quality print, but death is no joke. He leaves behind a wife and four daughters. I’m sorry he died and left them too soon. My friend’s father was distressed when he heard that his son wanted to go to art school. “Why do you want to [...]
Gallery Night Providence 2012
Reblogged from Festival Fete: The 2012 Gallery Night season is slowly approaching, as artists get ready to showcase some of their amazing works on March 15th, and every third Thursday of each month leading up to November. It should be a night filled with great art and excitement throughout the city of Providence, with 6 [...]
Save the Date
From Occupy Providence on Facebook– Yellow Peril Gallery invites you to the opening night reception for #OCCUPY, a group exhibition featuring artwork inspired by the OCCUPY movement to launch the 2012 Gallery Night season in Providence, RI, on Thursday, 15 March 2012, from 5PM to 9PM. #OCCUPY includes seven artists with firsthand experience with the [...]
Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading 2012
Once again, organizer extraordinaire Anne Clanton and RISD Museum are hosting a poetry marathon in honor of Langston Hughes. If all you know of Hughes is a quick reading of ‘Dream Deferred’ you don’t know this poet. His short poems build on one another. Read aloud by different voices to a jazz beat, they take [...]
Hot Scoop
This Thursday’s ProJo had a half-page review of sculptor Donald Gerola’s installation, ‘Weaving the Blackstone’. Written by Erika Niedowski via the Associated Press, the article includes a night view of cables across the falls. I kind of think our paper of record might have covered this, but I know how things go in Rhode Island– [...]
Forks over Knives and Portlandia
No, they’re not really related, but both are great viewing material. Forks over Knives is sobering and reminds us all to eat our vegetables. Portlandia is just plain hysterical — skits riffing on all the outrageous people in Portland and beyond. BTW, the Mayor of Portland portrayed in the skits has an uncanny likeness to [...]
Good Sunset This Eve
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. More good poems here.
HOPE
There is a show a the Roger Williams Park Museum called ‘Curiosities’. Specimens from the natural history collection are arranged in installations by local artists– rabbit in a cabinet, owls behind lenses, walls of transparent bricks sheltering birds. The museum itself is a work of public art on a scale that we don’t aspire to [...]
Local Artist Explores the Alaskan Wilderness
Rhode Island artist, Kathy Hodge, is kayaking to a remote island on the Alaskan coast to experience the landscape first-hand. She has already encountered a polar bear and taken photos in close-up. See them here.
Bioblitz
Here’s a link to Kathy Hodge reporting on Bioblitz 2011. Kathy went as an amateur naturalist and professional artist and combined the two disciplines by drawing from life and nature. Moths, bats and insects were observed and counted by hundreds of volunteers. Check out Art and Nature for details and photos of the blitz.
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