Category Archives: Art

Save the Date

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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 OCCUPY movements in Providence, New York City and Salt Lake City: The Chair People Collective, Joey Kilrain, Melissa St. Laurent, Occupy The Light, Phil LeStein, Sandy Parsons and Tom West.

#OCCUPY will run at Yellow Peril Gallery from Thursday, 15 March to Sunday, 15 April 2012. Opening night reception will be on Thursday, 15 March, from 5PM – 9PM during Gallery Night in Providence, RI.

Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading 2012

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The Poet

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 you into the gorgeous mosaic of New York City in the 50′s and 60′s.

It’s fun, too, to see Providence people up on stage, with performing talent you never knew they had. Watch out for Central High School. They have a drama coach.

This writer will be participating for the forth year in a row. Wish me luck, or break a leg or whatever.

17th-Annual Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading
Sunday, Feb 5 1:00p
at Metcalf Auditorium, RISD Museum, Providence, RI

Two-time Grammy Award-winning performer Bill Harley reads Langston Hughes’ poetry aloud, along with members of the
community, and accompanied by the Daniel Ian Smith Jazz Trio. Coordinated by Anne Edmonds Clanton; co-sponsored by RISD’s English Department. Free to public; reception follows.

(Thanks, to Boston.com.for the notice.)

Here’s directions to the Museum.

Hot Scoop

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Weaving a Tribute to Slater Mill

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– we’re not the Daily Planet…

Jimmy: Stop the presses! I got a hot scoop– art installation in Pawtucket!

Clark: Well, I don’t know about that, Jimmy.. Pawtucket’s kind of off our beat.

Lois: Yeah Jimmy, and they got that bridge thing with the road construction– who wants to get stuck in that?

Jimmy: Chief, we can’t let the Pawtucket Times scoop us again! How about that stringer, the one who covers City Hall– it’s right next to Slater Mill where the installation is…

Perry White: We’ve run through our budget on strings. Associated Press has a reporter coming in from Rome. She can stop off in Pawtucket on her way to the West Coast.

So, The Pawtucket Times got the story.

December 30, 2011
By
DONNA KENNY KIRWAN

PAWTUCKET — From the Main Street bridge by day, the Blackstone River and historic Slater Mill can be viewed through a network of brightly colored cords that shimmer in the sunlight. At nighttime, the reflective filaments in the cords appear to send off a laser light show through the mist generated from the rushing water below.
On Christmas Eve, artist Donald Gerola put the finishing touches on his ambitious “Weaving the Blackstone” project. In a process that began in the fall, Gerola strung and crisscrossed industrial strength fiber cords into geometric patterns that span the river along the Slater Mill property.

Read the rest here.

Donald Gerola has created scores of wind-operated monumental kinetic sculptures. You can see them at his website here. His studio is on Mineral Spring Ave., which is not too far away.

Forks over Knives and Portlandia

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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 Linc Chafee. He is seen bouncing on his exercise ball, working on his “core” while chatting with young musicians about writing a song to promote about Portland.

Here’s the trailer for Forks and Knives:

HOPE

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Roger Williams Park Museum

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 anymore, but can still enjoy for free– long may it wave.

Anyone Know What This Is?

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Haunted by Robots

Driving around at work I saw this interesting paint job. The house is on a side street off Manton Ave. Is there anyone who can decode this? Is it real, or just an artistic statement? Either way, it’s cool. Reminds me of the Crayola House on the West End.

Before the Tsunami

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Prophetic art from Masami Teraoka, created decades ago expresses the contradictions of living in a natural world we seem to be consuming and destroying. When you follow the link, scroll down to the Sushi series, and click to enlarge.

Masami Teraoka is a Japanese-American artist whose work is elegant and provocative. He’s in a different artistic space than when he painted the Sushi series– a series of watercolors in the style of Japanese woodcuts of the floating world. I’d be interested in anything he has to say about the disasters in Japan, both natural and man-made.