Art
2 August 08 (Issue #22)
Cryptic Providence is an international art event taking place over the next three months (until September 28, 2008) in the North Burial Ground on North Main Street. Fifteen projects by visual artists and performers from…
Community
17 October 07 (Blog)
Forwarded from Laura Travis:
Please help us save the stone!
The Providence Police and Fire Station is no more, but in this pile is TONS of usable sculpture-grade limestone. The plan is to save this stone for youth sculpture classes in the city parks, and potentially at AS220 and the…
29 June 07 (Issue #15)
by Matthew Everett
[Note: This article first appeared in The Agenda #15]
Psychic geography is a psychic ability to examine the
interaction between spaces and people, and also a way of thinking about those
spaces and people, in which it is assumed that the space has the upper hand and
a desire to confound, betray,…
Culture
28 June 07 (Issue #19)
art n. human creativity
culture n. the totality of socially transmitted behavior, pattern, arts, beliefs, institutions,
and all other products of human work and thought.
Art and culture are everything we do and everywhere we are.
Art and culture are inalienable human rights essential to our survival.
We are members, friends, and supporters of Providence’s…
Art
28 June 07 (Issue #18)
By Dan Voknine
[Note: This article first appeared in The Agenda #18]
This is a manual method of screen printing that requires no special
equipment or tools. It does require some drawing or tracing ability however.
The advantage of this method over typical screen printing is that this screen
is permanent and reusable. This…
28 December 06 (Issue #21)
An interactive art project is waiting at the Dirt Palace in Olneyville Square for a little food. Please Feed the Monster is a collaborative sculpture that can change daily depending on what people “feed” it. But what do you “feed” to a monster?“The Monster is a sculpture that asks people…
28 December 06 (Issue #21)
Mad Peck’s Poster Art By Alden StetzerPosters have been a topic of conversation in the current arts dialogue in Providence. In 2006, they ranged from activist images, at eye-level on phone-poles or being stripped from Downtown public spaces, to the current RISD museum retrospective “Wunderground” — from sliding-scale art sales…
28 December 06 (Issue #21)
October 31, 2006Dear Mayor Cicilline,Thank you for recognizing Firehouse 13 as vital to Providence’s creative economy in The Providence Journal’s article “The Politics of Art” (Van Siclen 10/22/06). This article only begins to touch on the complexity of issues that artists and art organizations are experiencing in this city.…
28 December 06 (Issue #21)
Mayor Meets MatchLetters appear, at first glance, to have become less relevant these days. Technological devices take care of the stamp, envelope, and messy handwriting with a few clicks of a mouse. Yet, letters require the time, thought, and effort that few emails or phone calls can boast. With that…
Politics
28 December 06 (Issue #21)
National dialogue indicates we are at the brink of a new population migration. People are moving back into the cities, investors are seeking to capitalize on property values, and those that have been living and working in urban centers are watching the growth and development augment the city’s landscape, for…
Art
18 November 06 (Issue #20)
Wunderground at the RISD Museum by Matt Obert Providence has a love/hate relationship with underground art spaces, unlicensed show venues, and unauthorized posters wheatpasted in public areas. On the one hand, you have the official story, and on the other hand, you have the true state of affairs. Sometimes,…
8 October 06 (Issue #20)
tapeart.com/hope
by Ashley Mercado
“This wall represents a space that falls exactly on the trajectory of the heart I have drawn on my map. It continues to be a fascinating experience using a seemingly arbitrary line to create the walking journey I am on. Traveling the country doing Tape Art over the…
Community
7 October 06 (Issue #20)
by Rob Verdi
Local artist Jean Cozzens mentors student artist Hannah Lutz Winkler(L) during a silk screening workshop. Photo: Sarah Meyer
Mahatma Gandhi said, “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” At New Urban Arts, the after-school arts mentoring program on Westminster Street, this idea is in full…
Art
29 September 06 (Issue #20)
A Design Manifesto
by Ken Garland
We, the undersigned, are graphic designers, photographers and students who have been brought up in a world in which the techniques and apparatus of advertising have persistently been presented to us as the most lucrative, effective and desirable means of using our talents. We have been…
29 September 06 (Issue #20)
by Alex Barton
In the series “BODY OF”, currently showing at the Warwick Museum of Art, I have placed the body in a new context. After the dismemberment and simplification of these bodies, we are left with iconography and a mass of flesh. I have used a variety of media to…
Culture
27 September 06 (Issue #19)
featuring Zane Claverie and Quinn Corey
On Thursday, June 22, Firehouse 13 opened its doors to the public for the first time. Previously home to cadets in training for the Providence Fire Department, the building at 41 Central Street has been unused for many years now. The newly renovated three-story firehouse,…
Local
27 September 06 (Issue #18)
by Jean Cozzens
During the month of March 2006, at the Fox Point Branch of the Providence Public Library, we built a giant cardboard city as a collaboration between a whole bunch of people, ranging in age from two through grandmother age. The outcome of the experiment was entirely unknown: introduce…
Community
26 September 06 (Issue #20)
“In 1964 a small number of British graphic designers lent their names to a quietly radical document. First Things First was a rebuke to their colleagues in the industry. It had the force of a flash of truth, inspiring many ad and design people.” – Chris Dixon
The innovators, artists, musicians,…
Art
26 September 06 (Issue #20)
Four Hearts: The locations of the figures, plotted on a map of New York, form four hearts. Online, the map becomes three dimensional with the assistance of Google Earth.
Navigation: On many pages you will notice a small cut-out of one of the Hearts or a bar on the side of…
26 September 06 (Issue #20)
In the aftermath of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995, the Tape Artists created the Hope Mural – a three-story-high drawing – in the center of the rescue operation during the recovery efforts. The mural took 58 hours to create. Using blue tape, the artists…
26 September 06 (Issue #20)
by Jaime Lowe
There are very few places open twenty-four hours in Providence besides gas stations and convenience stores. Now instead of ethanol and Twinkies, one can fill up on art at any time of the day or night, thanks to the Dirt Palace’s free twenty-four hour storefront window exhibits. The…
26 September 06 (Issue #20)
Suspending the role of gender and violence on the biggest knitting needles you've ever seen
by Anna Shapiro
Wednesday, Sept 6, 2006:
I walked in to the Anderson Auditorium at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts for the first of their Fall 2006 lectures, which also served as the kick-off of…
