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Greater City ProvidenceFoo starts now
Just in case you were unaware of it, the Fooiness has commenced and will be running into the night. Empire at Washington Street is where it’s at.
Street Painting Festival is moving
Photo by RunawayJim from Flickr The Providence Street Painting Festival is moving to Westminster Street this year. The festival will be held September 26th starting at 9am at the corner of Westminster and Union Streets...
Christmas in July
Well, August actually, but the good news here is; YEAR ROUND CRAFTLAND! Abby Saunders interviews Deb Dormody on the Live Downcity Blog and has all the details. Visit the Craftland Blog where I’m sure there will be...
Jef NickersonSound Session kicks off this weekend
Sound Session ’08 video from YouTube Providence Sound Session kicks off their weeklong music festival this weekend with events scheduled across the city including Waterplace Park, Westminster Street, Kennedy...
Providence Geeks – June 17, 2009 …plus stick around for Hip Hop
From the Providence Geeks: We’ve got a special Geek Dinner in store for June. AS220 Labs – the new “tech arm” of our gracious host AS220 – will be showing off what they’ve wrought in...
Tunnel of LED
“Multiverse” by Leo Villareal, video by Jef Nickerson When we were in Washington earlier this month, Matt dragged us to the National Gallery of Art to see this LED Tunnel between the old and new buildings...
Holden Street Gallery’s first show of 2009
Christian and Krystyna Caldarone, two indispensible characters in Smith Hill’s art community are having their first show of the 2009 season at the Holden Street Gallery. From 6pm-9pm tonight and tomorrow...
David RochaHubArts Wonders Why Boston Fests Suck/Pawtucket Rocks
On the heals of the announcement of the August 28th kickoff of the 2009 Pawtucket Arts Festival , HubArts.com reviews “The Bucket’s” familiar roster of excellent arts and entertainment options as they...
Bret AncowitzScary cool: Floating logos
Photo by Matt Siber Photography Matt Siber has an interesting (and cool, and scary) series of photos on his website. In the photos, Matt Photoshops out the support structures of roadside signs creating floating logos...
Gallery Night season starts next week
Though it’s been pouring down snow all day, a sure sign of spring is that the 2009 Gallery Night season starts next week, Thursday March 19th. The Gallery Night information center and Art Bus depot has moved this...
On PBS: “Southside: The Fall and Rise of an Inner-City Neighborhood”
Roger Williams Public Housing Development, photo by Providence Housing Authority via Brown Media Relations I haven’t even got around to watching Pawtucket Rising yet and already there’s another local urban...
Local Artist’s Gallery in Central Falls
This weekend kicks off the Broad Street Winter Festival, and there, friend of Greater City Providence, Jennifer Rolfsema hosts the CreativeChica Open Gallery. Works by artist Scott Bowers will be on display as well as...
Matthew CoolidgeBuy Art, Bucket Edition
Photo from The Grant website Those crazy cats at The Grant up in the Bucket are having a holiday arts bazar (bizarre?). Dec 13 It’s the Grant, Charlie Brown or The Grant that Stole Christmas! What do we mean with...
Buy Art
Now I’m buying next to nothing this Christmas, if’n you haven’t heard, there’s a big ass financial crisis. Aside from that, I’m poor and Grinchie. What little I will buy will be much more...
Yay! Craftland!
Photo © if’n books from Craftland’s Flickr Pool Craftland is back, opening next Friday, December 5th. Craftland is an annual holiday sale in downtown Providence, RI that celebrates all kinds of sparkly...
MIT “Fab Lab” Coming to AS220 Downcity
The Providence Journal has an article about how AS220’s Mercantile Building downtown is eventually going to become the latest outpost of MIT’s Fabrication Technology Laboratory. The article is linked here...
Providence Art Windows Seeks Proposals for 2009 Season
Painting by Brenda Wilkinson from Providence Art Windows CALL FOR PROPOSALS-DUE DECEMBER 12, 2008 Providence Art Windows is seeking art and art installation proposals for 10 windows in Downtown Providence for the 2009...
