Saturday, May 14, 2011
The season's first Art Stroll will take place on Sunday May 15th with eight participating galleries and studios.
On Sunday, eight local galleries will open their doors for the Bristol Independent Galleries Art Stroll, an official “Fourth of July Cultural Event” with raffle ticket proceeds to benefit the Fourth of July Committee. Bristol Art Gallery, Gallery Eleven Fine Art, The Mosaic Works Gallery, Hope Gallery, The Knotty Dog, Uncommon Art, Studio 297 and The Paint Studio are all participating in the free event that includes trolley rides, refreshments, raffles of original art and live music. “We get the people into the galleries and everyone has a good time,” says Nancy Pritchard of Bristol Art Gallery, which is sponsoring the event. “They learn galleries aren’t that intimidating.” Starting at noon the trolley will make its way around downtown …
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Twenty RWU students are participating in a juried show at Hope Gallery in Bristol.
Twenty Roger Williams University students majoring in the visual arts are currently involved in a juried exhibition at Hope Gallery in Bristol. The show opened with a reception last Saturday evening and will be up through May 17. RWU Associate Professor of Art and Visual Studies Program Coordinator Michael Rich, a nationally recognized painter, oversaw the selection of small works. “This is a survey and a sampling of the range of work done in the program,” Rich said. “We’re interdisciplinary-based, but we don’t focus too heavily on any one medium. We ask the students to be flexible, and challenge them on context and media.” Indeed, the artists are using everything from carbon paper to burlap in their quest for expression. Many of them, …
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Hope Gallery
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Sunday, February 27, 2011
Six notable artists in upcoming ‘Word Transformed’ exhibition.
A new exhibit at the Bristol Art Museum features artwork inspired by text and the written word. ‘Word Transformed’ kicks off with a wine and cheese reception on Sunday, Feb. 27, from 2-5 p.m. According to curator Mary Dondero, a Warren based artist and graphic designer, the show “explores how language can be presented in different ways.” The six featured artists utilize text and words in vastly different ways. Arlene McGonagle creates “basket sculptures” that contain text from her journals using fiber, copper and aluminum. Will Ashford takes pages from Ralph Waldo Emerson books and transforms them into images. Tyson Jacques enlarges peoples’ handwriting into abstract portrait paintings. Mercedes Mary Ruefle, a nationally recognized poet, …
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Linden Place
500 Hope St, Bristol, RI
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Saturday, February 26, 2011
Warren business changes name to help reach customer base.
In keeping up with our shifting economic times, photographer and gallery owner Lane Poor has rebranded his business in downtown Warren. What used to be called The Picture Place is now Main Street Gallery. Poor says The Picture Place needed a new name since customers typically thought it was a frame shop and not a fine art gallery. The Picture Place officially opens as Main Street Gallery Saturday, Feb. 26, at noon, with a festive opening reception from 7-9 p.m. The inaugural exhibition features Poor’s own nature photography, featuring images of local flora and fauna, and works by beloved local painter Richard Kaiser, best known for his Bristol 4th of July paintings. The show will be up for four weeks and therafter Poor says the gallery …
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Saturday, January 29, 2011
Look out art world, there are some rising stars in the midst.
Five Mt. Hope High School students won awards in the annual Rhode Island Scholastics statewide competition that honors excellence in visual arts. Their work, along with nearly 200 others, is currently part of an exhibition co-hosted by the Rhode Island Art Education Association at Salve Regina University’s Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery through February 6. Statewide, each art teacher was allowed to submit up to five student artworks. Entrants were judged blindly by local art professionals using the criteria of “originality, technical skill, and the emergence of a personal vision or voice.” Student work that won Gold Key awards will go on to the regional competition in New York. Winning students were also invited to attend workshops with …
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Mt. Hope High School
199 Chestnut St, Bristol, RI
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
IMAGO Foundation for the Arts invites participation in their annual Open Community Show.
Local artists take note. IMAGO Foundation for the Arts (IFA) is inviting you to submit up to three pieces of art for their annual Open Community Show to be held at the IMAGO Gallery of Fine Art & Craft in Warren. The unjuried show will run from February 3 through February 19 and will showcase all media. Works must be ready to hang and “able to fit through a normal sized door.” Drop off is at the IMAGO Gallery on January 29 and January 30 from 12 to 4 p.m. There is an entry fee of $12 per piece or $30 for three pieces. Entrants must be at least 18 years of age. 100% of the proceeds from sales go to the artist. While IMAGO Gallery is a for-profit member-run fine art gallery, the IFA is a separate non-profit extension of the gallery run by a…
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Gallery Eleven Fine Art opens on Friday.
Bristol will add another gallery to the mix with the opening of Gallery Eleven Fine Art this Friday. The cozy gallery is located at 11 State St., nestled snuggly between Judge Roy Bean Saloon and Time & Thyme Again in the downtown shopping district. A grand opening wine and cheese reception will be held on Friday Dec. 10, from 5 to 7 p.m. Eleven painters from around the East Bay and southeastern Massachusetts came together to create the gallery, including Denise Zompa, Martha Mullen Taradash, Mary Sexton, Marjorie Jensen, Phyllis Dobbyn Adams, Dennis Broadbent, Kris Donovan, Sharlie Sudduth, Patricia Walsh, Trish Hurley and Heide Hallemeier. Each artist has their own section of the gallery and will rotate spaces and new work once a month…
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Leigh Medeiros
5:07 pm on Sunday, February 27, 2011
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