New Urban Arts, the Providence art center, celebrated Thanksgiving on Tuesday with “Artsgiving, an annual event where every person in the studio takes a name out of a hat and spends an hour making a gift for that person in the studio,” they reported. “Last night we had 65 youth, artists and even alums participate. At the end, we sit in a (very) big circle and everyone shares what they received and finds out who made their gift.” Rob Macinnis, a photography mentor at New Urban Arts, documented the event with the time-lapse video above.
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Thanks for the re-post! It may interest you to know that many of New Urban Arts’ staff and mentors, including Rob MacInnis and myself, are members of the What Cheer? Brigade.
Rob plays trombone, and I play Sousaphone.