AS220 in Providence held its annual Foo Fest on Empire Street yesterday. Pictured above, the crowd at the outdoor stage.
Photos by The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research.
Nora Rabins weaves at her loom as part of her community project.
Jay Zehngebot leads a screenprinting demonstration.
Keith Munslow (keyboard) and Pam Murray (trombone) of Super Chief Trio perform on the outdoor stage.
The Silks perform on the indoor stage.
Xander Marro (far right) and an assistant film and photograph Foo visitors wearing her uncle’s old T-shirts.
Brother Kite performs on the indoor stage.
AS220 Gallery Director Neal Walsh and his wife Cristina di Chiera, director of individual artists programs for the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, prepare for the evening.
AS220 Artistic Director Bert Crenca, pictured here and below, inside his “Artist in a Box,” a tiny, wheeled “affordable artist live/work studio” which, he says, “can also be applied as a mobile gentrification initiator moving from neighborhood to neighborhood.” It’s a biting critique of the twin problems of finding affordable spaces for artists and protecting neighborhoods from the gentrification that often happens when artists move in.
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What a lovely time Foo was this year! We are so grateful to have been asked to return with our Divination Wheel.
Here are some pics:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwwwheel-of-fortune/
Here is more info:
The Divination wheel returns to Foo Fest this year with a lunar and other worldly theme. Invited artists and members of the truley providence-based Skull Kingdoms art collective have created work based on dreams, visions, science, psudo science, imagination, drug-inspired stupors and psychotic episodes. Enter our orical lare! Spin the wheel, and learn your fate or at least something of your current state. Do not fear, you will not be left alone to interpret -A seer/critic/medium will be on hand for consultations. Skull Kingdoms art collective is a group of RI natives who are friends and collaborators. Together we are artists who work in space, in visuals and in sound. We make interactive work as well as events. We are historians, mystics, writers and designers. Our work is alchemy. The wheel was built by Natasha Maria Brooks-Sperduti and Sam Holland for Foo Fest in 2010. They are members of SK.