Spend New Year’s Eve Eve With Nova One And FirstWorks’ ‘Urban Carnevale’
“Providence is my home and I plan to live and die here at the moment,” Roz Raskin, who fronts the “cosmic pop” band Nova One, told me via email in…Continue Reading →
Meredith Stern’s ‘Cooperation Cats’ Show How We Can Thrive Together
“I really wanted to highlight the strength of the human condition. When we work together we’re stronger,” Meredith Stern says of her exhibition “Cooperation Cats: 10 years, 20 prints” at…Continue Reading →
Shepard Fairey Returns To Providence: ‘It’s Pretty Punk Rock To Try To Unite’
Shepard Fairey—one of the most famous street artists in the world, known for his “Obey” Andre the Giant graphics to his Obama “Hope” posters—has been in Providence this week to…Continue Reading →
How Tape Art Made Murals For Rural Towns Without Big, Centrally-Located Walls
Note: I’ve been commissioned by the Essex County Community Foundation to help document/promote cultural projects from its Creative County Initiative, which is supported by Boston’s Barr Foundation. At the end…Continue Reading →
‘Ajijaak On Turtle Island,’ Heather Henson’s Puppet Spectacle With Indigenous Roots
“Ajijaak on Turtle Island”—by Heather Henson (daughter of Muppets creator Jim Henson) and IBEX Puppetry—is an environmental fable, Henson says, about “how to survive and thrive into the future.” The…Continue Reading →
AS220 Artistic Director Shey Rivera Departs, Shauna Duffy Promoted To Executive Director
Shey Rivera—the artistic director of Providence art center AS220 since she took over from c0-founder Umberto Crenca in 2015—will depart the organization at the end of this year, AS220 announced…Continue Reading →
Wonderland’s Totally Biased Guide To AS220’s Foo Fest This Saturday
AS220’s Foo Fest—the annual street shindig outside the alternative art space’s building on 115 Empire St. in Providence—is this Saturday, Aug. 18, from 1 p.m. to 1 a.m. It features…Continue Reading →
Providence’s Landmark Alternative Arts Space AS220 Aims To Raise $5 Million To Improve Its Core Empire Street Building
Last Wednesday night, at the University of Rhode Island’s Paff Auditorium in Providence, leaders of AS220 launched the public part of their “All Access” campaign “to comprehensively renovate and upgrade…Continue Reading →
Providence Comics Consortium Invites You To Draw Mutants And Monsters At ‘Sketchbook Church’
The Providence Comics Consortium’s “Sketchbook Church,” writes artist Walker Mettling, is “not church in the religious way, church in the Sunday morning way. Maybe in the coffee and bagels way.” It’s…Continue Reading →
2 Years After A Calamitous Tour Van Crash, The Low Anthem Return With A Hypnotic Pysch-Folk Album Humming With The Cycles Of Life
Up past the golden lobby of Providence’s Columbus Theatre, still decorated with vintage posters advertising Verdi’s “La Traviata” and screenings of “The Song of the Soul” and Cecil B. DeMille’s…Continue Reading →