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"Divine Providence" at Providence’s WaterFire Arts Center, October 2023.
Art Greg CookNovember 27, 2023 0

‘Divine Providence’: Bert Crenca’s Love Affair With The City In All Its Beautiful Messiness

Over the years, Bert Crenca has made lots of art—music and performances, sculptures and wild paintings of people and things warped and stretched and mutated, like visions out of strange…Continue Reading →

Roz Raskin of the “cosmic pop” band Nova One. (Photo by Brittany Taylor)
Music Greg CookDecember 29, 2020 0

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, "Carpenter Cats" relief print from her “Cooperation Cats" series.
Art Greg CookFebruary 9, 2020 0

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 at "Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand" exhibition at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, Feb. 3, 2009. (Greg Cook photo)
Art Greg CookOctober 26, 2019 0

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 →

Remembering the Pines Speedway with a Tape Art mural at Groveland’s Langley-Adams Public Library, July 2019. From “Drawing From Our Past: A Tri-Town Tape Art Festival." (Tape Art photo)
Art Greg CookOctober 26, 2019 0

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” by Heather Henson and IBEX Puppetry. (Photo: Richard Termine)
Theater Greg CookFebruary 1, 2019 0

‘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 →

Shauna Duffy (left) and Shey Rivera at AS220's Foo Fest, 2018. (Photo: James Lastowski)
Art Greg CookDecember 5, 2018 0

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 →

AS220's 2018 Foo Fest.
Music Greg CookAugust 15, 2018 0

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 →

AS220's Empire Street building, Providence. (Courtesy)
Art Greg CookMay 23, 2018 0

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 →

Drawings from the Providence Comics Consortium Sketchbook Church at Ada Books. (Courtesy)
Art Greg CookMay 18, 2018 0

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 →

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