WICKFORD ART CELEBRATES ABSTRACT & AVANT-GARDE ART All-Media, Juried Exhibit, OPEN to all Artists with Jurist JOAN HALL North Kingstown (RI) Wickford Art Association (WAA) is pleased to announce the CALL FOR ENTRY and EXHIBIT details for the 2020 Abstract / Avant-Garde Exhibit. With a curated in-gallery exhibit of works August 21 through September
HIGHLIGHTS ICONOGRAPHY: OUR SECOND LANGUAGE We all speak at least one other language. What’s more, we’ve been learning it all our lives and speaking it fluently every day, despite the fact that no one taught us. The language of iconography – simple pictures representing complex ideas, instructions, or information – is all around us and
Free Virtual Valley Talks Summer Screenings Kicks-off with New Slatersville Documentary Preview WOONSOCKET, R.I. – Virtual Valley Talks Summer Screenings, a series of free, monthly virtual documentary screenings by the Museum of Work & Culture, kicks-off on Wednesday, July 22 at 4pm when critically acclaimed filmmaker Christian de Rezendes will present a segment of Slatersville, “The
Our Road to Reopening: Your Feedback is Essential New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! has begun to release our reopening survey. As the State of Massachusetts launches into Phase III of its reopening plan, we wanted to let you know that NBAM will be sharing our plans for a phased reopening as well. There are many things
“MAKE A PLAY ANYWAY” with Steve Kidd Collaborate, and connect with other willing and generous actors as part of our new programming using Zoom technology to rehearse and perform a play. Here’s what some students from our pilot class based on Nick Payne’s Constellations are saying: “This was, indeed, a very special, intimate and emotional journey for many of us, in
Linden Place Mansion Celebrates “The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports” with its Kentucky Derby Party Support the ongoing restoration and preservation of Linden Place with an afternoon of true southern charm and hospitality at Linden Place’s Derby Day Party on Saturday, September 5th from 4 pm-8 pm. Can’t make it to Churchill Downs this
Sign of the Times An exhibition of US Office of War Information Posters (1942-1945) from the Attleboro Arts Museum’s Permanent Collection I’ll Carry Mine Too!, 1943 Photographer: Valentino Sarra Lithograph On view in the Attleboro Arts Museum’s Ottmar Gallery and at www.attleboroartsmuseum.org: July 7th – 22nd, 2020 Tuesday – Saturday, 10 am – 4 pm During
DAD’S GARDEN: THURBER FARM BROOK MAR-GLOBES BY DON DOUCETTE A phone conversation with my older brother this week who is retired from the United States Air Force in Virginia led to a conversation about our father’s one acre vegetable garden once cultivated here in Attleboro. Gene was just concluding a family Fourth Of
Worcester Art Museum Announces Reopening Date July 6, 2020 (Worcester, MA) The Worcester Art Museum, which has been closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic since March 13, 2020, announced today that it will reopen to the public in early October 2020. This decision, made in consultation with the Museum’s Board of Trustees, allows time
FREDERIC DOUGLASS “This Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day? If so, there