By as220 on Tue, Dec 8, 2009 6:49 pm
Photographic Memory, AS220's youth
photography and training program, proudly presents a culmination of
their collective work in a 2010 calendar. Each month is accompanied
by a black and white photo straight from the portfolio of a PhotoMem
student. Much of the work presented in the calendar was recently
featured in a show at Providence City Hall.
In the Photographic Memory program,
under served youth gain technical training in photography and have
the opportunity to hone their creative skills with guidance from
supportive and talented peers and mentors. AS220's Broad Street
Studio was founded in the winter of 2001 in South Providence and
since 2005 now occupies most of the second floor of AS220's Empire
Street building. Broad Street runs arts programming both inside the
Rhode Island Training School (RI's juvenile detention facility) and
in downtown Providence. The organization focuses on youth inside or
transitioning out of the RITS or DCYF care, a traditionally
overlooked population, but is free and open for any young person
interested in the arts. The work produced by Broad Street and
PhotoMem students is consistently compelling and covers a broad range
of themes, each told from a unique perspective and in a way only they
can tell it.
Former PhotoMem student and current
AmeriCorps Vista Miguel Rosario, current member Anthony Villavicencio
and Program Director and AS220 Darkroom Manager Scott Lapham will
give a brief presentation this Saturday, Dec.12th at 1pm to discuss
their work, their involvement with AS220 and Broad Street Studio and
the 2010 PhotoMem Calendar. Their presentation will be followed by an
artist talk with photographer Stewart Martin, a longtime AS220
supporter, teacher and master printer. Martin's show "Personal
Favorites:1975-2000," is on display through Dec.27 at the AS220
gallery at 115 Empire Street. Martin, who has printed work for Bruce
Davidson and other influential photographers, has also assembled a
collection of work that spans three decades and depicts scenes from
San Fransisco Halloween parades to nursing homes and roadside cafes
in rural Vermont. This is the first formal, public lecture Martin has
given about his own work since he began taking photos at three years
old.
The 2010 Photographic Memory Calendars
are on sale now for $15 each, and all proceeds from this project,
conceived and designed by PhotoMem, Broad Street Studio Product
Design Team and through the Paul Krot Community Darkroom at AS220,
will help fund these programs and will support and maintain continued
photo programs and training at AS220. Calendars will be available
for sale during the artist talk, and can also be found locally at
Cellar Stories, Craftland, Frog and Toad, the AS220 Bar and Cafe and
online at www.as220.org.shop.
For more information contact Scott
Lapham at scott@as220.org or Krystal Grow at krystal@as220.org.
By as220 on Thu, Nov 12, 2009 5:22 pm
AS220's restaurant's Grand Opening "Hail Seitan" Celebration
Friday, November 13th 2009 6pm-Close
The restaurant at AS220
115 Empire St. Providence, RI 02903
Hours: Mon-Thurs 11-10, Fri-Sat 11-11
Phone: 401-831-FOOD (3663)
This Friday the 13th, skip the yearly retreat to Camp Crystal Lake and partake of the hedonistic festivities surrounding the return of food at AS220. Come celebrate with us on this ill-fated day a wholly auspicious happening.
We are thrilled to announce the return of food at AS220 beginning Friday, November 6th, and to invite you to our grand opening celebration, featuring a hearty $6.66 buffet, on Friday, November 13th. Please come by, one and all, to welcome our new restaurant manager Guy Michaud and consume his creations until you are content. We will present a number of offerings for the occasion including, of course, house-made seitan specialties. Our menu for this special event, as well as our offerings henceforth, is designed to be sensitive to all food allergies, dietary restrictions, and gastronomic phobias. Herbivores may trust that they will be always be sated by the knowledgeable and benevolent forces behind the counter, while meat eaters can be assured that we will continue to sacrifice the living for their pleasure. Naturally, all varieties of libations will flow from the taps of the AS220 bar.
While $6.66 for a meal of Dionysian proportions is an unspeakable good, rest in peace that the regular menu is also exceedingly affordable, topping out well below ten dollars. For this meager pile of coins you will be afforded the freshest food made lovingly from local produce and locally crafted artisanal elements, the incredible convenience of inexpensive down-city eats, and a new home in which Rhode Island's food culture may flourish. As an added bonus, you might evade eternal hellfire and endless misfortune by inadvertently walking towards the light, as all the earnings from our food offerings directly support the not for profit organization's continued ability to offer unjuried, uncensored, all ages exhibitions and performances, stay true to our open booking policies, provide accessible arts education, and much more. AS220's restaurant also includes, at any given time, three six month positions for youth involved in the Broad Street Studio, a program which affords free arts instruction and professional development to youth aged 14-21, focusing on those in or recently released from state care and/or youth graduating from the Rhode Island Training School's culinary arts program. Your support of the restaurant at AS220 allows us to offer these paid training positions to youth, helping them to gain their economic independence and valuable work experience that will increase their opportunities in the larger community. Nary a single coin handed over our counter will ever inflate a bloated salary or be thrown at the feet of idols. So confident are we in the purity of our mission, we haphazardly poke fun at evil.
Hungry headbangers, black-magicians, shameless sinners, and downtown professionals, we look forward to completing the circle with you this Friday the 13th.
Please, visit as220.org to learn more or contact:
Guy Michaud
guy@as220.org
401-831-FOOD (3663)
or
Cheryl Kaminsky
AS220 Communications Director
cheryl@as220.org
401-831-9327 (x116)
By as220 on Wed, Sep 30, 2009 4:21 pm
With our country mired in its worst economic collapse since the great depression, history can be a guide for what actions our nation should or shouldn't take to provide for its citizens and whether or not it is time to re-set our priorities.
Join AS220 for a series of participatory panel discussions looking at four "underappreciated" dates that have changed American history.
October 7: 1993-The Creation of Hillary Clinton's taskforce on healthcare (What are the chances for survival for a nation divided on healthcare?)
October 14: 1932-The Highlander Center Opens Its Doors (What is the future of community organizing?)
October 21: 1972-Nixon visits the People's Republic of China (the US and China, partners or enablers?)
October 28: 1951-The rise of Levittown (What is the future of the suburbs? Are they sustainable?)
Learn more at www.actionspeaksradio.org
All events start at 5 pm
AS220
220 Empire Street, Providence, RI
By as220 on Wed, Jul 22, 2009 6:24 pm
We are pleased to announce the return of the most artsy summer art
fair, AS220’s Foo Fest (also known as the Fool's Ball and the 20 Fest
in previous years). We're bringing back the urban street party, turning
most of Empire Street into an open-air exhibition and performance
space. Numerous interactive art installations, games and twelve hours
of all-original music from twenty-two diverse bands are among this
year’s offerings (including our headlining act SUN RA ARKESTRA). Drinks
and refreshments from our in-house bar and local restaurants will be
available all day at affordable prices. We think you will agree that
moving the traditional summer festival away from commerce and towards
creativity is a welcome and refreshing change.
While AS220 is and always has been all ages, this year we have
made sure to include kid-focused programming at Foo Fest from 1pm to
6pm as well as a few kid-friendly events later in the evening. So bring
everyone down - we hope to see you there!
August 15 1pm-1am
AS220 at 115 Empire Street
$5
By as220 on Tue, May 5, 2009 4:14 pm
AS220 Photo Lottery 2009
Event Date(s): 5/30/2009
Event Time / Additional Information: 6-9PM free event - optional $100 fundraising lottery tickets
Web site: http://www.as220.org/photolottery/
This May 30th, please join us for the third biennial Photo Lottery! Every two years, we gather together over a hundred pieces of photo-based artwork from students, amateurs, youth, working professionals, photo journalists and legendary photographers. This culminates in a celebration bringing together artists, collectors and the public for a mind-boggling salon style art show that pays tribute to the diversity of work being done in the photographic medium. Each $100 ticket is guaranteed to win a piece from this amazing array and to sweeten the pot, you have the privilege of taking the work home with you that very same evening. The Photo Lottery generates significant resources for the Paul Krot Darkroom & photo program of AS220, helping us continue to bring you inexpensive equipment rentals and low and no cost education, free events to grow the artistic community, and helps to sustain the only public darkroom facilities in Rhode Island.
You can think about buying a ticket to win an artwork as an investment or a donation, but either way, your $100 will be well spent. This year we've made it even easier to buy tickets, purchase them at the AS220 bar, by contacting us directly, or online. Go ahead and buy your tickets from your armchair or office via Brown Paper Tickets- http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/63945 . In the spirit of community, and since this exhibit is on view for only one evening, we encourage everyone to attend the Photo Lottery celebration free of charge regardless of if you purchase a ticket.
This year we are thrilled to announce donations from Jock Sturges, Henry Horenstein, Denny Moers and Mona Kuhn are among the work of a number of other prestigious & simply talented artists.
Everyone who buys a ticket wins a piece of art! How Democratic!
By as220 on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 12:56 pm
Empire Street Studios Available June 1st & July 1st
Two studios at AS220 - One for June 1st 2009 & one for July 1st 2009!
at 115 Empire Street Floor 3
The applications for both spaces are due April 23rd by 5pm. The
interviews will happen one evening the following week. The rents will
be about $325 for 264 square feet (July 1st) and and $410 for 324
square feet (June 1st).
Drop off applications to:
Susan Clausen
95 Mathewson Street #204
831-9327 ext 216
To download the application, and to find out more about Floor3 and living at AS220, please visit our Live/Work page.
By as220 on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 12:46 pm
Sunday, April 19th at AS220 9pm $8
Chain and the Gang (featuring Ian Svenonius), The Hive Dwellers (featuring Calvin Johnson) and Spanish Dancer
Calvin Johnson, former Beat Happening front man and K Records head honcho, performs with his brand new band, The Hive Dwellers. The tour will kick off on April 14 with K newbies Chain and the Gang, featuring Ian Svenious (Nation of Ulysses, the Make-Up, Weird War, etc.) Interestingly, aside from the front men, the two groups will consist of the same members — Bret Lyman (Bad Thoughts), Brian Weber (Dub Narcotic Sound System), Sarah Pedal, and Fred Thomas (Saturday Looks Good to Me, City Center).
In addition to showcasing Johnson’s new project, the tour will support Chain and the Gang’s debut LP Down with Liberty... Up with Chains, released April 7th on K. Down With Liberty... Up With Chains will also feature Johnson, as well as an all-star cast of mostly K Records players, including the aforementioned Brett Lyman, Sarah Pedal, and Brian Weber, as well as Faustine Hudson (The Curious Mystery), Veronica Ortuño (Finally Punk), Nicolaas Zwart (Desolation Wilderness), Karl Blau, Chris Sutton (Hornet Leg), Sixx (The Vibrarians), Arrington de Dionyso, Aaron Hartman, and Benjamin Hartman (Old Time Relijun).
http://www.myspace.com/chainandthegang
http://www.myspace.com/spanishdancerrr
http://wwww.myspace.com/kfamily
By as220 on Thu, Nov 20, 2008 4:26 pm
Networks 2008
First Reception: Friday, November 21st 5pm-7pm
Reception free for Newport Art Museum Members, $10 for Non-Members
Griswold House and Cushing Galleries
The Newport Art Museum
76 Bellevue Avenue,
Newport, RI 02840
AS220
115 Empire St.
Providence, RI 02903
NetWorks 2008 is a multi-disciplinary exhibition of selected contemporary RI visual artists curated by Dr. Joseph Chazan & Umberto Crenca, Artistic Director of AS220. Networks 2008 includes fifteen videos that celebrate Rhode Island's incredible community of artists. These videos will begin airing on Rhode Island PBS affiliates beginning Thursday, November 6th.
The NetWorks exhibition is currently on view at The Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, and an opening reception for the artists will be held on Friday, November 21 from 5-7pm. This exhibit highlights the work & achievement of a number of diverse and influential Rhode Island artists. A full color exhibition catalog with DVD produced by Design Providence will be available at the reception. The Newport Art Museum Networks exhibit continues through January 25, 2009.
Other exhibitions and events continue during the winter season. An exhibition at 5Traverse will run December 5th-24th with an opening reception December 5th from 6pm-8pm. Simultaneously, December 5th-28th a NetWorks exhibition will be on view at the AS220 Project Space with an opening reception on December 7th from 4-7pm and a preview Friday December 5th from 5:30-8pm. During the preview there will be a free shuttle service between the AS220 Project Space & NetWorks opening reception at 5Traverse Gallery. Photographic Portraits of the artists by Lucas Foglia and Scott Lapham at the Providence City Hall Gallery at 25 Dorrance Street will follow, running from January 4th to 31st.
Exhibition Artists List:
HOWARD BEN TRE
JONATHAN BONNER
UMBERTO CRENCA
RUTH DEALY
WALTER FELDMAN
LUCAS FOGLIA
MARK FREEDMAN
RICHARD GOULIS
SCOTT LAPHAM
SAL MANCINI
XANDER MARRO
DENNY MOERS
JACQUELINE OTT
LIZ PANNELL
TIM PHILBRICK
ANGEL QUINONEZ
CW ROELLE
JIM WATKINS
TOOTS ZYNSKY
http://www.as220.org/networks/
For more information about Networks 2008 or AS220 Please Contact:
Cheryl Kaminsky
AS220 Communications Director
401.831.9327
cheryl@as220.org
By as220 on Tue, Sep 23, 2008 2:47 pm
Print Lottery
AS220 Gallery/Performance Space,
115 Empire Street
Providence, RI 02903, September 27th, 2008 7 pm
....
The AS220 printshop is approaching its 1 year anniversary as Rhode Island’s only public Community Printshop. To commemorate this milestone, we are introducing our first biennial Print Lottery! The goal of this fundraising event is to expand the Printshop's resources, highlight a vast range of artists working in printmaking, and raise awareness of the medium’s importance to contemporary art and the range of aesthetic possibilities it offers us.
The Print Lottery will showcase prints or works on paper made by 200 artists from all over the world! In keeping with AS220’s mission of accessibility and equality, and for the purpose of having fun, the prints in the show will be sold by a blind lottery system, with all 200 lottery tickets selling for $75. Some tickets are still available! Ticket purchases directly support the Printshop, helping pay our staff and visiting teachers and purchase necessary materials and equipment . In thanks for your help you receive a beautiful work on paper that utilizes one of many printmaking techniques including but not limited to: drawing, monoprint, screenprint, etching, lithograph, woodblock, stencil, letterpress.
The prints are currently on exhibit at our gallery and performance space at 115 Empire St. The culmination of the show, the drawing of names and cocurrent celebration, will take place on Saturday September 27th at 7 pm.
For more information please contact: Cheryl at cheryl@as220.org
or check out our site: http://www.as220.org/printlottery2008/
By as220 on Wed, Sep 17, 2008 3:57 pm
Guest Lectures with Gretchen Wagner, Curatorial Assistant from the Museum of Modern Art's Department of Prints and Printmaker Andrew Raftery
as220 Gallery/Performance Space
115 Empire Street
Providence, RI 02903
September 20th, 2008 6:30 pm
The AS220 Community Printshop is extremely pleased to announce that professor, scholar and printmaker Andrew Raftery will be joining us, along with Gretchen Wagner, Curatorial Assistant from the Department of Prints and Illustrated books from the Museum of Modern Art, on Saturday, the 20th of September, for two very special guest lectures. Andrew Raftery (MFA, Yale University School of Art), a printmaker specializing in narrative engravings of contemporary American life, is an associate professor in the department of printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design. Raftery recently received a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship, and will use the fellowship period to complete an engraving project he’s been working on for several years. The works will be exhibited in a solo show at New York City’s Mary Ryan Gallery in October. His work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Fogg Art Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery and the New York Public Library.
Gretchen L. Wagner (MA, Williams College) is a curatorial assistant in the department of prints and illustrated books at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Wagner has curated exhibitions at the D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center in Brooklyn, NY, the Tang Museum at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY, and the Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, among other institutions, in addition to acting on the programming and curatorial committees for WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution and Greater New York 2005 at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, NY. Following contemporary developments in printmaking The Museum of Modern Art has recently acquired several projects by artists such as Gabriel Orozco, Nicola López, Nicolas Lampert, and Swoon, among others. This presentation will introduce some recent acquisitions of Moma's collection, speak to challenges involved in the display of these artworks, and pursue an investigation of recent trends in printmaking and its impact on art produced in all mediums.
These lectures are an exciting part of print month at as220, celebrating the one year anniversary of Rhode Island's only public community printshop. September's events will culminate in a fundraising Print Lottery featuring 200 prints and works on paper, now on exhibition in the performance space at 115 Empire St.
For More information please contact:
Morgan Calderini
Print Shop Manager
morgan@as220.org
1 401 831 9327 x112
