A new group exhibit hosted by Imago Foundation for the Arts (IFA) March 16 – April 23rd. features still-life artworks by IFA exhibiting artist Stephen Fisher and guest artist Crickett Fisher, along with artwork by other IFA exhibiting artists.
The public is invited to a free artist reception on Saturday, March 18 from 5 – 8 p.m. at the gallery located at 36 Market Street in Warren. Music accompaniment will be provided by Cathy Clasper-Torch, a multi-instrumentalist, with a passion for improvisation and harmony.
Other IFA exhibiting artists who will be participating in this group exhibit include Sally Barker, Eileen Siobhan Collins, Mary Dondero, Philip Gruppuso, Carl Keitner, Eileen Mayhew, Linda Megathlin, Mercedes Nuñez, Anne Marie Rossi, Lenny Rumpler, Howard Windham and Meredith Wolf.
Regular gallery hours are Thursdays, 12 – 3 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays from noon to 6 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 4 p.m.

In this class, we will explore the craft of short story writing using the theme of “New Beginnings” to foster inspiration and creativity. Through conversations about story structure, genre, and theme, through selected readings, guided exercises, and prompts, we will gain new inspiration and fresh ideas for writing stories. Be prepared to share your work with your classmates and give and receive valued feedback on your writing.

Instructor: Eve Kerrigan

March 30 from 6-8pm
The Collaborative’s Main Street Gallery
498 Main Street Warren, RI 02885

$45

All skill levels are welcome.

In this class, we will explore the craft of short story writing using the theme of “New Beginnings” to foster inspiration and creativity. Through conversations about story structure, genre, and theme, through selected readings, guided exercises, and prompts, we will gain new inspiration and fresh ideas for writing stories. Be prepared to share your work with your classmates and give and receive valued feedback on your writing.

Instructor: Eve Kerrigan

March 30 from 6-8pm
The Collaborative’s Main Street Gallery
498 Main Street Warren, RI 02885

$45

All skill levels are welcome.

Drop by the Youth Services room for a Spring craft to go! Available while supplies last. Best for ages 2-10.

Especially geared to high school age students who live in the East Bay, their families, friends and the public, ProvSlam’s youth-oriented spoken word performance will be followed by an open mic hosted by Slam performers open to the audience. Admission is free for high school students. Suggested donation for adults is $5, but no one will be turned away.

The Prov Slam performers will include Michelle Pouliot, Astrid Drew, and Devin Samuels.

Pouliot is a poet, student, and math tutor from Rhode Island. She represented the Providence Poetry Slam at the 2015 Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam and has touched stages across the northeast. You can find her in the library, at school, or panic writing in the corner moments before she’s called up to read the poem.

Drew is a writer and archivist based in Providence, Rhode Island. She has been part of the staff of the Providence Poetry Slam for many years and was a member of the 2014 Providence Slam team. She believes that poetry can be something powerful.

Samuels has been an arts educator teaching and performing poetry nationally for the past 15 years. With a strong investment in community, Devin Samuels has spent years cultivating youth and adult arts education spaces. His pedagogy utilizes poetics and the radical imagination to grow critical thinking, self-reflection, and empathy as primary drivers of social change.

Devin is a 2017 Poetry Foundation Incubator Fellow and his work can be found in City & Sea Poetry Anthology, Slag Review, Wayne Literary Review 2018 and Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change: Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender. Samuels currently serves on the board of Detroit Jews for Justice, is the Co-Director of the Providence Poetry Slam, and an active member of multiple movement and arts organizations.

Founded in the early 1990s, ProvSlam is one of the oldest and most respected poetry venues in the country, known for its quality, unique work, and strong community. Based at AS220 in downtown Providence, ProvSlam hosts regular performances and workshops while also cultivating a robust youth program.

The ProvSlam performance is the first of three upcoming events IFA is hosting at Imago to showcase young poets from across Rhode Island with special focus on supporting youth poets in the East Bay. IFA’s “Giving Voice: In Celebration of Youth Poets” program also includes a youth poetry workshop led by Rhode Island Poet Laureate Tina Cane on April 8 and a youth poetry reading by workshop participants from 2 – 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 30.

A new group exhibit hosted by Imago Foundation for the Arts (IFA) March 16 – April 23rd. features still-life artworks by IFA exhibiting artist Stephen Fisher and guest artist Crickett Fisher, along with artwork by other IFA exhibiting artists.
The public is invited to a free artist reception on Saturday, March 18 from 5 – 8 p.m. at the gallery located at 36 Market Street in Warren. Music accompaniment will be provided by Cathy Clasper-Torch, a multi-instrumentalist, with a passion for improvisation and harmony.
Other IFA exhibiting artists who will be participating in this group exhibit include Sally Barker, Eileen Siobhan Collins, Mary Dondero, Philip Gruppuso, Carl Keitner, Eileen Mayhew, Linda Megathlin, Mercedes Nuñez, Anne Marie Rossi, Lenny Rumpler, Howard Windham and Meredith Wolf.
Regular gallery hours are Thursdays, 12 – 3 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays from noon to 6 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 4 p.m.

Moon lover, dreamer and mixed media artist, Tiffany Baillie creates art that feeds the soul-seeking heart. Her inspiration is driven by her love of nature, crystals and the celestial world. Her work often incorporates the beauty of the female form, galaxies and a spark of bohemian flare.

Pieces are often created with a variety of mediums. Ranging from acrylics to watercolors, alcohol inks to resin. You can find her love of the moon and all its phases at Luna Grace Studio. From her own spiritual journey to the eyes of the viewers, her work seeks to spark a feeling into the soul and mind of others.

www.lunagracestudio.com

Instagram – @lunagracestudio

www.Facebook.com/lunagracestudio

Informal gathering of book lovers to share their latest read. Available in-person at the library or via ZOOM. Please contact the library at 245-7686 or email the director, Chris Matos at director@georgehail.org for the link.

Come join us for our 3rd Paint Night. $25 per person includes everything you need to paint. Washington Lodge #3 – 39 Baker St Warren RI

Gaya Buchta is a senior at East Providence High School, and has been making art for more than five years. She uses a variety of media, but watercolor is by far her favorite. This collection includes many watercolor landscapes, inspired by her love for nature. These paintings are based on local landscapes and photos from her travels. Her other work includes surrealist portraits and elements of technology. She plans to study art at Yale this fall.

Instagram: @gaya_buchta

Stephen Fisher was born in 1954 in Sunbury, PA. and spent much of his childhood moving as a classic “army brat.” The semi-official beginning of his artistic career can be traced to a deal with his parents in the seventh grade, agreeing to give up the trumpet in favor of correspondence school art lessons. He is, in fact, an actual graduate of the Famous Artists School. After false starts in interior design and architecture, Fisher earned a B.F.A. in painting and printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University (1976) and an M.F.A. in printmaking from Yale University (1981). He resumed his traveling ways as an academic gypsy, teaching at five colleges in eight years before settling in at Rhode Island College in Providence as a Professor of Art where he specializes in printmaking and drawing and aspires to the title of “Chief Printmaking Wizard.”
Crickett Fisher was born in Providence, RI, in late May 2003. This makes her a Gemini, which, if one subscribes to such superstitions, likely predisposes her to being an artist (two-faced tricksters who arrogantly try their hand at the divine act of creation). She grew up in Warren, in a house-sized Wunderkammer among cats (symbolic of mischief) and art (symbolic of a genetic predisposition to overvaluing the mechanism of sight). She has always loved to draw, leading her to pursue a B.F.A. with a concentration in printmaking at Rhode Island College, where she studies under the illustrious print wizard Stephen Fisher. She intends to pursue a Master of Fine Arts.
The exhibition, which will be on display in the gallery through April 23rd, also includes work by 12 other IFA exhibiting artists, including Sally Barker, Eileen Siobhan Collins, Mary Dondero, Philip Gruppuso, Carl Keitner, Eileen Mayhew, Linda Megathlin, Mercedes Nuñez, Anne Marie Rossi, Lenny Rumpler, Howard Windham and Meredith Wolf.

Regular gallery hours are Thursdays, 12 – 3 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays from noon to 6 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 4 p.m.

IFA encourages IFA artists and guest artists to explore their creativity by providing a supportive community and exhibition space. IFA also focuses on art programming for the public and collaborative projects with other local and regional organizations to promote the arts.
Its mission is to inspire creativity and promote art-making that enriches the community.

Blackout or erasure poetry is the process of taking an existing text, selecting those words that speak to you and eliminating (blacking out/erasing) the rest. Blackout poetry was popularized by Austin Kleon’s book Newspaper Blackout. This way of creating your own poetry or prose is fun for writers, artists, and anyone interested in language and creativity. Blackout poetry is a great way to overcome creative blocks, find new inspiration and play with words. Black out poetry can be done by anyone, no experience is necessary. All materials and supplies will be provided. Recommended for adults, 18 years and up. Sliding scale, pay what you can: $7 – $15.

Facilitator: Thomas Terceira. Thomas Terceira believes in the power of art, poetry, and music to build community. Thomas is currently the Education coordinator of the Pawtucket Art Collaborative. He has facilitated Favorite Poem readings throughout Rhode Island. His collage art has been featured in several literary magazines such as Rattle, Glass works and Unlost Journal.

Led by local singer-songwriter, Morgan Johnston, this workshop pulls from her experiences writing about art and collaborating with artists to explore the relationship between art and music. Whether writing a song about what you see, designing a cover for an album, or reflecting on the joys and pains of creating in general, these two expressive modalities are often closely linked. In just three hours, participants will create a group song and group mural together. Along the way, they will learn about musical and lyrical techniques for songwriting about art, engage in community building with others equally excited about interdisciplinary arts, and hopefully leave feeling inspired to create even more! No prior musical or artistic experience is necessary to join us.

Saturday April 29, 9am-12pm. The Collaborative Studio: 4 Market St, Warren, RI. $45

Is your child wild about nature and drawing? You can register for FREE monthly colored pencil drawing sessions with Warren artist Elizabeth O’Connell at George Hail Free Library! Classes will be held on the last Saturday of each month, January-May, from 10:30am-12pm, beginning on January 28th.

The subject of the first class is foxes and will include some “foxy” children’s literature. Participants will have the opportunity to display their artwork in the library for one month, until the next class.

For children ages 5-12. Class size is limited to 8. Register by January 25th in person at the library, by email at youthservices@georgehail.org or eoconnell401@gmail.com, or by phone at 401-245-7686 ext. 102.

Informal gathering of book lovers to share their latest read. Available in-person at the library or via ZOOM. Please contact the library at 245-7686 or email the director, Chris Matos at director@georgehail.org for the link.

What could be more fun than an evening with Jodi-Lynn Medium, Psychic and Spiritual Advisor? How about an evening with Jodi-Lynn in a 225 year old Masonic Temple that was constructed from a sunken British Revolutionary War Frigate? The energy is this building is AMAZING!

Washington Lodge #3 will be holding a limited seating event on May 20th from 7-9 pm. This event is limited to only 50 seats.

There will be a cash bar serving Beer and Wine.

Tickets are $50 per person and must be purchased in advance.

https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/a33313b9-8581-452d-82fa-bb52fc0cf4ff

39 Baker St
Warren RI 02885

* Washington Lodge is a nonprofit and proceeds go towards restoration and upkeep of this historic building

Is your child wild about nature and drawing? You can register for FREE monthly colored pencil drawing sessions with Warren artist Elizabeth O’Connell at George Hail Free Library! Classes will be held on the last Saturday of each month, January-May, from 10:30am-12pm, beginning on January 28th.

The subject of the first class is foxes and will include some “foxy” children’s literature. Participants will have the opportunity to display their artwork in the library for one month, until the next class.

For children ages 5-12. Class size is limited to 8. Register by January 25th in person at the library, by email at youthservices@georgehail.org or eoconnell401@gmail.com, or by phone at 401-245-7686 ext. 102.

Informal gathering of book lovers to share their latest read. Available in-person at the library or via ZOOM. Please contact the library at 245-7686 or email the director, Chris Matos at director@georgehail.org for the link.