Who is P.T. Snuggles?

If you answered “a funny but makes-you-feel-uncomfortable fictional presidential candidate created by local artists In House Freestyle,” then you probably already went to the website, in which case you probably also marveled at the blatant, hilarious recycling of the Obama Hope graphic in the shape of Sgt Snuggles’ glasses.

In this presidential campaign announcement, Sgt Snuggles explains how he’ll win the fall election, and pay for his army of federally funded circus clowns.

After the jump, check out Snuggles interviewing hip-hop legend KRS-One: (more…)

Hello! the August printshop classes are now available for viewing and sign up at the online shop! go check it out: AS220 shop.

ALSO, friends! the AS220 community printshop is AIR CONDITIONED (don’t be jealous!!! just sign up for class.) For more info visit the printshop website.

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July 19th marked the most recent performance in the Port Huron Project, brainchild of Brown professor Mark Tribe. At the library of UC San Diego, an actor performed a famous antiwar speech by Chicano labor leader César Chávez (right):

On May 2, 1971, about 200 uniformed police surrounded the perimeter of Exposition Park while 30-odd plainclothes officers circulated through the crowd as farm labor leader César Chávez delivered a brief but impassioned speech decrying the Vietnam War at a rally sponsored by the People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice.

This marks the fourth manifestation of the Port Huron Project which has recreated protest speeches from the turbulent sixties across the country. More after the jump. (more…)

Perishable, RI’s Research & Development Theatre, will be holding an open audition for the 2008-2009 season on Saturday, August 9th from 1-6pm at Perishable Theatre, 95 Empire Street, Downtown Providence.

Auditions are being held by appointment only. To make an appointment, call the Perishable Theatre audition hotline at (401) 331-2695 ext. 304. Actors of all types who are at least the age of 18 are welcome to attend. Please prepare a contemporary monologue up to 2 minutes in length.

Perishable is casting for:

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Theatre, Dance, Music, Gay puppets, we got it all.

Perishable Theatre’s Fledgling Festival is 4 and it promises to be an experimental theatre extravaganza! What’s it is all about? Bringing new works from local and not so local artists and different performing art genres together. Experience performances from Fledgling Festival Curator Peter Deffet, artists Nancy Hoffman, Angela Conte, Philip Goldman, Khym Carmichael, Kellie Lynch, Slipperyfish Dance, Angela Colford, Kevin Delaney, Leigh Hendrix and Moira Brady, plus much more.

Don’t miss what Bill Rodriguez of The Providence Phoenix called “…a carnival of diversity and humor.”
All Seats $10 — but come once and get a return ticket for $5!!!!
Order Tickets through ARTTIX, or by phone at 401-621-6123

Whatever happened to that dude who posted about comix weekly????  Well, whatever.

[Answer from David: He’s co-managing my campaign.  Yeah, that’s how we roll.  But I’ll give him the day off for this.]

This SATURDAY, July 19th is the opening of Hera Gallery’s 30 Days + 24 Hours: All-Rhode Island Comic Book Challenge/Graphic Novel Exhibition. Which consists of way more than JUST an opening — the 24hr challenge begins noon on the 19th… the official/traditional ‘opening’ reception is 6pm-9pm, and the challenge ends the 20th at noon. During those 24 hours, food will be served, music will be heard, movies will be watched, Alec Thibodeau will read comix, and a slew of random Rhode Islanders will draw them.

Hera Gallery is located at 327 Main Street, in Wakefield RI 02880-0336
401.789.1488, info@heragallery.org

To get your ass down to Wakefield, take the #66. Apparently it goes right by the gallery.

*“DANCE, DANCE PARTY PARTY”* TM

To anyone who’s wondering, we’ll be dancing EVERY FRIDAY at Perishable Theatre in downtown Providence 5:30-7:00, ALL SUMMER LONG. Our stress doesn’t go on vacation and neither does DDPP.

*Dance Dance Party Party is a hit ..every Friday night, 5:30 PM, in the 3rd Floor dance studio at Perishable Theatre, 95 Empire Street. *Perishable is located downtown, an easy walk from, well, everything else downtown*. Dance Dance Party Party is $5 per session, no reservations, no registration, no stress, no problem, just show up.*

THERE IS NO TEACHER so ladies can feel free to do what they want. Want to spin? Spin! Want to jump? Jump! Want to sit in the corner and do yoga? Sweet! Do it!

Dance Dance Party Party is just like being out at a club with girlfriends without the expensive cover charge and sweaty dudes grinding on you (ew) and trying to get yer number (no).

Leave the painful high heels at home, but bring workout clothes because you will SWEAT!

Just a heads up that tonight the Tiny Showcase summer prints go on sale. Four 8X10-ish prints from Andrew Holder, Ryan McLennen, Julie Morestad, and Amy Ruppel.

Luckily, you don’t have to stay home and wait to buy them at 7:30 the way you do with most of their prints–these are unlimited and will be available through the summer.

Sadly, though, I blew my monthly shopping budget on Jen Bekman 20X200 prints this month (damn affordable art!) but come July the moosey Ryan McLennan one’s totally going in my kitchen.

(On an unrelated note, can you believe that the foolish picture above is the first result when you Google image search ’summer’?)

Everybody knows that just before you get to New Haven proper on I95, there is this giant American flag. Its all tattered and brown, and it can’t always appear majestic because of its shear weight. RISD prof and local smartist  Liz Collins will be bringing 8 knitters and thousands of queers together to reimagine the original pride flag - maybe even surpassing 95’s old glory. The flag will incorporate the original hot pink and turquoise that we now see missing (representative of sex and art respectively). It happens today between 12PM and 6PM at Waterplace Park and is the fourth installment of Collins’ Knitting Nation project.

HEY SO there’s a poster/print show this FRIDAY @ 5 Traverse Gallery on the corner of wickenden st. and traverse st (a.k.a next to kabloom, across from the utrecht parking lot– have a latte at coffee xxx-change, eat some cous cous). it’s an OPEN SHOW which means ANYONE can show up and put their prints/posters/flyers/p-copies/l-press/litho-graph-y/s-skreens/etchings/openbitez/soft embosses/pulp prints/etc etc etc up on the wall. maybe some dudes will buy some stuff!
as jay z (local jay z, not beyonce’s jay-z) would say: “IT IS WHAT U MAKE IT”. some come through and MAKE IT GOOD!!!!! (more…)

In addition to all the witchy happenings tonight, there will also be a most spectacular showcase of avant garde music video art and performance. The lineup for “We’ll Do It Live” reads like a who’s who of video art, so if this stuff turns you on at all, you probably won’t want to miss one of the more interesting and under-publicized performances at Trinity Rep’s Pell Chaffee venue. $10 with student ID (also discounts for teachers, fire fighters and police)$15 otherwise at the door Featuring: Richard Devine,  Brian Kane,  Nalepa,  Duncan Laurie,  Aerostatic,  David Last,  VJ Benton C,  Robotkid and  Todd Thille

This is apparently big news in Scandanavia.

Am I right that we gain a bit more cred if we can prove that we’re not shut-ins, riddled with blood clots, playing Second Life, in Second Life? In our spare time, we are:

Fox Pt Community Gardeners

Rabble, and rabble-rousers:

Giant party-boy hat erectors:

Thanks to Erica S for the photos.

Apart from being a total baller who drives to the beach in her rad boat of a car to go surfing AND opening up a  much needed consignment shop for local apparel and jewelry designers with, similarly balling Devon King of Wabisabi/77Designs,  Lucille Clothing designer Karen Beebe is a pretty fly artist. Come check her out for yourself as she sends some of downcity’s hottest down the runway at Tazza tonight. If you rush you can make it over for the final of two runway shows! Also, I’m pretty stoked that she worked with  Lustre Kings’  Moon Bain to develop this season’s prints as his aesthetic is second to none.

  I just popped by the Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College, which I sort of assumed wouldn’t even be running a show during the summer, and was pleasantly surprised to come across Protest, a show featuring photographer LeRoy Henderson that will be up through early July.

Henderson shows the struggles of Americans as they take to the streets, in New York and Washington, to protest both the Vietnam and Iraq wars.  The banners and slogans are worth documenting, but the most interesting part of the black-and-white photos are the people holding them.  Who, for instance, are the two made-up women in 2005 holding the Billionaires For Bush signs?   Or the woman from 1969 with the sign that says “Give me one good reason I should fight in Vietnam. Arm black men to fight for freedom in America.”  The most striking images, though, are the ones that aren’t easy to place–a man kneeling in a field, or a shadowy figure with sunglasses.

The photographs question the protesting individual.  A man lies face-down on the ground while a dopey-looking cop stands over him, but the demonstrators in the background look like confused tourists more than anything.  And the Billionaires For Bush are interesting, but are they really as striking as the groups of Iraq protesters hidden behind giant masks?

As a whole, the photographs raise interesting questions about the nature of political demonstration: after the sixties, can Americans demonstrate without seeming unoriginal?  After public protests about Vietnam didn’t work, does the public even listen to protesters anymore?

yes indeedee.
an Assistant Director in fact.

see the posting on
criagslist.

or on the RISCA blog (but not quite yet)