(3.4) Interested in learning more about AS220 Industries? Please join us for our monthly open house on Tuesday. Staff and members will be doing demos using the laser cutter, letterpress, and offset press, and will be available to answer your questions. This month we are gearing up for the 20th Anniversary of the Paul Krot …
(12.11) Just in time for the Holidays, the December Geek Dinner will feature the ultimate stocking stuffer: Modibots. Providence-based toy designer Wayne Losey’s resume reads like a Who’s Who of action figures: Stars Wars, GI Joe, Jurassic Park, Teenage Ninja Turtles, and on and on. But when he left Hasbro, he decided that rather than …
(10.12) Curious about the artists living and working at AS220? Solve that mystery by coming to the 2nd Annual AS220 Open Studio this Saturday from 4pm to 7:30pm! Rich Giasson and his famous ukeleles and wooden bow ties will be there with his partner April Gramolini, who made that stunning hat! Maps and info in …
(10.10) Action Speaks has decided this October to look at moments in 20th Century U.S. history where America’s greatest hopes and despair have been represented in our country’s collective imagination and construction. Our theme this year is Utopian/Dystopian, dates where traditional and idiosyncratic ideas for the transcendent meet the amplification of ‘everyday horrific’ in a …
(10.5) Head downtown and check out new and original work at the AS220 galleries. @95 Mathewson Street — AS220 Project Space, new drawings by Chris Kilduff/the Reading Room, new work by Emily Coxe @115 Empire Street — AS220 Main Gallery, new work by David Planka and David Lee Black/Open Window, new paintings by Therea Iafrate/Youth …
Coming up: Introduction to Offset Printing. Colorful ‘zines, single-page artists’ books, posters, and flyers can all be created in large quantities using the Printshop’s Offset Press. The first class will be spent in the Media Arts Lab using the Adobe Creative Suite to turn your ideas into formatted files ready for the press. Five weeks …
(6.4) Our June Open House will feature the debut of the DrawBot – an automated drawing robot that just arrived computer software applications in the Labs! There will also be opportunities for making 2-second movies with animated gifs, and lasercut, screenprinted posters. Come see our facilities, meet our staff and members, and find out how …
(3.31) Spring is coming! Time to dust off those old cranks, pump up those tires, and tighten those breaks! its time to get that booty back on that steel/aluminum/carbon (if ya fancy) steed! FIVE BUCKS A TABLE, so get 5 friends and its a buck a spot. Or come on down and grab a table …
(3.5) Since “March” comes from the Roman month “Martius,” named after the god Mars, we decided to dedicate this month’s Open House to things ancient and planetary. That is to say, we will be making celestial glow-in-the-dark letterpress and silkscreen prints, and our CNC router and 3D printer will be churning out models of dinosaurs. …
At 95 Empire Black Box Theater, a 16mm film screening of “Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages” (Benjamin Christensen, 1922 Sweden/Denmark) plus a live performance of heavy metal tuneage from Boston’s Magic Circle. Think Pagan Altar/Witchfinder General-style NWOBHM (that’s New Wave of British Heavy Metal for the uninitiated) doom, plus, you know . . . Black …
Come see what makes AS220 one of the most significant artists’ communities in the world! On Saturday from 3pm to 7pm, resident and tenant artists will open their studios to the public. Visit our downtown studios and meet painters, sculptors, printmakers, video artists, graphic designers, performance artists, jewelry makers, musicians, singers, dancers, poets, novelists, screenwriters, actors, …
Join AS220, Ada Books and Drawn & Quarterly for the Providence launch of “New York Drawings” with cartoonist Adrian Tomine. This lavish, beautifully designed volume collects every cover, comic, and illustration that the acclaimed cartoonist as produced for The New Yorker to date, along with an assortment of other rare and uncollected illustrations and sketches …
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