(10.12) Benefit Street between Waterman and Hopkins will be closed off this Saturday for the annual RISD Craft Show. Alumni and students have produced ceramics, painting, textiles, sculpture, glass, jewelry, and printmaking of the highest order. (Facebook event.) It’s time again for RISD’s annual juried sale! Featuring handmade fine art and design work by more […]
(4.20) WaterFire Providence will be holding its inaugural WaterFire Art & Craft Festival this Saturday from noon to 6pm at the WaterFire Arts Center. The festival will expand on the WaterFire installations you have seen at full lightings during the summer, with over 75 artists and makers, live local music, and a community resource fair.
(2.6) What to do with those old books collecting dust on the bookshelf . . . why not turn them into art. Join host Amy Rosa this Wednesday at the Olneyville library for a workshop on how to recycle an old book into a beautiful folded book vase. (This is not a vase. I’m guessing
(1.31) Talks and conversations with textiles and the people who love them. Join Work in Process: Darning a French Work Smock with Reed McLaren this Thursday from 11am to 2pm. A cotton twill weave work smock worn by a teacher in 1920s France displays mendings from multiple hands. Artist Reed McLaren continues to darn this
(12.9) Here comes another opportunity for finding that special handcrafted gift — the Art Providence Holiday Show runs both days this weekend. This is not just more soap that looks like sushi. You even have to pay to get in. Totally worth it. The Art Providence Holiday Show replaced the annual RISD Alumni Holiday show
(11.11) Rhody Craft will be hosting their 10th annual Craftopia! this Sunday at Hope Artiste Village in Pawtucket. (Facebook event.) Craftopia is a single-day, art and craft event, showcasing unique, locally handmade goods, and is known for its festive atmosphere and the quality of its 60+ juried vendors from around New England. The event showcases
(10.7) A block of Benefit Street will be closed to traffic this Saturday for the annual RISD Craft Show. Expect to see painting, textiles, glass, jewelry, apparel, lighting, printmaking, ceramics, and more. The work from this year’s participants can be viewed at RISD Craft Artists. The event takes place rain or shine — under a
Organic shapes abound in the ceramics on view at the Woods-Gerry Gallery: pods, husks, fungi, twigs, antlers, urchins, and the suggestive melty, drippy blobs seen here. Only a few members of the RISD Ceramics Department seem interested in geometric shapes. But there is a lot to like here. This illuminated installation by Ziheng Zhu (MFA
(12.10) Find unique gifts, while supporting the arts in the most direct way possible, at the annual RISD Alumni & Student Holiday Art Show. Shop for ceramics, painting, textiles, jewelry, prints, soft sculpture, glass, home decor, and more. Providence City Arts will be hosting a Holiday Craft Lab, featuring drop-in workshops for kids and families
(12.8) Head over to AS220 Industries on Washington Street for their 6th annual Holiday Sale. Dozens of vendors will be selling their unique, handmade wares through all the spaces in AS220 Industries. This is an opportunity to check out these facilities; you could maybe sign up for a workshop in the new year. This sale
(12.11) The opening reception for the annual Foundry Holiday Show takes place Thursday, December 1, at the Pawtucket Armory. The show and sale will then run for two consecutive weekends: December 2-4 & December 9-11. For thirty years, this popular New England holiday tradition has offered the opportunity to both view and purchase work by
(11.27) Hope Street eatery Chez Pascal will host a Holiday Craft Sale Sunday, November 27. Artists will take over the main dining room, setting up at the tables and booths. Pick up some handmade gifts created by local artists; ceramics, jewelry, apparel, illustration, evergreen displays, and more, will be for sale. Take a chance on
(10.22) Bill Barry brings his “world famous” Pumpkin Carving Party to the E&O Tap, Saturday starting at 1pm. Lighting at night. Mike Kelly says, “Trust me, it’s the Cadillac of pumpkin parties….or was that a Lincoln?” (Also, Sunday at the E&O is Oktöberfest.) Pumpkin Carving Party, 1pm, Saturday, October 22, E&O Tap, 289 Knight Street,
(10.8) The RISD Craft Show — an annual juried sales exhibition of alumni and student work — takes place this Saturday on Benefit Street between Waterman and Hopkins Street (the stretch with the RISD Museum and Superior Court). This is a craft show of the highest order. The outdoor show features handmade goods, fine art
(12.12) Head over to New Urban Arts this Saturday for their 6th annual Cardboard Pancakes Holiday Craft Sale. (Facebook event) Cardboard Pancakes will play host to an awesome group of all-star local artists, craftspeople, and makers, in a somewhat-commercial-yet-also-sociable context. Art, crafts, prints & posters, cards, comics & zines, ceramics, jewelry, objects & curios, foodstuffs,
