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Steel Yard Artist Exhibit — At Dye House

(8.8) The Steel Yard’s annual Resident Artist Exhibition opens Friday at The Dye House, a former textile mill transformed into a boutique hotel and event space in Olneyville. The exhibit will include seven artists who participated in the Steel Yard’s year-long industrial arts residency program: Harry Cassell, Haley Johnson, Margaret Parsons, Frances K Pittorf, Emilia …

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Willa Van Nostrand & Ben Sisto — City Hall

The Gallery at City Hall will host the opening reception for “Plural: Recent Paintings and Digital Images by Willa Van Nostrand and Ben Sisto” this Thursday. The show remains up through August 15. Willa Van Nostrand’s recent paintings evoke the visceral plurality of brushstroke, gesture and the associative meanings of each work. Is it a …

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AS220 May — What’s Blooming In The Galleries

Check out AS220’s What’s Blooming in the Galleries, an eclectic variety of prints, collage, mixed media paintings, 3-D wall art, and even a limited edition artists book. The show runs through May 27th. Main Gallery, 115 Empire Street — Softness and Surrender/Aparna Sud & James Fallon Project Space, 93 Mathewson Street — A Crack in …

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Perspectives Across Culture & Time — RISD Museum

Art from the Ancient Mediterranean, Asia, and Indigenous America all come together in “Being and Believing in the Natural World” up now through May 7th. Highlighting different perspectives across cultures and time, these works consider complex and evolving relationships with and beliefs about nature. In more than 100 objects drawn from the RISD Museum’s Asian, …

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Sikander Exhibit Ends

(1.30) Only a few days left to take in Shahzia Sikander’s “Extraordinary Realities” with her exquisite deconstruction of the illustrated manuscript painting of Pakistan. Don’t worry — magnifying glasses have been provided. Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander (RISD MFA 1995, Painting and Printmaking) is internationally celebrated for bringing painting traditions from South and Central Asia …

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Sutton Gallery Opening Reception

(10.15) Welcome back to the 159 Sutton gallery who will be reopening this Friday with Floor Plane, a two-person exhibition of recent artwork by lens-based artist Leah Dyjak and sculptor Kelly Goff. This unique carriage house was originally part of the J.B. Barnaby Castle around the corner, and echoes the flamboyant tastes of its owner.* Leah Dyjak …

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Something About Mary

A new mural in honor of Mary C. Wheeler, artist and founder of the Wheeler School, was dedicated yesterday on Fones Alley off of Thayer Street. Wheeler spent many years studying and painting in France, establishing a particular connection to Claude Monet. The head of Wheeler’s Visual Arts Department, Bob Martin, attended the ribbon-cutting explaining, …

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AS220 October Galleries Open

The first Saturday of the month means it’s time for the opening reception of the October exhibitions at the AS220 galleries. 115 Empire Street — Main Gallery: ‘Color Matters,’ Sharlene Hyland, ‘Contemporary Mythology,’ Carlotta Carzaniga/ Open Window: Stacy Messier 93 Mathewson Street — Project Space: Stephen Brownell/ Reading Room: Sarah Quenon Seen here: Detail of …

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Smithsonian Museum Day

(9.21) Saturday is Smithsonian Museum Day. Admission to participating museums, like the RISD Museum, will be free with ticket. A Museum Day ticket provides free admission for two people on Saturday, September 21. Local museums include: the John Brown House, the Lippitt House, the Museum of Natural History at RW Park, and many more around …

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‘Fertile Ground’ At Bell Gallery

Friday is the opening reception for ‘Fertile Ground’ the new exhibit at Bell Gallery open now through November 3rd. A conversation with the artists, María Berrio, Zoë Charlton, and Joiri Minaya will be moderated by guest curator Heather Bhandari. Through their depictions of women’s bodies enveloped by nature—often juxtaposing wild and cultivated landscapes—these artists challenge …

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