[Update: Event has been postponed to August 6 due to weather.] The Hope Street Merchants are throwing a block party this Saturday with live music and performances, restaurants, beers, cocktails, food trucks, makers, artists, and more. The music has been programmed by the good folks over at Askew. Here’s the schedule for what is being …
This double-headed bronze and steel sculpture has been casting her somewhat dismissive gaze upon the passing parade since last November. From The Avenue Concept: Lionel Smit’s “Morphous” is an exploration of hybrid identity and its ever-changing nature within South Africa’s social landscape. This particular piece evokes a question of time, of past and future, and …
There is certainly no shortage of fox imagery in the Wickenden Street area and insect metamorphosis is really the perfect metaphor for the transition humans make in elementary school. (I worked very hard to avoid the word “journey” in that sentence.) With the help of public art nonprofit The Avenue Concept and their signature Montana …
Road Races Rhode Island has hooked up with the Avenue Concept for the Providence Public Art Running Tour for the month of March. Take the audio tour and learn the story behind the art. Choose from a 2.5 or 4 mile course which will take you past some of the most beautiful and hidden art …
(12.19) The Avenue Concept invites you to take an evening stroll this weekend and view the illuminated artwork downtown. Maybe you can drop a little money at shops and eateries along the way. Join us for another weekend of illuminated public art, brought to you by Commerce RI‘s ‘Take It Outside’ initiative. We’re illuminating 11 …
Fox Point elementary students were welcomed back in September with this captivating door mural. The fox is the mascot of Vartan Gregorian Elementary School on Wickenden Street and The Avenue Concept (TAC) ran with the idea. Providence Monthly reports: The mural was designed by Myles Dumas and implemented with the help of The Avenue Concept …
The latest installation from The Avenue Concept on The Facade features mixed-media birds in flight. ‘We Are One Flock’ is the work of artist Amy Bartlett Wright . . . a Rhode Island-based muralist and science illustrator, known for her realistic wildlife and nature scenes. Her project for the front of the facade incorporates elements …
(10.3) Still a few details remain on the Steven Siegel installation before Thursday’s talk: there will be a layer of netting and then a proper trussing with black rubber hosing. But it is already pretty impressive. This project began last winter with Jen Long of the Whale Guitar project collecting all these empty containers and …
(9.25) You may be unfamiliar with the name The Avenue Concept (TAC), but you have seen their work going up all around downtown for several years now: Those murals on the sides of buildings? Those sculptures that ease the pain of idling in traffic? That has all come about through their mission of funding and …
The good people at Avenue Concept are still being a little treasure hunt-y about this one, so who are we to spoil the fun. The hints below (and pix) appeared on their Facebook page on May 1st. If I could find it, you can. Oh hey, #PVD, we just thought we’d drop your first public …
(2.28) Since its inception, The Avenue Concept (TAC), a privately administered public art program, has been commissioning local and regional artists for the purpose of creating public art encounters. These sculptures, murals, and installations are dotted around the downtown area at stoplights, medians, and on the sides of buildings. TAC will be hosting a reception …
Hey buddy, that light’s not getting any greener. The latest public installation from The Avenue Concept — part of their Influx 2017 program — may be a real traffic-stopper. Colossal Fragment is the work of Lionel Smit, a South African artist known for his monumental portraiture executed through large canvasses and bronze deconstructions. This fragment …
This mural by Cambodian artist Andrew Hem went up over the weekend, another contribution from The Avenue Concept. Text taped to the cherry-picker parked on the lot yields this background information. Born during his parent’s flight from Cambodia in the wake of the Khmer Rouge genocide, Andrew Hem grew up poised in the balance between …
If you do head downtown this weekend check out the large murals created by the urban art group The Avenue Concept. Working as a Creative Partner in the Providence International Arts Festival, it will bring the Washington Street Cultural Corridor to life with murals, art installations, interactive expressions of creativity, and a pop-up skate and …