(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 …
Check it out, someone is still making jewelry in the Jewelry District. Artist Hannah Garrison solicits used guitar strings from noted guitarists and turns them into bracelets. Providence-based Wear Your Music also sells key chains, earrings, etc. Participating musicians include Brown alum Lisa Loeb, Les Claypool, Toni Iommi, Robert Trujillo, MGMT, Geezer, Weezer, and Avril …
. . . you know . . . empowerment!!! Also getting the job done journalism-wise is Phil Eil over at the Providence Phoenix with his cover story of the rapidly expanding Alex and Ani empire (“It’s Alex and Ani’s State . . .”). When this business first showed up on our radar nobody wanted to …
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10:00 am to 4:00 pm each day free and open to the public on the campus of Brown University! A roomful of vendors with booths chock full of vintage goodness! We’ll have men’s and women’s vintage clothing, accessories, boots, hats, gloves, bags, etc. We have vintage and repurposed original jewelry. We have books, vinyl records, …
If you loved us last year, you’ll love us TWICE as much this year as we added more vendors and a second day of VINTAGE! Saturday, November 10th and Sunday, November 11th, 10 – 4 each day! On the campus of Brown University and free and open to the public! We are all vintage and …
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The Steel Yard is firing up torches, building forges, and igniting kilns in preparation for the upcoming class season; and are happy to announce that registration is now open for the fall course season! This fall the Steel Yard is offering classes in blacksmithing, ceramics, foundry arts, jewelry, and welding. Students will be able to …
One large room at the heart of Brown University with twelve merchants selling nothing but vintage clothing, accessories, jewelry, books, art, lighting, linens, vinyl records, industrial, mid-century, antique and everything before and after. How can you go wrong? Mark the date and visit our web-site for all details, maps, images and updates. Saturday, November 5th, …
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Sure you can go to the beach, but what do you have to show for it at the end of the day but seaweed in your bathing suit and sand in your egg salad. Try something different this year. More courses are on tap at the Steel Yard including ceramics, copper bowl workshop, wire and …
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Special Mother’s Day Jewelry Making over at the Steel Yard — two classes, Saturday or Sunday. This is a special Mother’s Day Weekend offering of our Beginning Jewelry Workshop and it’s all about making and working with that basic building block of jewelry… the jump ring! The class will start with learning how to form …
‘Rocket to Mars’ on Broadway is celebrating six years in business with a sale — 20% off everything in the store — vintage clothing, furniture, accessories, housewares, linens, jewelry, and more. Check it out. Saturday 11am to 9pm/Sunday 11am to 6pm, Rocket to Mars, 144 Broadway, 274.0905
Can it be ten years already? The kind people at What Cheer Antiques and Vintage (go Daltrys!) are celebrating ten years in business and they’re passing the savings on to you. All weekend take 25% off everything in the store! Head over to Wayland Square and shop, shop, shop! Remember what I said last week …
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This Saturday, the 13th, is the day that the Grant in Pawtucket will steal Christmas! Come on by from noon onwards. Shop for artsy and crafty goodies, from jewelry to rock posters, t-shirts to paintings. Have some art to schlock? Come by starting at ten with your table of goodies (we may not have enough …
NYTimes still likes us: Selling housewares, jewelry, fashion accessories, books and other gifts, the shop carries the work of RISD (pronounced RIZZ-dee) alumni and faculty And word has trickled in that next Thursday’s Today Show will have some sort of piece on Providence, including a segment featuring Young Voices and Mayor Cicilline. Also, lipstick is …
It’s Free-For-All Saturday at the RISD Museum. So you can’t afford real jewelry — in fact, you can’t even afford to pay to get into a museum, then today is your day. Every last Saturday of the month, the RISD Museum of Art is free! Go see the show ‘Fabulous Fakes: Jewelry of Kenneth Jay …