Signs of life began a few weeks ago and suddenly, there’s an art show at Machines With Magnets. We stopped by the Main Street sidewalk today and the portraits in the windows will probably be easier to see at night. The gallery was not yet open. INSIDE/OUT | OUTSIDE/IN is a series of artist portraits by …
(8.15) The second annual experimental music festival known as DOT AIR takes place Saturday in and around Machines With Magnets in Pawtucket. (Last year it was under the bridge.) Facebook event. DOT AIR is an experimental music festival celebrating sonic and performative experimentation that grows out of the skeletal remains of the American Industrial Revolution. …
(3.15) Head over to Machines With Magnets Sunday for Interrupt III Satellite for readings and performances by: RRLew, Matt Underwood, V Manuscript, Willa Van Nostrand, Akiko Hatakeyama, Reed Gaines, Viszk (n carolina), Laura Warman (w mass) With live video/soundscaping all night by MARALIE (VALISE). This event is held in collaboration with Interrupt 3, a discussion …
Today at Machines With Magnets — Don’t Play With Me. Don’t Play With Me: A show about objects for children that aren’t for children What will you see? – Dolls of all types that aren’t for playing… – Paintings, screen prints, dioramas, drawings… – and Giant balls of yarn! Artists include:Ricky Katowicz, Tiphany Giles, Cimmerii, …
(8.23) How many lost souls trying to find their way home — this is Pawtucket we’re talking about — have ended up under this bridge and said “This would be a great place for a party.” We doubt the event planned for Saturday is the first gathering here, but this one is official. DOT AIR …
(2.24) Machines With Magnets and World’s Fair are hosting a group exhibition of new sculpture and paintings — “The Conditions Were Just Right.” Exhibition runs through March 13. The featured artists: Justin Coleman (Pittsburgh, Ceramic Sculpture) Tanya Merrill (NYC Painter) Elizabeth Potenza (PVD, Glass & Metal Fabrication) Viewing upon appointment and during MWM venue programming. …
(10.19) An exhibit featuring new works by Susan Dwyer opens tonight with a reception starting at 6pm. Known throughout New England for her murals and portraiture, Rhode Island artist Susan Dwyer returns to her first artistic love — paintings of 1950’s pop culture iconography. With HOMEMAKERS, Dwyer re-imagines classic 1950’s American domestic scenes with a …
(8.9) On the bill tonight at Machines With Magnets — atmospheric psychodrone metal guitarist Darsombra. (Review of ‘Ecdysis’ from Aquarius), Low-end drones, mysterious field recordings, sitar, haunting melody… and crushing electric guitar heaviness . . . This 34 minute, six-track debut cd from Baltimore’s Brian Daniloski (a member of metal mongers Meatjack) is right up …
Live music! Spandex! Head over to Machines With Magnets tomorrow night, Wednesday July 6, for some mid-week mayhem with local faves Amil Byleckie Band. Amil Byleckie Band was formed out of a terrifying near-death convergence of weird thinking. This super group — and don’t take that lightly; they are in fact super — arose from …
Art installation/book/art/music type thing, COMEX OR BECAMUS will be debuting at Machines With Magnets on Saturday, August 28th. Barton, a RISD graduate, and Anagnostis, a URI graduate, have spent the last year and a half constructing COMEX OR BECAMUS, a large-scale multimedia art installation and literary publication. This collaboration represents the Providence artists’ ambition, criticism, …
New Yorkers Extra Life headline a show in Pawtucket with guitar, keyboards, percussion and violin and maybe tenor sax. I am unfamiliar with this act, but on their myspace page they cite Hildegard von Bingen and Scott Walker as influences and that’s good enough for me. Also on the bill, Providence musicians Tinsel Teeth and …
Rocktucket ’09 Historic Downtown Pawtucket 215 Main Street Pawtucket RI, 02860 Sunday, Sept. 06 4:00-11:00pm MUSIC ~ ART ~ FOOD ~ MAKER FAIR RI The Grant, Machines With Magnets, Kafe Lila and the Pawtucket Arts Festival present The First Annual Rocktucket Block Party on Main Street Rain Location: Pawtucket Armory http://armoryartsri.org/ ART + ACTIVITIES – …
[youtube]B_62Th7S4wI[/youtube] Saturday Machines With Magnets is hosting a benefit for GRR!, a brand-new rock camp for the ladies. Over the course of the camp, girls can work on their musicianship, form a band, write a song, and perform. (Possibly if they end up as good as the Bangles up there they’ll even get wildly famous …
Show tonight at Machines With Magnets featuring Death Vessel, Alec K. Redfearn and the Seizures, and Brown Bird. Also check out the screenprints by Alec Thibodeau (this is one of his beautiful posters). $8, Tuesday, 8pm to 11:30pm, Machines With Magnets, 400 Main Street, Pawtucket, 475.2655
A new show opens tonight at 5 Traverse Gallery featuring the photographs of Scott Lapham (Sea Song) and the work of Jonathan Bonner (Pooms). What is a ‘poom’? Mr. Bonner explains, There is now in existence a literary form known as the poom. A poom is a poem that is one syllable long. This exhibition …
[youtube]IUEHgDQ-NVw[/youtube] Three art happenings tonight: i. Jonathan Bonner’s sculpture and Scott Lapham’s often eerie photography at 5 Traverse. (5 Traverse St, 6-8 pm) ii. De/Construct II: Twenty site-specific architectural installations on the seventh floor of some place in the Jewelry District. This one has the added bonus of a Narragansett Creamery sponsorship, which I think …