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Kate Sanders-Fleming

individual Artists

Alec Thibodeau :: Great silkscreen art and illustrative style. Work for AS220, the Red Fez, and Action Speaks.

Kate Sanders-Fleming :: Large-scale printmaking / urban art project

Jean Cozzens / Secret Door :: More great silkscreen art and posters, with an emphasis on architecture. She did the poster an cover art for Robin Amer’s cd. Working on a subscription poster series right now.

Photographers

in Providence
Erik Gould :: Personal work, business work, and the fabulous camera obscura

Stephanie Izzo :: Fine art photography of people and places. We like her downtown section, as well as “mood”, which is of Sockanossett.

Scott Lapham :: Large format photography and founder of the AS220 Darkroom

Frank Mullin :: Photographer for himself, but also the Pheonix, Prov Monthly, etc...

Paul Shelasky :: “I live in Providence and am a photographer who enjoys photographing the city and its buildings. I shoot in black and white and print my own work at home.”

Emily Walter :: A fascination with the buildings that no one thinks about... gas stations, transformer sheds, dumpsters, plus random shrubbery and tacit observations of drive-by culture.

outside Providence
Jeremy Ashkenas :: Photos of Providence taken this fall. There’s plenty of urban decay, among other things.

Rob Dobi / New England Ruins :: Great, great photos of abandoned mental institutions and other sites. Great URL name, too.

Pogus Caesar :: Photographer based in the UK

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

www.achp.gov/economicstudies.html
Does historic preservation make economic sense? Does it result in economic benefits as well as esthetic and cultural benefits for communities? The answer is yes, based on a growing number of studies that quantify the economic impacts of historic preservation.

Arts and Business Council, RI

www.artsandbusinessri.org
30 Exchange Terrace, Providence, RI  02903
401-621-6108
The A&BC/RI is an arts service organization that works to promote cultural and economic growth through leadership, partnerships, and programs that link the arts and business sectors. Through its local and national programs, the Arts & Business Council of Rhode Island will continue to recruit and bring expertise, resources, educational opportunities and leadership talent from the business world to build the capacity of the state’s non-profit arts and cultural organizations.

ArtsLaw.org

www.artslaw.org
Ocean State Lawyers for the Arts is the Rhode Island Chapter of Volunteer Lawyers Assocation, and has been serving the local arts community since 1984.  Operated in conjunction with the law office of David M. Spatt, OSLA provides pro buono hours to many local and southern New England artist and arts organizations. Their website is a source of information incredibly useful to artists of all disciplines.

Arts Resource Network, Seattle

www.artsresourcenetwork.org
Once under the umbrella of the Seattle Arts Commision, the Arts Resource Network has grown into a great model of a statewide resource for people in the arts. Many of their links are for national organizations, so there is some points of interest in this site for people outside of the Washington area.

AS220

www.as220.org
Anyone just starting to explore the scene in Providence has to start at AS220, the city's unjuried art space that's been around since 1985, and has grown to include the Broad Street studio after school arts program, a satellite exhibition space, artist live/work spaces, a community darkroom, community silkscreen shop, performance space and cafe on Empire Street.

Candles Burning Blue

www.candlesburningblue.com
An interactive map and guide to mysterious locations and strange places in the smallest state. Add your own descriptions and photos to the map.

Capitol Arts

www.caparts.org
Home of Providence’s Convergence Arts Festival. Info on openings, artists, mission and future opportunities.

Firehouse 13 / the ARC

hwww.firehouse13.org
A three floor former fire house on the West Side of Providence… first floor gallery space is available for rent on a nightly to monthly basis, and the second floor is full of single and double rooms for Artist in Residency occupancy. Check out the website for more information and for applications for space.

Fractured Atlas

www.fracturedatlas.org
…provides services, resources and support to "liberate a nation of artists", including tools in healthcare, publicity, legal assistance and fiscal sponsorship. 

New Urban Arts

www.newurbanarts.org
New Urban Arts is a non-profit organization that programs after-school arts mentoring groups for Providence high school students. Volunteers and art-mentors are always in need and greatly appreciated. Gallery/store/learning center located on Westminster Street across from Classical and Central high schools in the West End, and has a rotation of student art and music for display and for sale.

New York Foundation for the Arts

www.nyfa.org
A great resource for those heading to New York or simply keeping their sites on areas outside our little state. A compendium of a lot of information for individuals and organizations.

Pawtucket Arts Collaborative

www.pawtucketartscollaborative.org
PAC promotes the arts in Pawtucket through open studios and shows, as well as offering space to members on their website. They organize group shows and promote their membership with the yearly Trolley Tour of Pawtucket studio buildings.

The Primitive

NEW woonasquatucket.blogspot.com
Anonymous art reviewed. Junk on the river? Or Providence's most exciting art experience. A temporary autonomous blog

RI Citizens for the Arts

www.ri4arts.org
P.O. Box 1632, Providence, RI 02903-1632
401.633.6014
RICA is a membership organization, functioning off of support from arts organizations and individual memberships, with the main goal being to work to secure financial resources and benefits for artists and the art community. Basically, they lobby at the State House and try to provide a voice for the arts. They are also trying to get involved in different types of benefits as well, like the individual health insurance issues.

RI Council for the Humanities

www.uri.edu/rich
The mission of the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities (RICH) is to inspire and support intellectual curiosity and imagination in all Rhode Islanders through lifelong learning in the humanities. RICH carries out this mission by awarding grants and implementing programs which:

• Animate public understanding of the value of the humanities
• Provoke thoughtful conversation, dialogue, and debate
• Invite, produce, and protect new ideas
• Acknowledge and embrace untapped audiences
• Explore and promote civic responsibility
• Sustain an eagerness to learn
• Strengthen applicants' institutional capacity
• Stimulate and nurture strategic partnerships between the academy and the public.

Guided by the belief that study of the humanities is central to the daily life and work of a free and diverse people, RICH has awarded more than $2.5 million to community and academic organizations in support of a wide range of public humanities programs since its founding in 1973. RICH grant programs and other activities are supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, with additional support from corporations, foundations, organizations and individuals, as well as the State of Rhode Island. 

RI State Council on the Arts

www.risca.state.ri.us
The Council on the Arts is a state agency, supported by appropriations from the Rhode Island General Assembly and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.  RISCA provides grants, technical assistance and staff support to arts organizations and artists, schools, community centers, social service organizations and local governments to bring the arts into the lives of Rhode Islanders. Twice a year are their application deadlines for individual artists grants.

ScribbleMedia

Echoes of Forgotten Places: Urban Exploration, Industrial Archaeology and the Aesthetics of Decay

www.scribblemedia.com/echoes.html
On the fringes of every city lie the relics of our industrial past. Swept aside to make way for condos and shopping malls or left to decay in silence: these huge structures stand as a testament to the acomplishments of the industrial age. For many people around the world, these places hold a special fascination. Echoes of Forgotten Places is a unique journey into locations rarely seen by the public. Visit decaying factories, decomissioned power stations, storm drains and many other mysterious places. A haunting music score from Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins and treated piano by Leesa Beales caputures the moods and atmospheres of these strange, empty and decaying environments. Echoes of Forgotten Places brings the past alive, illuminates the present, and points a cautionary way towards the future.

US Artists Report

www.usartistsreport.org
his site contains information from the Investing in Creativity study, a national research initiative about the various factors that enable artists to pursue their careers – artists' support programs, policy initiatives, and characteristics of place, among other issues.  The study was conducted by the Urban Institute with support from 38 public- and private-sector funders.  It also includes links to related research projects and initiatives.

World Wide Arts Resources

www.wwar.com
Listings of and links to a wide variety of arts publications. Compiled by World Wide Arts Resources.