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Public receptions for the June exhibits at the are tomorrow - Saturday, June 1st from 5 - 7 PM! Do not miss - free and open to the public. Come see the latest work from 7 Rhode Island artists, meet the makers, and mingle with like-minded folks downtown!

AS220 MAIN GALLERY (115 Empire St.)
Sueña Conmigo | Jessica Reyes
Jessica Reyes shares their interdisciplinary practice of tattooing and mixed media arts influenced by their indigenous Guatemalan roots. Suena Conmigo reflects the motivations of creation while enduring hardships of immigration and navigating cultural heritage.

Growing Pains | Callie Mulcahy
Callie Mulcahy presents a series of paintings and ceramic vessels illustrating a “quarter life crisis” marked by second guessing, unlearning, daydreaming, and healing. Inspired by nature and personal experiences, Growing Pains reflects the necessary challenges faced in the pursuit of personal and creative growth.

ABORN GALLERY (95 Empire St.)
Fox’s Wedding | Amanda Gray, Julian MacMillian, & Ashley Pelletier
Fox’s Wedding brings together the figurative and abstract works of Julian MacMillian, Amanda Gray, and Ashley Pelletier. Through bold uses of color and shared themes on memory and emotion, Fox’s Wedding sparks a conversation between visual languages and the history of painting.

AS220 PROJECT SPACE (93 Mathewson St.)
Studio Interior: Variations | Ida Schmulowitz
Generating space through color and medium, these interior-influenced compositions conceptually and formally reflect shifts in Schmulowitz’s practice due to the pandemic. Studio Interior is symbolic of adaptations in an ever changing dance capturing light and movement.

READING ROOM (93 Mathewson St.)
Filipinas|now | Hannah Liongoren
Hannah Liongoren presents a blend of semi-autobiographical comic storytelling centering the resilience of the immigrant spirit. Filipina Snow serves as a vessel for the emotions, struggles, and triumphs encountered while preserving a Filipino identity.

Thanks to The Public's Radio 89.3FM for having AS220 Co-Executive Director Shauna Duffy and Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra Executive Director David Beauchesne on to discuss why it’s so crucial to fund the arts and pass the RI Creative Futures Fund!

"Arts organizations across the country are struggling financially compared to where they were before the COVID-19 pandemic – and Rhode Island is no exception." Click below to listen to RI Philharmonic Executive Director David Beauchesne and AS220 Co-Executive Director Shauna Duffy discuss this issue with The Public's Radio 89.3FM.

RI Coalition for the Arts ask for ARPA funds to help rebuild from the pandemic - TPR: The Public's Radio Although attendance is coming back, donations have been flat or decreased, expenses have gone up due to inflation…and some venues have closed. Some states have used federal COVID relief money from the American Rescue Plan (ARPA) to help shore up their arts nonprofits. Now the Rhode Island Coalitio...

DANCE FOR THE DIASPORA is this week at the AS220 Dance Studio with ! DANCE FOR THE DIASPORA includes two full days of movement + song workshops, including yoga, Kids West African, all ages West African, a Songs of Orisha song workshop, Open Styles, Afro-Mande, Runway, and Vogue Femme! And then, the afterparty is a KIKI BALL at
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Check out to register for individual workshops or a full-day pass.

Summer workshops at are poppin’! More to come, but we already have an amazing array of offerings from two of our most dedicated and wonderful member artist instructors and - what an embarrassment of riches! 🤯

We need to make our voices heard - we want the RI Creative Futures Fund bill supported and passed! Join us next Tuesday, May 28th to Advocate for the Arts at the RI State House - we need you there to show our elected officials that this is a TOP PRIORITY! Link in bio for info / RSVP.

Who could ever say better why ART matters, and why our elected officials and state leaders should FUND IT than our amazing Co-Director Anjel Newmann .black ? Hit that link in our bio to contact your state reps and senators and let them know that the RI Creative Futures Fund should be a priority for them NOW!

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If you believe in the power of Arts and Culture and you want to continue seeing and other arts org not only survive but continue to be at the forefront of providing access to creative education, creative employment and multi sector social change - I need you to take five minutes to call or email your state legislators. Don’t know how to? No sweat, I have links in my bio that will allow you find your officials and send an email. We need to do this today! Please don’t waste time. Do it now.

Contact your state rep and state senator and tell them that you support the RI Creative Futures Fund, and you want THEM to also! TAKE ACTION HERE: https://takeaction.io/rica/support-h-8098-s-2985-rhode-island-creative-futures-fund/

This bill will provide one-time funding of $18 million, from the $1.2 billion that RI received from the American Rescue Plan Act, to help non-profit arts & culture organizations in RI rebuild from the pandemic shutdown. The state has yet to invest any of these funds in the art & culture sector.

Brought to you by: Trinity Repertory Company FirstWorks The United Theatre Newport Contemporary Ballet The Gamm Theatre Providence Public Library Mixed Magic Theatre WaterFire Providence Riverzedge Arts The Wilbury Theatre Group RI Philharmonic

We’ll be screening the award-winning documentary film Israelism this Wednesday, May 15th at 7 pm at the AS220 Black Box (95 Empire Street, Providence, RI). There will be a Q&A with the film’s co-Director Sam Eilertsen right afterwards. Tickets can be purchased in advance at the link in our bio!

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This afternoon at 3 in the Black Box, a community showcase put together by Jennora Blair - “Art-chiving Black & Indigenous Providence Memory” - “how do we hold, capture, and memory-keep ourselves, our traditions, our connections through art?”

TAKE ACTION! Fill out this easy form at https://takeaction.io/rica/support-h-8098-s-2985-rhode-island-creative-futures-fund/ #/1 to send a letter telling your elected officials that you support the Rhode Island Creative Futures Fund which will provide for one-time funding of &18 million to benefit arts and culture organizations in RI who are still rebuilding from the pandemic shutdown. Brought to you by AS220 Trinity Repertory Company FirstWorks Newport Contemporary Ballet The Gamm Theatre Providence Public Library RISCA - Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Mixed Magic Theatre WaterFire Providence The Wilbury Theatre Group Riverzedge Arts Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra

Indigenous and African Heritage Teaching artists - today is the last day to apply for this SUPER EASY AND AWESOME GRANT! Ya got ‘til 11:59pm. Get your application in if you haven’t already! Reach out if you have any questions.

We’ve been telling you for years that Bikini Kill Bikini Kill Records played at AS220 - well, here’s photographic proof! Photographer extraordinaire Justine DeMetrick shot this show back in 1991, and you can see a few images from it, amongst many other non-AS220 shows, on exhibit at Westerly Camera and Darkroom until July 3rd! This show was booked by the almighty Atomic Action! Records who still books killer gigs here to this day, and also featured Nation of Ulysses, Born Against, Dropdead , Skinned Alive, and maybe Bug Juice (?). Somehow two different flyers exist for this show, neither with the complete lineup 😂 - and yes, that’s still our phone number.

Gallery openings today from 5 - 7 PM at the !

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Statement of support for beloved artist, friend, and former Artistic Director of AS220 Shey ‘Rí Acu’ Rivera Ríos regarding the cancellation of their exhibit at Providence College. From AS220 Co-Executive Director Anjel Newmann .black on behalf of the AS220 Leadership Team, Staff, and Board of Directors.

THIS SUNDAY! We welcome the incomparable legendary David Liebe Hart back to AS220 for the first time since 2019! With special guests and ! Link in bio for tickets!

ARE…YOU…READY?!?! Get down here this Friday (April 26th) as we get our minds BLOWN by the return of the legendary ONEIDA with additional psyche and soul shattering signals from THERE .pvd and HANDSY - the BUILDING is going to LEVITATE! Link in bio for tickets.

Link in bio to sign up for our Spring workshops at the AS220 Community Studios - all this…AND MORE!

Tonight! Link in bio for tickets. A special Sunday evening show. End your weekend the right way with and special guest Omnivore at the AS220 Main Stage!

LINK IN BIO to register! Spring workshops at AS220 Community Studios have dropped! What are you going to learn and make this year?!

Join us for a TAG application support session tomorrow, 4/12, from 1-3 PM (or 4/19 and 4/26 as well!)!

Calling all African heritage and/or Indigenous teaching artists who lost income or had increased expenses during the pandemic, you have until May 1st to apply for a TAG award! The application is short and we are happy to help you with it. Check out the upcoming info sessions!

Applications are due May 1! This grant is brought to you by Interlace and AS220. For more information visit interlacefund.org, email [email protected], or DM us.

No applicant is guaranteed an award, but all eligible teaching artists are encouraged to apply, including those who’ve previously received TAG awards.

TOMORROW! Link in bio to register. Please join us for a virtual conversation with the artists, Edwige Charlot and Noél Puéllo, from the ‘Homeisland, Home is Land’ exhibition, moderated by scholar-artist and historian George Aumoithe, PhD ( ) on Thursday, April 11th from 6-7:30pm EST.

ASL Interpretation will be available and captioning provided by Zoom.

‘Homeisland, Home is Land’ is on at AS220 Project Space in Providence, RI through April 27, 2024, located at 93 Mathewson Street, Providence, RI 02903 / Gallery Hours: Thursday - Saturday 12-5 pm.

This exhibition was made possible in part through support from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts ( ), through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

This project was made possible in part through support from the Interlace Grant Fund, a regranting partner of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Pretty wild eclipse, huh?

It was lovely to see our friend Edwige Charlot on with this week to talk about their exhibit “Homeisland, Home is land” with which opens this Saturday, April 6th from 5-7pm at the AS220 Project Space gallery (special sneak preview on Friday, April 5th from 5-7:30pm as part of the Print Hop!).

BUT THAT’S NOT ALL, Edwige was joined by their sister Dieny to talk about their business which curates second-hand ceramics and glassware, alongside original art prints and textiles. Don’t miss them at the marketplace at on April 13th!

I will spare you the exhaustive list of everything that we do and why it’s so important - if you’re following us, you know. It does take financial support from people just like you to keep it all going, so please donate at the link in our bio or to the fundraiser on this post for Day!

ONCE AGAIN, we're asking you to show AS220 some love on Day 401Gives - head to https://www.401gives.org/organizations/as220 to make a much appreciated donation. Thank you for your support!

Noise rock titans Oneida return to AS220 on Friday, April 26th, and so can you! Tix at https://www.universe.com/events/oneida-w-there-tickets-GQ78XF 🤘