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Photo from left to right: Aleksandra “Sasha" Azbel, Bob Dilworth and Edwige Charlot. Photos provided by the artists.
Congratulations!
Artists Aleksandra Azbel, Bob Dilworth,
Edwige Charlot
They are this year's recipients of our multi-year General Operating Support for Artists Grant. This program provides unrestricted funding for a three year period to support individuals in their artistic practice. The program includes the opportunity to participate in a cohort, facilitated by Assets for Artists and Mollie Flanagan, RISCA's Individual Artists Program Director.
More about the awardees (bios provided by the artists):
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Aleksandra “Sasha" Azbel is the founder and creative director of Sashoonya, a textile art and design company, specializing in sustainable textile products using local materials and dyes derived from nature. An immigrant from Kazakhstan, Sasha studied architecture at Texas A&M and RISD, and teaches part time in the architecture department at Roger Williams University.
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Bob Dilworth is a nationally and internationally recognized artist who has exhibited all over the world. Dilworth works on canvas and paper and has won many awards. His work is included in corporate and private collections.
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Edwige Charlot is a French-born Haitian immigrant artist and designer. As a descendant of Ayiti, Charlot's work explores the complexities, tensions, and challenges of the indigenization process in the Caribbean and Creole contexts, using nature-based motifs. In their transdisciplinary practice, Charlot questions, reflects, and represents the relationships between people, land, and culture.
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Image/Angel Beth Smith/Trumpet Mushrooms/2023 pencil,12" x 12".
Join Us!
Atrium Gallery at One Capitol Hill
Meet the Artist
Thursday, Dec. 7, noon-1 p.m.
Free and open to the public
The latest exhibit, called The Natural, at the Atrium Gallery features nature-inspired weavings and drawings by Indigenous artist Angel Beth Smith.
“As an Indigenous artist there is within me a natural affinity to embrace that which comes from the earth as sacred," Smith said. "Because of this sacred affinity I often choose to work with media that complement the environment."
Official Bio (provided by artist)
Angel Beth Smith is the Creative Services Manager for the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation in the Public Affairs Department. She was born and raised in Providence and is a proud citizen of the Narragansett Tribe. From a young age, she was determined to become a professional artist and musician. Smith earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts, with a concentration in textile design, from RISD.
View the photo album from the Opening Reception for Angel Beth Smith's exhibit.
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Poetry Out Loud 2024 Competition
Register your School Today!
Application Deadline: Dec. 15
The national Poetry Out Loud Recitation Competition engages thousands of Rhode Island high school students. It connects them to great works of poetry, builds self-confidence and public recitation skills.
Annually, each participating high school holds competitions to select a school champion who then competes at the state level. Each state's champion competes nationally. By participating, schools receive curriculum resources teaching artists’ workshops, an anthology of more than 1,000 works of poetry, lesson plans, and access to competition preparation materials.
To sign up your school for the poetry recitation competition, email: poetryoutloudri@gmail.com
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The "Initiating Equity" program will be led by Dr. Brea Heidelberg, Ph.D., Founder of ISO Arts Consulting, a DEI/Equity-Focused Consulting firm. Photo/ISO Arts Consulting. | |
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New Program Assists with Equity Planning
Free and open to non-profit arts organizations
The Initiating Equity Work program supports organizations to develop equity work plans and make them a reality to implement. A joint venture with the Rhode Island Foundation, we geared the program toward small and volunteer-led organizations, which generally have limited resources in the area. Read more.
Deadline to sign up is Dec. 21.
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Applications Open for 3 NEA Grant Programs | |
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Big Read and Shakespeare in American Communities
Big Read, an initiative of the NEA in partnership with Arts Midwest, supports community reading programs designed around a single book. The goal of this program is to inspire meaningful conversations, celebrate local creativity, elevate a wide variety of voices and perspectives, and build stronger connections in each community.
Grants Range: $5,000 to $20,000 each.
Intent to Apply: Jan. 10.
Final Applications: Jan. 24.
Shakespeare in American Communities, also a partnership with the NEA and Arts Midwest, is a matching-grant program. It supports high-quality productions and educational activities to engage young audiences throughout the United States.
Grants Range: $15,000 to $25,000.
Intent to Apply: Jan. 25.
Final Applications: Feb. 8.
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Deadline is Jan. 17
The Creative Forces Community Engagement grant program, a partnership between the NEA and Mid-American Arts Alliance, supports programming for military and Veteran populations—including family members and caregivers. Through the experience of art or artmaking, participants can express themselves creatively while building resilience and social connectedness.
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Creative Forces®: NEA Military Healing Arts Network is an initiative of the NEA in partnership with the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. It seeks to improve the health, well-being and quality of life for military and veteran populations exposed to trauma, as well as their families and caregivers. | |
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Deadline is Jan. 19
Through non-matching grants and peer learning opportunities, ArtsHERE invests in organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to equity within their practices and programming. The goal is to increase arts participation for underserved groups/communities, and sharing insights that may inform similar funding programs in the future.
Managed by South Arts, NEA's ArtsHERE will award some 95 nonprofit organizations with non-matching grants of between $65,000 and $130,000. Applicants should propose a specific project that will strengthen and sustain the organization’s capacity for robust community engagement and support strategies to increase arts participation for underserved groups/communities.
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