Art New England

Contemporary Art and Culture Magazine

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Gallery Flashpoints Rhode Island 

Providence College Galleries

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Jamilee Lacy, curator and director of Providence College Galleries, was awarded a Fall 2020 Curatorial Research Fellowship by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The program and its attendant $50,000 grant aims to encourage curatorial research leading to new scholarship in the field of contemporary art. Lacy’s research will explore the notion that the East Asian tradition of Shanshui (Chinese terminology) or Sansui (Japanese terminology) is a global contemporary art genre. As part of her fellowship, Lacy will enlist the help of cultural critics Bing Huang and Meruro Washida to develop specially commissioned public artworks and/or online projects. Her work will result in Digital Rivers, Burning Mountains, an exhibition and public art program slated to open September, 2023.

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Gallery Flashpoints Massachusetts 

Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art

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The Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art (FR MoCA) recently celebrated its opening. Founded by Fall River artists Harry Gould Harvey IV and Brittni Ann Harvey, the FR MoCA is located on the ground floor of Merrow Manufacturing, an historic granite mill in Fall River. The museum began as a pop-up gallery in October 2020 as part of Fall River’s FABRIC Arts Festival. Its inaugural show, Group Exhibition #1, featured work from artists Allyson Vieira, Flannery Silva, Brittni Ann Harvey, Michael Assiff, Gregory Kalliche, Zachary John Martin, Susan Mohl Powers, Jeffrey Alan Scudder, and Faith Wilding. FR MoCa will run as a nonprofit, non-collecting museum that is free and open to the public (by appointment).

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Gallery Flashpoints Massachusetts 

L’Attitude Art Environments

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After a few months of changes, Boston-based art consultants group L’Attitude Art and Sculpture Gallery will be continuing under the name L’Attitude Art Environments. L’Attitude is transitioning from a gallery open daily, to a showroom and office available by appointment for on-site visits at its new home at 119 Braintree St. in Allston, MA, and via videoconference. The pandemic has strengthened L’Attitude’s focus on its design and collection development work with health care facilities, as well as for residential and corporate clients.

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Gallery Flashpoints Maine 

Main Street Art Studio, Inc.

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Main Street Art Studio, Inc. celebrated its grand opening with a ribbon cutting on January 4 in Sangerville. The gallery is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to make the arts available and affordable to the local community. In addition to exhibiting work by Maine artists, the gallery will bring art to the community through classes, events, and fundraisers. “It is a space where artists can display their work, the public can enjoy a free gallery, and community events and fundraisers will be hosted,” founder Wendy Lorigan said in a statement to The Piscataquis Observer. “Our goal is to offer low-to-no-cost art classes for children and adults in the community through donations and grants.”

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Connecticut Gallery Flashpoints 

Real Art Ways

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The gallery space at Real Art Ways (RAW), in Hartford, has once again received support from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), this time for its Real Art Awards competition, which supports emerging artists. The 2021 Real Art Awards will offer six artists $2,500, a solo exhibition in the RAW galleries, and publication of an article about the exhibition. After reopening its doors in August 2020, Real Art Ways aims to amplify its efforts to bring the arts to the community.

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