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Rhode Island Expansion Arts Program
May
- Ocean State Update: The biggest Rhode Island tech & startup news from April
- Fundraising Mentor Simone P. Joyaux Dies
- CCRI collaboration with The Wilbury Theatre Group screens this month at WaterFire Outdoor Theater
- Fascinating face masks on display
- Get paid $50,000 to paint Raimondo’s official portrait
- RI offers $50,000 for official portrait of former Governor Raimondo
- RI State Council of the Arts offers $50,000 for portrait of Ex-Gov. Gina Raimondo
- RI willing to pay artist $50K to paint Raimondo’s official portrait
- Rhode Island Seeking Applicants To Paint Former Gov. Gina Raimondo’s Official Portrait
- RI offers $50,000 for official portrait of former Governor Raimondo
- Get paid $50,000 to paint Raimondo’s official portrait
- Kickin’ Brass Band – Millrace Music Series
- R.I. State Council on the Arts calling for artists to paint Raimondo portrait
- Federal grants to support 4 RI arts organizations
April
- RI Arts Council hosts 2 webinars to assist the arts with guidelines for re-opening and 2020 taxes
- In the Easy Chair with Silvermoon LaRose
- Political Scene: Much in the balance as Assembly tilts to the left
- Music on the Hill plans 2021 festival
- Cumberland schools chosen for statewide Gift of Art recognition
- Artwork in the shape of face masks is on exhibit at the state art gallery
- Notable Works hosting virtual Earth Day celebration
- ‘We’ll do anything’: Performing arts plot return after lost year
- Music On The Hill Returns: Online, Outdoors & Indoors
- Wilbury Group & Becci Davis VR experience “Whose Name was Writ in Water” opening April 30th
- Providence exhibit helps Rhode Islanders find healing in the arts
- Face mask art at Atrium Gallery celebrates creativity, protection against COVID-19
- Arts Funding: Rhode Island beaches will open to full capacity by Memorial Day
- Rhode Island expands vaccine access; allows walk-ins; arts funding
- Rhode Island arts and culture community receives more than $754,000 in American Rescue Plan funds
- R.I. State Council on the Arts receives $754K in federal assistance to help arts community
- Fascinating face masks on display
March
- Voters OK a wave of borrowing that will generate a wave of spending
- Saying it Out Loud
- High School students compete 16th annual Poetry Out Loud state finals, March 21
- Rhode Island State House Monday, March 15, 2021
- Chariho Regional High School Virginia Keister
- Chariho Regional High School student wins RI Arts Council’s 2021 ‘Poetry Out Loud’ recitation contest
- URI gallery exhibition and youth art competition to celebrate GSO’s 60th anniversary
- New exhibit at Block Island Airport Gallery features contemporary artist Kate Aitchison
- VIDEO: Rhode Island Youth Theatre Virtual Choir Debuts Music Video For Original Song ‘Guide Me Home’
- New exhibit at Block Island Airport Gallery features contemporary artist Kate Aitchison
- Virginia Keister wins Poetry Out Loud state championship
- Tomaquag Museum readying to build new home near URI
- CCRI teams with a renowned poet for powerful narrative on race and social issues
February
- Calling All Artists: Get Your Artwork on a Popular PVD Wall
- WaterFire Arts Center unveils new exhibition
- New exhibition of Rhode Island artists opens at T.F. Green Airport
- Bonds totaling $400 million on March 2 ballot
- 7 RI Providence arts organizations to receive $145,000 in NEA grants
- 7 Questions Worth $400 Million on R.I.’s Special Election Ballot
- This Week’s Conversation with Veronica Mays
- Creativity in Bloom
- Political Scene: Special election asks RI voters to spend $400M on public projects
- National Arts ARE Education campaign
- New exhibition of Rhode Island artists opens at Green Airport
- State Arts Council accepting applications for five grant programs
- Art at the airport
- Opinion/Rosenbaum: Arts education is career preparation
January
- Poet Christopher Johnson Paints Powerful Pictures With His Words
- State of The Film Industry
- Newport String Project among 120 grant recipients from State Arts Council
- RI State Council on the Arts Awards 2 Grants to Johnston
- RI State Council on the Arts Awards 7 Grants to East Providence
- RI State Council on the Arts Awards Grant to East Greenwich
- RI State Council on the Arts Awards 2 Grants to North Kingstown
- RI State Council on the Arts Awards 4 Grants to Woonsocket
- RISCA awards $750K in grants to programs, educators and artists
- RISCA issues call for artists to submit proposals for new public art commission
- RISCA to commission public art for Garrahy Judicial Complex
- Beacon students to return to (virtual) stage this weekend
- RISCA to commission public art for Garrahy Judicial Complex
- Deadlines set for March 2 special election in RI
- RISCA to commission public art for Garrahy Judicial Complex
- COVID had a chilling effect on RI film scene
December 2020
- RISCA awards nearly $1M to local art orgs in South County
- State Arts Council awards nearly $1 million in grants to RI artists, art educators, arts and culture organizations
- Final Week Left To Vote For The 2020 BroadwayWorld Rhode Island Awards!
- HBO searching for Newport extras for ‘The Gilded Age’
- Dance theatre receives artists relief fund grant
- See Who Received the Millions in Hospitality, Arts & Tourism (HArT) Grant Awards
- Despite Covid Cancellation “Culture Shock 401” Music Fest Goes On Virtually
- RISCA Sponsored Concert: Samoa Wilson will be appearing in her current duo, Four O’Clock Flowers
- State Arts Council, Capitol TV announce airing of archived holiday student concerts
- Sankofa Community Connection opens brick-and-mortar space on Broadway in Newport