“Truth Unveiled: Art as Reality, Illusion, and Insight” is a call-for-entries exhibition under the auspices of Art League Rhode Island (ALRI) that aims to provoke conversation about art as both a vehicle for, and as a challenger of truth. The show features 56 artworks by 47 artists from across the country as well as one accepted artwork from China. It’s being held at the ALRI headquarters in Pawtucket, Rhode Island through December 6. ALRI invited Conor Moynihan, Interim Department Head and Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the RISD Museum and Christina Alderman, Director of Family and Teen Programs at RISD Museum, to jury and curate this show. Notably, they have unpacked the exhibition’s plethora of information into digestible subsets of: “Calling It Out,” “Environmental Realities,” “Gender Truth,” “Inner Truth,” “Truth Beyond Knowing,” “Veiled and Unveiled,” … [Read more...] about PROVOKING DISCUSSION

Installation day for “REMIX” was like a family reunion for the artists of Fountain Street Gallery. “When we dropped off the work for the show, a couple of the artists [brought] a picnic lunch and [ate] outside to see each other for the first time in a long time,” said Fountain Street Gallery owner and director Rebecca Skinner. “REMIX” marks the return of Fountain Street Gallery to a physical space 17 months after the April 2024 closure of its Thayer Street/Harrison Ave. location in Boston’s SoWa District. With a renewed focus on “dynamic pop-up exhibitions,” this show, held at Mass Arts Center’s Morini Gallery though November 23, is the first of many to come. For Skinner, who also curated “REMIX,” Morini Gallery was a clear choice for Fountain Street’s return. “I’m very close with all the folks at the Mass Arts Center so I felt very at home and comfortable there,” she said. “And many … [Read more...] about A CLASS REUNION

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress,” said Frederick Douglass, a former slave turned prominent American abolitionist from the mid-1800s. What is life without struggle? No one escapes it. We just experience it differently and in varying degrees. Success? Failure? Try again? Hopefully resilience eventually pays off, and we learn the lesson that transformation is born in struggle. The struggle builds character, which helps us to grow and change, and become better people. My pastor was 22 when he was traveling from Colorado back to New England in his Nissan 310 Hatchback — with all the belongings he owned inside. His car blew the engine on the Cross Bronx Expressway. Decades later, he shares that he feels he can endure any harrowing experience if he could survive that. Then there’s my friend Cheryl McGuinness who on September 11, 2001, kissed her husband goodbye as he headed … [Read more...] about THE SHAPE OF RESILIENCE