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The SOURISD Billboard is a public art project to promote an informational platform of local artist resources that can be used by people residing in RI based communities.
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New Urban Arts
705 Westminster st, Providence, RI 02903 // 401-751-4556
info@newurbanarts.org
New Urban Arts is a nationally-recognized community arts studio for high school students and emerging artists in Providence, Rhode Island. They aim to build a vital community that empowers young people as artists and leaders to develop a creative practice they can sustain throughout their lives by providing free, year-round out-of-school programs,
AS220 / Youth Programming
115 Empire street, Providence, RI 02903 // 401-831-9327
info@as220.org
AS220 is a non-profit community arts organization located in downtown Providence, Rhode Island that provides an unjuried and uncensored forum for the arts: a space to access tools, technology and knowledge; a space to come together, collaborate, innovate, experiment, and take risks. AS220 offers artists opportunities to live, work, exhibit, and perform in their facilities.
AS220 Youth is a nationally recognized, award-winning after-school educational program and creative incubator for young people. Serving young people ages 14-21 with a special focus on those in the care and custody of the state, the program strives to dismantle the pipeline to prison by empowering at-risk, beyond-risk and incarcerated youth through arts, culture and collective action.
AS220 Community Studios
https://as220.org/community-studios
131 Washington street, Providence, RI 02903
Community Studios is an art + design program for adults ages 21 and up looking to learn, practice, and grow their skills as artists. We are committed to providing programming that centers Black and Brown people, those who are formerly incarcerated, parents, and anyone else who has limited access to the arts, for whatever reason.
Our facilities include a printshop, fabrication lab, media arts studio, darkroom, visual arts studio, and an apparel design studio. We offer affordable access to equipment and education in the areas of printmaking, visual arts, music, woodworking, media, photography, apparel, maker technology, and more.
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA)
1 Capitol Hill, Providence, RI 02908 // 401-222-3880
The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) is charged by the state legislature to stimulate public interest and participation in the arts and to serve as the liaison to the state arts community. RISCA offers a variety of services such as opportunities for grants, open calls for public art projects, and more.
City of Providence department of Art, Culture, and Tourism (ACT)
https://artculturetourism.com/
The City of Providence Department of Art, Culture and Tourism (ACT) ensures the continued development of a vibrant and creative city by integrating arts and culture into community life while showcasing Providence as an international cultural destination. ACT envisions a Providence that is a global destination for arts, humanities, and design, where neighbors celebrate diverse cultural and artistic experiences, and where all residents and visitors feel that a relationship to arts practice, making, and culture is a part of their everyday lives. ACT offers a variety of services such as opportunities for grants, open calls for public art projects, and more.
Dirt Palace
12 Olneyville Square, Providence, RI 02909
dirtpalacepublicprojects@gmail.com
The Dirt Palace is a self organized art collective that supports women artists by providing affordable studio space, facilities, shared resources, opportunities, a culture of cooperation, and maintains visibility in the community through a committed public arts presence and long term relationships.
The Interlace Grant Fund
In addition to providing grants and resources directly to artists, Interlace strives to be responsive to artists’ needs, facilitate unconventional collaborations, and advocate for stronger relationships among artists and between artists and audiences. In this spirit, Interlace commits to responsive support for artists and advocates for unconventional collaborations that expand audiences, create fresh outcomes, and inspire an enriched trans-disciplinary discourse.
Interlace recognizes the many structural barriers that prevent local artists’ access to funding for artist-led projects. Our Project Grants provide up to $6,000 to develop projects that prioritize visual art project, collaboration, and engagement.
Interlace also understands there is a lack of support and safety nets for local artists in crisis. Our Emergency Relief Grants provide up to $500 to artists experiencing financial hardship.
The Wedding Cake House
https://www.dirtpalace.org/wedding-cake-house-info-1
The Wedding Cake House offers short term, project based residencies with a focus on mid-career artists. A slightly longer than a week-long group residency at the Wedding Cake House in Providence, RI. Residents also have access to facilities at Dirt Palace Classic - our original & nearby, long term live/work residency space.
The Steel Yard
27 Sims Ave, Providence, RI 02909
The Steel Yard is a non-profit industrial art center and shared studio located in Providence, RI. We’re an arts maker space and non-traditional craft school offering courses & educational programs in blacksmithing, welding, jewelry, foundry, and ceramics. Depending on the program a student is enrolled in they may pay a subsidized fee, receive a scholarship or get paid to develop new skills.
Project Open Door
355 South Water Street, Providence, RI 02903
POD + Schools after-school programming provide teens with an opportunity to develop their creative talents while exploring different approaches to art making. Classes are taught by RISD Graduate Teaching Artists. During the 2023-2024 school year, Project Open Door is offering after-school programming for any high school student attending a public high school or charter school in Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls, or Woonsocket.
Reach out to your school’s art teacher or email POD for information on how to get involved in our after-school programs!
DownCity Design
https://www.downcitydesign.org/
370 cranston street, Providence, RI 02907 // 401-272-8070
DownCity Design (DCD) is a non-profit community design studio that empowers people to imagine and create better futures for their communities, using the tools of design. Their mission is to improve Providence by getting young people involved in designing and building solutions for their communities.
Binch Press
binchpressllc@gmail.com
400 Harris Ave. Unit F, Providence, RI 02909
Binch Press is a volunteer-run print cooperative centering queer/trans artists and artists of color in Providence, RI (occupied Pokanoket Wampanoag and Narragansett land). The group got its start in April 2018 when Dailen Williams assembled a working group of queer/trans artists with the intent of founding a printshop and fabrication studio in or around Providence. Now, we are sharing a studio in the heart of Providence with Queer.Archive.Work and accepting applications for new studio members!
Queer Archive Work
https://queer.archive.work/index.html
Queer.Archive.Work, Inc. (QAW) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) library, publishing studio, and residency serving Providence, RI and beyond.
QAW was incorporated in the State of Rhode Island on March 2, 2020 to support artists and writers with free, open access to space and resources for experimental publishing, with a special focus on queer practices. QAW includes a non-circulating library of books, zines, tools, objects, and downloadable files, a shared publishing studio (with Binch Press), including extensive risograph, screen-printing, letterpress, and other print and publishing resources, and digital meeting spaces. Programming includes Studio Residencies, Studio Membership, Open Library Hours, Open Studios, workshops, publishing, and online Queer Hangouts. QAW aims to be accountable, to center marginalized voices through intersectional work, and to cultivate anti-racist, safe platforms for independent, queer publishing.
The Avenue Concept
304 Lockwood Street, Providence, RI 02907 // 401-490-0929
The Avenue Concept is a Providence based privately funded public art non-profit organization that funds and supports the creation and installation of artwork in public spaces, creates public art encounters by incorporating art more thoroughly into the urban environment and providing opportunities to engage and interact with it, develops programs, policies, partnerships, and funding streams that make public art projects more viable and sustainable, and promotes art and telling stories through documentation, communication, education, and programming.
Alliance of Artists Communities
https://artistcommunities.org/
P.O. Box 23212 Providence, RI 02903 // 401-351-4320
info@artistcommunities.org
The Alliance of Artists Communities is an international association of artist residencies—a diverse field of more than 1,500 programs worldwide that support artists of any discipline in the development of new creative work.
Providence Public Library Creative Fellowship
https://www.provlib.org/research-collections/artists-at-ppl/creative-fellowship/
150 Empire Street, Providence, RI 02903 // 401-455-8076
adiveglia@provlib.org
An annual fellowship provided by the Providence Public Library. The Creative Fellowship provides an opportunity for a local artist to create new work based upon, utilizing, or inspired by materials in and images from our Special Collections.