Alidade is a NY-based singer/songwriter who makes soulful folk music rooted in fingerpicked electric guitar. She is often compared to artists such as Joni Mitchell and Phoebe Bridgers, and draws inspiration from folk, grunge, and soul.
"Twenty-four-year-old Kerin Maguire is an indie-folk/ alternative singer-songwriter from southern New Jersey. A self-taught musician, she began playing guitar and writing lyrics at the age of ten. Her music is influenced by personal experiences and the trials and tribulations of life."
About the Artist
Darrel Perkins was born in Warren, learned illustration techniques in Edinburgh, Scotland, taught printmaking in Charleston, SC, and now resides in Providence as an artist and educator.
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Chloe Wilwerding was born in 1992 in Omaha, Nebraska. She received her BA in political science and studio art from Middlebury College and her MFA in printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design. She has shown work at International Print Center New York’s PrintFest, Brown University’s Granoff Center, Brookline Arts Center, Montserrat College of Art, Copley Society of Art, and Rhode Island School of Design. Her work explores existential questioning and the human need to order and explain our world. Through meticulously detailed and composed renditions of sacred spaces, rituals, and objects, she explores contemporary lived experiences of spirituality and related concepts including truth, knowledge, and doubt.
About Ellen: I love jewelry and have been making it since I was a child when my grandfather showed me how to set a stone. I started working with snake sheds because I wanted to make dragonflies with wings light enough for flight. Then I fell in love with its beauty and variety. I also make polymer clay jewelry and sometimes I paint.
Pop Up with Kevin Donnelly!
About Kevin:
“I went to school for art, but I was the typical starving artist after college so my Dad talked me into working at Amgen.
I have worked there since 2005, & had basically stopped drawing in 2009. Then in March of 2016 my Dad developed a brain tumor & I started drawing again as a form of therapy to deal with the situation. Unfortunately my Dad passed away in 2017, but I have been drawing ever since his biopsy at RI Hospital & I am currently working on my 58th drawing since then. I have done some small shows, sold some copies, entered contests, drawn commissioned drawings, but what really makes me happy is when I give a kid a free copy of one of my drawings & see the smile on their face that someone is doing something nice for them without looking for something in return! I would like it to eventually turn it into some sort of career for me, but even if it doesn’t I do it in remembrance of my Dad & because I enjoy drawing & trying to show there is still people that want to spread good in this world!”
Dina is a mixed media artist and life long resident of RI.
Her work combines hand printed papers, watercolors, pen & ink, and more, and is strongly influenced by her past study of children's book illustration at Rhode Island School of Design.
After a couple months of hibernation, we are finally set to reopen with fresh art, new artists and fun opportunities for 2019.
Please join us on Saturday, March 16th for our Grand Reopening Celebration, from 12pm-6pm.
We couldn’t do all the things we do without the generosity and support of YOU! Our goal has always been to continue to bring fun and meaningful programs and events to the community. As a nonprofit, it’s not always easy finding the funds to do it. So, come early, buy some art and drop a donation in the bucket!
Featured at the Grand Re-Opening Event will be a few member artists who have been with The Collaborative since the beginning including: Janet Moscarello of Janet Moscarello Photography, Sandy MacDonald of Sandy MacDonald Studios, and Faye Silvia of Recedentian.
There are also carryovers from last year including Kristin Divona, David Everett, Matt DeLeo, Joe Lytle, Dina Haskins and Matt Roza.
New additions to this year’s roster of artists include Ariel Bordeaux, Rick Altergott, Jayne McQuaid and Julie DeRosa of Sacred Relic Studio.
We hope to see you there!
Dead Gowns
"Her voice brings Lucinda Williams’ to mind — that Southern timbre and boozy drawl — yet Beaudoin’s range is wider. At times as delicate as glass, it can swell and swoop into high-lonesome yodel range with ease, fall back and land flat on a dime... " -The Bollard
"Fresh off the release of a new EP, this indie-folk-rock quartet is subtle and good. Have an ear out for our favorite track, “Kansas” — Genevieve Beaudoin’s vocals shine the most here, and the melancholic guitar work pleasantly builds up across the five-minute runtime." -Portland Phoenix
Kate Mick
...there’s something about this album that’s sort of timeworn and yet timeless. That’s largely down to her lovely vocal style, but it’s more than that: there’s an honesty to the material and an immediacy in the recording itself..." - Lee Real (Real Gone Music Reviews, England)
Just in time for the holidays:
Photo-transfer workshop with Deb Hickey
Learn the transfer method and take home a handmade gift!
$40 for the class includes an easel and your image transferred to paper/board.
Make 2 for $60 or 3 for $75.
Images will need to be emailed to dmhickey@mac.com by December 14th so they can be adjusted for the transfer process.
Or just stop in and create an easel piece from pre-selected images for $25 each.
Contact Deb at dmhickey@mac.com if interested and for more info.
Holiday Story Night
at The Collaborative!
Join us for a fun & entertaining night of Holiday-themed storytelling from 6 of RI’s premier writers! Reading will be: Jeff Danielian, Guy Benoit, Elwood Donnelly, Aubrey Atwater Donnelly, Cynthia Holt & Bobby Forand.
Doors at 7:30.
This is a FREE event!
Light refreshments will be provided (we hear rumors of a Snowman wine dispenser?!?!)
Artist Reception:
Ariel Bordeaux + Rick Altergott
Ariel Bordeaux is a cartoonist, painter and writer. She is the creator of the 1990s self-published minicomic series Deep Girl, the graphic novella No Love Lost, and co-author of the comic book series Raisin Pie, with Rick Altergott. She currently works at the RISD Library, where she curates the zine collection. Ariel lives in Pawtucket with husband, Rick Altergott and their son, Eddie. Ariel posts diary comics on Instagram @arielbordeaux.
Rick Altergott is a cartoonist/ Illustrator/ Painter best known as the creator of the fictional comic character, “Doofus", who lives in “Flowertown, U.S.A." with his best friend, "Henry Hotchkiss". He has almost completed a long awaited Graphic Novel featuring these characters to be published by Fantagraphics Books.
The stand alone images featured in the December Collaborative show are representative of his tastes in popular culture and are drawn using traditional pen and ink rendering techniques, influenced by many of his favorite comic book artists.
Brainstorming
an interactive stage mind-reading show
Doors open at 7 and show starts at 8pm.
This is a FREE event but we will pass the hat for the performer.
Bank of Ireland
Wednesday November 21st
Doors at 7pm
FREE
Trained as a fine artist, decorative painter, and painting contractor, Kimberly's passion for painting is now being expressed in the genre of fluid acrylic painting.
Come down to the Fort for a night of poetry readings, the first of what we hope to be many more. Whether you write or simply want to listen in and enjoy the poets, we hope to see you.
The doors will open at 6:30 and there will be a sign-up sheet.
(3 poem limit, 10 minute time limit)
Join us at the gallery in celebrating the work of student artist Ben Bartoszuk on Saturday, November 10 from 4-6pm. Light refreshments will be provided.
More about Mr. Schaff:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/samsa1973
https://www.patreon.com/williamschaff
Karen Miller
Karen is a self-taught welder and wood worker, whose focus is primarily small wall relief sculpture/collage made from entirely found objects.
“I like that the things I find have an unknown history and that I can revive that history by giving it a new life.”
Tales of Fright and Horror!! Five celebrated locals read some of their favorite scary stories. Booze, too. Free, but donations are always welcomed!
Readers:
Guy Benoit
Cynthia Holt
Paul Di Filippo
Christopher Braiotta
Michael Kelley
Gallery opens at 7pm readings start at 8. Be there!
