The island of Jamestown is very much defined by its relationship to the Narragansett Bay. As climate change and rising sea levels are becoming an omnipresent concern, collecting data and building a consistent relationship with the ocean is paramount in gaining understanding.
Join multidisciplinary artists, designer and professor at RISD, Rafael Attias, to learn about his collaborations with marine scientists from the URI Oceanography Bay Campus and their exploration of the Narragansett Bay. Through sound and video, they communicate and relate scientific data through sensory means, providing a new way of interpreting scientific data.
Vis-a-thon is a program designed to reimagine visualization as an evolving process of inquiry, indivisible from research itself. The program provides opportunities for participants to collaboratively experiment with new and innovative ways to create and use visual imagery and language. Participant projects are completed over a two-day period and in partnership with faculty and graduate students to develop and enact their proposals.
In addition to Professor Attias’ work, the artists behind Wrack Line: 2050, Melody Drnach, Janie Harris, Anne Kuhn-Hines, and Mary Meagher, will discuss their sculpture, as part of the 2022 Biennial: Passages, an Outdoor Arts Experience, and how it relates climate change to the island of Jamestown.
This event is a great convergence of art, science, ecology, and environmental concerns–not to be missed.
Listen to internationally renowned harpists Marta Power, Tamman Odeh and Grace Cloutier. Throughout the weekend enjoy talks on music therapy, the history of harps, and harp making. Relax with yoga, meditation and gong sessions in beautiful Jamestown, RI.
Given by Artistic Director & Master Artist Grace Cloutier, Guest Master Artist Marta Power, and Guest Young Professional Tammam Odeh
Join JamestownHarp for a glass of wine prior to the concert, enjoy the spectacular sounds of the harp played by world renowned harpists, and meet the artists afterwards for a lovely reception at the Jamestown Arts Center
Sunday, July 24:
Closing Concert
2:30pm pre-performance toast
3:00pm Closing Concert
4:00pm Greet & Au Revoir to the Master Teachers/Artists and Students Reception
Given by Artistic Director & Master Artist Grace Cloutier, Guest Master Artist Marta Power and Guest Young Professional Tammam Odeh
Join JamestownHarp for a glass of wine prior to the concert, enjoy the spectacular sounds of the harp played by world renowned harpists, and meet the artists afterwards for a lovely reception at the Jamestown Arts Center
Surf historians believe the first photograph of surfers was in 1890 on the Big Island of Hawaii and since then the camera lens hasn’t shifted its focus from capturing an otherwise fleeting moment. Over a hundred and thirty years later, photographers are still inspired to shoot an image that will not only display a surfer’s particular style, but also act as a historical document of a certain time and place. With a lack of print media in the current digital age, the bulk of surf documentation happens on an iPhone, on a 2 ½ inch square format, and viewed for an estimated 7 seconds. How has this shift affected the way we interact with photography?
Join moderator Cate Brown on July 22, where she and a group of photographers will be presenting selections of their portfolio on a large screen and then discussing their work and topics pertaining to a rapidly shifting field.
Photographers: Coming soon!
About Cate Brown:
Outdoor Lifestyle Photographer inspired by the coastal living experience, specializing in content creation for commercial clientele in yacht, sail, surf, and swim. As a nimble production, I work with a combination of natural light and strong composition to bring vibrance, clarity, and unfiltered authenticity to imagery exploring life outdoors and by the sea.
This exhibition offers a close-up look at more than 100 objects from the Newport Mansions that many visitors might not notice while touring the houses. Yet these objects are among the treasures of the the Preservation Society’s collections. They were crafted in many different countries and periods, but all of them were collected and appreciated during the Gilded Age (approximately 1865 to 1915). Visiting Curator Ulysses Grant Dietz also aims to answer the question: Why did people of the Gilded Age desire such things?
On Friday, July 15, 2022 the Newport Art Museum will host its annual summer fundraiser, the Summer Art Party, a tradition that dates back to 1927. One of the most highly anticipated and lively cultural events of Newport’s summer season, the Art Museum’s festive dinner dance attracts cultural and civic leaders, artists, collectors, philanthropists, and other art-world notables from across the country. The evening will celebrate the Museum’s exceptional history and officially open the summer exhibition “Georgia
O’Keeffe: Things I Had No Words For.” Work by the celebrated American Modernist, who lived and worked in Santa Fe and Taos, was first exhibited at the Museum in 1938, and the Museum is proud to bring her work back to Newport. All proceeds from the Summer Art Party are in support of the Art Museum’s extensive exhibition program.
Summer Art Party 2022 co-chair Ellen Bowman, Elizabeth Brooks, Kimberly Cummins, Patrick Dolat, Fran Slutsky, and Ellie Voorhes have planned a festive, Sante Fe-inspired evening as a nod to the time O’Keeffe spent living and working in New Mexico. Southwestern fare and cocktails prepared by Blackstone Caterers will be served, and Jill Rizzo of Studio Choo East will design the event’s artful floral decorations. The dance floor will be back this year and DJ Meghan Taylor from Chicago will be mixing the music.
A live auction will feature one-of-a-kind travel and culinary experiences. Auctioneer John Hays, Deputy Chairman of Christie’s, will be in charge of the live auction followed by a paddle raise, which will support the Art Museum’s dynamic exhibition program.
The Museum is grateful to its generous Summer Art Party supporters: Joan and Richard Abrams, Reenie and Robert Barrow, David and Ellie Voorhes, DiSanto Priest Charitable Foundation, The Gewirz Family, Newport Lamp & Shade Company, Turner C. Scott, Barbara and Larry Schoenfeld, Karl and Teryn Weintz and in-kind sponsor Mancini Beverage.
“Georgia O’Keeffe: Things I Had No Words For,” curated by the Newport Art Museum’s Senior Curator, Dr. Francine Weiss, will be open for public viewing from July 16 through October 16, 2022. Georgia O’Keeffe is hailed for her representational paintings of colorful flowers and southwestern landscapes. Yet O’Keeffe made many strong and vibrant abstract works throughout her career. In the past decade, scholars and curators alike have devoted more attention to O’Keeffe’s use of abstraction, which the artist herself proclaimed was her visual vocabulary for ineffable emotions and sensations.
O’Keeffe’s enduring interest in abstraction dates back to the beginning of her career when, influenced by the teachings of Arthur Wesley Dow, she created a series of abstract charcoal drawings. Emotive and biomorphic, these early abstractions brought her into the orbit of her future husband Alfred Stieglitz when her friend, Anita Pollitzer, showed them to the gallery owner in 1915. These “things she had no words for” originated from a place of dreams and memories that she often felt came nearer to reality than her representational work.
Featuring oil paintings, drawings, and watercolors, this exhibition celebrates O’Keeffe’s exploration of abstraction, which established her as one of the foundational American modernists. Powerful, bold, colorful, and evocative, O’Keeffe’s abstractions represent her unique style and approach to nature and landscape.
This exhibition marks the second show of Georgia O’Keeffe’s work at the Newport Art Museum. O’Keeffe first exhibited her work, with other American modern artists, in 1938 and alongside an exhibition of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s sculpture. The Museum is especially thrilled to show O’Keeffe’s work again after so many years.
