Park as Muse: Artwork of India Point Park
Thirty-one Artists Exhibit at
City Hall Gallery, Oct-Nov 28
Opening Reception, Fri, Oct. 10, 5-7pm
Please come to the Opening Reception on Friday, Oct. 10, 5-7pm. The exhibit on the second floor of City Hall is open until Nov. 28, Monday-Friday, 8:30-4:30.
The work is for sale, ranging from $100 to $1,500, with a large painting priced at $6,000. Sales will be arranged through the artists individually, many of whom have agreed to donate a percentage of their sale price to Friends of India Point Park. Also for sale to benefit FIPP will be a print of a black and white photograph taken in the 1940s of young boys perched on India Point pilings.
The show of work inspired by the Park includes the mediums of oil, watercolors, acrylic, pastel, photographs, fabric, collage, and poetry. Depictions of Park scenes and the city skyline range in style from realistic to impressionistic to highly imaginative, and in size from 10"x 12" to 6ft.x 8ft.Artists in the non-juried show include amateurs and well-known professionals who exhibit at galleries in New York, Providence, and elsewhere in New England.
The show has been organized by the FIPP Arts Committee chaired byIda Schmulowitz, who has painted in the Park for 20 years, usually early in the morning on large canvasses. Artists in the show are Jane Bassman, Jill Brody, Johan Bjurman, Bryan Bzdula, Steven Brownell, Alice Cooper, Mark Freedman, Peter Geisser, Sarah Gleason, Timothy Heibert, Kate Huntington, John Irwin, Dave Kendrick, Joseph "Bud" Latham, Deane Lawrence, Sam Marshall, Claudia Middendor, Regina Partridge, Alberto Pereira, Ann Pellicano, Ursala Rickenberg, John Riede, Mimo Gordon Riley, Beverly Rosen, Ann Rozhon, Ida Schmulowitz, Monica Shinn, Gretchen Dow Simpson, Karen Usas, Kathy Weber, and Gayle White.
For more information, please call 272-9712 or email .
Hearing on Public Space at India Point, Providence ~ March 3, 2008
From David P. Riley:
Dear Friends of India Point Park,
We need to urge RIDOT to delay the sale until AFTER the planning process is completed. It would be tragic for the park, the city, and the state to rush into the permanent sale of one of the state's key assets, which could be a public gateway to the Bay providing significant long-term economic and civic benefits for the region. (MAP: Maguire map of India Point and the new I-195. The Shooters site is two small parcels in white at the end of the two docks just west of the park. Click on map to enlarge.)
WHEN: Monday, March 3, 6PM
WHERE: City Council chambers, Providence City Hall
WHAT: Public hearing on proposal to rezone Shooters (see map below) as Public Space. RIDOT
adamantly opposes rezoning because it would prevent them from selling it to the highest
bidder, which would probably mean high rise luxury condos next to the park, which is
the only expanse of Bay shoreline open to the public in Providence.
WHO: We need you to come Monday and be heard. Your presence and your voice will let
RIDOT know what the park means to us and to the city, and why RIDOT needs to slow down!
(You can also submit written comments at the hearing, or email them to
ward1.agv1@providenceri.com. Please come: we need a crowd!
Read on for TALKING POINTS for Monday's hearing:
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