Sakonnet Arts Network promotes the arts by providing
programs, resources, and educational opportunities in
Tiverton, Rhode Island and surrounding areas.
Arts are integral to life in our coastal communities.
We invite you to Explore our site and become part of the Sakonnet Arts
Network. Your involvement as an artist, regional arts organization, or
supporter of the arts is welcome and essential to our success. Please make
the connection today!
Stroll down Bristol and visit the galleries! Vote for your favorite piece of art
and get a chance to win:
A $25 gift certificate to a local participating restaurant of your choice-
THE LOBSTER POT-LEO'S RISTORANTE AND ARTS BISTRO-BEEHIVE-REDEFLSEN'S
Visiting all five galleries will increase your chance to win and at the end of the evening
the votes will be gathered and winners selected from the combined votes. Four winners
will be chosen.
A people's choice award will be bestowed upon the artist in each gallery
whose work received the most votes!
Tiverton Arts Council Call for Entries:
The Tiverton Arts Council is Pleased to Present:
Liberty Street Printmakers is a group of nine printmakers from the Newport Art Museum's Coleman Center for Creative Studies. The show offers a glimpse into the creative and varied world of printmaking. This exhibition is sponsored by the Tiverton Arts Council. This is a town created five member committee, charged with the duty of enhancing and promoting the arts in Tiverton and educating the public as to the value of the arts in building a community.
WAG presents 54rd Annual Summer Show & Sale
The eagerly anticipated WAG Summer Show is FREE and open to the public. The Show features artworks by WAG and other local artists, plus handcrafts by local artisans. Crafts include hand-crafted jewelry, woodcrafts, pottery, hand-blown glass jewelry and vases, crocheted items, scarves, art prints and more! All arts & crafts are for sale.
Don’t miss our famous “Raffle Wall” and your chance to win a piece by your favorite artist! Ready-for-framing 5” x 7” artworks by WAG artists will be raffled. Chances are one for $2.00, three for $5.00, and eight for $10.00. The drawing will be held Sunday, August 1, 2010 at 4:30 pm.
The Westport Art Group
The Westport Art Group is a non-profit organization that supports education in the arts with classes, art exhibits and scholarships to high school seniors. The mission of the Westport Art Group is to stimulate and promote the appreciation and encouragement of the arts and crafts. Call 508-636-2114 or visit www.westportartgroup.com for more information.
Fractured Fables Summer Theater Camp
August 9-14 For Ages 7-14
FUN in the Sun! Have you ever wanted to learn……
Theater, Dance, Improv, Costume Design, Set Design? Here’s your chance!
Sakonnet Arts Network together with the Little Compton Community Center and local performing and visual artists present Fractured Fables -a performance art camp.
Fractured Fables is a week-long children’s theater camp that includes writing, rehearsing, designing and crafting sets and costumes, and performing humorous interpretations of well known fables. Artists and children will bring the reinterpreted stories to life in two performances:
Saturday, August 14, 7pm and Sunday, August 15, 2pm
Artists: Gloria Crist is a performer, director, and member of the RI Arts Learning Network, She will manage all aspects of the production including the technical aspects.
John McKenna is a writer, musician and voice actor who will be the artistic director of the project. He will use music, theater, improv and visual arts to help create storyline and characters.
Eleanor Jones is a trained dancer who is now studying choreography. She will work with the children in choreographing the production. She will also assist in the creation of costumes/masks.
Cost for the program is $210 for members of Sakonnet Arts Network and Little Compton Community Center or $225 for non-members. All materials are included.
For more information or to register, please contact Sally Huntington at 401-635-2400 or sallyhuntington@yahoo.com.
The program will run August 9-13, from 10:00am-2:00pm. It is open to all.
Please provide a lunch for your child. All children will receive a Fractured Fables T-shirt. Please return form and a check payable to Sakonnet Arts Network by July 14, 2010
Sakonnet Arts Volunteers Recognized in Little Compton
Volunteers from Sakonnet Arts Network were recognized on April 26 at Little Compton’s annual Volunteer Recognition Night. Debbie Ort, Activities Director at the Visiting Nurse Association presented the award to members of “Sophie’s Corner,” a program begun 18 months ago by Helen Nadler. Helen’s standard poodle, Sophie, is a trained pet therapy dog. She has accompanied the volunteers as they engage clients in various art projects. The volunteers include Ms. Nadler, Dianna Parente, Jennifer Teichman, Carolyn Winter, Alesandra Woodhouse, and Helen Woodhouse. Claire Tremblay, Pamela Sobel, Janet Gendreau and Lois Marshall are past volunteers.
Attendees of the Adult Day Health Program reside in Tiverton and Little Compton; most are disabled by dementia. All enjoy painting with watercolors, building sculptures or creating colorful collages in weekly workshops. Some of their comments about these experiences include, “You make me happy” and “I like making things with you” and “I like to do art.” The workshops are equally gratifying for the volunteers as conversations and memories are shared with participants while they shape soft clay or transform a white paper into a painting…
A little time (about an hour twice a month), patience and compassion are all you need to join the Sophie’s Corner group as a volunteer. Please email info@SakonnetArts.org if you’d like to share in this experience.
Pictured from left to right: Carolyn Winter and Jennifer Teichman in back row; Helen Nadler, Gracie, Sophie and Claire Tremblay in middle row; Dianna Parente, Helen Woodhouse and Sandy Woodhouse in front row.
Start Your Art Engines Art Competition!
Winners of the South Coast Artists “Start Your Art Engines” Juried Art Competition were announced on May 13, 2010. The annual competition focuses on creating a unique annual tour theme for the South Coast Artists OPEN STUDIO TOURS. Out of 16 accepted entries, 3 artists were recognized for their “engine themed” work.
Art lovers attending the Tours need an engine of sorts to get to the studios. The creative challenge for the participants was to interpret this theme in any 2D or 3D media and submit a digital image of the original artwork. Submissions were interpreted in painting, sculpture, mixed media and assemblage. The winners are… Grand Prize: Eleanor Swan Dick, Assemblage “IT”. First Place: Dora Atwater Millikin, Oil “Road King”. Honorable Mention: Mary Sexton, Pastel “Plein Air”.
Winning Artwork will be featured the SCA Open Studio Tour Brochure/Maps and more. The 2010 Tours, coming up on July 17 &18 and Aug 21 & 22, showcase the works of South Coast Artists who live and work in Dartmouth and Westport, MA and Tiverton and Little Compton, RI.
The juror selecting works this year is Karla Little, a South Coast resident of Tiverton, RI. Karla is the owner and producer of three National Fine Furnishings & Fine Craft Shows: Baltimore, MD, Milwaukee,WI, and Providence, RI.
TThe Westport Art Group proudly presents: “Artists in the Gardens”
Tour Westport Harbor Vistas & Gardens
where artists will be painting
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
(Rain Date: Thursday, June 17)
Tour of Gardens: 10 am to 3 pm
Paintings Displayed: 3 pm to 4 pm (Refreshments Served)
$40 per ticket includes a box
The Westport Art Group , 1740 Main Road, Westport Point, is pleased to offer Summer Camp for Kids. There will be two sessions with the theme of “Reduce-Reuse-Remarkable”, A Summer Camp for Young Artists. The first session is Monday–Friday, August 9–13 from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM and the second separate session is Monday–Friday, August 16–20 at the same time. The camp is for students ages 7–12.
Jennifer Gelinas, artist and instructor, says, “Green kids care about the environment, and we do too. Students will explore the benefits of conservation as they create art objects using everyday items. Some other activities include the study of Alexander Calder and his mobiles. The students will create their own sculptures using the grounds of the art building.”
Tuition is $140 for non-members and $135 for children and grandchildren of members for 15 hours of instruction and fun. Four scholarships are being offered this year.
Contact Nancy Burkholder, 508-636-3039, for applications or scholarships. This program is supported by the Westport Cultural Council through a grant from the Helen E. Ellis Charitable Trust administered by the Bank of America.
The Westport Art Group is a non-profit organization that supports education in the arts with classes, art exhibits and scholarships to high school seniors. The mission of the Westport Art Group is to stimulate and promote the appreciation and encouragement of the arts and crafts. Call 508-636-2114 or visit www.westportartgroup.com for more information.
The Westport Art Group proudly presents: A Pastel Demonstration
by Jean Hirons
Monday, June 7, 2010 at 6:30 pm Please join us!
The Westport Art Group is proud to present a pastel painting demonstration by Jean Hirons, a signature member of the Pastel Society of America, the Maryland Pastel Society, and the Pastel Painters’ Society of Cape Cod.
Jean Hirons is a native of Mattapoisett, now residing in Rockville, Maryland. She works solely in pastel, loving the intimacy of the medium and the vibrancy of the pigments. She focuses on landscape, seeking underlying abstract patterns of value and color. She is particularly interested in capturing the feel and mood of a scene, as well as the rhythm of shadow and light. She prefers the softest of pastels and works on sanded pastel papers and on textured boards that she prepares herself.
Jean travels to Mattapoisett twice a year to visit family. In the summer she paints on site; at Christmas she takes photos for studio work. She has been painting scenes of Mattapoisett and the South Coast for over twenty years.
After receiving a BFA from Marietta College Jean studied art at the Corcoran School of Art and the Art League in Alexandria, VA., and since 2001, has taken workshops from the leading pastel artists in the U.S. She is an adjunct professor at Montgomery College
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in Rockville and teaches privately as well. She is represented by the Waverly Street Gallery in Bethesda, MD and Collyer’s Gallery in Mattapoisett. Her paintings have won many awards.
Jean also has a masters degree in library science, beginning her career at Southeastern Massachusetts University (now UMass Dartmouth) and spending the last twenty years at the Library of Congress. During her career she won two of the American Library Association’s highest awards. In June 2003, she took early retirement in order to devote her time to pastel painting.
Open to the Public! Suggested Donation: $5.
The Westport Art Group The Westport Art Group is a non-profit organization that supports education in the arts with classes, art exhibits and scholarships to high school seniors. The mission of the Westport Art Group is to stimulate and promote the appreciation and encouragement of the arts and crafts. Call 508-636-2114 or visit www.westportartgroup.com for more information.
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ART IN THE CLOSE/BENEFIT ART SHOW
CALL TO ARTIST
JUNE 12, 2010 10 AM to 5 PM
(Rain date: June 10, 2010 )
This is to let you all know that the St. Michael's church
is having its first ART EVENT.
We are looking for artists in 2 D and 3 D to display their art on the fence around the church. I have an application Attached Please feel free to contact me with any Questions?
St. Michael’s Choristers R.S.C.M
Royal School of Church Music
St Michael’s Episcopal Church
399 Hope Street
Bristol RI 02809
253-7717
GRENT - School Edition
Presented by Tiverton Hight School
Opens: May 13 and runs through May 15 at 7pm.
Closes: on Sunday May 16th at 2pm.
Held at: The Tiverton High School Auditorium
100 N. Brayton Rd., Tiverton.
On Thursday May 13th, 2010 Tiverton High School becomes the first high school in Rhode Island to perform RENT-School Edition by Jonathan Larson and Billy Arronson.
RENT-School Edition, performed entirely by students tells the story of a group of young people trying to discover who they are,what they stand for and who they can trust in an isolated age.
While Jonathan Larson chose to address mature topics, it is important to understand RENT, School Edition, just like the acclaimed Broadway show, is about a community of people, each with their own quirks and problems, finding a way to support each other and become successful members of society by doing something they believe in.
Director, Gloria Crist says, "what better way to highlight young people learning and coming together to show what community can be through a theatrical performance?"
Saturday May 15th's performances features a talk-back with the cast and a panel of professionals: Rev. William Sterrett from Amicable Church, Dr. Anne Davidge, Ph.D and James Robinson, Exec. Dir. of Youth Pride RI.
Tickets are $10 and can be purchased two ways: by following this link or by calling 401-749-1203.
Please note this show is for mature audiences. RENT-School Edition is possible in part by the Rhode Island Foundation and Sakonnet Arts Network
South Coast Artists to Offer Workshops Still Time to Register!
There is still time to register for the two South Coast Artists sponsored Workshops designed to help educate local artists about good, solid business practices.
THE BUSINESS OF ART will be taught by Kris Donovan on Saturday, March 27, 2010, 10am-1pm at the Little Compton Community Center, Little Compton RI. As both a practicing fine artist and former commercial gallery owner/director, Ms. Donovan will touch on all aspects of running any art related business from writing a business plan and record keeping to public relations and sales in this three hour workshop. The fee for members is $15, non-members, $35. “IT’S A BLAST”, EMAIL MARKETING 101 will be taught by Bob Salvas, Marketing Consultant of Success-Mail Inc on Saturday, May 1, 2010, 10am-2pm at the Southworth Library, 732 Dartmouth Street, Dartmouth, MA. This workshop is designed to assist in extending your reach to clients and perspective clients alike faster and more efficiently through email marketing. Bob is a recognized expert in the field of direct mail marketing. He teaches the basics and value of creating a strategic email marketing plan in this three and a half hour workshop. The fee for members is $25, non-members, $50.
A Figure Workshop taught by Meredith Wildes Cornell
Join Meredith Cornell for three Tusedays in April to study the figure through gesture drawing and more developed painting, working from a live model. Some emphasis on the portrait will be included.
Classes will be held onTuesday mornings April 13, 20, & 27 from 9:30 am–12:30 pm at the WAG building, 1740 Main Road in Westport. Gesture materials will be provided. Bring your own painting materials.
The Westport Art Group proudly presents:
a Painting Demonstration
by David Barnes Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Open to the public!
The Westport Art Group is proud to present a watercolor “wet into wet” painting demonstration featuring the figure by David Barnes, a well-known artist and teacher who has exhibited his award-winning paintings nationally.
The demonstration will be held on Sunday, March 21 at 2:00 pm at the WAG Center, 1740 Main Road, Westport Point, MA 02791. Call 508-636-2114 for more information or visit www.westportartgroup.com. Suggested Donation: $5.
“At this time I am trying to make images which resonate in the viewer’s mind. I want my paintings to live on in the mysterious way that good art does: in the imagination."
Open Juried Show: “Fur & Feathers” April 24 and April 25, 2010, 10am–5pm
Paintings or drawings of anything with fur or feathers is eligible. Please join us for the reception and awards ceremony on Sunday, April 25, 3–5pm.
ELIGIBILITY:
Open to all artists in New England. Work must have been completed within the last three years and may not have been done in a class or under a teacher’s supervision.
Original work only.
MEDIA:
Original paintings or drawing. No work created by digital or mechanical means. Work must be properly framed with wood or metal, wired for hanging. Please have your name, address and phone # on the back of each painting. Work not meeting this criteria will not be hung.
ENTRY FEES:
Non-refundable entry fee: $10.00 for one, $15.00 for two. Limit of two works per artist.
JUROR: Richard Harrington, a Rhode Island native, earned a BS degree in Industrial Arts Education and a MEd in Special Education from Rhode Island College. He is an award winning artist, and a juried member of several local art organizations. A skilled teacher, he offers instruction and workshops in watercolor, acrylic and monotype painting. As a believer in life long learning, he continues to participate
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In numerous drawing and painting classes, including courses at the Rhode Island School of Design and workshops throughout New England.His paintings cover a wide range of subjects: landscapes, flowers, architecture, and still lifes. He paints what he sees, at times improvising on the subject matter or inventing elements to enhance the image. Using strong composition and saturated color, he paints in a realistic, representational manner to capture the unique and quiet beauty around us. Flowers from the garden, objects from around the house, family heirlooms and yard sale treasures find their way into Richard’s colorful and expressive paintings. Serene and quiet landscapes are often local scenes a short distance away from home or from the familiar paths of Cape Cod. He maintains studios in Barrington and Providence, Rhode Island.
AWARDS:
First Prize $100, Second Prize $75, Third Prize $50; plus a special prize.
SALES:
All work must be for sale. All sales will be subject to WAG's commission of 20%.
DELIVERY:
Hand delivered only; entries may be delivered to WAG Thursday April 22 from 12–2 pm or 6–7 pm
PICK UP:
You may log on to our website (www.westportartgroup.com) on Friday, April 23, after 1 pm to see if your painting was accepted. Work will be listed by entry numbers. If you do not have access to a computer, you may call WAG on Friday, April 23 after 1 pm, to ask if your work was accepted. Works not accepted may be picked up Saturday April 24 and Sunday April 25 between 10 am and 5 pm. Accepted work must be picked up Sunday, April 25, between 5 and 7 pm. Works not picked up within 90 days become property of WAG.
LIABILITY:
The Westport Art Group cannot be responsible for any loss or damage, although every possible care will be taken in handling.
The Westport Art Group The Westport Art Group is a non-profit organization that supports education in the arts with classes, art exhibits and scholarships to high school seniors. The mission of the Westport Art Group is to stimulate and promote the appreciation and encouragement of the arts and crafts. Call 508-636-2114 or visit www.westportartgroup.com for more information.
Friends, Fun, Food & Fundraising
at Ferolbink Farm
Over 200 guests attended the Tiverton Land Trust's"Summer's Eve" at Ferolbink Farm on July 23. In spite of heavy rain, everyone had an enjoyable evening, partaking in delicious foods prepared with locally grown ingredients and bidding on items in both silent and live auctions. Sakonnet Arts Network organized the live art auction, Open Spaces, Coastal Places, that raised over $12,000 to be shared with the Land Trust to preserve open space in Tiverton and to enhance art programs in the area. Thanks to all who made this event such a success!
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Sakonnet Arts: Enhancing our Communities and Local Economies
Sakonnet Arts Network welcomed Randall Rosenbaum, Executive Director of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, in May for a discussion on the impact of the arts on our local economy and how mutually successful partnerships can be forged between businesses and the arts. Click here for a video of the presentation.
Board Members Wanted
We are looking for volunteer board members to help us grow, prosper, and to continue our mission to provide a spectrum of arts resources to our community.
Individuals with a background in finance, communications, marketing, or grant writing are especially welcome. If you are interested in exploring this worthwhile opportunity, please contact info@sakonnetarts.org. Interviews are now being scheduled!
Strategy for Success in the Art World
Sakonnet Arts Network hosted a successful event in January on "The Business of Art" with Dorothy Bocian. Click on the movie below to learn Dorothy's strategies for success in the art world. Click here for a video of her presentation.
Update on Senior Outreach Program
We started an outreach program for the elder members of our community back in November. The Visiting Nurse Association of Little Compton runs an adult daycare center for clients struggling with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia and were very welcoming to our proposal for art classes. We have an added dimension of the work: loving company of Sophie, the pet therapy dog. Sophie is a large black standard poodle (unfashionable haircut) with limpid brown eyes and affection for everyone, a great asset to our painting efforts. We have decided to call this program Sophie’s Corner.
We have added two new members to our ranks Lois Marshall and Jennifer Teichman. Other team members, Carolyn Winter, Pamela Sobel, Claire Trembly, and Helen Nadler. We have a schedule of simple art projects for about two months in advance. We are getting to know these great people with whom we work and the wonderful staff who care for them. The time commitment is so flexible; requires a hour just every so often.
Please join us if you want to have some fun and MAKE A DIFFERENCE! We all have much to learn from these patient people. CALL Helen Nadler, 401-624-9974
Looking for a great gift for a creative friend or family member?
A Sakonnet Arts Network Gift Certificate can be used for upcoming classes and workshops or to join the Network and enjoy the benefits of being a supporter! For more information, please click here.
