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Olneyville Community Loom

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Multi-disciplinary textile artist Lyza Baum and textile artist/museum educator Kristen Haines spent spring 2021 into summer conducting outreach to Olneyville residents and organizations to build connections and support for a summer weaving…

My Growing Community

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With many of my friends and family members currently living near this community center, I wanted to make sure to use high-quality, bright colored paints to give the area more of a happy visual aesthetic while keeping my design modern, clean and…

Morphous

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Lionel Smit's MORPHOUS is an exploration of hybrid identity and its ever -changing nature within South Africa's social landscape. This particular piece evokes a question of time, of past and future, and the balance point at which his country found…

Madeline

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Madeline Rogers-Selim served as the director of the recreation program at the Camden Avenue School on Danforth Street from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s. After becoming ill with breast cancer, she was forced to give up the job she loved. She died…

Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground

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The title, ‘head in the clouds feet on the ground,’ reflects the intersection of creative inspiration and practical application that are both required to make things happen to achieve insightful growth and the thoughtful inspired change that we…

Great Salt Cove Macroalgae

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Great Salt Cove Macroalgae is inspired by the artist's research into red seaweed species found in Narragansett Bay, and Great Salt Cove, a body of briny water that once covered a portion of what is now downtown Providence. It is a series of three 8’…

Goodluck Gateway

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The installation at the Empire Plaza is entitled “The GOOD LUCK Gateway” and is an extension of the artist's sticker art concept. The installation comprises of a 12’ H X 20’ W multi-medium structure that is a gateway to Empire Plaza. The structure…

El Arbol de Vida/Tree of Life

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Mosaic mural depicting natural elements as well as flags of nations from which Caroll Tower participating artists hail.

Dreamweave

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Weaving has been a powerful symbol in my life as it represents the ‘weaving together of the world,’ a narrative in traditional Native American stories about the Spider Woman. This project will use a printed, high-tensile-strength, backlit medium,…

Dream Big / Work Hard

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Fu’una selected achievement as the most motivating, positive, and visual concept. Beginning with the school’s existing mascot – a dolphin – the artist created a cast of oceanic and celestial characters. Together the paintings illustrate what…