The 3rd annual Fall Out of Summer Arts Festival was a blast!
Thank you to our sponsors: Brennan Oil, Delta Dental, Digital Document Solutions, Citizens Bank, Walgreens, RI Novelty, I-Net, Sullivan Tire, HB Alarm, Arrow Gas, TJ Russell Supply, West Valley Inn, JD Construction, Ceile Kennels, The Battery Shop, BJ's Wholesale, Walmart, Delizioso, Panera Bread, Starbucks and Boar's Head. Thank you also to all of our vendors, performers and volunteers.
Check back here next summer for information on the 2011 festival!
Announcing the winners... ... of the 3rd annual Human Art Contest and Street Art Contest! All of the following winners will receive a FREE class at Artists' Exchange! Thank you to everyone who participated, and congratulations to the winners.
Human Art Contest Winners Ages K-5: Alexis Maloney Ages 6-8: Mia Ray Ages 9 & up: The McCormack Family
Street Art Contest Winners Ages K-5: Nathan Gomes Ages 6-9 Nicole Ages 9-Adult: Lizzy & Troy
Human Art Contest
Street Art Contest
Artsified Carnival Games
With access to an enormous stock of fabrics, ribbon, plastic and found materials, Human Art Contest participants are encouraged to craft themselves into a walking work of art. Entries are judged by festival attendees and the winners receive a prize!
Armed with colored chalk and a block of pavement, Street Art Contest Participants are encouraged to make a 2D masterpiece! Entries are judged by festival attendees and the winners will receive a prize!
Enjoy our handmade carnival games inspired by art history:
Escher Tessellation Toss Mondrian Mini Golf Warhol Ball Color Mixer Fishing with Monet
Doggie Show Off Contest Bring your dog to the festival and enter your pride and joy in the Doggie Show Off Contest. The entrance fee is $5 per category. You may enter as many categories as you like. Register anytime between 11am and 2:30pm. Contest begins at 2:40pm.
Prizes will be awarded in each of 5 categories:
Best Dressed Dog Most Artsy Dog Best Doggie Trick Best Doggie/Owner Look-a-Like Pair Tail Wagging Contest
Auditions for the Black Box Theatre's 2010 Production of "A Christmas Carol" The Black Box Theatre at Artists' Exchange seeks actors
ages 8-80 for various roles in its 2010 production of "A Christmas
Carol." Auditions will take place during the festival from
1-5pm. Appointments will be 10 minutes in
duration. Actors should prepare a monologue, bring sheet music and be prepared to sing a song and to read from the script. To sign up for an audition, contact Rich Morra, Artistic Director of the Black Box Theatre at rich.morra@artists-exchange.org or 401.490.9475.
Pony Rides! Need we say more?
Summer Art Camp Postcard Showcase
Inside in
the Artists Exchange gallery will be a showcase of artwork made by 2010 Artists
Exchange Summer Art Camp participants. Designed by campers in the theme of each
week of camp, the postcards were created in response to a contest sponsored by
NASCO Supply, the winner of which is rewarded with prize money for him/herself
as well as the participating school or nonprofit. Artists Exchange will award
prizes to its own selections at the festival, and the postcards will
subsequently be sent on to the NASCO competition. Come check out the showcase!
2010 Performers
Extraordinary Rendition Band The Extraordinary Rendition Band is a street band of brass, reeds and percussion from Providence, RI. The ERB welcomes musicians from all backgrounds and levels of ability and plays free, guerrilla style and in the streets whenever possible to try to uplift everyone within earshot. The ERB believes that the power of music may be more effective and powerful than weapons, arguments or war, and contributes to making the experience of saving the world a bit more fun and weird. LISTEN & LEARN MORE
Sun Dried Alibi
The Sun Dried Alibi started playing together in college. The boys (Nick Molak, guitar, and Brendan Tompkins, drums) were the core of The Stitch, a band born in the basement of their dorm. Liz was a shower singer until a mutual friend suggested to The Stitch that they let her sit in sometime. Luis recently hooked up with the band after answering an ad the band had posted while they were searching for a bass player. Seeing The Sun Dried Alibi live is another chance at revival, another chance at letting music bring you back to where you want to be... guitar and drum solos like bursts of machine gun fire, the bass driving the train down the track and Liz an instrument herself, using her voice to push the music along, making every song - original or cover- seem like it was written just for her.
Royal Jelly is a Providence-based
collaborative group of longtime friends that mixes elements from an eclectic
variety of sounds to create original music. Fronted by two gifted female
singer-songwriters, Royal Jelly's ability to engage creativity without the
shackles of genre produces a sound that is one of a kind, emotional, and
undeniably groovy.
Eric French & Mr. Hyde is a dual, full-length profile of two musical voices. Unapologetic rock and blues bombast is set off by an introspective acoustic streak. An explosive trio in the tradition of The Experience, The Cream, and The Police is balanced by a lone singer with an acoustic guitar. The self-titled debut album is set for release on 10-10-10.
Jenny White is no stranger to the Rhode Island music scene. In high school she performed at open mic nights around the state and studied with local Jazz greats like Shawnn Monteiro and Rebecca Parris. In 2009, Jenny started on the open mic scene in Rhode Island. In that year she has been featured at the Greenwich Hotel, Dimare, Everyman Bistro, 2 Jerks pub, and Ben and Jerry's on Thayer.
Jenny writes her own music and finds the process very cathartic. Patrons at her shows have described her as having a "sensitivity" about the way she performes, and capturing her "heart" in her music. Jenny very much wants to make the type of music you take with you and that becomes a part of your life the way great music has become a part of hers.
Rick Drost began singing with a Kingston Trio-style group in high school, continued in a small folk group in college, then a glee club and then an opera chorus. He started writing and singing around coffeehouses in DC and New England in the 70s, finally settling in Cambridge, MA, where he was a member of the folk-rock group Parts and Labor. He started writing again in 2004 and is working on a sequel to his first album, Twelve Dared Dreams (cdbaby). He tries to arrange to sing out at least once a week, wherever he goes.
5th Elament Kal Champlain aka 5th Elament is a femcee, spoken word artist, and hip hop educator. Rocking mics for over 12 years, she has yet to leave a crowd who was not positively affected after what many have come to know as the 5th Elament experience.
Although rooted in hip hop, 5th Elament's music has an eclectic feel that has appealed to audiences outside of hip hop as well, making her universal. This artist leaves all with hope, love, head nods, and a good time.
Wal's entertainment career started at 5 years old when he appeared on Bozo's Bigtop as Bozo's assistant "Butch". He was a hit! His success on Bozo led to appearances on Willie Whistle, The Rex Trailer Show and Mr. Bubble's commercials (he was the kid in the tub!). But success was fleeting. While Working long hours taping the show Shenanigans, (a Bozo rip off) Wal caught a bad cold. This led to a cough syrup addiction which caused him to lose his gig on Bozo. They said he had lost his youthful exuberance. Wal was devastated. But his management had heard about a new show, Sesame Street, that could salvage Wal's career. But they had already heard about the habit and passed. So there he was; doped, broke and dropped, washed up at ten!
But Wal checked into a clinic and turned his life around. His music has carried him through tough times and he has become a powerful performer and songwriter. When he turns it up, he's back on the Bigtop!
Global Crash
Global Crash blurs the lines of techno and electronic music, not being satisfied with just one subgenre of the genres.
Dabbling in ambient, house, big beat, trance, breakbeat and electro, Global Crash is the brainchild of Paul Holder.
Global Crash is both music to make you want to
dance and music to make you contemplate the meaning of existence.
Theater Games with Christin Goff Christin Goff is a seasoned actor known most recently for her role as Emily Dickinson in The Belle of Amherst, a one woman show at Second Story Theatre in Warren, RI. Christin joined the adjunct staff at Artists' Exchange this summer as the teacher of its 2010 summer theater camps. She will return in the fall to teach theater classes as well. Join Christin for theater games inside the Black Box Theatre at the festival!
Tony Jones & The Cretin 3 Formed in the fall of 2008 and based out of Providence, RI, Tony Jones & The Cretin 3 is the epitome of rock and roll, with a punk rock attitude that is rarely rivaled. The original songs have a vintage psychobilly feel that is sure to be reminiscent of the original days of punk in NYC.
Carolyn
Dutra has been a driving force in the Rhode Island dance community
for almost 40 years! A former world famous Radio City
Music Hall Rockette, Carolyn is owner and director of the 3 Carolyn
Dutra Dance Studios: on Rolfe Square in Cranston as well as in Warwick
and Smithfield! Through
Dance For Art, the studio's non-profit organization, Carolyn Dutra dancers are able to do many
outside performances throughout the community all over the world.
Carolyn Dutra Dance Studios is thrilled to participate in the Fall Out of Summer Arts Festival!
Linda Succi and the Always on Sunday Ballroom Dancers Linda Succi is President of RI USA Dance and Area coordinator of RI ,CT, PA and NJ chapters of USA Dance. She is a social/competitive ballroom dancer and also enjoys
participating in community theater productions.
When dance achieves its true purpose, it cannot help but touch the
hearts of its participants - whether they are sitting motionless in the
audience or leaping valiantly through the air onstage.
~ Dana Landry
Superhero a selection from the Black Box Theatre's 4th annual One Act Play Festival
Described by The Phoenix's Bill Rodriguez in just one word: hilarious, Superhero is a one act play written by prolific playwright Mark Harvey Levine. The play features Alex Rotella as Leonard, a man who claims to be a superhero, but who has some funny reasons for believing this to be true. Cherylee Dumas plays the damsel in distress who is encouraged by Leonard to discover her own secret powers. Join us for this hysterical comedic adventure, brought to the festival by popular demand! Don't miss it!
Other performers include: Not for Nuthin. The Propellors. Jelly Roll Soul.
