Friday, October 27, 2017

OCTOBER!!!

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PALACE

OCTOBER 2017.... WITCHES <|;^D

Come join us Friday, November 10th for some post-spook sweet fall tunes. Performances by Providence locals Kah Yangni and Alexis Almeida and a very special (and rare!) set by Buenos Aires performer, Agua Viva. This event is not to be missed!  byo fernet and yr crush and be ready to swooooon ♡

 

 
 
AUGUST WINDOW ARTIST: D.S. KINSEL
D.S. Kinsel is an award winning creative entrepreneur and cultural agitator. He expresses his creativity through the mediums of painting, window display, installation, curating, Action-Painting, Non-Traditional Performance And #HASHTAGS. Kinsel's Work Puts Focus On Themes Of Space Keeping, Urban Tradition, Hip-hop, Informalism And Cultural Re-Appropriation. D.S. Has Served Creative Residencies at Most Wanted Fine Art, Artist Image Resource, The Homewood Residency Program, Kelly Strayhorn Theater/Pittsburgh Public Schools Summer Dreamers Academy, Carnegie Mellon University Digital Arts Studio, AS220 and the Sedona Summer Artist Colony. He is the curator of #ACTIVISTprint, a collaborative public art program of The Andy Warhol Museum and also serves as the Penn Avenue Creative Residency Coordinator at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater.

D.S. is the co-founder Of Boom Concepts, A Creative Hub dedicated to the advancement of black and brown artists representing marginalized communities. BOOM Concepts is located in Pittsburgh and is funded by The Heinz Endowments and The Pittsburgh Foundation. BOOM Concepts focuses on youth, Community Artists, neighborhood partners to identify contemporary expressions Of social justice through drama, dance, music, visual art, and technology. D.S is a board member of Pittsburgh Center for Creative REuse, And serves On the advisory board For The Heinz Endowments Transformative Arts Process. A former AmeriCorps Public Ally member, D.S. Has Also Been Recognized As An Awardee of the Pittsburgh Courier Fab 40, Pittsburgh Magazine PUMP 40 Under 40, Pgh Tech Council Creative of The Year, and the Pittsburgh Post Gazette’s "Top Ten People To Meet in 2016".

For the past two years, Kinsel has been developing an open source public art project called #hashtagsAREtheNEWprotestSIGNS that exists in public dialogue and the digital space. It has been presented at PearlArts Studios, The Wix Lounge NYC, Youth Leading Change Symposium: The State of Our Union, Creative Mornings PGH, Pittsburgh Tech Council's CREATE Festival, and the 2016 Allied Media Conference.




SEPTEMBER WINDOW ARTIST: ANNELI SANAYE HENRIKSSON




Anneli Sanaye Henriksson was born in 1991 in Santa Cruz, CA. In 2015 she received her BFA in Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Henriksson has exhibited her zines, artist books, and weavings internationally, organized art and music shows at DIY spaces in Chicago and was a noise guitarist in a faux marxist art punk band. She recently completed a 2 year project hand embroidering the album art for Gel Set’s Body Copy (which is now available to purchase digitally, as a record, tape and/or CD online or at retailers all over the world!). Upcoming projects include tabeling at the Chicago Art Book Fair, buying a 8-harness floor loom and completing an obsessive art book about Strawberry Switchblade. Henriksson currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.

No Grids No Masters” began as the title of a series of drawings and collages inspired by Barbara Kasten and Anni Albers. The series was published as a zine, titled “No Grids No Masters: Drawings About Thinking About Weaving”, for the Los Angeles Art Book Fair 2016 for the Chicago Print Collective, alias CPD (Chicago Print Department.)
My next step was to make weavings of my drawings. I translated the images into a weave draft via a grid structure. My drawings about weaving became weavings.
I would like to make another zine, which includes images of my original weaving drawings, images of the weavings and weave drafts.



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NEW MEMBER!!!! ....

DANA HENG

Dana has been cranking out papier-mâché
 piñatas as soon as she stepped foot into the palace on the first of October. Her Libra bat piñata appeared at Aurora Providence during Runnin Thru the 401 Dance Party, and her 5-foot tall Christopher Columbus was beheaded at this year’s Pronk. She also made an unplayable chess set for The Chess Show, which popped up for a short time at 186 Carpenter. Dana can also be found organizing larger scale installations/dance parties with the Ice Floe Collective (Halloween event linked HERE), collaborating with activist organizations (i.e. Direct Action for Rights and Equality), quilting with Dearly Beloved, orchestrating big dinner parties, and creating space for people of color to thrive. 
Find her on Instagram @bitter_mel0n


O HORVATH

O lives every day like it's Halloween.
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XANDER MARRO


Xander is deep in the grind working on the Wedding Cake House. Other than attempting to feed herself enough to keep up with the dietary demands of physical labor, and doing all of the laundry and bathing involved with working in a filth zone, she's been into drawing and reading.  She's combined these adventures into a new Instagram account, which doesn't seem like a soul suck yet...check it out @fataleggs and it's supposed to be fatal eggs, not fata leggs - a probably obscure reference to a Bulgakov sci-fi story with snakes - Because drawing snakes is still the most fun.



SARA WINTZ



Sara is working on a new chapbook called Not About Kareem and is in the midst of reading Jasper Bernes's The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization (Stanford University Press, 2017) alongside everything ever written by Diane Wakoski. She blogs daily at The Poetry Foundation's website, Harriet, and would love to write for your publication too. Learn more about her here



CLAIRE MACON

Claire is a temporary resident at the DP til mid November. 
She is a musician, writer, and self-identified messy water sign new to Providence originally from Atlanta by way of many places. She spends most of her time working on her truck, going dancing, and checking her email. She is currently working on a zine (to be released january 2018??) and a solo project she's unsure will ever see the public eye.


She has a complicated relationship with the internet but feel free to follow her on twitter / insta ( @cosmic_brat /  @eclairemacon) her shit is all on private but yr welcome to request a follow ;) You can also email her at eclairemacon@gmail.com to see more of her art, gossip, and send her pictures of different shades of blue.
Collaborative video with artist Coral Short was in the Hyperpavillion at the Venice Biennale as part of the work presented by the ALN|NT2 collective


In keeping with the theme of dwelling in the past..... the 2011 Worms in Women and Cattle, Sick Road album was released on Annihilvs. You can buy off Pippi's website HERE, or from the label.

Thanks to Nicki Sneakers MMVII for posting these great photos from the Rectrix / Alberich show at Nothing Changes



 
MEGAN MANOWITZ

Megan is on the road right now with Girlpool and Palm!



She just had a chapbook published called A Stick With A Rock On It that you can buy now from txtbooks or by asking her for one if you see her IRL :::: http://www.txtbooks.us/stick_with_rock





NINA RUELLE

Last winter, Nina hit the road and headed down to North Carolina. She spent a couple months working as a studio assistant at the Penland School of Crafts and then headed west, where she spent time in Nebraska at Art Farm. By September, she'd bounced back into Providence, where she's been lending a hand over at the WCH and learning metal-smithing at the Steel Yard. Since getting back to Providence, she's put on two shows -- "That Wide Red Door Just There" at 159 Sutton St, a show of works made in collaboration with CJ Hill, and "The Chess Show" at 186 Carpenter St, a show of chess sets by artists from near and far. She'll be leaving Dirt Palace again soon to head to a residency in upstate New York -- but has a feeling that she'll be back again before long.

 
***DIRT PALACE LIBRARY HI-LITES***
 
MONTHLY PICTORIAL TREAT FROM THE DUSTY SHELVES OF THE DIRT PALACE
FURTHERING THE QUEST TO SPREAD FUN
LIKE GIN AND JUICE, MOSTLY GIN

 
New to the library!!! STOKED zine printed by Anneli Sanaye Henriksson in her time with us doing a mini residency at the Dirt Palace.
"Stoked" is a two color, 32 page offset and screenprinted zine featuring a collection of artworks made by Anneli Henriksson from 2009-2017. A playlist of songs referenced by the artist is printed on the inside cover of the zine. Edition of 100.
1. Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace - Cheap Trick
2. Teenage Lobotomy - Ramones
3. Die By the Sword - Slayer
4. Let Me Know - Wipers
5. Over the Edge - Wipers
6. Can't Help Falling in Love - Dead Moon
7. Babelogue  - Patti Smith
8. My War - Black Flag
9. Is This Real - Wipers
10. I'll Never Say Never to Always - Charles Manson
11. Never Learn Not to Love - The Beach Boys
12. I love You - Black Flag
13. Telepathic Love - Wipers
Her most recent, completed project, is album art embroidered for Gel Set. information and images here: http://www.annelihenriksson.com/art/#/body-copy/



 

Friday, August 4, 2017

RAIN DATE IN EFFECT - WORKDAY AT WCH IS NOW SUNDAY!

WEDDING CAKE HOUSE HEAVY LIFTING AND GIN-N-TONICS WORKDAY IS NOW SUNDAY! BOO RAIN! YAY SUN! 80% CHANCE OF GRUMPY RAIN DOWNPOUR TOMORROW...100% CHANCE OF FUN SMILEY SUN ON SUNDAY! THANKS GANG!

Saturday, July 29, 2017


DIRT PALACE

JULY/AUG 2017

2nd WEDDING CAKE WORK PARTY
SATURDAY SUNDAY AUGUST 6th

NEW ARTIST IN RESIDENCE MEMBER SPOT OPENING UP OCTOBER 1st

SUBLETS & MORE!





Missed out on the first "Heavy Lifting, Gardening & Gin and Tonics" Workday? We'll be doing a 2nd Volunteer Workday at the Wedding Cake House Saturday SUNDAY August 6th (RAIN DATE IN EFFECT). We'll get started at 1:30 pm, and start wrapping up for food and drink around 5pm. If you can RSVP and let us know if and when you're coming that would be amazing!! e-mail us at dirtpalacepublicprojects@gmail.com

If you have work gloves, wear em! We'll have dust masks, hand wipes, and tools on hand.
Interested in learning more about the Wedding Cake House project? You can find that info HERE
or --- follow our blog about work on the house HERE
Dirt Palace is looking for a new Artist in Residence Member October 1st

The Dirt Palace is a self organized collective that supports women artists by providing affordable studio space, facilities, shared resources, opportunities and a culture of cooperation. The Dirt Palace is trans-inclusive, strives to be accountable and to work intersectionally.

Seeking experimental feminist with projects that will make use of our current facilities: Legal live/work space with: screen printing shop, letterpress, animation stand, music rehearsal room, wood shop, large shared space for building bigger projects, and library.

Members are expected to attend weekly meetings, monthly work days, do regular chores, keep the kitchen clean, and take a leadership role over running some aspect of the collective project vaguely falling under the conceptual roof of “The Dirt Palace”. If you are interested, all of this (and more!) will be explained in our epic 20 page document called “the Occupancy and Consciousness Agreement” that we will e-mail you upon request. Residencies at the Dirt Palace average about 24 months. We are looking for a commitment of at least a year minimum.

Rent and expenses end up breaking down to about $450 - $470/month:
Rent - $295/month
Heat - $60/month (paid all year round)
Electric - $57 - $69/month (varies)
Internet - $13/month
Sundries - $10/month (TP, dishsoap,etc)
Netflix - $5-$6/ month (optional)
Parking is included.
We have one cat (baby) and can not take any other cats at this time.

If you would like to learn more contact us at dirtpalace @ yahoo dot com


SUBLET AVAILABLE EARLY SEPT-MID OCTOBER 

$350 for very nice lofted bedroom, access to shared work spaces including bandroom, print shop, and more! 

One beautiful cat, 6 roommates, afternoon light.

email maren.rose.jensen@gmail.com for more details (:-)




JULY WINDOW ARTIST: MEG POWERS

Meg Powers is a professional costume designer and inter-disciplinary artist with an emphasis on filmmaking, puppetry, doll-making, and comics art. Her work typically examines the intersection of lesbian desire with the gothic, fantastical, and grotesque. Recent works of note include: animated visuals for sci-fi / Bowie-centric, gay dance party series, HUNGER CITY, (for which Powers also organizes and dj's), puppet and costume design for the debut performance of Steven Glavey's WOLVES, and direction, design, and performance credits for the short film, The Diabolical Doctor Vysarius, which aired on Flux Factory's STROBE Network. Powers also edits and illustrates a mature sci-fi /fantasy arts anthology magazine, WARLOCK WASTELAND, and is currently hard at work on its second issue.

MATER LACHRYMARUM, MATER SUSPIRIORUM, MATER TENEBRARUM is a meditation on the artist's assumption of a cosmic disappointment in humanity as embodied through the archetypal feminine trio: the fates, the witches Macbeth, and especially, the Three Mothers of Sorrow originating in Thomas de Quincey's essay, "Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow," and channeled aesthetically through the lurid and kaleioscopic influence of Dario Argento's adaptation of de Quincey's feminine grotesque in his Three Mothers trilogy.

"Do they talk, then? O, no! mighty phantoms like these disdain the infirmities of language. They may utter voices through the organs of man when they dwell in human hearts, but amongst themselves there is no voice nor sound; eternal silence reigns in their kingdoms. They spoke not...they whispered not; they sang not; though oftentimes methought they might have sung, for I upon earth had heard their mysteries oftentimes deciphered by harp and timbrel, by dulcimer and organ. Like God, whose servants they are, they utter their pleasure, not by sounds that perish, or by words that go astray, but by signs in heaven, by changes on earth, by pulses in secret rivers, heraldries painted on darkness, and hieroglyphics written on the tablets of the brain. They wheeled in mazes; I spelled the steps. They telegraphed from afar; I read the signals. They conspired together; and on the mirrors of darkness my eye traced the plots. Theirs were the symbols; mine are the words."- Thomas de Quincey, "Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow"
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=-2dkM3CPb7o
http://eyeballjellomold. tumblr.com/search/meg+powers
https://www.facebook.com/ megpowersartdolls/
http://instagram.com/eyeball_jello_mold
http://warlockwasteland. tumblr.com/getyourcopy

JUNE WINDOW ARTIST: CAROLINE RAE ROBINSON


Caroline Rae Robinson is an artist and printmaker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2016 with a degree in Printmaking. Her work focuses on transcending bodily and neurotypical hegemony, and fabricating alternative realities as a mechanism of coping. Wading through a quiet chaos of self-evaluation and doubt, she examines how feminized concepts of psychological and neurological health influence how we define agency and how we assign empathy.




*****UPDATES*****

Megan is the new resident at DP!

They just got back from a trip to the west coast where they were tabling at Tijuana Zine Festand did a collaborative reading at Junior High in LA with their friend Noah (cuddle formation) who made beautiful bleeps and bloops behind their poems. They are now on the road selling merch for Japanese Breakfast on their tour with Tegan & Sara. They have a poetry chapbook coming out with publishing house TXTbooks that'll be out sometime later this summer called A Stick With A Rock On It. They are a true leo and their birthday is August 7th please don't forget to find them and say HBD.

If you want to keep up with their writing / find out info on the new chapbook you can sign up for their newsletter at http://0202ff.com/hello or follow them on insta/twitter @docs.google / @mgnmnwtz
Maren had some new drawings and a painting up at SBF 3 at Penny Gaffe along with Roby Newton, Chrissy Jones, Crystal, Tess Brown-Lavoie and Kartina Richardson.  More on her website: marenjensen.net
Milkmaid ii plays the Downtown Boys/What Cheer record release on August 11


DANIELLA BEN-BASSAT



Made 50 different fabric collage posters for Ballroom Marfa's Maria Minerva event and is writing more music.

SICK ROAD - the 2011, Worms in Women and Cattle full length album, along with some live tracks, will be released on ANNIHILVS on August 11th
Pre-orders can be made HERE 


O HORVATH

B^) DOING FINE B^)
XANDER MARRO


Holding onto the rails during these lion days of summer


ALISON NITKIEWICZ

Alison is Enjoying RI in the summertime :) 

Monday, June 19, 2017

Heavy Lifting!

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DIRT PALACE

JUNE 2017

HEAVY LIFTING WORKDAY AT THE WEDDING CAKE HOUSE!!!!




So, many people have shown us so much (very appreciated) excitement about this project and expressed an interest in coming over and lending a hand with physical labor & we're ready to take you up on it! Skip the gym & come and help us move bags of rubble to the dumpster, longing for some time in the sun, come and help us mulch and prep for future plantings, always wanted to lift some claw foot tubs up flights of stairs, we have tubs to move!!

In all seriousness though, we're simultaneously daunted and excited by this project, and humbled by all of the support that we've been getting and promise to make your efforts to help out extremely efficient and as fun as possible. We'll likely have about 3 tons of bagged plaster rubble (150 ready to go 40ish pound bags) to move into a dumpster & many hands will make much lighter work of this!

SUNDAY JUNE 25th
We'll get started at 1:30 pm, and start wrapping up and making gin and tonics at around 5pm. If you can RSVP and let us know if and when you're coming that would be amazing!! e-mail us at dirtpalacepublicprojects@gmail.com

If you have work gloves, wear em! We'll have dust masks, hand wipes, and tools on hand.
Interested in learning more about the Wedding Cake House project? You can find that info HERE
or --- follow our blog about work on the house HERE

 
 

MINI RESIDENCIES

We were super excited to have Caroline Robinson as an Artist in Residence last month while she worked on her installation for the Dirt Palace Storefront Window Gallery. You can check out her work HERE – and see her installation in our next digest (or up RIGHT NOW in the window)!!!

Sara Wintz is in residence this month working on a long poem about fashion, dance, late capitalism, and the singular. Ugly Duckling Presse published her first book, WALKING ACROSS A FIELD WE ARE FOCUSED ON AT THIS TIME NOW, in 2012. Read more about her work here: http://sarawintz.com.


MAY WINDOW ARTIST: ABIGAIL WAMBOLDT


STRANGER THINGS THAN WONDERLAND
Ignorance is not knowing anything and being attracted to the good. Innocence is knowing everything, and still being attracted to the good.”
    • Clarissa Pinkola Estes
With this work I am exploring the innocence in eroticism. Being aware of the complexities of sensuality brings us to a place where “goodness” exists in a nuanced state. There is not one way to experience sexuality. Each person has their own erotic literature. Maintaining innocence in sexual exploration invites the individual’s sensual story to be continually expanded upon through accumulating an understanding of the sexual self. What constitutes positive sexual expression is unique to a person’s experience. The evolution of our sexuality writes a story with anecdotes no less strange than Alice’s adventures rattling around Wonderland.


Bio
Abigail Wamboldt is a Providence Rhode Island based artist and activist. Her sweetest dreams include founding an art collective called Meat Merkin and she prefers to show only in spaces that remain unaffected by the aspects of the art world that are driven by the corporate patriarchy. Transforming experiences include making art in post Katrina New Orleans, and working as an artist assistant to Public Works Artist Lara Lepionka. She received a BFA from Montserrat College of Art, and an MFA from the University of New Hampshire. She currently teaches at the Community College of Rhode Island and Montserrat College of Art, and is a volunteer with The Center For Sexual Pleasure And Health.
 
APRIL WINDOW ARTIST: NEW FRUIT


New Fruit set the table . . .
We set the despised ornament, the centerpiece a bouquet of sores . . .
We set the gruesome ornament, cleaved with our discontents . . .
We set the abandoned ornament, but with a new arrangement of cutlery . . 


The table is set stilted. The scene has been over for a long time. The crack of wood. A knot of hair and wax. We ask: what is the use of a chair, here? Or any spatial pretension, for that matter? The cruel object within the scene of desire. We are the ones who invited you. Can you see us? While we were waiting we softened earthward, the cushions rotted out of our chairs. The table is uninhabitable. With multiflorate mycelial eyes thawed and content to spoil the soil the white cloth white porcelain white silence we spilled forth our discontents. Mouths and mouths and mouths unlocking. Now, we sweat nectar…By the putrefying force of our fullness the table fell.


New Fruit 
is a feminist run art collective and studio in Portland, ME. As a member/artist run studio space we strive towards dismantling the white supremacist hetero patriarchy through sharing art, building space and creating resources. As a collective of artists we view art-making as world-making and the pursuit of individual liberty and collective liberation.
The tide pulls. What are we talking about? What is going on here?
more info : newfruit.net


 



 

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O HORVATH

O was thrilled to VJ at Aurora PVD's Dyke Night for the second sweaty summer in a row >:)

 

They've been hard at work on some weird new wares that debuted at Providence's first ever Queer and Trans Zinefest this past weekend..... up in THE STORE and DIRT PALACE ETSYsoon..... in the meantime, keep them company on INSTAGRAM for sneak peeks, studio shots, and daily trips to ♡♡♡MARYLOUS♡♡♡



Working on recording some solo country confusion under "Darnell", same old motor guitar drones under Taskmaster, and cooking up some new Mother Tongue jams with Tess. Also gardening and making t-shirts

**ALSO** July 22 Mother Tongue show at Psychic Readings with Pyramid, Holy People, and PUZZLEHEAD from Vancouver!!! www.deathtopuzzlehead.bandcamp.com

**AND** Playing a Taskmaster show in Western Mass on July 30


MAREN JENSEN

Maren finished the third Broadcast Flesh, a "newspaper" of sorts. 

She's also been working on a new website called Broadcastflesh.com that's meant to be a content dump for images and text found in past and future printed versions of the newspaper. 

Sad country songs are coming up at the Firehouse, July 2 and July 6 at Space Cloud




Alison (and Maren's) band, Milkmaid II, has a bunch of shows coming up this summer!
June 22nd at Machines with Magnets with Secret Boyfriend, Ylaro and Violet
July 14th at Machines with Magnets with Lightning Bolt and Doomsday Student
July 22nd at Aurora with Barkley's Barnyard Critters, Buck Gooter & Rat Jelly
August 11th at Aurora with Downtown Boys, TBD
Milkmaid II recently updated their bandcamp with some shitty recordings, feel free to check em out at milkmaidii.bandcamp.com

 

Bridget has a new album — listen to it here!!
She had a wonderful tour with Wilted Woman and Dj ShlucHT in May, and now she is moving to Berlin.
Bye!

 
Pippi spoke about her work at her Alma Mater last week as part of the
SVA MFA Art Practice Summer Lecture Series


Picture of RECTRIX performance at Nothing Changes NYC

 
***DIRT PALACE LIBRARY HI-LITES***


MONTHLY PICTORIAL TREAT FROM THE DUSTY SHELVES OF THE DIRT PALACE
FURTHERING THE QUEST TO SPREAD FUN
LIKE GIN AND JUICE, MOSTLY GIN





Now that Xander & Pippi's lives are revolving around a "19th Century ornamented house of New England" we thought it time to dig this old favorite book out of the stacks. It features New England architecture with Gothic elements, cool explanations of the hand tools used to build these visionary space ships and there's even a spread of the competing New England Wedding Cake House (in Kennebunk, Maine) which interestingly was also renovated by a team of women!


 
dream a little dream ///ur dreams are my nightmeows/// forward to a friend