Friday, April 21, 2017


DIRT PALACE

APRIL 2017


 
THE DIRT PALACE IS MOVING FORWARD WITH OUR PROJECT AT THE WEDDING CAKE HOUSE!!!

Maybe you’ve heard rumblings about this and are wondering…what will it be like?  Or maybe you are thinking, “have they finally really lost their marbles?” Or maybe you are like us and are thinking, “I always thought that place WAS the true Dirt Palace”.
Regardless, the thing that we really want to tell you is that we’re wicked excited and very grateful for the support of RISCA and the city of Providence, who have been critical partners along the way.

Here’s a basic quick blurb, and below there are links to more info on our website:
Dirt Palace at the Wedding Cake House is an ambitious restoration project of the historic 514 Broadway property last occupied by the Tirocchi sisters and the couture design business that they ran from the location from 1915 to 1947. The renovation will develop artist in residence quarters which will complement the feminist residency program and facilities at the Dirt Palace’s current location in Olneyville Square.


For more info about the project CLICK HERE
To see our fantastic Advisory Council CLICK HERE
To support the project CLICK HERE

 

 
 

MARCH WINDOW ARTIST: PARIS PARIS


DIY Printed + Cut and Sew Collection Presented with Original Visuals by Paris





FEBRUARY WINDOW ARTIST: HOWIE SNEIDER
 

Contra el viento, Against the wind, is a show of quilts and quilted blankets made over the
past 5-years from discarded materials, thrift store scraps, old clothes and tarps. Here the
blanket becomes a suit of armor, uniform, costume and disguise. They are rough and
quickly made, but in a time of need they are the perfect protection from the cold. And why
not? There is great utility in multifunctional garments.
Contra el viento, Against the wind, is a portrait of the times. A sight not unfamiliar, maybe
from the Women’s March on Washington or at the State House, from TV, or from Standing
Rock. The blanketed figures are us, vulnerable protectors, proud activists, shielding
themselves and others from a relentless wind. They are every member of a working class
that has something to lose, that can be easily controlled and manipulated because of our
economic fragility
and set to fight against one another. I propose that we shield one another instead. We can
make our own soft armour, by using the scraps of the consumer culture, turning waste into
our pride and our defense. We can begin to value each other not on our ability to consume,
but our ability to make and exchange.
We stand against the wind. Estamos contra el viento.

Howie has lived in and around Olneyville since 2002, he was a longtime member of 
the Olneyville Collaborative and has participated in numerous community art projects 
throughout the neighborhood. Howie loves sewing and hiking and can often be found
bringing something hand sewn way out into the woods. His work is exhibited in galleries,
on the street, in sculpture parks and in the wild. Howie is the Executive Director of 
the Steel Yard where he has worked for the past 13 years.



DIRT PALACE ETSY

Visit our online store if you're into screen printed shirts by Olivia, hand knitting by
Bridget, or years worth of Dirt Palace zines and prints! We'll be adding more
breath-taking works of art in the near future too -- come back often, support our dream
~~~





*****UPDATES*****


New cowgirl at the palace--Maren rolls in this April
She has been working on some drawings about Los Angeles, new writing she is calling “Woman Road
Novel,” new songs with her band Milkmaid II (hi Al, hi Mickey), and some sad country guitar almost ready
to gig.
She welcomes you to visit her website: marenjensen.net !!!!

 
O HORVATH

O will be teaching three weeklong art workshops for kids and teens at the Jamestown Art Center this
summer! We'll be making comics, puppets, games, and learning how to use a 3D printer. For more
information, visit the JAC Camp Schedule.
Follow O on Instagram for peeks at projects/in sketchbooks/under the couch/etc

 
PIPPI ZORNOZA
RECTRIX will be performing April 29th in Western Mass at the Flywheel with Sterile Garden,
Mozzaleum, and Jambomb

and at Nothing Changes NYC May 24th with Alberich

Live recording of The Sound of It Hammering Against the Skirts will be released this year on
Lachryphagy Recordings




Bridget just finished some new music that will be out on Embalming Lately this spring. She’ll be on tour
with Wilted Woman and Dj Shlucht in May — see you up & down the east coast!

 
Have you ever wanted to surgically or conceptually remove misogyny from yourself and/or others...
Maybe like at a party as a ritual act of friendship, kinda like those cervix/speculum parties that I imagine all
of the stoned feminists of the 70's being really into...well this new Anne Elizabeth Moore book Body Horror
isn't exactly about that...But it did send my brain into imagining spaces like that and so many others while
holding an inked up brush and channeling my visions.. There are 15 or 16 of my illustrations among her
essays on topics ranging from apparel industry labor in Cambodia to horror movies to the birth of Standard
time to robots and autoimmune diseases. A review is here. You can order it here. It was an honor to get to
work on this project & you will be happy when you own this book!
Daniella has been playing 12 string guitar and will probably perform with it, an electric guitar, and several
motors during her Taskmaster set at Psychic Readings on April 15th. She performed with her rock band
Wex April 17th at AS220.


She has also been raising several sensitive plant seedlings.


 
ALISON NITKIEWICZ

Alison is working on a new video that she will be screening Friday, April 28th at Penny Gaff with alongside
artists Andrea Williams, Chrissy Jones, Carlos Gonzales, Cybele Collins, and Leah Wishnia.



Her band, MILKMAID II, will be playing a show April 30th at Operatheque with MOTHER TONGUE,
STUPID CHRISSY, JUICY II, and HVAC with MC RAY'S LAWNS.


 

 
***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




In 2000 the RISD Museum launched an exhibition and publication - From Paris to Providence: Fashion,
 Art, and the Tirocchi Dressmakers' Shop. 
 


From the museum "In their elegant Providence Shop, Italian emigre sisters Anna and Laura Tirocchi sold
French couture clothing to an elite clientele. The shop, remained virtually untouched from 1947 until 1990,
when RISD Museum curators were given their choice of its contents, which included apparel by Paul
Poiret, Lucien Lelong, and dresses in the style of Madeleine Vionnet.
All reflect the advent of modernism in the Paris art world of 1920s and 30s, when designers, painters and
printmakers were collaborating as never before to create fashion. From “Paris to Providence” catalogues
these efforts with beautiful illustrations and six essays that examine the era’s social and art-historical issues."




 
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