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DIRT PALACE JUNE 2018 ** JUNE VOLUNTEER WORKDAY AT THE WEDDING CAKE HOUSE!!! SATURDAY JUNE 30th 2p - 5p (rain date Sunday July 1st same time!) ------------------------------------------------------------ ​ It's been a whirlwind of activity! Plaster board getting craned into the building, repaired balconies starting to go back up outside, painting contractors getting finalized, choosing paint colors named things like "milk moustache" and "potato leek" pharmaceutical vials found in the ceiling... the list goes on! People have been asking when the next workday is and here's the scoop: June 30th (rain-date July 1st) The plan is to converge at 2pm and to wrap up by 5pm with a beautiful feast by our very own Advisory Council member Lucie Searle!   Please RSVP if you plan to attend so that we can get her a head count for food!   The plan is to have a variety of indoor and outdoor activities with a focus on painting - so dig out the messy paint clothes. For those of you who couldn't get enough wallpaper scraping... well... there might just be some of that too!! (Miss the rubble?!?! We don't!) If you want to check out video of 12ft sheets of plaster board being craned into the building - check it outHERE

WINDOW   JUNE WINDOW ARTIST: WACKLIKETHAT   feminism be gentrifyin' vinyl on paint 2018 K. Funmilayo Aileru, also known as wacklikethat, is an emerging, interdisciplinary artist, designer, and performer. Ze employs a variety of mediums including digital media, sculpture, and installation to access themes such as [ancestral]memory, trauma, and Otherness. An Afrofuturist, much of hir work ruminates on the historical and present relationship between technology and marked bodies in the West. wacklikethat’s work often calls on the aesthetics of popular SciFi through materials such as Plexiglas, metallic materials, and circuitry. wacklikethat attempts to shift cultural paradigms of power via collective imagination and future-world building. Aileru received hir MFA in Digital + Media from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2017. In 2014, ze received hir BA in Media Culture Studies and Media Arts from Hampshire College. Aileru was born and raised in South Providence, RI where ze currently lives and works as a teaching artist. www.wacklikethat.xyz *****UPDATES*****   CYNDI MU After 2 years only half-unpacked and periodically traveling, Cyndi is moving! Did a dive and finally made-up making clothes this spring after imagining doing so always. (Thanks to models Sarah with the tank top and Alessia in shirt and pants :) Pulled the five of cups today but the experience is continuous. Been laying low, but online @c62_50   JOSEPHINE DEVANBU The Paris Review recently ran a story covering Equitable Met, a proposal for sliding scale pricing at the Met I co-authored in response to the Met’s decision to start charging a flat $25 free to visitors unable to demonstrate New York residence, bringing a to halt the it’s across-the-board pay-what-what-you-wish policy.​ In How Much Should the Met Cost You?, writer Daniel Penny puts the new policy in the context with the Met’s “long struggle to serve both its visitors and its benefactors.” It’s a compromising history, including a 1897 episode in which the then director defended guards who turned away a plumber who came to the museum on his lunch break on the grounds that the smell of his work clothes would taint the experience of other guests. Left: Daniel Penny’s story in the Paris Review. Right: sliding scale proposed inEquitable Met. Earlier press for Equitable Met includes stories by Paper Magazine, ArtNet News,Fast Company, and Attractions Management. Equitable Met is a collaboration between Gradient and Look at Art. Get Paid. DANA HENG  Hello! Quick updates on the art realm: over the weekend, some co-organizer buddies & I ran the Queer/Trans Zinefest. I also was commissioned by the city to do a temporary mural on Public St (aerial pic posted below). You can read more about the project here, and watch a short video of me talking about the project and about myself as an artist. Be on the lookout for my DP window installation July-August. And lastly, this will be my final post to the newsletter! I have to leave the Dirt Palace earlier than planned because of a sudden manifestation of a dream: to start a POC collective in Providence. My 7 months at the DP helped shape intention towards my creative practice and supported me in my personal growth, and I am so thankful! I will miss living in Olneyville!! On the flip side, I'm happy to be closer to my childhood home in South Prov :) This is not a goodbye, but a seeyalater DiChiera Consulting - Dana Heng City Walk Mural 2018 180 views CODY ROSS CR is working on a series of questionable 3D animations for the upcoming release of ⁘ ᴄᴀᴛʜᴇᴅʀᴀʟ, a public bathroom on your cell phone. ​ MEGAN MANOWITZ I am moving to LA! I got a dream job at Ground Control Touring and am starting the job in five days. While I knew that a move to LA was an inevitable part of my future, I was not expecting it so soon, and I am sad to be leaving Providence so quickly. I’ve been here since December 2016 and it’s been very good to me. Aside from everyone I’ve met I will miss Chengdu Taste the most. Ummmm if you wanna keep in touch my instagram is @docs.google, or if you wanna be my penpal you can email me at megan.manowitz@gmail.com bye bye xo PIPPI ZORNOZA Footage of RECTRIX performing at Ende Tymes 2018 Rectrix @ Ende Tymes 9 Brooklyn NY 4/7/2018 46 views RECTRIX will be collaborating with Daniella Ben-Bassat this June 28th as Empty Field   and collaborating with Gyna Bootleg July 27th with Obsidian Needles and Zerfault DANIELLA BEN-BASSAT Daniella and Pippi are playing together as "Empty Field" on June 28th at Machines With Magnets. She is also gearing up for a residency in mid-July in Pleasant Hill, Oregon at Kesey Farm.   XANDER MARRO   Going around the sun. Looking at the moon backwards. Plants and trees. Summer is real. Tell me your stories about trees so I can learn the difference between a birch and a beech.   ***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 Tripple Canopy came by with their Publication Intensive yesterday and left us a manifesto for the library! There are landscapes (where are they?). Just in time for the beach!

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DIRT PALACE MAY 2018 Dirt Palace has a sublet available June 1st for the month of June (and potentially July as well!)  Legal live/work arts space with: screen printing shop, letterpress, animation stand, music rehearsal room, wood shop, large shared space for building bigger projects, and library. Rent with utilities included ends up being around $425.  Contact dirtpalace at yahoo dot come if you're interested! Dirt Palace is looking for a new Artist in Residence Member for July   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. 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 “TheDirt 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. 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. Rent and expenses end up breaking down to about $430 - $450/month: Rent - $295/month Heat - $60/month (paid all year round) Electric - $57 - $69/month (varies) Internet - $13/month Sundries - $10/month (TP, dish soap,etc) Parking is included. If you would like to learn more contact us at dirtpalace @ yahoo dot com

WINDOW   MAY WINDOW ARTIST: Tony and Marina Balko   Party at the Dirt Palace! Polystyrene Foam, Mirror, Rhinestones, Steel, Aluminum Wire, Tin, Acrylic Paint, Hydrocal, DC Motor, LED Pinspots Dimensions Variable Tony and Marina Balko        2018 Nothing says “party” like a bottle of wine… or a cluster of grapes. Get your Bacchanalia on with friends of the Dirt Palace, whose digits are placed forever out of reach in a jerk move of mythological proportions. Throw your hands in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care! Marina and Tony Balko are artists, a married couple, and frequent collaborators.  Their relationship and work celebrate excessive consumption and general revelry, and the shit you have to deal with when you decide to live that way. *****UPDATES***** EVENT ALERT: NO WINE, MANY WOMEN, ONE SONG - STORIES OF THE WEDDING CAKE HOUSE Our friends at PPS are organizing a lecture about the old days of the Wedding Cake House by the fantastic historian and story-teller Taylor Polites. Wed May 23rd 5:30-7pm at the Bell Street Chapel. Info here. We'll open up the house afterwards if you want to pop in and check out what's going on. Rumor has it that Joe DeGeorge will be doing a musical interlude that is a rendition of a song that was played at the house long ago (that's the one song).  Hopefully someone will record this! Want to record it? hit us up! Pic of Pippi & Xander wearing matching outfits looking like gargoyles working on the balcony roof by Sara Wintz who just happened to be driving by at that moment.    JOSEPHINE DEVANBU In my first few weeks here, the Dirt Palace –both the place and its people– have proven generous, unknowably vast, and rich in hard-won knowledge. This may, I gave a a talk at Open Engagement, an artist led conference committed to furthering dialog and support for the emergent field of socially engaged art. For context, “socially engaged art,” or “social-practice art”, or their predecessor “relational aesthetics” are academic terms for art practices that engage real people, relationships, and systems– often outside the art world– as the medium in which the work of art exists. Along with my collaborator Maia Chao, I presented on Look at Art. Get Paid., a work we’ve categorized as social practice that pays people who don’t normally visit art museums to visit one as a guest critic of the art and institution.   Caption: This is an image of our ad in RIPTA to find participants for our pilot program at the RISD Museum We hosted 42 guest critics each paid $75 for their time and insight. By paying cash to visit mainstream art museums, Look at Art Get Paid. challenges the notion that art museums offer a universally valuable experience, calling out costs of entry that go beyond admission such as time directed from paid or domestic work, navigating cultural codes of a historically white institution, viewing one’s cultural through a western gaze (if at all) and investing in a space without knowing it is invested in you. The project aims to redirect funds to working class folks whose expertise and guidance is desperately needed in the movement to hold these institutions accountable. (see lookatartgetpaid.org to hear guest critic’s thoughts on the RISD Museum and to read more about the project). Open Engagement made space for us to speak directly with artists, organizers, and cultural workers we’ve long admired about how Look at Art. Get Paid. can operate in solidarity with ongoing resistance to the white supremacist and colonial legacies that continue to shape even “progressive” art institutions from the board of trustees down. Thank you to the folks at Decolonize this Place, Museum Hue, and People’s Cultural Plan who took the time to talk with us! O HORVATH   This is O's last month at the Dirt Palace after two residencies and five fabulous years!!!! They're moving back to Baltimore to be a librarian, inherit at least two cats, and sweat it out in the subtropical weather. They will miss falling asleep on the dumpy library couches, "borrowing" roommates' nutritional yeast in the middle of the night, house karaoke outings, pumpkin-based collective dinners, spanking Baby the cat, interrupting during house meetings, swapping Wilhelm Reich facts, and everyone they've been lucky to share space with during their tenure. They'll be back 'cause they're too sentimental to stay away for long- in the meantime catch them on the ole' instagram, or freak twitter, or librarian twitter, or place some garbo plastic animals in a marylous cup and hum a stevie nicks song 2 summon them for a sec. Oh yeah, and come take away their stuff at YARD SALE SATURDAY MAY 26 10AM TIL WHENEVR. Love you guys so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   DANA HENG Here is a photo of me in my room (shot on a cellphone). I’m currently taking 35mm portraits of people in here to try and immortalize this temporary installation of a living space. In the past few months, I’ve been helping organize the second annual QTZ (Queer/Trans Zinefest; say it like “cuties”) with some of my pals. Come check it out at AS220’s Queer Arts Fest on June 16th from 11am-4pm! [Facebook // Website]. I’ve also been very very quietly working on my DP window display for June shhhhhh. All the while building and scheming and transitioning into a collective space for poc. More details tbd.   PIPPI ZORNOZA RECTRIX is performing June 5th with Lower Tar, J. Desosa, Timeghost andVOSP at Machines with Magnets  and at New England Underground Fest 3 in Boston June 15th at the Cambridge Elks Lodge and Hardcore Stadium. http://neundergroundmusicfest.tumblr.com/ https://www.facebook.com/events/582344458788071/ Also performing in a new project with Daniella Ben-Bassat (called Empty Field) onJune 28th at Machines with Magnets with Changeling, Mar and Obaku   DANIELLA BEN-BASSAT Daniella has been jamming. https://soundcloud.com/mr-lazymagnet/heavens-fllor-april-farm-32518   MEGAN MANOWITZ     Spending time on the west coast after a month-long tour trying to figure out my next moves, look at the bottlebrush trees and convince someone to drive me to the closest forest so far no takers I booked a show on SATURDAY, MAY 26 at our house with Horn Horse, HSFB and ॐeed. HornHorse (of Lily & Horn Horse who played our NYE party / is my favorite band) + HSFB are on a mini tour from Hudson, NY and both make beautiful electronic music. ॐeed is one of my favorite friends who will be visiting us from VT. The show is going to be in the laundry room, it's the day after I get home, it'll be special, more info here Oh also i'm tabling at QTZ fest this year please come   XANDER MARRO God, new self check out at Price-Rite. Everything is confusing these days. Self medicating with a spring diet of bananas, cilantro and magnets.    ***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 May Hi-Lite = TO HELL ON WHEELS - YES THE LIBRARY HAS A SURVIVAL SECTION! YES NOW FEELS LIKE A GOOD TIME TO ASK: HOW MANY DAYS CAN ONE SURVIVE AT 100 DEGREE HEAT ON ONE QUART OF WATER? ALSO THERE WERE STAMPS BETWEEN THE PAGES OF THIS BOOK SO LITERALLY PAID TO LOOK THROUGH IT. OK THE STAMPS WERE FROM THE 90'S.

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