Events! Residency openings! Grant opportunities!! New Website!!! Slow GIFS !!! So many updates!!!!!! Is it Fall yet!?!?

DIRT PALACE SEPTEMBER 2022     After Spirit: Channara Tom “Philly” Pheap; Community Conversation and Memorial   ARTIST TALK EVENT: Storefront Window Gallery Artists - Vuthy Lay & Victoria Xu in conversation with Vatic Kuumba at DP Classic - 14 Olneyville Square Monday September 19th 6:00-7:00pm After Spirit: Channara Tom “Philly” Pheap, is an altar composed of offerings accumulated from family, friends, and community members over the course of 1,111 days. This place was created for his loved ones to reclaim Channara’s memory after he was murdered by Officer Dylan Williams of the Knoxville Police Department. Although the search for justice in his case continues, the power of connecting other impacted families is immediate. The installation features a series of interviews, framed photographs and public shrines that invites others who have lost their own to state violence to also share with the public and learn about his story. The community is welcomed to contribute their own portraits to any of the 33 lantern altars on behalf of their beloved lost or losing time to the criminal injustice system. On the evening of September 19th, we ask the public to bring candles, incense and offerings for this memorial. We will provide writing utensils and materials for anyone who would like to leave a letter or share their thoughts.   Artist in Residence/ Live/Work studio slot opening at Dirt Palace Classic January 1st!!! Residency is for a 1 year term For more info on what the opportunity entails Click HERE To learn more about how to apply Click HERE

INTERLACE GRANT APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN!!!!!!! Project Grants due October 11th - Interlace Project Grants range from $4000 to $6000 and support artist-driven visual arts projects in the Providence area.  Emergency Grants due on the 7th of Every Month. Emergency Grants intend to mitigate the harmful effects of emergency situations and crises. Open to all self identifying Providence area visual artists.. Grant Writing Mentorship Program apps Due September 7th - This program pairs an artist who has written successful grants with an artist who is newer to grant writing. Mentors help emerging and mid-career artists ("Mentees') with 2 to 3 application processes.     CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!?!?!?!? WE FINALLY GOT A NEW WEBSITE!!! YEAH - NO KIDDING - We've been talking about this FOR YEARS!!!!!! We couldn't have done it without the help of our amazing intern Annabel Evison who really was amazing in helping us finally get there!!!! Please check it out!!! Hopefully we didn't do something dumb, like spell your name wrong, which is our nightmare. (You can always let us know if this is the case)     WINDOW JULY - AUGUST WINDOW ARTISTS: RAJAN AMARU and NORMAN OSPINA   Destrucción / Construcción  Destruction / Construction  Rajon Amaru and Norman Alexander are a child-parent team from San Francisco/Oakland  who have been developing an Art Project called Destruction / Construction since 2020.  Originally started as a means to reuse ‘older toys’ and as an at-home-pandemic-activity to learn to use tools in a proper an safe manner, it involves taking apart and collaging/gluing back together toy parts to make surprising recombinations that draw from Rajon Amaru’s 4th & 5th Grade classroom lessons & current socio-political events.  RA & NA also draw, spray paint, learn and grow closer together through creativity, one-on-discussion & expanding on what is presented in the Oakland Unified School District  where RA is presently in the 6th Grade. While now living in California, Norman A. Ospina Q. has deep roots in the Olneyville neighborhood of Providence, RI.  NA lived on Erastus Street while attending HS in the late 80’s, held his first jobs at St. Theresa's church and later (early 2000’s) was an active member with the Olneyville Neighborhood Association (ONA).    For further Artist information, NA & RA can be reached at: mirupacha@gmail.com ____________________________________ Storefront Window Gallery Projects are made possible in part through support from the City of Providence Arts Culture Tourism Department. UPDATES ************ FROM THE PEOPLE OF THE PALACE!!    NATASHA BRENNAN Hi!! pretty good late summer time!! I've been drawing and quilting (!) as much as possible and spending time with lots of lovely people- family and friends. I'm looking forward to tabling at MICE in October in Boston so if you're around be sure to say hi :) Thimble the cat update: she is good and did not catch the alive mouse that was stuck in our kitchen sink (Avery and I took him outside and he is hopefully still running free)     ELLEN (LN) FOSTER This summer has been primarily work, sickness, and other health concerns, but I tied to waylay it with as many beavertail trips and Carrs Pond explorations as possible. I also had fun making flyer for a show that did not end up happening, but may happen in some iteration eventually. I went to Block island for the first time around my birthday with bikes, and we camped even though everyone told us it was impossible and to not even try. We found some kind interesting things close to where we slept.     An non-academic experimental (but kinda academic) piece that I wrote with my good friend Shannan Lee Hayes for the journal REFUSE came out this past month. You can read that  here.   I recently played a show at black lack that went well and may have some good video, hoping to share eventually. Here is the flyer for now, created by Sean Halpin. No upcoming shows to speak of, but I’m excited to have some more opening of my capacities into the Fall and Winter.   KAI VAN VLACK  I don’t have much creative work to show this month but I would like to promote a couple of events I’m involved with. On Saturday, September 10th: RIOT RI, the youth music education org that I work with will be holding our Battle of the Patriarchy Community Concert and Vendor Fair. The show is free to all and will be held in the Providence Innovation District Park at from 1 PM - 6 PM On Friday, September 16th: I will be speaking on a panel at the New Haven Pride Center as part of their 2022 Pride Panels and Conversations series. We will be discussing the intersectional history of Transfemmes in Lesbian community. The panel will be livestreamed on facebook and youtube. Reading/Listening/Seeing Sabrina Scott - Witchbody Gentle diary comics with modern witchcraft 101 baked in. Këkht Aräkh - Pale Swordsman Frostbitten and romantic lamentations. I think it’s really rare for black metal bands to use the “radio in a trash-can” recording style as anything other than a weird flex but the inclusion of warm ghostly piano on this album really highlights how powerful and elegant this production style can be. Reservation Dogs The best tv show I’ve watched in years. Indigenous slice of life stories you’ve never heard but always knew in your heart.   YSANEL TORRES YSANEL assisted a group of talented artists from Amber Art and Design, a collective of public artists based in Philadelphia, on the largest mural in Rhode Island History! Located on the exterior of the Garrahy Court House in Providence, RI, this new mural features 800+ colors and a Moose - honoring the moose that once lived on the land that it’s on,  which was once primarily called Moshassuck by the indigenous people of the area.  Go see it in person!  JOSEPHINE DEVANBU    PIPPI ZORNOZA   WOW WOW WOW HARPY going on tour this fall!!! Check out tour dates below.... Maybe we'll be flowing through your town.... with delicious shirts and tapes in tow. Not quite as cool as the time the download codes were wrapped around grapes in plastic bloodshot eye capsules.... but still delicious.   ****************************** 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 Amazing 1916 Wellesley yearbook found by Ian Cozzens!!!!!     ****************************** BULLETIN BOARD ****************************** PPL Creative Fellow applications due October 1st Providence Public Library is now accepting applications for their 2023 Creative Fellowship. The 2023 Creative Fellow will create new, original work in the field of performance related to the topic of grief and mourning, as part of the Library’s 2023 exhibition Picturing the Pandemic. Stipend $1500 + up to $500 for materials. *************************** HAPPY BIRTHDAY JR, OLIVIA & JANAYA!!!!!!!!!! ****************************   Forward to a friend // Dirt Palace Instagram // Wedding Cake House Instagram // IGF Instagram

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