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DIRT PALACE DECEMBER 2014 Thanks to Kate Wells at PPL for finding this beautiful picture of the building for us. It's from around 1900.

NOVEMBER WINDOW  Katrina Ellis Katrina Ellis was born in rural Central New York State in 1981. She lived in Brooklyn for ten years after receiving her BFA from Pratt Institute, but moved to Providence, RI in 2013. Ellis’ work has most recently been included in “The Power of Place” at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA) in Peekskill, NY (2013), the Collaborative Concepts exhibition “The Farm Project 2013″ in Garrison, NY, SWELL at GRIN, Providence, RI in January 2014. She will have work included in TEEM, opening November 22 at GRIN, Providence, RI and at the LORE Collection Pop-up Gallery in December. Katrina Ellis’ mixed-media works explore themes of memory, mortality and alienation. Pulling from traditions of craft, storytelling and mythos, she explores the realm where memory and dreams are blurred, aware of the tension created by a natural world that feels simultaneously full of wonderous connections, spirituality, and can also be overwhelmingly alienating. As a creative only-child, Ellis grew up looking for the magic in the everyday, and her works often attempt to unveil the possibilities of the flexible reality human consciousness grasps at while trying to recapture the wonder of looking at the world through child-like eyes. Ellis is interested in the human propensity to view life through constructed narratives: visual art, cinematic works and music all play into this desire. DECEMBER WINDOW  Jesse Kaminsky: Particle Guardian Jesse Kaminsky is a multimedia artist who lives in Providence, RI. He has a broad-based approach to media, often combining common, recognizable materials with video and audio components to create immersive, transformative environments. His work examines the fictional spaces of daily life. Jesse received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. His recent investigations into popular media have led him out of a period of rigorous, material-based, systems-oriented sculpture into a more subjective and performative system for making art. By combining his long time interest in sound and video with a deep interest in the material world, he creates temporary environments that attempt to undermine the fundamental mental processes that people use to shortcut the sensory world. Particle Guardian is an inflatable sculpture made from sewn tyvek and sharpie marker. It’s a little like some big sad vegetable roots or a tuft of massively overgrown hair follicles. Partially owing to the fact that it doesn’t quite inflate to the point of what we would perceive as vegetable ripeness, these sculptures are somewhat confusing objects. Their matte white surface is a rare or unnatural state for most plant or animal life, causing them to appear somewhat feeble yet ominous, like Bunnicula’s ghost carrots or the white stalks of grass trying to grow without light. They can be the warning signs of a natural disaster if you like, a small indication of normal biological functions gone horribly wrong. Or like ghostly carnivorous triffids, the leading edge of a natural world at constant war for survival. Everyone is on the lookout for evolution, a dangerous tool in the constant battle for species survival. Our senses are adapted to sense the warning signs. These might be them. *****UPDATES!!! XANDER MARRO As part two of a book series that presents thematic collections of writing/pictures by visual artists/musicians/performers/people who have some affiliation with a broad and vaguely defined "world of art", Xander presents: Trouble. It's either a book about finding trouble, or being trouble, or getting out of it all somehow. Contributors include some of the best troublemakers Rhode Island (or it's nearby environs) have to offer: Mike Leslie, Annapurna Himel Wagner, Katrina Salander Clark, Matthew Derby, Mark Baumer, Mike Taylor, Rachel Lewallen, Tom Bubul, Heather Benjamin, Lisa Carver, Matthew Lawrence, V Manuscript, Jamie Lowe, Mimi Chrzanowski, Daniel Daley, Mary-Kim Arnold, Bert Crenca, Suzy Gonzelez, Rudy Cheeks, Mickey Zacchillli. Buy ithere. Also a 2 for $25 deal with last years Witch Fingers here. To buy locally go to Ada Books or the AS220 project space...for trades/schemes/direct purchase from my studio send me an e-mail (contact info here) MUFFY BRANDT The Holiday Sale Season had Muffy ricocheting from craft sale to craft sale.  She has been reveling in taking her studio time and Etsy shop in a new direction that reflects her love of kitsch sleaze and even more colorful and dizzying patterns. She has added necklaces for each Zodiac sign  her shop.  They are made from vintage flattened pennies, dead stock from a 1980's sex shop.  Each coin depicts a couple enacting the  sex position attributed to that astrological sign.   The Fall was spent scouring library books for Ancient Greek sex scenes on vases.  She collected her favorite to make an original composition to print on textiles, the full design has over 50 scintillating scenes.  Soon at Muffy's etsy you'll be able to score a sexy ancient scenes print on skirts, leggings, and pillows.  Until then you can snag yourself a small textile that you can use as decor, or a handkerchief, bandana, dinner napkin, or cum rag. If you missed any in person sales you can shop online.  Thursday December 18th is the least day to buy for Domestic Holiday Delivery.   Providence Friends be sure to check out Naughty or Nice at Yellow Peril Gallery. I've been told Thirsty's Annual Holiday Sale Opening Party  is a blast  If you are in PVD you can be in touch for a studio visit, I promise I won't be weird to you if you don't buy anything. JIEUN REINER Jieun has been in a studio black hole filling holiday orders for Almanac for June. She hopes you enjoy your holidays and wishes you the best of everything for the tail end of 2014! RACHEL LEWALLEN As of December 4th, Rachel announces her recent book release: Nearly Inaudible _________ of Internet Lesbian Siblings, 116 pages of visceral semi-autobiographical fiction and poetry, is the result of 9 months of solitary dreamy bedroom writing on the grotesque (read: poetic) subjects of lesbianism, identical twinness, “death”, humiliation, suggestive incest, and the ocean.  [books now available for trade or purchase] $10.00 in person $15.00 online  https://www.etsy.com/listing/215446838/nearly-inaudible-of-internet-lesbian?ref=shop_home_active_9 Rachel.lewallen@gmail.com for direct contact Aside from joining the YMCA and freakin’ out daily on basketball courts, Rachel has spent the last month focusing on her solo music/performance project. She had the honor of performing alongside Lydia Lunch + Weasel Walter & PVD local all-star Reba Mitchell (HOUSE RED) on December 5th and has been recovering in multiple regards since ;). The train continues to chug as Rachel anticipates her late-December tape release entitled, Your Body is Walking Alone,comprised of overlain saxophone, vocals, and read poetry.  A taste is found below: https://soundcloud.com/search?q=RRLEW Rachel continues to love her bad attitude.  She also doesn’t need any of your bad attitude because she has her own.  Also, if you don’t like her attitude you are encouraged to quit talkin’ to her.  You also cannot keep her caged up. NINA RUELLE If the past three months have taught Nina anything, it's that sometimes you've just gotta stop what you're doing and go squid fishing. What she was doing included: a. printing and sewing 50 pillows b. making a christmas snail headdress c. getting ready for her first-ever craft sale at NUA d. stringing lots of tiny flags When she wasn't doing that... ALISON NITKIEWICZ 'tis the season PIPPI ZORNOZA screened work in The HTMlles 11 - Feminist festival of media arts + digital culture inMontreal. RECTRIX will be performing January 13th at AS220 with PHARMAKON and V MANUSCRIPT ***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 Your Hyperactive Child: A Parent’s Guide to Coping With Attention Deficit Disorder by Barbara Ingersoll, Ph.D. The always-romantic National Institute of Mental Health does it again. What poeticism!  What whimsy!  What the heck am I going to eat for dinner tomorrow? Can’t get enough of this book, which has been slowly realized as the autobiography I once wrote after spontaneously changing my name to Barbara, transitioning my wardrobe to a “blurry yellow monochromatic size 3”, chopping my hair into a brunette bowl cut which flows constantly in a stale playground breeze, then subsequently forgot about the entire document because I can’t pay attention to anything for more than twenty minutes.

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DIRT PALACE SEPTEMBER 2014

WINDOW JUNE'S WINDOW ARTIST NICK CARTER (b. 1987 Philadelphia, PA) is a Providence artist and youth worker. He received a BA in Visual Art from Brown University in 2011. He was the Rhode Island Council on the Arts Painting Fellow in 2013, and the 2014 Harpo Foundation's Emerging Artist Fellow at the Santa Fe Art Institute. Recent solo exhibitions include Temporary Autonomous Moan at the AS220 Project Space Reading Room and Where’s the Bird Feeder? at RK Projects. www.nickcarter.us I’ve been using abstract paintings, sculptures, and installations to examine how the context of an object affects its appearance. In June, 2014, I’m trying to make things that confuse the inanimate lens but lay bare their basic-ness to two in-person eyes (or one that changes places). For my Dirt Palace installation I divided the space into three ‘rooms’ using two large paintings on sheets of thin, white fabric. The semi-transparency of the sheets allowed their placement and lighting to become more than mere ancillary elements. Instead they collaborate with the painted surfaces in determining how the objects look. Abstract paintings and sculptures—made of acrylic paint, fabric, and found wood—are installed between the sheets, alongside panels of my studio walls and digital prints on fabric and paper. AUGUST'S WINDOW ARTIST KRISSY ABDULLAH Krissy Abdullah is an artist from Gainesville, Florida. She just finished a summer residency at the Dirt Palace, and is now heading to Pittsburgh to continue her creative adventures. Krissy works primarily with 16mm film, video, and performance, and more recently has been dabbling in screen printing. She likes creating bright neon environments that would naturally make anyone else wanna puke, and loves karaoke. She also loves the obsessive repetition of wrapping things (which probably has to do with some sadistic deep-seeded need to coddle something that she’s not yet ready to admit). This is her first solo installation work. Dirt Palace participated as a site for the People's Climate March wheat pasting campaign Providence is one of the 30 cities participating in the wheat pasting campaign for the People's Climate March in NYC. This particular image was designed by Favianna Rodriguez from Oakland, CA and screenprinted by Jesse Purcell of the Justseeds collective. peoplesclimate.org MEET NEW DIRT PALACE MEMBER....... R. LEW Upon arrival to The Dirt Palace in July, Rachel spent an ungodly amount of time designing her living quarters to mimic the PBS Masterpiece Theatre sitting room. She was successful. As a result, Rachel can now be found seated cross-legged by candlelight in a leather chair in the exact center of her room, pupils dilated to black, crooning softly about literature. WRITING: R.Lew is proud to announce her first self-published book, scheduled for release this coming November. This publication is a huge milestone, as it will be Rachel's very first piece of print work ("art you can weep, bleed, vomit, defecate, or urinate directly onto") TWINGERS: solo saxophone composition/improvisation informed by intense physical endurance and ritual process https://soundcloud.com/twingers  September Shows  @ PUFFERSS IV w/ many: Saturday, September 20th, 2014 [230 Oak St. Providence, RI] @ AURORA w/ Chicklette, Yerri, Fatherfinger, Mincemeat or Tenspeed: Friday, September 26th @ THEE ELDRITCH w/ Andrea Pensado, Sean Greenlee, Morgan Evans Weiler, Soft TargetSaturday, September 27th, 2014 VISUAL ART: In Memory of Dr. John David Lewallen (preview) Rachel is enjoying her time at Dirt Palace very much PIPPI ZORNOZA has work (including a collaborative piece with artist Coral Short) in two upcoming exhibitions/screenings both opening on Saturday 20th in NYC. The Matricide (An Artificial Grammar for Nature) Opening Reception 6-9pm at CP Projects Space and Turning to Night, Screening 8pm, at Le Petite Versailles Over the summer Cry Me a River was screened in (Not) Here, (Not) Now at Videology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfVaWEFsl1E Pippi collaborated with artist JD Raenbeau for the zine covers of Guilt by Association. Other featured artists in the project Callie Barker, Kristen Bisson, Hovey Brock, Tina Chavera, Amy Dolan, Quinn Dukes, Alexandra Hammond, Unnur Leifsdottir, Brandi Martin, Bryan Moore, Sam Nichols and Lauren Woods. Zine photo Scream Queen Headquarters has reopened its doors. MUFFY BRANDT Muffy had a great time as the MC of this year's Foo Fest at AS220. There were awesome performances all day and the Providence Comics Consortium did amazing things as the artists in residence. She decided to make a different costume to introduce each act, it was a blast. Muffy has been diverting her sadness about the end of summer by focusing on Halloween approaching. Her etsy shop has a slew of Halloween items starting at $5 check them out at www.muffybrandt.etsy.com  or stop by her booth at the RISD Alumni Sale on October 10th on Benefit St. A lover of sales, gimmicks, cheap thrills, and prizes, Muffy is running her first ever online giveaway. One lucky winner will get a bronze handmade witch finger pendant! Entries can be made via Instagram @muffybrandt   JIEUN REINER Jieun’s summer has been rich with small pleasures and though it’s coming to a close, she couldn’t be more excited. Why, you ask? The only thing greater than a summer pleasure is an autumn one!  She quit her job of 3.5 years making and restoring books at the end of July and is taking the world of 95% self employment for a spin.  Otherwise, the objects shifting in and out of the room might alter themselves, but the room has remained the same. (a metaphor) New things in the shop. Here is a Scorpio for all you Scorpios out there! -From: A Scorpio ALISON NITKIEWICZ Life has been a real whirlwind of change lately. Summer was cool and Alison took some nice trips to nature, was the 'road dog' on tour, swam, had fun, etc.   Some artistic higlights included being part of the National Poster Retrospecticus show at Machines with Magnets, making posters, and other stuff, etc. She has work up at the RISD museum for the Outpost Journal release party this Thursday, September 18th 5-9 pm, open to the public! drinx snax n art Here is a pic of the installation!  Now it is Fall, which is a time for new things and nice activities such as apple picking, viewing foliage, and wearing a halloween costume.  Fall is probably her favorite season. She has been spending a lot of time with dogs lately which is quite enjoyable and also has spent a lot of time in the big apple. Here is a pic of her holding a really cute alien dog. XANDER MARRO Pixilation Party! 0 likes 5 views Pixilation Party! Shot in the course of an hour and a half at the last RISD Design the Night Artist Lab. Jeremy Harris made the soundtrack. Carolyn Genari and Maggie Nelson were awesome assistants. Hollis Mickey is such a great co-ordinator. And the performers, obviously were the best in the world. Thank you times a million!  Want to see a bunch of Xander's movies? Go to the Pawtucket Film Festival Sunday September 28th 2pm http://www.thepff.com/schedule/ NINA RUELLE Nina spent her summer teaching herself how to weave, trying to get over her fear of table saws, and hunting for blueberries. She exhibited a piece in Anchor Studio's show, "Freshly Made: Environment," and created a psychedelic pigeon costume for a friend's mini-noise opera. She recently returned from a week of camping in the biggest state, and wishes that she'd managed to bring a caribou back with her to the smallest state. She also has a website! ninaruelle.com ***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 WE AINT GOT TIME TO FUCK AROUND

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WINDOW RHD-RI presents "Pizza World"- A dead body's journey through alternate realities stuffed with paranoia, existential crisis and pizza, by the artists of RHD's Cool Collective. The Cool Collective is happy, strange people fearlessly traversing the outer realm of creativity, consciousness and all your favorite breakfast foods. We are experimental artists and musicians hell bent on having fun and assembling drawings, dreams, sounds, cats, pizza and nightmares into weird realities. The Cool Collective consists of members of Resources for Human Development Rhode Island (RHD-RI). RHD-RI is a non-profit arts-based studio program that serves adults with a range of disabilities. We provide therapy, education and artist management services with a focus on production and community integration. We also organize monthly gallery and performance events and our artists show their work around the country. At RHD-RI, we believe creative expression breaks down barriers between people with and without disabilities and provides our participants with a sense of identity within their community. www.rhd-ri.org Get connected to the weird, wonderful and outside. Like us! Facebook Keyword: RHD-RI NEW BLOOD! We die a little bit each time we bid somebody adieu, but the pain of this miniature death is appeased by excitement about NEW PEOPLE! We're so pleased to be getting to harbor Krissy Abdullah (for the summer) and Nina Ruelle (till we don't know when!). Introductions below (unbeknownst to either of them, they both have things to say about quahogs), and their first library pics are at the bottom of this newsletter.  NINA RUELLE Nina is pleased to be newly nested into the dirt palace. She has been busy hunting for flowers on Valley Street, teaching herself to weave, and figuring out the best way to use her five buckets of shells from winter quahogging. She has dreams of creating colossal embroideries and tiny lamps and wishes she had three more arms to do things with because she's just too damned excited about everything right now. KRISSY ABDULLAH  Krissy Abdullah was raised by alligators in the swamps of the Suwanee, and educated by the merpeople of Weekiwachee, where she received a Bachelors degree in expressive synchronized swimming. Since leaving her Florida native land, Krissy has been spending her summer residency at the Dirt Palace with an intensive study of Don Bousquet, and researching what a Quahog is (she is still not sure). When she’s not busy learning the ways of Rhode Islanders, she locks herself away in the AS220 darkroom, where she cooks up kooky experiments with 16mm film. Or sometimes you can find her in the DP screen printing room, making things like patches for her friends’ band or crazy wallpaper designs. Anyone want their living room wallpapered? Also, Krissy just bought a domain name! But she still hasn’t figured out how to build a website, so in the meantime check her out at krissyabdullah.tumblr.com GO GATORS!!!!!   XANDER MARRO Over the past 5 weeks Xander has been taming the wild beast that is her fabric collection. She's finally got it down to under 50 boxes/milk-crates! As part of this epic re-organization effort Xander also made five new quilts and a movie that form the basis for her installation Quilt Movie/Fabric Theater which is on view right now at the Bell Gallery at Brown University as part of the show Going Nowhere with old/new pals: Peter Glantz, David Udris, Kevin Hooyman, Jenny Nichols, & Tatyana Yanishevsky. Movie Soundtrack by Jeremy Harris http://vimeo.com/97554473 In the spirit of further (late) spring cleaning she put some posters up on the Dirt Palace etsy... After a hiatus her web store has also resumed business. MUFFY BRANDT Muffy has been loving the warmer weather, starting seeds, growing as much as possible on the fire escape, and happy to learn that there was no reason to be intimidated by bulbs. DWRI Leterpress did a phenomenal job hot foil stamping boxes for her witch finger pendants.  The rainbow holographic foil is absolutely swoon worthy, and the drawing byHeather Benjamin is out of control. Muffy is offering a flash sale on her witch finger pendants, a total of 5 discounted for all the witches who aren't rolling in it. https://www.etsy.com/shop/MuffyBrandt lately she's been really psyched about instagram, @muffybrandt see you at the beach! JIEUN REINER Here is a picture of Jieun's plants from above. In jewel news, Jieun has been dabbling in the world of hair pins. Check em out at almanacforjune.etsy.com. ALISON NITKIEWICZ Alison finally has a custom URL: www.alisonnitkiewicz.com ! Soon to be photographed properly and added to her webpage are the following: She made this lamp as a part of Outpost Journal's Hidden Gem Project.  Now hanging in the front stairway of the Dirt Palace!  She also got to make some posters for Whore Paint and Magic Lantern. Contact her atalison.nitkiewicz@gmail.com if interested in one! In other news, Alison just got back from a week long trip to Nova Scotia. It was very beautiful. Here is a picture she took of a scenic vista. PIPPI ZORNOZA Scream Queen headquarters will resume business in August when Pippi returns from 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 KRISSY'S PICK: I break for Quahogs, by Don Boustuet. An obvious pick from the Floridian. But I just can't get over these bizarre jokes! For example: "Channel 36 news has a National Geographic Special on the odd, nomadic movements of Rhode Island television anchor people"..... What??! There's also The quahog walks among us, a sequel! NINA'S PICK: The Pictorial Encyclopedia of Insects An English translation of a 1969 Czechoslovakian insect guide. Includes an all too accurate ode to the moth; "a very injurious pest."

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