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DIRT PALACE NOVEMBER 2021       OPEN HOUSE!!! TUESDAY NOV 16th 4:30 - 6pm (NO RSVP required) Followed by short presentations 6pm - 7pm (RSVP) from our current WCH Artists in residence! Come check out the house and the open studios of this November residency!!  Please be vaxxxed and masked! Open house (4:30-6) is open to all, but we have extremely limited capacity for the presentations (6p-7p) and only a few chairs left. RSVP to dirt palace public projects at gmail dot com to RSVP.     MASKED LIVE SHOW!!! DIRT PALACE FRIDAY NOV 19th 8:30pm - 12am $$7-15 Many Many Girls (NYC) New noise project with Ani from Palberta & Riley of Neuter / Parasite Val Martino (PVD) Bonnie Jones (PVD/BAL) Suicide Magnets (PVD) Isabella & DJ Celestine spinning records in between sets Please be vaxxxed and masked! Doors @ 8 pm, music starts @ 9 pm      2022 Wedding Cake House Winter Residency Application now live! We're hosting 3, 8-9 day group residencies January - the beginning of April. Applications open through November 29th.  For more information, please read our  Info and FAQ HERE Link to Apply HERE

WINDOW   NOVEMBER WINDOW ARTIST: EVANS MOLINA Evans Molina Fernandez is a multidisciplinary artist that experiments in the mediums of painting, performance, music/sound, and experimental video.  Evans was born in Cuba in 1976 and was raised in an environment of artists, dancers, and musicians of Cuban culture. Since he was a child, he explored performance, dance and music. He studied and performed in the House of Culture Square and formed part of the National Folkloric Collective.  He studied historic restoration and painting in Cuba, which led to his work restoring historical monuments throughout Old Havana. He also studied scriptwriting and film at the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT), as well as the Cuban Institute of Cinematography and Art (ICAIC) Evans Molina was one of the founders of the Green Brigade Project in 2002. This was a multidisciplinary initiative that lasted five years; it created concerts and unified artists in Cuba through communal art exhibits and performances on the streets as well as participation in significant events such as the International Book Fair. Evans is also a videographer and performer; he uses guerrilla documentary, dance and performance as educational tools. His short film titled “Tiempo” was honored by Casa Encendida in Madrid, Spain, in 2003, and received mention in the Independent Film Festival in Havana, Cuba, in 2004, as well as in the Independent Film Festival in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. In November 2004, he immigrated to the U.S. Life outside of Cuba has inspired Evans to return to his cultural roots with love and nostalgia. His paintings are reflections of this, converted into abstract forms. He is inspired by themes such as heritage, ritual, immigration, family, folklore, and legend. Evans strives to create cultural exchange. He has participated in numerous exhibitions, events, and festivals in Cuba, Spain, Poland, and the United States. In 2011, Evans founded Gallery La Naive, an international and multidisciplinary gallery that featured the work of contemporary artists from Cuba and the United States, in Providence, RI,  Evans continues to work as an independent artist taking on a social and educational role by performing in various schools, cultural centers, and community spaces, using art as a form of social medicine.   The Storefront Window Gallery project is made possible in part by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.   UPDATES!! NATASHA BRENNAN Hello internet! I've been spending time listening to the radiators start to make sweet noises around the house and drawing a lot in my sketchbook. Yesterday, the man in front of me at Price Rite bought 100 pomegranates; literally 100- he counted them in front of me. I don't like him, though, he was rude to the cashier. I've spent the last 24 hours speculating what he does with the pomegranates. Does he freeze all the seeds in an industrial meat freezer in his basement? Or does he make pomegranate juice and then drink it until it runs out and he has to go back to Price Rite and annoy another staff member? He must have the most pomegranates of anyone in Providence. In other news, I've been teaching two art classes along with working at the bakery so I feel like the fall has been very busy and super wonderful. I'm looking forward to the wintery days of January. Maybe a snowstorm or two.  ELLEN (LN) FOSTER Hi there! As I hunker down for the cold weather at dirt palace, I've been continuing to settle and organize my life -- it's been feeling good! In October I made two new mixes for the radio show “Maximum Thought” on WKDU 91.7 in Philadelphia. You can listen to the mixes on my soundcloud at the links below: Rainy Day Mix Hard Mix Some of my live recordings (using viola & voice) are on that soundcloud as well -- check them out. Hopefully some iteration of them will make their way onto a tape soon. Over the past few months I've been continuing to work on screen print experiments, layering, and emergent patterns. During my extended, sometimes late-nite hangs in the print studio, I've been noticing accidental (perhaps?) imagery in the screenprint bathroom floor as well. Can you see the witch troll that I see in the patterns below? : A prize for anyone who can. Email me at el.fostek@gmail.com with your outlines and guesses. Could be that I just have witch trolls on the brain. 'Tis the season of course. I do love fall, costumery, Halloween time, having fires, apple cider donuts, and watching the full moon rise. Here is a collection of images from some recent autumnal moments:   I have also been helping to set up the show on November 19th – which is just around the corner! Check out the updates above for more details on that. KAI VAN VLACK  Hello hello. I spent October working on new songs and playing with other people for the first time in a while. It is such a pleasure to be in a room making a racket with my friends again. Reading/Listening/Seeing Inés Estrada - Impatience  Sexy surreal comics about death and punk Closer - Within One Stem Bleak but moving post-hardcore poetry recitations. Mexic-Art Museum - MX 21-RESISTANCE, REAFFIRMATION & RESILIENCE Heartbreaking meditation on past and future revolutionaries of Mexico in the context of the anniversaries of the fall of Tenochtitlán (500 years) and the independence of Mexico (200 years). Best of October: JOSEPHINE DEVANBU "Opera," Carved Ivory Soap, 2021. XANDER MARRO was trying to stop making forms but failed. because it is Autumn & there's so much to ask about so much beauty to soak in Here's a new one  included in this one is a highly scientific ranked choice poll of root vegetables. Do you have edible root opinions? a root that you want to root for? this is your chance.  PIPPI ZORNOZA RECTRIX release - Desperate Measure now out on Dead Gods! Purchase one HERE   ****************************** 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 Sweet Zines from Gaby Hurtado-Ramos and Xander Marro       ****************************** BULLETIN BOARD   *************************** Happy Birthday ********************** Angela DiVeglia  ********************** 🎃💕🎂🍰🧁🍨🎂🍰🧁🎃 ****************************

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DIRT PALACE SEPTEMBER 2021     INTERLACE PROJECT GRANTS DUE 11:59PM SUNDAY OCT. 3rd These grants range from $2000 to $6000 and fund visual art projects. ​ Interlace prioritizes projects that: ​ Facilitate the making of visual art;  Incorporate collaboration; and Engage Providence-area communities, whether in process or presentation.  To learn more and to apply, visit  Interlacefund.org/projectgrants Interlace Grant Fund is part of the regional regranting program supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation

WINDOW   SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER WINDOW ARTIST: AGONZA As my home town Born and raised in Olneyville, I put on earlier paintings in the display to show my dedication and love for what and who inspired me. As one of my paintings is my guarding angel in which I would always put above my bed. I now gladly put in the heart of Olneyville to protect my people.  "Life is a big canvas is what you make of it." My name is AGONZA. I was born in Providence, Rhode Island in the Manton projects. I spent my teenage years living in the Dominican Republic, before moving back to New England. Throughout my life, I’ve suffered culturally, economically, and socially. Due to this, I’ve battled severe depression, PTSD, and PCOS which has heavily influenced my art. I believe as human beings our experiences allow us to be able to teach others what perspectives and understandings we have learned from life. I express myself through art, as I believe art is the best way to communicate a story without words. Every art piece I have created in my life has a purpose and a story. Throughout my career I have displayed my work in multiple art shows in New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. In 2017 and 2018 I won three People's Choice Awards between the Salem Mural Slam and El Punto in Salem MA. I have been featured on the front pages of Providence, Boston Glode, Her Rhody RI monthly, URI Magazine, and many more throughout New England. Now I am a main board member of TAC with the focus to help that urban community rise with the power of Art. I believe in the transformational power of art. It has helped me to live my truest life. I believe that art can change people and communities. As an artist, the best feeling is having viewers of all ages and ethnicities be able to sit together, as a community, in front of your work and relate to it, smile, and momentarily lose themselves in the experience. Public art creates those opportunities for all. The Storefront Window Gallery project is made possible in part by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.   UPDATES!! YSANEL TORRES YSANEL's recent collection of paintings called "Me Fui" was exhibited last month and she's been getting back into mural making. She worked on the one in the photo above at the Dirt Palace :) Learn more about her commission for Lowe's Centennial Celebration on her website YSANEL.com/press or go see it in person at the Lowe's located on Quaker Lane in Warwick, RI.  NATASHA BRENNAN Hello world! I've been reading and drawing and soaking in the last bits of sun. We're making a lot of pumpkin spice lattes at work and that's when you know it's truly autumn. Certain people have expressed doubts about my plans to build a papier mache gazebo which only means I must forge ahead. SO... if you have any tips on papier mache for the outdoors- please email me natashabrennan15@gmail.com or send mail to 14 Olneyville Square- I will write back I promise.  :) Also, I'll be tabling at RISD craft on benefit street (from in front of the Atheneum to like Carr Haus, I think) on October 9th!!! I'll have lots of things like the ones pictured above: tote bags, some shirts, lots of prints, and little books ! Come by and say hi if you want to!  ELLEN (LN) FOSTER Over the past few weeks, I’ve been focusing some energy on my first screen-print and playing around with that medium. The intention has been more “what exposure times do I need for this specific frosted tracing paper // transparency? Will it even work? What does it feel like to flood the screen and then pull it … over and over again?” rather than “this image is exactly what I set out to do from the get-go.” So, I have ended up doing a lot of layering and playing around with the medium. There is a specific image that (I hope?) will arise out of from some of these runs, but I’m sharing an image of one layered print with no real “logic” (except my own internal feelings). Maybe you’ll find your own imagery and feelings. Otherwise, this past month I DJ'd another event in Philly at a skate park and worked on various sounds projects to share in the near future. I have also been spending some serious time at the Providence downtown rink cutting shapes with my blades and hoping for the extended version of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” plays so I can skate-dance hard. KAI VAN VLACK  Hi hi hello imaynalla otra vez! This month I officially moved into the Dirt Palace as a resident. I am overjoyed to be staying and so excited to be a part of this household/space/community. I spent September settling into my space here and working on three secret collaborative projects that should materialize over the next couple of months. Sorry that's all for now! I owe you three secrets. Best of September: JOSEPHINE DEVANBU Time's up. (More Ivory Soap.)    XANDER MARRO On October 9th, X will be asking questions & encouraging audience members to ask questions in conversation with Tyler Hubby, director of Completely in the Present, a documentary about Tony Conrad - below is info about the event - check out The Machines website for detailed info on their COVID policy Tony Conrad was legend of the minimalism movement in film, and an early co-conspirator with John Cale and Lamont Young who went on to co-found the Velvet Underground and push the boundaries of avant-jazz. A composer, filmmaker, educator and polyglot master of many, Tony epitomizes an idiosyncratic life lived joyfully in service of pioneering new frontiers in expression. Completely in the Present is a collection of materials recorded over about twenty years.  The film's director, Tyler Hubby, drew on a rich archive of videos presenting the artist at work and on private collections of Tony and his friends. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director Tyler Hubby who has also worked on The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Bad Brains: Band in DC, Lost Angels and Desolation Center, and has worked with experimental musician from across the spectrum of scenes and micromovements for decades as a photographer, writer, and filmmaker. Inventor and local multimedia artists Xander Marro, of Dirt Palace and many many other local and wide ranging ventures will be joining Tyler on stage for the discussion. Musical guests Lydia Lunch + Tim Dahl, and Providence Research Ensemble will be playing two collaborative musical sets after the Q&A in the spirit of the late Conrad. Lydia Lunch needs almost no introduction, with her seminal work in Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and the Transgressive Cinema movement, and her more recent musical work with Retrovirus. Tim Dahl plays with Lydia in Retrovirus and has played in a wide gamut of noise and avant jazz acts with everyone from Marc Ribot to Weasel Walter. Providence Research Ensemble is a project of composer JPA Falzone and plays experimental and avant-garde musical stemming from classical and early music traditions, and has worked extensively with Providence Research Ensemble which he founded in 2014. They will be playing alongside abstract film provided by local legend Dave Fischer. Doors at 6:30 PM $25 PIPPI ZORNOZA making bells raising hells Songbooks (and more) are for sale via Spring/Break  (Click this link to buy a songbook!)   ****************************** Library Hi-Lites! 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