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⚜ October 🎃 2025 NEWSLETTER ⚜ UPCOMING! DIRT PALACE CLASSIC RESIDENCY APPLICATION! Artist in resident opening at Dirt Palace Classic for January 1st! Residencies are for a 1 year term with the opportunity to renew for another 2 terms. Read more about the opportunity on our Website Applications due October 21st. Residencies offer artists: Ample live and work space at a below-market-rate rent (each artist has an upstairs bedroom large enough to use for projects as well as a downstairs work studio in the flexible floor plan “big room”) Facility access: screenprint and letterpress studio, music practice space, wood shop, library Support & dialog with fellow artists-in-residence, as well as community and friends of the Dirt Palace such as board members and alumni.  Periodic opportunities to show work/have work featured To learn how to apply check out our website at dirtpalaceclassic - apply THERE ARE A FEW STEPS, SO DON’T WAIT TILL THE LAST MINUTE! WEDDING CAKE HOUSE 2026 WINTER - SUMER RESIDENCIES! The Wedding Cake House offers short term, project based residencies with a focus on mid-career artists. This coming season we are only taking applications for our Spring Duo residencies and our Family Teen, Family Youth, & Caregiver Residency. We are not taking applications for our regular group AIR programming at this time. We are limiting applications to artists who live in New England. Artists from Rhode Island are strongly encouraged to apply. Info HERE WINDOW GALLERY INTERVIEW WITH WINDOW ARTIST SPOCKA SUMMA IN CONVERSATION WITH ARTIST DS KINSEL Just a couple more days to see Spocka’s installation in the Dirt Palace window! Want to know more about the work? Check out the interview between Spocka Summa and DS Kinsel up on our blog now! Spocka Summa is a Nigerian / African American artist born, raised and currently resides in Providence RI. Spocka a musician, multi- media artist and curator. He is also the creator of Anti- Robot Club & co - owner of Public Shop & gallery. Using his skill set as a way for self expression and as a platform for other creatives. WORD SHELTER October - November Word Shelter artist: Sage Morgan Hubbard Sage Morgan-Hubbard, BA Brown University,  MA+ with Ph.D. coursework in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, is an educator, public speaker, engaged scholar, and organizer who co-curates inclusive diverse public spaces for lifelong living and learning for all people. She is the current Director of Learning and Engagement at the Museum of African American History of Boston and Nantucket. An award-winning poet, social justice artist, and activist, she has worked at four colleges and six museums, four of which are Smithsonian museums including the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), and the National Museum of American History (NMAH). She was the inaugural Ford W. Bell Education Fellow at the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), and has taught students from pre-K through senior citizens- online, incarcerated, and everything in between. Sage uses her creative lens to make sure that everyone has the multimedia tools of poetry, performance, storytelling, collage, history, and curriculum they need to bring their dreams and ideas to life. She loves aqua aerobics, her two spirited children, her Jindo dog Broch A. Lee, and her middle name, Xaxua, which is an onomatopoeia meaning the rustling of the leaves in the wind. AIR UPDATES!!! Ziggy Smith I learned how to screen print at the last work day! I came out pretty cool, I will be adding this skill to my practice. Natalie Robertson Howdy ya’ll! I don’t have a ton of updates, but I did play my very first solo set with guitar/voice/electronics in early September after a few years of fleshing out my sonic universe in secrecy. I was quite happy with the process and result, and I am open to playing more shows! I’ve started using my studio space more for fixing things than making art, and I am looking for paid tasks and skill-share opportunities (or a legitimate career-job). Please contact me if you have: -cabbages or other fermentable or botanical matter -people desiring a guitar+ instructor -broken or spare tape decks or related parts & electronics -in general need a kind and able-bodied individual for a task And please let me know if you’d like to see my full resume! Be well friends, Natalie Q (John-Francis Quiñonez) Howdy Dirt-Court! Do you like this cool nickname? I sure hope so! Q here, and feeling so grateful to be slithering ever closer to the thinning of the veils. Who needs a  t h i c k  veil? Not me! Yuck! As the temp gets degree-by-degree cooler, I am getting exponentially more EXCITED for some things coming up this Fall >>>>>>>>> 🐇 OCTOBER 15th at LOST BAG 🐇 SWEET! (a multidisciplinary reading series) is BACK 🐇 with sets from Local Luminaries ~ Xander Marro, Matthew Lawrence, & Lindsey Pannor 🐇 Doors 7, Starts 730 ~ $10 NOTAFLOF 🐇 NOVEMBER 1st through 9th ~ I AM GOING ON TOUR 🐇 I’ll be reading poems ‘cross the big middle of country 🐇 If you have friends in the following cities I would be so grateful if you sent them to say hello… 🐇 Phoenix, AZ ~ Nov 1st at Wasted Ink Zine Distro 🐇 Kansas City, MO ~ Nov 5th at Blip Coffee Roasters 🐇 Chicago, IL ~ Nov 7th at Comfort Station Logan Sq. 🐇 Buffalo, NY ~ Nov 8th at Fitz Books & Waffles 🐇 Turner Falls, MA ~ Nov 9th Unnameable Books 🐇 Potentially there will be a couple more dates including Omaha, and Santa Fe! 🐇 SUNDAES are BACK at BIG FEELING ICE CREAM 🐇 Starting THURSDAY OCT 16th ~ for ONE NIGHT ONLY (to start) 🐇 We also will have a SPECIAL FUNDRAISING FLAVOR for our Neighbors at NEW URBAN ARTS ~ Starting October 9! 🐇 See you at 769 Wesminster St. in Providence, RI And some related updates… 🐇 I’ve Updated my Website: www.johnfrancisquinonez.com 🐇 With a STORE that is LIVE ~ Mostly containing some limited Risograph Zines! 🐇 This process felt needlessly challenging, but hey! 🐇 I’ll be releasing a NEW COLLECTION OF POEMS AND ZINES this Fall, with a special Release show in January HOPE TO SEE YOU SOON ~ STAY SWEET! Naffisatou Koulibaly The countdown to my eviction has begun! At the time of writing this, I have 85 days to pack it up and get out! (I’m kidding about the eviction part but, serious about having to pack it up and get out!) It’s been three years for me here at Dirt Palace. I can’t even begin to rationalize the last three years of my life. I’m currently deep in the throws of preparing for this transition out of DP. This entails a LOT of organizing because I have a great talent of compiling unnecessary shit; physical and non-physical. Dirt Palace has changed my life in so many ways. I imagine the next 3 months will be deeply introspective for me. I already have found myself in deep reflection about the last chapter of my life. I’m scared for it to be ending, but I’m excited for what’s on the other side! Before leaving DP, I’ll finish one last project. Details to come! Find me on instagram @n.affisatou @provslam ses I was recently informed that creepy chan is a meme from like… probably over 20 years ago now so making flash of her might not be “relevant” or “cool.” Despite this hardship, Allison Harvard HAS made an appearance on a flash sheet and that is where she will remain <3 I have been tattooing a bunch in these months! I’ve gotten to do some really fun customs and flash that I’ve been excited about! Reconnected with an old friend and got to tattoo her which was so cool?? Crazy that time passes and people are often still there. Love how long this life will hopefully be! Been feeling kind of.. Blocked. Still trying to draw things and doodle, but overall… what should I draw? What am I excited to draw? Figuring it out! Been dealing with health stuff for a little while and that is definitely not helping with All That! Though usually that tends to feel inspiring in its own way? Grieving my body, but can’t give up! Things can get better? Haunted house season is Here! I am having a lot of fun doing the airbrush makeup again. It’s such a fun way to get some of the creative juices out! Keep not taking photos of other people’s makeup so the archive is thin, but know that it Is Happening! Been doing gel nails! Its really fun to hang and talk with my friends while I paint their nails. I love my connections! Fran is really into it and its exciting to do an art thing in common. I got a new tattoo machine after.. So many years! It feels great and works so nice. Happy to finally not have to Put Up with my machine!! It’s taking a little getting used to because its wider, but overall experiencing the positives of having a machine with set stroke sizes and that doesn’t need my power supply to be up to a million volts just to function. Who knew that sometimes getting better equipment can be good… i must be the first to have discovered this. This is the riveting stuff you come to me for! My October books are OPEN!! Come get a tattoo<3 book here :3 Xander Marro Coming up fast: A reading at Sweet at Lost bag with Matthew Lawrence & Lindsey Pannor (see Q’s post) next Wednesday. Maybe I will read a story about how Pippi & I became friends because she would be mortified to be in the room for this and probably would heckle me, but since she’ll be in like Germany or something, fair game!! hahahahah… AND Nov 6th at 2220 Arts, yes you’re reading that right - not AS220, but another place in LOS ANGELES with an extra “2”- I’ll be showing some films!  Hot off the Internet a new Wild Goose Chase!  ROSE ISLAND: 35% bigger at low tide in 1898. (obviously a reference to Hillary Treadwell’s classic T-shirt) Pippi Zornoza HARPY is on tour right now in Central Europe after performing at Skaņu Mežs festival in Riga Latvia. Tour dates below! WCH WORK EXCHANGE AIR Cole Bespalko Hello! Here are a couple of Paintings that I worked on last month Reg/ina Gutierrez Some pictures from* FANG FLASH my first grillz pop up this past weekend at Greenestone Studios: vintage shop. I was taking mouth impressions on site & dgt.studios was capturing conversation with clients around their relationship to grillz. The first mural panel reads: masayang masaya na kami na nandito ka na. ”We are so happy you are here* in Tagalog. ·̩̩̥͙＊*•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚ BULLETIN BOARD ˚*•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚＊·̩̩̥͙ LIBRARY HI_LITE!!!!! MALL BRAT New Library Donation from local poet Laura Marie Marciano!!!! SATURDAY October 11th - awesome Art show alert ODD-KIN presents LoafHead, a new exhibition by Portuguese artist Hugo Brazão (b. 1989), shown alongside a selection of zines from the Dirt Palace Zine Library. SUNDAY October 12th - We’re having a super low key come by and look at the library sesh - email us at dirtpalacepublicprojects@gmail.com for deets Are you a ceramics artist and need one of these things? Talk to PVD Things, the tool library next door to us DP Photo Pheed//WCH/// forward to a friend