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PAINT JOB//black house

DIRT PALACE MAY 2016 REMEMBERING LOUISE NOTE: CHANGED MEMORIAL DATE WE'VE CHANGED THE DATE FOR THE MEMORIAL THAT WE WILL HOLD FOR LOUISE DECURTIS. PLEASE NOTE THE DATE CHANGE. WE WILL GATHER ON HER BIRTHDAY, AUGUST 27TH. PLEASE BE IN TOUCH IF YOU'D LIKE TO PARTICIPATE.   WDPRI PRESENTS...the unveiling of WDPRI, Al's video premiere, the long-awaited release of the Taskmaster/Darnell split CD, and performances by The Powers, Herb Chambers, Feminist Conference, and Taskmaster. A Truly incredible line up! WDPRI is a new Dirt Palace venture broadcasting audio live from the Dirt Palace facade and into Olneyville Square. Come be a part of WDPRI's maiden voyage into the airwaves. Relax across the street in front of Cricket Wireless and the panaderia and listen to the show broadcast LIVE for all to hear and enjoy! Not to be missed! But don't worry folks, even if you do miss it, expect plenty of programming from WDPRI in Summer 2016. Rock on!

WINDOW   APRIL WINDOW ARTIST: MANTON AVENUE PROJECT The Manton Avenue Project (MAP) is a non-profit organization that unites young people living in Providence's Olneyville neighborhood with local theater professionals to create original plays together.  The Manton Avenue Project's mission is to nurture the unique potential of young people living in Olneyville though out-of-school programs focused on playwriting, mentorship, and bringing young people's voices to the stage.  Our window display at the Dirt Palace includes props from our recent play production, Into The Deep: The Narragansett Bay Plays. These plays celebrate the rich diversity and history of Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. We are currently preparing for our next play productions, which will be held in May at the AS220 Blackbox in downtown Providence. Happy Birthday Old Faithful: The National Parks Plays is the culmination of The Manton Avenue Project's Playmaking program. Ten young playwrights, third and forth graders, have each written a play set in one of the United States' 410 National Parks.  Admission is free and open to the public.  Reserve tickets : http://tiny.cc/reservetickets Visit us online : http://mantonavenueproject.org Check us out on Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/TheMantonAvenueProject      MAY WINDOW ARTIST: KRISTINA BROWN KEEP IT UP INSTALLATION BY KRISTINA BROWN MATERIALS PAINT, WOOD, STRING, TIE LINE, PICTURE FRAME, MIRROR, PLASTER, RUBBER GLOVES, WHITE SHIRT, HANGER, TEA POT, IRON, MEAT TENDERIZER, LEATHER BELTS, WOMAN’S RED SHOE, CHILD’S SLIPPER, CAST IRON SKILLET, WISK, WATCH, FIVE STUFFED HEADS, CLOTH, SCREEN PRINTED PAPER AND TEXT.  KRISTINA BROWN IS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST WHOSE WORK TOUCHES ON THEMES OF FEMINIST STRUGGLE, SOCIAL REPRODUCTION, IDENTITY, TIME, AND NAVIGATION. IN “KEEP IT UP” CONCEPTS OF LOVE AND LABOR, PERSONAL HISTORY AND SOCIAL CONTEXT, ARE REPRESENTED, NOT IN OPPOSING DICHOTOMIES, BUT WITHIN A SPECTRUM OF TENSION AMONGST MULTIPLE ELEMENTS.       *****UPDATES***** O HORVATH O is holding on for dear life thru mars retrograde (also thanks beyonce!!!!!) They will be projecting visuals at PVD's next DYKE NIGHT under the name CIRCLE SYMBOL  @ Aurora PVD on Wednesday, May 18th 8pm-1am ❤️ ft. DJ Haram, DJ Precolumbian, CMOV (as Tearglyde) ❤️ PIPPI ZORNOZA How Firm a Foundation 15 views Pippi Zornoza and Rebecca Mitchell performance as part of Luna Loba Parte Dos (for worm moon) Poster by Katrina for the RECTRIX/HOUSE RED COLLABORATION that happened at Capitol Records with an extra sick lineup May 3rd NIEVE CROSS/RECTRIX COLLABORATION UPCOMING June 8th at Dusk with Power Monster Kintaan and False (Minneapolis) DANIELLA BEN-BASSAT Daniella is still working on her CD and doing a lot of mulching in various gardens. She will be performing solo as Taskmaster at the long awaited WDPRI opening ceremony on May 19, and her 2 piece band Mother Tongue will be playing at Tommy's Place on May 28 with Blue Shift, Cream Candles, and Angels in America. Additionally, a 4 piece band that she is in called Wex will be playing in Philadelphia on May 25 at Kung Fu Necktie.   ALISON NITKIEWICZ   Alison will finally be screening her (hopefully) finished video as part of the WDPRI launch onThursday, May 19th !She is also working on the poster and art for AS220's Foo Fest 2016  XANDER MARRO Sometimes illustration/design jobs are just jobs & sometimes they're the best for a variety of reasons including a) I get to draw cool stuff it never would have occurred to me to draw b) the person/people I'm working for with are really smart and have awesome ideas about design c) the content/ideas/politics of I'm being tasked with making a picture around are near and dear to my heart. On rare occasions jobs like these come along that are awesome on all 3 levels! It was a dream to get to letter the text "essays on misogyny and capitalism" & to work with Anne in general. Check out the details on her forthcoming book Body Horror here.   SARAH ROSE LEJEUNE Sarah Rose is spending ten days of May out at the Ox Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan as a Nell Meldahl Scholarship recipient for the 2016 Paper and Book Intensive. Her piece crowdedwas recently published in a special section of PACKET Bi-Weekly Issue #078 curated by Vanessa Castro and Alexandra Wuest. She is still working through the Intergenerationalityedition for Hand Papermaking Magazine, as well as an edition for a Mid America Print Council Biennial Conference portfolio. SR is still teaching the Introduction to Contemporary Papermaking course at Dieu Donné in NYC, NY, assisting artists in the studio there, and this month even found some time for her own paper projects. In any free minute, Sarah Rose has been sewing, expanding her nothing to see here series, and becoming increasingly obsessed with welding.   NINA RUELLE Nina has been continuing to split her time between her own studio in Providence and the fabrication studio at MASS MoCA. She's been busy looking for the magic in the every day and turning it into tiny animations. ***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 Wondering if WDPRI is real? Take a gander at what library books we've been reading. Don't worry though...we have yet to mastermind the technology to broadcast the infamous brown note. But did you know that the crack of a bullwhip is like a mini sonic boom? Anyway we ARE prepared to not take any BS from Cricket wireless!!!! Next stop, off grid in outer space in the future past.

Crack of the whip/// Crystal Witch /// forward to a friend

Mad Hare-y March! April Fool n' Folly Feast

fact or fiction//topsy turvy

DIRT PALACE MARCH 2016  JOKERS ARISE! >:) FOOL FEST COMETH >:) DIRT PALACE FOOLS BRUNCH FUNDRAISER!!!! This Sunday April 3rd, 11am - 3pm (or till food runs out) $7-$12 Sliding scale Guest chef Josh Plotkin DJ Afternoon All proceeds will help fund the Storefront Window Gallery!!! BECOME A PERSON OF THE PALACE! NEW MEMBER OPENING IN JULY Seeking experimental feminist with projects in need of a space for getting things done! Preferably things that will make use of our facilities: LEGAL live/work space! screen printing shop, letterpress, animation stand, music rehearsal room, wood shop, large shared space for building bigger projects, library.  Members are also 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 “The Dirt 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, but we are open to people with short, medium, or long term interest. The room will be opening up in July-- if you are interested getting in touch sooner than later would be better! Send an e-mail to us at dirtpalace@yahoo.com  ALSO !! SUBLET OPPORTUNITY AVAILABLE!! Interested in subletting/being an artist in residence at the Dirt Palace for the month of July?!? Email iadorepippi at gmail dot com for details!!!! May 21st has been set as a date for the memorial that we will be holding for Louise Butler DeCurtis who passed away last fall. We are hoping to get the word out to her old friends near and far, as well as compile as many photos and images of her work as possible. Please be in touch for more info, or if you'd like to help us with planning.

WINDOW FEBRUARY WINDOW ARTIST: FRANCESCA CARUSO True to February, I had been particularly stressed and sad leading up to and during the creation of this piece. I was reading Jorodowsky’s Manual of Psychomagic wherein he prescribes various rituals using a combination of psychoanalysis, tarot, and shamanic practices to help heal spiritual afflictions. It reads like a spellbook listing the problem followed by suggested remedies, starting with difficult relationships to one’s family, childhood, and core identity and branching out from there. I stopped on a ritual for the “devaluation of the female.” Jodorowsky briefly acknowledges the Freudian trope of the female inferiority complex then prescribes various things from walking around with gold coins in your vagina, to painting a self portrait with your menstrual blood on a white sheet and displaying it in a prominent area of the home for guests to see. On every level the dirt palace was an ideal home. Normally averse to direct representation of myself, I was surprised by the alchemical truth I found in this exercise. Not only did I feel very proud of my portrait- I really wanted people to see it. The other half of the piece incorporated grid printed fabric and some snakes I had been playing with for weeks with no real enthusiasm or direction. It ended up a tribute to the multi dimensional and psychologically expansive nature of Jorodowsky’s films.  facartist.com *****UPDATES***** Dirt Palace has a new member Sarah Rose Lejeune!! SARAH ROSE LEJEUNE Sarah rose is an (overly) nostalgic papermaker, printmaker and sculptor who recently moved back to providence, RI. she spends most of her time hiding, sewing, and writing letters. Sarah Rose is currently working with artist Joan Hall on a collaborative edition for Hand Papermaking Magazine’s twelfth limited edition portfolio project. More of SR’s work can be found at http://www.sarahroselejeune.com/. XANDER MARRO Xander has been making masks all summer, fall & winter and now for spring, you can see them! She'll be showing a selection at the Fuller Craft Museum as part of the showCounterCraft: Voices of the Indie Craft Community, curated by Faythe Levine. It opens May 7th and runs through July 10th. DANIELLA BEN-BASSAT Daniella is still working on her album.. She also made a bunch of t-shirts about musicals. If you like musicals or are interested in phantoms, cats, or characters named Cosette please click here: http://danbbass.storenvy.com JIEUN REINER Jieun has been working on new stuff, filling orders, and writing some short fiction. Hopefully more on that next month! Here is a photo of some newly finished custom ~*tiny*~ hair pieces (along side regular/non-custom ones) for ~*dolls*~ soon to be debuted in a hit NBC tv show…  O HORVATH O has a page in merritt kopas' excellent anthology/chapbook INTERNET MURDER REVENGE FANTASY, now available for download at a-dire-fawn.itch.io/imrf ! PIPPI ZORNOZA RECTRIX PERFORMANCE 02.27.16 Photo by Joseph Mauro Pippi Collaborated with Rebecca Mitchell this past Sunday at the AS220 Black box for LUNA LOBA Parte Dos: For the Worm Moon NINA RUELLE Nina's been learning that sometimes you just never know what's gonna happen next.   ALISON NITKIEWICZ Al went on a vacation from hell, but it was very beautiful. ***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 This month's hi-lite is the comix collection TWISTED SISTERS, edited by Diane Noomin...... a collection of underground cartoonists featuring some of the most powerful voices in the 90's comic scene including Phoebe Gloeckner, Julie Doucet and Krystine Kryttre (whose work is shown below!)

reveal yr future///revel in past/// forward to a friend

DISPATCH FROM DESTITUTE WEIRDWYNTER

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DIRT PALACE FEBRUARY 2016 THE TWILIGHT ZONE IN BETWEEN WINTER AND SPRING MIGHT BE MELTING OUR MINDS A LIL... We're looking for a last-minute short-term subletter! Shoot Nina an email at ninaruelle@gmail.com. Her room and studio could be yours for the month of March!

WINDOW   JANUARY WINDOW ARTIST: NORLAN OLIVO Norlan Olivo is a Providence based artist, photographer, educator and musician. He is currently earning his BFA in Photography from The Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and will graduate in May. An arts educator, Norlan has taught photography to youth and adults at local arts organizations AS220 and New Urban Arts. In 2012 Norlan's photography was featured in "Moving", a public arts project in partnership with Rhode Island State Public Transit Authority, where Norlan and his students had their photos displayed on the outside and inside of a RIPTA bus. An internationally touring musician, Norlan has performed in What Cheer Brigade, political punk band The Downtown Boys, and as a DJ going under the name Dj Cathawk. The Downtown Boys were named "2015's most exciting punk band" by Rolling Stone Magazine and have performed on Democracy Now! Norlan has musical releases on Don Giovani Records, Sister Polygon, and Anchor Brain Records, and his projects have been written about in Stereogum, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, the Providence Journal, Spin, and VICE. https://downtownboys.bandcamp.com/ http://sisterpolygonrecords.bigcartel.com/artist/downtown-boys http://dongiovannirecords.com/band/downtown-boys *****UPDATES*****   DANIELLA BEN-BASSAT Working on a musical split CD with herself. Will be performing as Taskmaster on 2/19 at Tommy's Place with Caethua, Colby Nathan, and Tom Kovacevic.  Also working on some new musical themed t-shirts for Club Darnell. Stay tuned.   PIPPI ZORNOZA   RECTRIX WILL BE PERFORMING 2/27 WITH TABOO AND DIABOLICAL FIEND AT OUT OF SIGHT (formerly Boys Town) VVLTVRE'S 2009 EP, My Will is to Self Destruct Is being released by ANNIHILVS this spring. Pre-orders available HERE   NINA RUELLE So far, Nina's spent February in North Adams working as an over-hire on MASS MoCA's art fabrication crew. It's been surprisingly fun moving railroad ties and solid steel blocks around a football-field-sized gallery, but she's looking forward to coming back home soon! She also currently has artwork in two shows in Rhode Island. Modern Archaeolgy, at T.F. Green's Greenspace Gallery, will be on view until May 1st. Future Traditions: A Furniture & Textile Show, at the Pawtucket Arts Collaborative Gallery, will be on view until March 3rd. And last but not least, Nina's looking for a subletter this Spring! Shoot her an email at ninaruelle@gmail.com. Her room and studio could be yours, as soon as March 1st!   ERINA DAVIDSON   Erina has been spending the last 2 months at DP making shirts and prints to raise donations for Phoenix House and Gearing Up (PHL), two non-profit organizations that provide rehabilitation programs as well as educational resources to those afflicted by drug addiction. At the end of the project, $500 was donated to Phoenix House and $1000 was donated to Gearing Up. On March 1st, she will be relocating to Oakland, CA to give the west coast a shot. She is bummed out the wazoo to leave because DP is incredible. SO! E-mail Nina (ninaruelle@gmail.com) to have the spring time of your life (room + studio available March 1st) !! XANDER MARRO Starting a fellowship at the RISD Museum. Read about it here in ArtForum. Working on prints/illustrations for Sussy Santana's forthcoming book ENA.   JIEUN REINER Jieun recently took a short trip to the overwhelmingly beautiful west Texas- here are some photos from Big Bend Natl Park and Sonora Caverns. Back in Providence, she has a new project in the works… stay tuned~ *_*   ALISON NITKIEWICZ Alison is still working on a short film, which will mostly likely be screened in late April! *stay tuned* O HORVATH O is working hard........or hardly working............desiccating............dreaming of spring...............???????????????????????????????????????????????????   ***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 This month's find is a Dungeons and Dragons Choose Yr Own Adventure style book/game called CIRCUS OF FEAR! From the back cover..... "YOU KNOW TOO MUCH! You learn that a cruel circus owner plans to take over the country. Somehow you must get away and expose his scheme. What will YOU do?" Doesn't sound so bad to me.........

KEEP IT CLEAN /// SWEEP IT, QUEEN /// forward to a friend