Wood turner John Buscaglia’s work is highlighted in the current Rhode Island Monthly publication Home Design.

Give a gift of art this holiday season!

A wide array of art events are happening all over Rhode Island! Here are the galleries and events where HopArts artists are exhibiting this holiday season. Thank you for your support of the arts this year.

NINA BRIGGS, DIANA SARTOR

The Artists Cooperative of Westerly, Holiday Show and Charitable Appeal, Wednesday, December 3 through Sunday January 4, Open Wednesday thru Saturday 11-7, Sunday 1-5. westerlyarts.com, 7 Canal Street, Westerly, RI | 401.596.2221

RICHARD HEINES

Deblois Gallery, Holiday Fine Arts & Crafts Show, Through December 24th, Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Sunday 1 – 5 pm, Open Thursday Nights, December 4, 11 & 18, 5 – 8 PM.  debloisgallery.com,  134 Aquidneck Avenue, Middletown, RI 02842

Charlestown Gallery, 5000 South County Trail, Charlestown, RI 401.364.0120, charlestowngalleryri.com.

Courtyard GalleryArt for the Heart and Home, Courtyard Gallery, now through Jan. 13th; 12 Water Street, Mystic, CT, 860.536.5059 courtyardgallerymystic.com

SUSAN SHAW

Holiday Open House, Shaw Pottery, December 13th, 11 am – 5 pm. 7 Corey Trail, Wyoming, RI 401.539.3009,  susanshawpottery.com

Charlestown Gallery, 5000 South County Trail, Charlestown, RI 401.364.0120, charlestowngalleryri.com. Ongoing exhibit of ceramics and paintings.

Art for the Heart and Home, Courtyard Gallery, now through Jan. 13th; 12 Water Street, Mystic, CT, 860.536.5059 courtyardgallerymystic.com

Holiday Gift Show, Mystic Arts Center, now through Dec. 31st; 9 Water Street, Mystic CT 860.536.7601, mysticarts.org

110th Little Picture Show, Providence Art Club, now thru December 23rd; 11 Thomas Street, Providence, RI. 401.331.1114 providenceartclub.org

Les Petits Ouevres (Little Picture Show), Spring Bull Gallery, opens December 6th and continues through December;  55 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, RI 401. 849.9166, springbullgallery.com

Artists for the Bay, Save the Bay, opens Dec. 4th and continues to Jan. 31; 100 Save The Bay Drive, Prov., RI 401.272.3540 savebay.org

44th Annual Holiday Sale, South County Art Association, now to Dec. 20th; 2587 Kingstown Road, Kingston, RI 401.783-2195, southcountyart.org

LAURA TRAVIS

A Brigid Cross in the kitchen or over the door is emblematic of Irish hospitality. These come wrapped and ready to give, to make the perfect hostess gift for all your ‘visits’.  Order up to December 19 for Christmas delivery from my Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/LauraTravisCarving

Coming in January: Candita Clayton is curating a NetWorks RI Retrospective slated for January 17th through March 14th 2015. The show will be convened at The DeDee Shattuck Gallery in Westport, MA.

KIM VREDENBURG

Foundry Artists Association, Holiday Show, Opening Reception: Thursday, December 4th, 5-9pm; Show and Sale: Friday, December 5th, 12-8pm; Saturday, December 6th, 10-6pm; Sunday, December 7th, 10-6pm; Friday, December 12th, 12-8pm; Saturday, December 13th, 10-6pm; Sunday, December 14th, 10-6pm.  The Pawtucket Armory Center for the Arts, 172 Exchange Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860

A Change in Scene – Shifting Perspectives
The September Show at ACGOW
Open Now through September 28th

Featured Artists: John Fast and Nina Briggs
Meet the artists at the Opening Reception on Friday, September 5th from 5 – 8 PM.

In “A Change of Scene“, work by featured artists John Fast and Nina Briggs, reflects shifting seasons as well as perspectives. Visitors are invited to meet the artists at the show’s Opening Reception on Friday, September 5, from 5 to 8 PM.

Featured artist Nina Briggs creates stoneware and hollow porcelain pendants embellished with lustrous glazes and lyrical images sculpted with precious metal clay. Work on display includes ivory and camelian glazed pendants traced with intricate floral imagery. Daily walks in nature inspire and energize the artist, whose work and artistic process reflects nature’s slowly shifting rhythms, forms, and colors. She savors the seasons’ gradual changes, says Ms. Briggs, “slowly moving from the dark tree trunks of winter to the feathery greens of spring. Then to the large and dark green leaves, a change so slow, it’s barely noticed. Moving into autumn, the leaves become lacy again, but from loss, not growth. And, in a way, that is how I work. Lots of slow, deliberate moves before any change is visible.”

More on Nina Briggs:
Ms. Briggs’ work has been featured in juried shows and galleries all over the Northeast, and her memberships include the Providence Art Club, the Courthouse Center of the Arts, the Precious Metal Clay (PMC) Guild, a national association of artists, teaching and developing the use of precious metal clay, and the Artists’ Cooperative Gallery of Westerly. Also an expert of the dragonfly, the artist is currently illustrating “The Dragonflies and Damselflies of Rhode Island,” to be published by the RI Department of Environmental Management. Ms. Briggs pioneered using a hydraulic press and developed mold making for production of certain elements in jewelry design. The artist teaches workshops to artists on technical and artistic uses of precious metal clay in various applications. She lives and works in Wakefield, RI.

The Artists Cooperative of Westerly
7 Canal Street, Westerly, RI | 401.596.2221
Open Wednesday thru Saturday 11-7, Sunday 1-5