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through inclusion of everything from fine arts and handicrafts, jewelry, classes and workshops, museum memberships and performance tickets. A truly unique arts advocacy initiative, Buy Arts allows you to wear your support of the arts on your sleeve (or wherever else you choose to pin it). Between the participating galleries, RISD alumni sale, classes at AS220, and upcoming performances at PPAC, the Creative Capitol has got something for everyone on my list. Looking for an art aficionado? A year’s membership to the RISD Museum will have them thanking you all year long. Know an aspiring photographer? Sign them up for darkroom classes at AS220. Having trouble shopping for the person who has everything? I guarantee you’ll find something that suits even the most eclectic tastes at RISD’s annual alumni sale. With all of this holiday shopping, you’re bound to come across a few things you fall in love with. Go ahead, treat yourself. You deserve it. buyartprovidence.com.
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Art campaign – it’s a way to give local and tell everyone that you did. Following an open submission and juried selection process, the city commissions five local artists to design special limited edition ‘I Buy Art’ buttons. Then distributed to a wide variety of local galleries, arts associations, businesses, and individual artists alike, the buttons are included with your all of your holiday art purchases, big and small. This year’s collector’s pins feature designs by local artists Heather Annis, Maria DiFranco, Alison Paul, Quintín Rivera Toro and Matthew Underwood. Since it’s inception, Buy Art Providence has met with great enthusiasm from the local creative community, featuring a steadily growing contingency of participating retailers and an engaged public audience. “We are thrilled about how five years on, people still anticipate and covet the new series of art advocacy buttons each season,” says Program Director Margie Butler. She describes the program as flexible, designed to reach a broad audience
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LIFE COACH
adolescents & young adults
It may be cold outside, but Providence is heating up with holiday cheer. Tis’ the season of giving. White lights and egg nog lattes aside, there’s no better part of the holidays than the feeling you get gifting someone you love with something that they love. But if you’re anything like me, getting holiday gifts for everyone on your list is no small task. Whether looking for family or friends, significant others or coworkers, I’m constantly on the search for something just as unique as the individual I’m giving to - which is why I’ve always been a fan of gifting art. Art, you ask? Yes, art – affordable, creative, totally unique. Something created (or performed) by a local artist always has that perfect one-of-a-kind touch, whether it’s a hand-blown glass vase for my mother, locally designed graphic-print tees for friends, or a pair of tickets to that play I know he’s been wanting to see at Trinity Rep. Which is why I’m so thrilled that the Providence Department of Art, Culture and Tourism has launched it’s fifth year of the Buy BUYARTPROVIDENCE.COM
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Serving the Best Breakfast! ARTIST: QUINTIN RIVERA TORO
ARTIST: HEATHER J ANNIS
ARTIST: MATT UNDERWOOD
ARTWORK: MARIA DIFRANCO
ATWORK: ALLISON PAUL
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Head to one of these Buy Art events to find the perfect something for everyone on your list:
December 8 The Rhode Island School of Design Holiday Alumni Art Sale. risdalumnisales.wordpress.com
ThrouGh December 9 Foundry Artists Holiday Show at the Pawtucket Armory Arts Center. foundryshow.com
December 6 Buy Art Reception at Craftland craftlandshow.com
December 8 AS220’s Annual Holiday Sale as220.org
December 14 Waterfire’s Annual Holiday Lighting. waterfire.org