Name the theme for the Pawtucket city calendar

A white hibiscus flower with the words 2023.

Mayor Donald R. Grebien and contest organizer Patricia S. Zacks are calling for suggestions on a theme for the 2024 City Calendar. A team of professional photographers will review the submitted entries looking for creativity and a topic that has not been used in previous years: Celebrate! Pawtucket, 2023; Uniquely Pawtucket, 2022; Hiding in Plain…

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ART! The photos of Herman Brewster at Rochambeau Library

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by Nancy Thomas The Rochambeau library will exhibit the photographs of Herman Brewster, a Rhode Island photographer, and contributor to RINewsToday, beginning the afternoon of Tuesday, July 5th, and ending on July 30th. The photos can be viewed during library hours and they are for sale. Herman Brewster enjoys photographing the beauty of Rhode Island.…

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Discover Beautiful Rhode Island – Jason Michalski

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by Jason Michalski, contributing photographer “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Who misses my landscapes ? Interesting about change is that, those who love your work will always support no matter what but I lost a lot of that…

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Discover Beautiful Rhode Island – Herman Brewster

A blue bird perched on a branch.

Summer coming and going at Prospect Park, Providence Turkeys at Swan Point Cemetery in Providence Waiting for Spring at Gilbert Stuart Museum, Saunderstown ___ Herman Brewster is a Rhode Island photographer who enjoys photographing the beauty of Rhode Island. He has been a contributor, donating photographs to the Art Connection since 2015. He has volunteered…

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It’s time for Pawtucket’s 24th Annual Photo Contest 

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Pawtucket: A City in Focus will be the 24th annual photo contest to “CELEBRATE! Pawtucket” Grab your cameras and snap that picture! The City of Pawtucket and The Camera Werks proudly announce the 24th Annual City of Pawtucket Photo Contest! Twelve winning photos will be selected by a panel of local professional photographers and placed in…

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ART! Portraits of Pawtucket Artists

A man sitting on a car.

Portraits of Pawtucket Artists is an exhibit of large scale photographic portraits of artists who call Pawtucket their home. The exhibit is large scale photographic portraits by Robert Easton. Gallery 175 features the work of established and emerging artists in southern New England. The gallery is located in downtown Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in the Blackstone…

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ART! Elliott Landy Photographs at Newport’s Hammetts Hotel

A man with a guitar leaning on the back of a car.

The third collaboration between Jessica Hagen Fine Art + Design and the Hammetts Hotel in Newport will feature the exhibition of Elliott Landy Photographs at the hotel’s Sarah Langley Gallery. Called Newport Curates, the collaboration features the work of Landy, who has been with Jessican Hagen’s gallery since his first solo exhibition at the Newport…

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ART! RI Photo Center Exhibit and call to artists

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All Together Now: a look at community Juried Exhibition: Jan Howard, Juror Cover photo: Timothy Durant  from Venice, CA –  timothydurant.com During this pandemic and time of greater reckoning with the inequalities in our society we have never been physically further apart and have had such a great need to come together to face our…

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Pawtucket’s 23rd Annual Photo Contest Winners

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This year 99 photo entries were submitted in the City of Pawtucket 23rd Annual Photo contest. A virtual exhibit was created on the city’s’ website. Submissions came in from Pawtucket, Cumberland, Cranston, Greenville, Lincoln, North Smithfield, Providence, RI as well as Blackstone, North Attleboro and Rehoboth, MA, Fountain Valley, CA and Brentwood, TN.  A virtual exhibit was…

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