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STAGING INDEX

 * Flying Shuttles
 * Jordan Seaberry
 * Lisa Z. Morgan
 * Paola Mangiacapra
 * Gail Whitsitt-Lynch
 * Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading
 * State Ballet of Rhode Island ‎
 * Silaphone Nhongvongsouthy ‎
 * ¡CityArts!‎
 * Joe Wilson Jr.
 * Richard Whitten
 * Umberto Crenca ‎
 * NetWorks Rhode Island ‎
 * Providence Singers
 * Avenue Concept
 * Rhode Island Council for the Humanities
 * James Mark
 * Black Ships Festivals
 * Sokeo Ros
 * Everett Weeden
 * Natalie Zhu
 * Atabey Sánchez-Haiman
 * Alexus Lee
 * Donna Bruton-Coutis
 * Rhode Island Chamber Music Concerts
 * Isabel Mattia
 * Jo Dery
 * Newport Firehouse Theatre
 * The Craft (documentary)
 * Machines With Magnets
 * Susan Clausen
 * Jamestown Community Theatre
 * FirstWorks
 * Everett (school)
 * Keri King
 * List Art Center
 * Anna Schapiro
 * Jill Colinan
 * Mary Beth Meehan
 * Woonasquatucket River Greenway
 * Shey Rivera Ríos
 * Catherine O'Reilly Collette
 * Donna Freitas
 * Kingston Chamber Music Festival
 * Rhode Island Foundation
 * Washington County Fair
 * Mickey Zacchilli
 * William Willey
 * Olive Willey
 * Margaret F. Ackroyd
 * Catherine Robinson (educator)
 * Gertrude Meth Hochberg
 * Anna Tucker
 * Katherine U. Warren
 * Stories of the Sea Captains' Homes of Wickford
 * Drake Patten
 * Melanie Gideon
 * Paula Jēgere-Freimane
 * Saberah Malik
 * Law and Order Party
 * Alliance of Artists Communities
 * Maria Spacagna
 * Dwo Wen Chen
 * Farm Fresh RI
 * Roberta Richman
 * City Arts
 * Warwick Art Center
 * Stages of Freedom
 * Dana Heng
 * J.R. Uretsky
 * Wickford Art Festival
 * FringePVD
 * Nonviolence Institute
 * One Way Gallery
 * Marta Martínez
 * Steel Yard
 * Mixed Magic Theatre
 * Providence (Kepnes novel)
 * Extraordinary Rendition Band
 * VSA Arts Rhode Island
 * Princess Pearl
 * Tina Cane
 * John Chan
 * Riverzedge
 * New Urban Arts
 * Ms. Kitty Litter
 * The Dean
 * Lucie Searle
 * Bert Crenca
 * Rose Weaver
 * Tony Estrella
 * Chris Harris
 * Dirt Palace
 * Andrew J. Bell
 * Marjorie Joy Vogel
 * Raymond Two Hawks Watson
 * Jamestown Arts Center
 * Jimmie Crane

Flying Shuttles

Jordan Seaberry

Lisa Z. Morgan

Paola Mangiacapra

Gail Whitsitt-Lynch

Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading

State Ballet of Rhode Island ‎

Silaphone Nhongvongsouthy ‎

¡CityArts!‎

Joe Wilson Jr.

Richard Whitten

Umberto Crenca ‎

NetWorks Rhode Island ‎

Providence Singers

Avenue Concept

Rhode Island Council for the Humanities

James Mark

Black Ships Festivals

Sokeo Ros

Everett Weeden

Natalie Zhu

Atabey Sánchez-Haiman

Alexus Lee

Donna Bruton-Coutis

Rhode Island Chamber Music Concerts

Isabel Mattia

Jo Dery

Newport Firehouse Theatre

The Craft (documentary)

Machines With Magnets

Susan Clausen

Jamestown Community Theatre

FirstWorks

Everett (school)

Keri King

List Art Center

Anna Schapiro

Jill Colinan

Washington County Fair

Mary Beth Meehan

Woonasquatucket River Greenway

Shey Rivera Ríos

Catherine O'Reilly Collette

Donna Freitas

Kingston Chamber Music Festival

Rhode Island Foundation

Mickey Zacchilli

William Willey

Olive Willey

Margaret F. Ackroyd

Catherine Robinson (educator)

Gertrude Meth Hochberg

Anna Tucker

Katherine U. Warren

Stories of the Sea Captains' Homes of Wickford

Drake Patten

Melanie Gideon

Paula Jēgere-Freimane

Saberah Malik

Law and Order Party

Alliance of Artists Communities

 Maria Spacagna



Dwo Wen Chen is a Taiwanese ceramicist living in the United States.

Studied painting at Rhode Island School of Design, but received attention for his ceramics work during his graduation show. Opened Three Wheel Studio in 2011.

Received Master In Arts in Education degree in 1989. owner of Three Wheel Studio.

Chen is known for using leaves during the firing process, which leaves impression on the clay. The leaves are often ginko and maple leaves.

Chens work has been displayed at the Boston Museum of Fine Art, the Britsol https://www.golocalprov.com/lifestyle/trender-three-wheel-studios-dwo-wen-chen

http://providenceonline.com/stories/Superlatives-Issue-2013-Most-Artistic-Three-Wheel-Studio-Dwo-Wen-Chen-Providence-Monthly,6258

https://craftcouncil.org/post/dwo-wen-chens-vibrant-animated-ceramics

https://thetakemagazine.com/happiness-handmade/

Farm Fresh Rhode Island was founded in 2004 based on a Brown University student project. The organization incorporated in 2006, and became a 501(c)3 nonprofit in 2007. Farm Fresh RI organizes and advertises farmers' markets in Rhode Island.

Farm Fresh RI organizes a Farm Fresh RI plans to open a Rhode Island Food Hub in Providence, and has been given 2.2 million dollars in tax breaks from the state of Rhode Island to build the space.

Farmer's Markets organized by Farm Fresh include: Farm Fresh Winter Farm Fresh Providence ri

https://serverhodeisland.galaxydigital.com/agency/detail/?agency_id=82263

https://www.farmfreshri.org/about/mission/ http://www.gcpvd.org/2018/08/16/renderings-of-farm-fresh-ri-food-hub/ https://www.wpri.com/politics/farm-fresh-ri-receives-22-million-in-tax-breaks-for-providence-food-hub/1879295274 https://eatdrinkri.com/2016/11/22/news-bites-ri-food-bank-2016-status-report-hunger-farm-fresh-ri-matching-donation-challenge-winter-farmers-markets/

User:JKizzieHumanities/Roberta Richman

Roberta Richman is an artist, former corrections administrator, and founding member of the arts organization Hera Gallery located in Wakefield, Rhode Island.

Corrections
Roberta Richman worked in corrections for 33 years before retiring in 2012. She served as warden of the Adult Correctional Institutions' Women's Facilities in Rhode Island for 10 years, and later served as director of rehabilitative services. She currently serves on the board of directors at the Institute of the Study and Practice of Nonviolence.

Visual arts
Roberta Richman is a printmaker and painter. She studied printmaking at Indiana University, where she earned her MFA. Her work has been exhibited at Hera Gallery 

Hera Gallery
Roberta Richman was one of the founding members of Hera Gallery a feminist art space in Wakefield, Rhode Island. She has served on the leadership of the organization since its inception in 1977.

Awards
2012 She Shines Women of Achievement, YWCA Rhode Island 2012 Criminal Justice Hall of Fame, Rhode Island 1999 Goodrich Award for Distinguished Public Service, awarded by the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council. 1998 Woman of the Year, awarded by the Rhode Island Commission on Women.

https://theartguide.com/exhibitions/roberta-richman-imagined-landscapes HIV Plus Dec 1999-2000 https://books.google.com/books?id=d2UEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA51&ots=WVKTFlHUPS&dq=roberta%20richman%20painting&pg=PA51#v=onepage&q=roberta%20richman%20painting&f=false https://www.sheshines.org/issues/v8n3/v8n3.pdf https://www.aaa.si.edu/publications/essay-prize/2012-essay-prize-meredith-brown

¡CityArts! is a non-profit organization that provides free arts education for at-risk youth in Providence, Rhode Island. The organization was founded in 1992 as a summer arts program by Sister Ann C. Keefe of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Michael%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church,_Convent,_Rectory,_and_School|St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church] in Providence.

In 1995, the organization moved from the basement of the church into a large building on Broad Street in Providence. The organization was awarded the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award in 2014.

Warwick Center for the Arts is an arts center and venue in Warwick, Rhode Island.

The Center for the Arts was founded as the Warwick Museum in 1974 as part of the American Bicentennial Celebration. The museum moved into the Kentish Artillery Armory in 1977. In 2016 the museum changing its title to the Warwick Center for the Arts.

The museum contains a gallery space with a stage, and a classroom and meeting space.

Stages of Freedom is a non-profit organization in Providence, Rhode Island. The primary purpose of the organization is funding swimming lessons primarily for black children. In addition, the organization supports other initiatives and events related to African Americans in Rhode Island, and operates a small bookstore in downcity Providence where sales support the organization's causes.

Stages of Freedom was founded in 2014 by Ray Rickman and Robb Dommick in response to Ray Rickman's work with a woman whose son drowned. Due https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_in_the_United_States#Ethnic_minorities

The organization raised money for the purchase and installation of a headstone for black opera singer Sissieretta Jones in 2018

http://www.browndailyherald.com/2018/02/28/stages-of-freedom-sells-books-saves-lives/

http://www.browndailyherald.com/2018/06/08/headstone-brings-recognition-sissieretta-jones-pioneering-black-opera-singer/

Dana Heng is a Khmer-American artist, activist, arts educator and arts administrator living in Providence, Rhode Island.

Heng attended Classical High School in Providence Rhode Island and studied at AS220, New Urban Arts and the Steel Yard before attending the University of Vermont. At the University of Vermont she was the recipient of the Ian Crawford Memorial Award.

Heng returned to Providence and became an Resident Artist Mentor at New Urban Arts, educating high school children in photography, painting and drawing. In 2017, Heng curated the Queer/Trans Zinefest at AS220, and in 2018, Heng co-founded Binch Press, an arts studio in Central Falls, Rhode Island.

Exhibitions
Eat Me [In Asian Font], Dirt Palace, Providence, RI, 2018 The Frontiers of Love, Machines With Magnets, Pawtucket, RI, 2018 Pretty White Horses, The Trunk Space, Phoenix, AZ, 2016 Gilded In Gratitude, The Attic, Private Studio, Burlington, VT, 2015

Awards
2020 Sante Fe Arts Institute Labor Artist Residency 2018 Dorry for Public Art of the Year for her exhibit at the Dirt Palace. https://issuu.com/lawandorderparty/docs/dorrys_lookbook

https://sfai.org/labor-residency/labor-artists/ https://sfai.org/labor-residency/dana-heng/ https://danaheng.com/CV

The Providence Pedestrian Bridge is a pedestrian bridge spanning the Providence River connecting the College Hill and Jewelry District neighborhoods of Providence, Rhode Island. The bridge was designed by inForm Studio and BuroHappold Engineering. https://www.archdaily.com/155456/providence-river-pedestrian-and-cyclist-bridge-competition-winner-inform-studio The bridge was built by the Rhode Island Department of Transportation and ownership was transferred to the city for the price of one dollar.

The bridge was originally proposed in the 1990s by a RISD student as a way to utilize the granite piers from the relocated 195 highway. Planning for the bridge began in 2009, and the design of the bridge was selected in 2010. . Construction of the bridge began in 2016 and was predicted to end in 2018; the bridge opened on August 9, 2019, with some areas remaining under construction. The original cost of the bridge was predicted at 2 million dollars; but following delays. the final cost of the bridge was 21.9 million. . One concern that required changes to the design was the amount of the predicted rise in sea-level and its impact on the bridge ; another was the custom-steel structures and specialized labor required for the bridge design. .

The bridge is considered an important step in uniting the east and west sides of Providence, and part of the redevelopment of 195 high way land following the relocation. .

Design
The bridge is designed to look, in parts, like the hull of a ship. Other design elements include lighting both on and under the bridge, built-in benches, some with chess boards and others with lighting, and a terrace with native planting beds, stepped seating and a performance space. The bridge includes two small parks on each bank of the river.

The bridge is also intended for bicycle travel, and bike lanes have been added to nearby streets for this purpose. https://www.ecori.org/smart-growth/2014/9/30/citys-new-pedestrian-bridge-to-connect-east-to-west.html

Awards
Artist-in-residence, Dirt Palace 2013 deCordova Biennial

Work
Much of Martínez's work has centered around advocacy for and documenting the history of the Latinx community in Rhode Island.

She was the first director of the Center for Hispanic Policy and Advocacy, and non-profit organization in Rhode Island. In 1988, Marta V. Martínez founded the Hispanic Heritage Committee. The committee developed into the non-profit organization, Rhode Island Latino Arts; Martínez remains with the organization to present, acting as chair until 2013 and becoming executive director thereafter. Latino Oral History Project of Rhode Island in 1991, and Martínez's book, Latino History in Rhode Island, in part a compilation of oral histories, was published in 2014.

Martínez was named artist-in-residence at Trinity Repertory Company in 2018.

Martínez received an honorary degree from Providence College in 2019.

The Steel Yard is a non-profit industrial arts studio located in the former Providence Steel and Iron Company Complex in Providence, Rhode Island. Founded in 2001, it provides classes, studio space, public events,--including its annual Iron Pour-- public projects and space rental.

The Steel Yard was founded in by Clay Rockefeller and Mike Bauta in 2001. Bauta, a RISD graduate, and Rockefeller, a Brown University graduate were living in a renovated mill building near the Steel Yard when the Providence Steel and Iron Company Complex lot went up for sale.

In 2019, the Steel Yard received the silver medal for the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence

Awards

 * Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission (Rhody Award)
 * Providence Preservation Society (Reuse & Neighborhood Preservation Award).
 * Mayor's Citation for Reuse and Neighborhood Revitalization 2011.

Mixed Magic Theatre is a non-profit theater and performance venue at Lorraine Mills in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Mixed Magic Theatre was founded in 2000 by Bernadet and Ricard Pitts-Wiley. It was originally located in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. The theatre relocated to Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 2005. In 2007 Mixed Magic officially altered its mission to "bring diverse stories to the stage." The theatre added an outdoor amphitheater in 2017.

In addition to producing plays, the theatre acts as a venue for local and national performers. Mixed Magic also produces a set of regular programs, including Rise to Black, a theater series featuring scenes from the works of black artists and the Exult Choir, the theatre's resident choir, formed in 2006.

The theatre has attracted international attention for producing Moby Dick: Then and Now, an interpretation of Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick by Ricardo Pitts-Willey. The production featured two casts, an adult company that portrayed the Meville version of the story, and a youth cast where the actors portrayed a story where the white whale is cocaine. The play traveled to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. and the International Melville Conference held by the Melville Society in Poland in 2007.

Providence is a thriller novel by Caroline Kepnes, published in 2018. The novel has been translated into 19 languages,

Synopsis
Best friends in small-town New Hampshire, Jon and Chloe share an intense, near-mystical bond. But before Jon can declare his love for his soul mate, he is kidnapped, and his plans for a normal life are permanently dashed. Four years later, Jon reappears. He is different now: bigger, stronger, and with no memory of the time he was gone. Jon wants to pick up where he and Chloe left off—until the horrifying instant he realizes he possesses strange powers that pose a grave threat to everyone he cares for. Afraid of hurting Chloe, Jon runs away, embarking on a journey for answers. Meanwhile, in Providence, Rhode Island, healthy college students and townies with no connection to one another are inexplicably dropping dead. A troubled detective prone to unexplainable hunches, Charles “Eggs” DeBenedictus suspects there’s a serial killer at work. But when he starts asking questions, Eggs is plunged into a shocking whodunit he never could have predicted.

Influences
Providence takes place in Providence, Rhode Island and makes references to Rhode Island native H.P. Lovecraft's short story "The Dunwich Horror;"

Early life
Tina Cane was born in New York City, New York. She earned a BA at the University of Vermont and a French literature MA from Middlebury College.

Career
Tine Cane moved to Rhode Island in 2005. She began her work in Rhode Island coordinating a poetry workshop program for youth that involved public artwork.

Cane became Poet Laureate in 2016. As Poet Laureate Cane is responsible for coordinating and selecting the youth poet laureate or youth ambassadors for the state of Rhode Island. Cane has a regular column in the Providence Journal. In 2017 Cane launched the program "Poetry in Motion, RI", a collaboration with RIPTA, and the Poetry Society of America where poetry is featured on digital screens in buses.

Cane's work features current topics and is often written free from.. Her poems have appeared in The Literary Review, Barrow Street.The Cordland Review and Tupelo Quarterly.

Works
Once More With Feeling, 2017  The Fifth Thought, 2008 

Awards and honors
Fellowship Merit Award, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts 

Awards
2011 - Keeping the Blues Alive Award, awarded by the Blues Foundation  2013 - Pell Award for Excellence In the Arts 2018 - Inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame

History
Originally called "Project New Urban Arts," the organization was founded in October 1997 ref> by students Julia Kim, Marcus Civin, Malaika Thorne and Tyler Denmead. .

New Urban Arts was originally located at 743 Westminster Street in Providence, Rhode Island in 1998, and moved to its current space at 705 Westminster in 2011.

Structure
The organization focuses on arts mentoring, a research-based summer arts inquiry program, and a leadership program that allows student participants to drive the direction of the organization.

In 2017, it was stated that students at New Urban Arts come primarily from Classical High School, Central High School and Technical School.

Awards
2009 Coming up Taller Award presented by Michelle Obama

Early Life
Crenca was born in Rhode Island in 1950. In the 1980s, Crenca worked in the print shop of Fleet Bank. He graduated from the Rhode Island College in 1981 with a bachelor's degree in fine arts.

AS220
Following an unfavorable review of Crenca's work in The Providence Journal in 1982, a group of artists gathered to create a [manifesto|https://as220.org/about/manifesto/] criticizing harsh art critiques and sought to create a new art space. This would eventually develop into the arts organization AS220. Crenca founded AS220 in 1985. . AS220 grew from a small performance and studio space in 1985 to the proprietor of live/work studios, exhibition spaces, multiple performance areas, art spaces, a restaurant and bar. Crenca describes his work at AS220 as being "extremely blurred" with his work as an artist, and describes AS220 as a "work of art." Crenca retired as Artistic Director of AS220 in 2015, and continues to act as an adjunct advisor and spokesperson for the organization.

Arts Administration
In his capacity as Artistic Director of AS220 and arts administrator, Crenca acted on local boards and committees as a representative of the Rhode Island arts community, including the Arts and Entertainment District Task Force in 1992, the mayoral transition committees of Providence mayors David Cicilline (2002) and Jorge Elorza (2014) , and the Rhode Island School Board 2005-2008.

Crenca has spoken at numerous events as regarding placemaking and community arts programs, including the keynote address Museums Aotearoa Conference in New Zealand in 2012 , the TEDxProvidence conference in 2013, , and The Cass Project's lecture series at the University at Buffalo in 2018.

Visual Art and Performance
Crenca is a visual artist, musician and performer. Much of his work has centered around arts education and programming for youth, including the establishment of the Broad Street Studio and AS220 Youth programs at AS220, and his work as an art instructor at the Rhode Island Training School. and at AS220's education program for arts administrators, Practice//Practice.

Awards

 * 1997 - Crenca was fellow in the Pew Civic Entrepreneur Initiative
 * 2005 - Pew Civic Entrepreneur Initiative Fellow
 * 2009 - Received $20,000 from the Providence Chamber of Commerce and the City to operate the Providence Fab Lab
 * 2010 - Rhode Island Pell Award for Excellence in the Arts
 * 2010 - Rhode Island College Charles B Willard Professional Achievement Award
 * 2011 - Rhode Island Foundation Community Service Award
 * 2013 - Rhode Island Arts and Culture and Tourism Making a Difference Award
 * 2016 - Honorary doctorate from Brown University
 * 2016 - Honorary doctorate from Roger Williams University
 * 2016 - Honored by the White House as one of the Champions of Change national initiative..

Selected Exhibitions

 * 1985, Antonio Dattorro Studio Gallery
 * 2004, Frenetic Engineering: censored/uncensored, Newport Art Museum and Blink Gallery, Newport, RI 
 * 2010, You Can't Call Your Own Baby Ugly, AS220 Project Space, Providence, RI 
 * 2017, Pain and Such, Providence, RI (pop-up exhibit, 82 Weybossett Street) 

Early life
Weaver grew up in and outside of Atlanta, Georgia. Her family were sharecroppers. She was one of the first black people to attend an all-white high school in Atlanta, and participated in Upward Bound programs in her youth.

Biography
Weaver is described as a "major figure in Rhode Island entertainment".

Weaver began singing in Boston and Rhode Island clubs in the 1970s and was awarded a three-year fellowship by Trinity Repertory in 1973. Weaver toured She spent 11 seasons acting at Trinity, including roles as _, _, and Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues In addition to her time at Trinity, Weaver was a host of the Sunday Sunday television program on WJAR TV in the 1980s. In 1993 she played Aunt Audrey in the film Poetic Justice alongside Janet Jackson and Tupac Shakur. Weaver sang at inauguration in RI, 1999 Artist in Residence, Brown, Menopause Mama, Skips The Record, was awarded the RISCA Fellowship in Playwrighting

In 2000, she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in English/Creative Writing from Brown University.

Weaver also worked at UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science for 7 years, from 2005-2012.

Service
She graduated from Wheaton College in 1973 Rites and Reason RPM Play Development Initiative 2015 Artist-in-Residence.

Honors, decorations, awards and distinctions
Miss Foxboro, 1973 Miss Massachusetts, Miss Congeniality, 1973. included in the 1991 publication "Who's Who in Rhode Island Jazz"  2001 Rhode Island Historical Society History Makers Pell Award for Excellence in the Arts, 2000 Lucille Lortel Award in Playwriting Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Merrymount Manhattan College Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Providence College Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Wheaton College, 2018

Published Works
Her dramatic writing has been published in Monologues for Women by Women (Heinemann), NuMuse: an Anthology of New Plays from Brown University, Iowa Literacy Resource Center, and New England Literacy Resource Center.

Awards and nominations
Pell Award for Excellence in the Arts, awarded 2013

Distinguished Alumnus of URI, awarded in 2011

Pawtucket Foundation Person of the Year, awarded 2009

Filmography
The Polka King 2017, Presenter

Manchester by the Sea (2016), 2nd Businessman at Bar

Killing Ruby (2016), The Vet

The Company Men (2010), Haspel

Underdog (2007 film)Underdog (2007), Male school teacher

The Departed (2006), Police Camera Tech

Television
Law & Order (2007), Dr. Ben Ellers

Brotherhood (2006), Young Vincent Barberra

Theater
Title (year), role – notes

Andrew J. Bell, Jr., was a business owner (funeral director) a community leader, and a civil rights activist.

=Biography=

Early life
Bell was born in 1907 in Providence Rhode Island to Beatrice J. Bell (nee Hinds) and Andrew J. Bell, a chef. He had 5 sisters. He graduated from Classical High School and took classes in Business Administration at Bryant College. He graduated from the New England Institute of Mortuary Science in Boston.

Public service
Bell established his career-long business, Bell Funeral Home, on Westminster Street in Providence in 1932. The funeral home served the black community of Providence. In 1937, the funeral home moved to the Israel B. Mason House.

Bell was one of the founders of the Rhode Island Urban League in 1939, and with the League advocated for Black workers at Kaiser Shipyard at Field's point, opposed segregation in Providence housing projects the Roger Williams Housing Project and Codding Court in the 1950s. Bell served as a member of the Urban League's Board, and advisor to its Youth Council, and its president from 1947-1950.

In the 1950s, he was vice chairman of the RI Committee on Discrimination in Housing. He was also a member of the NAACP and vice president of their Providence branch.

In 1961, Bell was one of the delegates at the White House Conference on Aging. Bell was one of the founders of the Opportunities Industrialization Center office in the south side of Providence, Rhode Island in 1967. In 1993, Bell wrote An Assessment of Life in Rhode Island as an African American In the Era From 1918 to 1993.

He died on June 4, 2000.

Awards and honors
Bell was awarded Man of the Year by the Urban League of Rhode Island in 1973.

Bell received an honorary doctorate from Rhode Island College in pedagogy, and an honorary doctorate in business administration from the University of Rhode Island.

Bell was posthumously inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 2007.

Notability
Andrew J. Bell Jr. was an important influence on housing and African American life in the city of Providence and Rhode Island as a whole. He also acted as an important representative of Rhode Island and African Americans on a national scale. His contributions to the state earned him an induction into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame. JKHumanities&#124;&#9993; 14:57, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

Raymond Two Hawks Watson <RIFuture> is a cultural leader and entrepreneur in Providence, Rhode Island. Watson is Pomham Sachem of the Mashapaug Nahaganset Tribe of Providence, Rhode Island. He is also director general of the Federation of Aboriginal Nations of America and founder of the Providence Cultural Equity Initiative. .

Career
Watson has a BA in Political Science from Union College, and a masters degree in Community Planning from the University of Rhode Island. <Providenceonline>

He is the former Executive Director of the Mount Hope Neighborhood Association, and serves as Executive Member of Eastern Medicine Singers American Indian Drum Group, Sunnâdin Sachem of the Nehantick-Nahaganset Nation

In 2016, Watson received a $300,000 Innovation Fellowship from the Rhode Island Foundation. He used the funds to establish the Providence Cultural Equity Initiative, an organization dedicated to fostering cultural tourism.

As representative of local tribes Watson has opposed Fields Point Liquefied Natural Gas Project, participated in negotiations with Brown University regarding Pokanoket lands ; spoken out against the Rankin Estates proposal in North Smithfield, Rhode Island

The Dirt Palace is a feminist non-profit arts collective and art space founded in 2000 by Xander Marro and Pippi Zornoza. [1] The Dirt Palace is located within a re-purposed library building in the Olneyville neighborhood of Providence and includes living spaces, wood shop, printing shop, practice spaces, and studio spaces and a zine library. Artists who have include partcipated in residencies at Dirt Palace include J.R. Uretsky, Mickey Zacchilli, and Jungil Hong.

The collective was featured in the 2014 exhibit by Creative Time and Independent Curators International, Living as Form (Nomadic version) at Harvard University's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. In 2018, the Dirt Palace purchased the Wedding Cake House (Providence, Rhode Island), and is currently renovating the building with the intent to establish a bed and breakfast.

1 http://providenceonline.com/stories/foot-apple-parade-ends-this-week,6185? Providence Monthly "Foot Apple Parade Ends this Week" Erin Swanson 2013 June 27 2https://vimeo.com/145912806 "SEED grantee - The Dirt Palace (Providence RI) Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

Chris Harris was an event promoter, community organizer and club owner.

Harris worked as a bartender before becoming a club promoter <Bostonherald>. As a club promoter, he was known as the King of Clubs. He hosted "Chris Harris Presents." and was a co-owner of Club Ego in Providence, Rhode Island. He is credited with reinvigorating Boston night life with his club nights in the late 2000s<Boston Herald>< >. His club nights and events hosted many well-known performers, including drag performers Trixie Mattel, and Shangela > and DJs The Perry Twins< >.

Harris was a supporter, fundraiser and collaborator with Boston and Providence Pride. In addition to hosting events, he was a host for delegates at Boston Pride's first international Pride conference.<Bostonpride> He was given the Rhode Island Pyramid of Pride Award in 2019, and was posthumously named a marshal of both the Boston and Providence pride parades.

Notability
Chris Harris gained high-profile recognition for this work, including the nationally significant Boston Pride Festival and the Providence Pride Festival, in addition to his work with and cultivation of celebrities. Further, his contribution to the nightlife and LGBT communities of Providence and Boston have had a lasting affect. Although this entry is posthumous, and many of the sources are posthumous, this entry is not intended as, nor phrased as, a memorial entry. JKHumanities&#124;&#9993; 04:11, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

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Marjorie Joy Vogel was an artist and illustrator known for her architectural drawings of Rhode Island structures.

Vogel was born on October 31, 1980 in Dayton, Ohio. Her parents were Theodore Suman and Margaret Suman. Vogel graduated from Bowling Green University with a Bachelor of Science degree. She trained in drawing at the Philippine Women's University, École nationale des arts du Sénégal, the Boston Architectural Center, the Rhode Island School of Design, and Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Vogel started a business, Rhode Island Originals, located in North Kingstown when she moved to Rhode Island in the 1970s. She created illustrations, paintings and drawings, and produced architectural drawings. Vogel's work was commissioned by the United States Capitol Historical Society, and displayed at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, and the Smithsonian Institution. Vogel was elected to the Rhode Island Women's Hall of Fame in 2008.

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Jamestown Art Center is a non-profit arts organization with a gallery, artist's studios, education facilities, and event space located at 18 Valley Street in Jamestown, Rhode Island.

The Center is operated by a Board of Directors, Executive Director, and a staff of administrators, educators and volunteers. It is supported by a membership program that includes supporters and affiliated artists.

In addition to displaying local artists from Jamestown and Rhode Island, the gallery has displayed the work of internationally exhibited artists such as Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger and Glenn Ligon.

History
The arts center was founded by a group of Rhode Island artists in 2007. In December 2009 (the Jamestown Arts Center purchased a building at 18-24 Valley Street the new space opened on April 1, 2011. In 2018, the Center was awarded Best Art Gallery in Newport County by Rhode Island Monthly Magazine's Best of Rhode Island. That year, the Center received $15,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Events
The Center is one of the sites of the Rhode Island Film Festival, and its October sidebar, The Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival, the Art & Design Film Festival, the Kingston Chamber Music Festival, the Southeast New England Film, Music & Arts Festival, and the Manhattan Short Film Festival.

Awards

 * 1982 - Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame
 * 2013 - Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame

Notability
Crane has been inducted to both the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame and the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame. At least 4 of his songs already have pages on Wikipedia, and there are over 30 references to his songs on Wikipedia, including the category,.