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County Convention & Visitor's Bureau Calendar of Events
The Preservation Society of Newport County kicks off the 2008 season on Saturday, April 5 with the opening of five properties for daily tours—The Breakers, Chateau-sur-Mer, The Elms, Marble House and Rosecliff. Kingscote and Green Animals Topiary Garden will open for the season on Tuesday, May 20, and the other Newport Mansions—Chepstow, Hunter House and Isaac Bell House—will open for the season on Saturday, June 21 NewportMansions.org
Through June 29 - Portsmouth: "Portraits & Figures: Here's Looking at You" at the Portsmouth Art Guild
Gallery hours are Thursday through Sunday from 1-5pm. The opening reception is May 30th from 6-8pm at The Portsmouth Arts Guild Center For The Arts, 2679 East Main Rd, next to St. Paul's Church, Portsmouth, RI. Portraits & Figures: Here's Looking at You
Events, Exhibits and Shows at the Newport Art Museum
The Newport Art Museum is located at 76 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, RI. See their web site at NewportArtMuseum.org
April 11 – June 1, 2008 - "To the Sea: Recent Paintings by Michael Rich": Drawing on his recent stay in Italy, as well as his childhood summers on Nantucket Island, Michael Rich will exhibit his series of intimately-experienced landscapes this spring at the Newport Art Museum. In this body of work, Rich revitalizes a vocabulary of abstract forms and expressions in order to recapture the vividness of nature, as the artist has lived it. Rich’s apparently abstract paintings, which bear a family resemblance to the abstraction of Helen Frankenthaler and others, are built upon childhood memories and adult observation of specific places on Nantucket and, more recently, central Italy. He seeks to capture both the special quality of a place, but also the intangible richness of repeated, life-long experience of a place in time. Rich’s landscapes, in the artist’s words, “stand on the frontier of a rediscovery of the experience of the landscape in American art.”
April 5 – June 8, 2008 - "BACKSTAGE: NEW YORK FASHION WEEK Photographs by Christopher Baker": Photographer Christopher Baker presents a glimpse behind the scenes at New York City’s high-powered Fashion Week, in a series of twenty-three photographs to be exhibited at the Newport Art Museum from April 5 – June 8, 2008. Baker, a Rhode Island School of Design graduate who was born in Newport, now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
June 13 – July 31 - PHOTOGRAPHERS’ GUILD MEMBERS SHOW Reception: June 12, 5 – 7 pm (Gallery Night in Newport)
June 7 – August 10 - DORA ATWATER MILLIKIN: GEOMETRY OF PLACE Reception: June 12, 5 – 7 pm (Gallery Night in Newport) Paintings depicting the “unpicturesque” aspect of picturesque places, using flat patterns and contrasting planes of color. Through her art, Millikin asks the question, “Which is more important the object or the environment in which it sits?”
June 13 – September 7 - BOB RIZZO; SHRINES, ICONS AND SPIRITS Reception: June 12, 5 – 7 pm (Gallery Night in Newport) Found object sculpture that reflects the artist’s interest in tribal art, spiritual worship and rituals. Bob Rizzo is the creator and curator of the internationally recognized Convergence International Arts Festival, 1988-2003.
July 13 – October 13 - RICHARD GROSVENOR: NEWPORT’S MUSE AND MENTOR A collection of works reflecting Richard Grosvenor’s career as a teacher, artist and mentor. The exhibition includes paintings by people with whom Grosvenor studied and artists he mentored. Grosvenor taught painting, architecture and art history at St. George’s School in Middletown, RI for forty years until he retired in 1993. He has been a major force at the Newport Art Museum and Art Association since he first joined the Council in 1954, and has been instrumental in the development of contemporary plein air painting in the Newport region, founding the Museum's popular 'Wet Paint' event in the 1990s. The Museum is honoring the artist with the gala event, "A Summer Soiree Honoring Richard Grosvenor" on Saturday, July 12, 2008.
Summer Hours at Greenvale Vineyards
Greenvale Vineyards will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m., Sunday from April 1 through December 31, 2008 for wine tastings and tours. Daily tours of the vineyards are still scheduled for 2 p.m. For further information please call (401)847-3777, or view the web site at Greenvale.com
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