Flying Shuttles exhibiting at The First Rhode Island Outsider Art Fair
In
conjunction with the 17th Annual Pawtucket Arts Festival, RHD-RI
presents the first annual Rhode Island Outsider Art Fair on Saturday, Sept. 19th
from 10-4pm, at 24 Commerce St. Pawtucket.
For the first time ever, a majority of
Rhode Island’s premiere programs for artists with disabilities will be joining
forces to present their work and wares at the same time, in the same place!
Several of the North East’s most renowned art centers and galleries will also
be exhibiting at this event- which is the first of its kind in Rhode Island!
Vendors
included will be: RHD-RI Outsider Art
and Flying Shuttles Studio, both
from Pawtucket, Top Drawer from
Warren and Jamestown’s Bridges.
Boston’s Outside the Lines, Maine’s Spindleworks Art Center and famed
curator Margaret Bodell, NYC, will
also be in attendance.
This event
will showcase the work of a wide ranging neuro diverse and uniquely abled group
of nationally and internationally shown and recognized artists who have been
featured at such prestigious events as the INTUIT Art Fair in Chicago, the St.
Louis Outsider Art Fair, the New York Outsider Art Fair and the Museum of
Everything.
So-called
outsider art is defined as art produced by self-taught artists outside the
boundaries of the established art world and its corresponding institutions. The
work featured at the fair will include examples of new folk, pop and Americana,
neo-surrealism and visionary art, all of which fall under the general umbrella
of “Outsider Art.”
