Mary Beth Meehan is a photographer whose work explores issues of culture, community, and visibility. She undertakes long-term, in-depth projects, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, RISCA, RICH, and others. “City of Champions,” her first public installation, in her hometown of Brockton, Massachusetts, was featured on the New York Times LENS blog, […]

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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: I am a painter. I also design for theatre. I’ve been painting and drawing for a while now around Providence. I am interested in the Narragansett Bay and color and light and zoology and landscape. I read poetry and plays and often […]

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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Bunny Harvey lives and paints in studios in Providence, Tunbridge VT, and NYC. A graduate of RISD (BFA’67 and MFA ’72) she is also a recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. She taught Painting at Wellesley College […]

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Best known as the creator and, since 1994, the artistic and executive director of WaterFire, Barnaby Evans received his BS in biology and environmental science from Brown University in 1975. He had an early career as a photographer, exhibiting his work nationally and internationally. Today WaterFire epitomizes Evans’ mission to create innovative art works that […]

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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Erminio Pinque is a performer, puppet & prop fabricator, Instructor of “Creature-Creation” and Artistic Director of BIG NAZO LAB, an international touring troupe and creature-making studio that employs a variety of mask and wearable sculpture techniques to create mobile spectacles and audience […]

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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Elizabeth Pannell lives and maintains a studio in Providence, Rhode Island. As a plain air painter working primarily in oils and gouache, Pannell strives to capture the essential impressions of the New England coastal areas with intensity and immediacy. She is a […]

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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Denny Moers is known for his highly imaginative, technically innovative monoprints created by controlling the action of light and chemistry on the chemical-sensitized photographic paper during the print developing process, giving his black and white photographs an extraordinary range of tonalities. Moers […]

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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: I am a painter who has lived and worked in Providence Rhode Island for the past fifty-five years. I received my BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1971 and my MFA from RISD in 1973. My paintings […]

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