What Bristol-Warren Art Projects Got State Grants

BRISTOL-WARREN — The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) awarded grants to 93 art projects throughout the Ocean State.

RISCA officials said the purpose of the $452,206 in grants is to further advance arts and cultural activities throughout the state.

"On behalf of the State of Rhode Island, I welcome RISCA's continued investments in arts and culture, which are essential to the cultural, educational, health and well-being of Rhode Islanders," Gov. Dan McKee said in a statement. "We are pleased that the agency invested funding for arts workforce development, vital to the life of our creative economy. These grants remind us of how important it is to support the arts, which bring audiences to our town and city centers, and, in addition to enjoying the arts, fill our restaurants and shops."

Artists/organizations to receive grants in Bristol and Warren are included below. Included is also a description of the project from the respective artist or organization.

Bristol

$3,000 for Friends of Linden Place — The Linden Place Writers’ Residency is a free, month long, daytime-only residency for creative writers wishing to interpret the museum's complicated history through a creative lens. It provides on-site workspaces, research support, a travel stipend consults with a sensitivity reader, and writing events that are open to the community at large.

$3,000 for Stephan Brigidi —I am making portraits of people from diverse backgrounds including people identifying as LGBTQ+, immigrants refugees, BIPOC community, people with disabilities, homeless people, and people like me- white privileged. It is a collaborative project where we participate together in word and iMake Art Grante. I am asking those I photograph to join with me, reacting with their own expressions of social justice.

Warren

$2,250 for IMake Art Granto Foundation for the Arts — IFA plans a youth-oriented performance and open mic night hosted by the Providence Poetry Slam; a youth poetry workshop for East Bay high school students led by RI Poet Laureate Tina Cane with assistance from the RI Center for the Book 2023 RI Youth Poetry Ambassadors and youth poetry contest winners and a public reading by workshop participants.