“Focus On Public Art” To Showcase Nine RI Artists At Wheeler School

“Focus On Public Art” To Showcase Nine RI Artists At Wheeler School

A public arts initiative will be celebrated on Thursday, January 22 at The Wheeler School in Providence.

The free event will feature nine Rhode Island artists with national and international reputations. The artists will discuss their works, which were commissioned by
longtime Rhode Island arts patron, Dr. Joseph Chazan, who is celebrating his 80th birthday this year.

“A Focus On Public Art: The Wheeler School Initiative” will feature videos and conversation with these nine artists, each of whom has installed a large-scale work on public display at the Wheeler Providence campus or its companion Farm campus in Seekonk, MA.

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The featured artists are Howard Ben Tré, Jonathan Bonner, Coral Bourgeois, Nicole Chesney, Steven Easton Robert Martin & James Sullivan, Agustin Patino, and James Reynolds.

Wheeler Head of School Dan Miller will moderate the event, which is open to the public and will be held at 7 p.m. in the school’s new Gilder Center for the Arts Auditorium on Angell Street in Providence.

The event is free and more information, along with images of the eight works, can be found HERE.