Umberto Crenca New Show to Open at Gallery Z - "Puzzled, Fragments & Flower Power"

Umberto Crenca New Show to Open at Gallery Z - "Puzzled, Fragments & Flower Power"

Gallery Z on Federal Hill has announced its March exhibit is“Puzzled, Fragments & Flower Power,” by AS220 founder Umberto Crenca.

The exhibit will run from Thursday, March 5 through Sunday, April 5.

There will be an opening reception on Thursday, March 19 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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About Crenca

Crenca’s works have been exhibited and performed widely in galleries, pop-up spaces and performance venues, including the Galleria Del Corso (Latina, Italy), La Galeria Matadero (Puerto Rico), the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, the Newport Art Museum (RI), and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland).

He served on Mayor Cicilline’s Arts, Culture & Tourism Advisory Board and on the steering committee for the department’s Creative Providence cultural assessment and planning initiative, the Providence School Board  (2005 thru 2008) and is an active member of the Providence Downtown Improvement District (DID) Board. 

Crenca acted as advisor to the LINC initiative, a national effort to create better support systems for individual artists.

Crenca lives and maintains a studio in Providence, with his wife, artist, and musician Susan Clausen.

In 2013, Crenca received the Making a Difference Award from the Providence/Warwick Convention and Visitors Bureau for support of the Rhode Island Tourism Industry.

In 2011, Crenca was mentioned in Fast Company’s Fast Cities feature “United States of Innovation“, which listed bold ideas and brilliant urbanites who are helping to build the cities of America’s future, and received the Rhode Island Foundation’s 2011 Community Service Award. In 2010, Crenca received a Rhode Island Pell Award for Excellence in the Arts, and was honored with a Charles B Willard Professional Achievement Award from Rhode Island College.

Over the past three decades, Crenca has been a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), The Urban Institute, LEF Foundation, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Connecticut Council on the Arts (CCA), the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) Artist Trust, and the Creative Cities Summit.

He was a guest speaker and mentor for the CCA’s Urban Artist Initiative, and a fellow both in the Rhode Island Foundation and the Pew Civic Entrepreneur Initiative (PCEI) of the Pew Partnership for Civic Change.