Art, Culture, and Community. Open Valley Returns November 7
Open Valley Returns! Saturday November 7, 2026 from 12pm-5pm. A Valley-wide open studios celebration! Walk the amazing Woonasquatucket River Greenway Bike Path and consider the area’s central role in the industrial revolution. Visit studios and galleries, and learn how organizations like the Creative Reuse Center of RI, The Steel Yard, Teatro ECAS, WaterFire, Wilbury Theatre, and 50 Sims put the Creative in Creative Capital.
reharvest / repair / reception
Ayako Maruyama and Markus Berger’s reharvest repair invited artists, designers, makers, repairers, hackers, and scavengers to explore acts of re-harvesting and repair as creative, social, and ecological practices.
WWYLTTIAP? Opening Pix
In When Would You Like to Turn Into a Pumpkin?, you are a pumpkin unmoored in space and time. You were celebrated on October 8, 2026 in Providence, Rhode Island. Photos by Therese Iacono.
A Typed Treasure from 1900; a Zine Grail from ‘62
Recent acquisitions: an original typewriter drawing dated to 1900, and a rare booklet version of the 1962 edition of Artyping by Julius Nelson.
Photos: Sophie Foulkes’ Reception at the PPL
Sophie Foulkes’ By the Fall of the Waters… explores the interplay between select Rhode Island architectural structures, the waterways they extend across, and the evolving public narratives surrounding these landmarks. Her exhibition at the Providence Public Library opened on September 9, and runs through the 30th.
Photos: For Love, For Luck, For Longing Reception
For Love, For Luck, For Longing is an immersive exhibition born from Annaliese Rittershaus Neff and Dan Neff’s fascination with whales, history, and the yearning held within handmade maritime love tokens. We celebrated with an opening on September 10, 2026 that doubled as a MassArt (Boston) alumni meetup.
Photos: Dean Martineau’s “Artifacts” at OPEN
Photos from Therese Iacono, covering the reception of Dean Martineau’s Artifacts show at OPEN on Thursday August 6, 2026. Bar service provided by Hi Bar Lo Bar; and we bought a popcorn machine.
OPEN is a Best of Rhode Island Editor’s Pick, 2026!
OPEN is a 2026 Rhode Island Monthly “Best of Rhode Island” Editors’ Pick!
Announcing Collectors Night 2, Sept 15, 2026!
We’re thrilled to be returning to the Narragansett Brewery Tap Room in Providence for an evening of amateur archives, curious collections, and treasured trash. Tuesday September 15, 2026!
Photos: Not Just Tapes at the Providence Public Library
For the opening reception of Not Just Tapes at the Providence Public Library, co-producers Sandy Dahari and Ben Sisto were joined by performers Gayatri Kunchay and Shany Rajagopalan, photographer Therese Iacono, and a whole host of friendly faces.
lexi welch on Wave Farm (WGXC, NY)
Ssss is a four-part audio series by lexi welch, intended for listeners driving alone at dawn. The project develops a theory of night over the course of two mixtapes: PLEASURE/LOSE and ANGEL/BLUE.
Photos: Sasha de Koninck’s “Witness” at 50 Sims
With Witness, Providence-based artist Sasha de Koninck considers the natural histories of worn garments, investigating the intimate, often invisible traces of the bodies and environments that shape them.
(Balti)more Artyping & ASCII
Our collection of Julius Nelson’s Typewriter Mystery Games series continues to grow!
RISD: Society in the Spectacle
Second year RISD students’ built a massive pavilion-like structure that served as both meeting space and screening room.
Real House/Lives of Seekonk
A real photo postcard (RPPC) is a photo printed on postcard stock with continuous tone; not a lithographic or offset print. Below are some from Seekonk, MA in the early 1900s.
Artyping (First Editions)
Artyping. 1939 first edition published by Artyping Bureau—Julius Nelson himself. 8.5” x 11” staple-bound booklet with cloth binding tape, 44 pp.
Keeping the Flame Alive
A super rare teletype transmission from the 17th Signal Service Co.
PARIS+FRIENDS at the PPL (Install pix)
Photos from the exhibition “PARIS+FRIENDS” at the Providence Public Library, spring 2026. A collaboration between OPEN, AS220, the city’s Department of Art, Culture, and Tourism, and the PPL. Photos by Jay Ruzicka.
Memory Palace Opening Reception Pix
On Friday April 3, 2026 we celebrated the opening of Memory Palace by artists Sara Ahli and Will Beattie. Photos courtesy of Therese Iacono.
Black Eyes + Downtown Boys at AS220, 3/26/26
On Thursday March 26, 2026, OPEN presented a concert at AS220 featuring Black Eyes, Downtown Boys, and readings from the book We’re Having Much More Fun. Photo + video.