NetWorks 2011 Debuts 13 New Profiles of Exceptional RI Artists

Four years ago, a unique Rhode Island arts project launched through collaboration between Joseph Chazan, M.D. and Umberto Crenca, Artistic Director of AS220. "NetWorks" was created to document, celebrate, and foster the richly creative and diverse Rhode Island artistic community. Each year since its launch in 2008, the project has created an archive of video and photographic profiles that are enriched by museum and gallery exhibits, catalogs, and panel discussions.

This November, NetWorks 2011 debuts thirteen new video portraits of exceptional Rhode Island artists. Each portrait in the NetWorks project introduces the viewer to an artist’s work, process, and sources of inspiration, in fewer than ten minutes.

WSBE Rhode Island PBS is pleased to present the two-part NetWorks 2011 as part of its ongoing WSBE series, Rhode Island Stories. Part one of NetWorks 2011 airs on Saturday, November 12 at 7 P.M. The one-hour program profiles Andrew Moon Bain, Nilton Cardenas, Barnaby Evans, Nancy Friese, Philip Jameson, and Shawn Kenney.

Part two of NetWorks 2011 airs on Saturday, November 19 at 7 P.M., and profiles Scott Lapham, Janet Prip, Andrew Raftery, Duane Slick, Esther Solondz, Mark Taber, and Laura Travis.

For those who might like to see the NetWorks 2011 artists' work close up after seeing them on television, a complementary mixed media exhibit opens at Candita Clayton Studio, Hope Artiste Village, 999 Main Street, Unit 105, Pawtucket, RI, on Friday, November 11, and continues through Sunday, December 11. Media represented will range from large format photography and oil painting to metal and stone sculpture. Photographic portraits of the artists by Scott Lapham, himself a member of the NetWorks 2011 group, will also be presented.

The NetWorks project is produced by Joseph A. Chazan, M.D.

ACTION SPEAKS tonight

ACTION SPEAKS is a unique television-community-radio series that looks at contemporary issues through the lens of under-appreciated dates that have changed America.

On Mondays beginning tonight at 9, and for the three additional weeks, host Marc Levitt introduces a documentary that supports and relates to the day in history under discussion. The four documentaries airing on Rhode Island PBS not only inform and entertain, but also provide additional insight and a different perspective on the event in history, helping fuel conversation.

On Wednesdays at 5:30 PM, Marc Levitt and guest panelists encourage lively audience participation in community conversations at AS220, 115 Empire Street in downtown Providence. Each panel draws three or four experts, academics, creatives, and other relevant guests into an open-ended discussion with the larger community.

On Sundays at 8 PM, a one-hour version of the previous Wednesday's community conversation will be broadcast on RI public radio station, WRNI.


April 27 at 9 PM
Growing the Green Economy - The stark realities of the human impact on our planet - from global warming and depleted fish stocks, to spreading deserts and loss of species - make taking care of our environment more critical than ever. Amid - and because of - all the recent scientific evidence of environmental distress, a new more hopeful story is emerging. Growing The Green Economy covers this under-reported story of how companies, investors, pension fund managers, innovators and entrepreneurs worldwide are quietly growing a new, cleaner, greener, more ethical economy in our midst. Galvanized by the new evidence of how "business as usual" and old economic approaches to human development are unsustainable, these new leaders are busy reforming capitalism and the marketplace for healthier, more equitable, and environmentally-friendly futures for all our children.

A bit about ACTION SPEAKS
AS220 and Marc Levitt began the Action Speaks series in 1995, grant supported by the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities (RICH). Since 2002, AS220 and RICH have worked as full partners in this yearly production. Thanks to an expansion grant from the National Endowment from the Humanities, the 2009 series will include two seasons, spring and autumn, each with four programs.

Additional information about the 2009 spring season, including topics and panelists, can be found at actionspeaksradio.org.