On Artscape today, we take a look at the URI Guitar festival, getting underway this weekend, for its 6th year, showcasing a wide variety of virtuoso guitar and other stringed instrumentalists from around the world. Last year, because of the pandemic, the festival was all virtual, but this year, it’s operating on a hybrid model, with a return to live performances. The Public's Radio's morning host Chuck Hinman talked about that earlier this week, with Adam Levin, classical guitarist and URI professor, and the force behind the festival.

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URI Guitar Festival 2021

"A Lie Agreed Upon" is on now at The Gamm Theatre in Warwick. Morning host Chuck Hinman and Artscape producer James Baumgartner review the play.

Facts, truth, and 'A Lie Agreed Upon' at the Gamm

George Wein died Monday at the age of 95. He was the founder of the Newport Folk and Jazz festivals and helped set the template for music festivals around the world. In 2015, he talked with Chuck Hinman, morning host for The Public’s Radio. It was 50 years after Bob Dylan played at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and shocked the folk music faithful with an electric guitar.

George Wein remembers Bob Dylan’s electric moment at the Newport Folk Festival

The Waterfire Arts Center in Providence is currently showing “Eye to Eye” an arresting exhibition of portraiture by Mary Beth Meehan. Artscape producer James Baumgartner visited the Center in the Valley district in Providence.

Intimate portraits and a witness to history

Reverend Osagyefu Sekou is playing in Woonsocket Friday night with his band The Freedom Fighters. Artscape producer James Baumgartner has this preview.

Rev. Sekou brings Delta blues, soul and gospel to Woonsocket's River Island Park

The Rhode Island International Film Festival gets underway this week, running until the 15th of August.

Rhode Island filmmaker documents "Last Ice Area"

The Rhode Island International Film Festival gets underway today, running until the 15th of August.

Rhode Island filmmaker documents "last ice area"

Festival Ballet Providence kicks off a two-week run of performances of a program called "Emergence."

Festival Ballet Emerges on stage for the first time since March 2020

High school art classes have had their own set of challenges during the pandemic. One Providence after-school program has come up with a creative solution to keep kids engaged in self-expression.

Art kits for Providence students help keep the creativity going

For the past five summers, Providence has hosted PVD Fest, a multi-day street festival that fills the city with crowds watching performers from all over the world - musicians, dancers and even acrobats suspended in the air. All of that was cancelled this year.

PVDFest was cancelled this summer, but public artworks like 'Three Sisters' bring life to downtown Providence

For years, WaterFire has been a regular ritual celebrating downtown Providence, a symbol of the city’s rebirth after decades of decline. In the pandemic, it’s also become a way of memorializing those who have died of COVID-19, through an installation called The Beacon of Hope. Artscape producer James Baumgartner talked with WaterFire’s Executive Artistic Director Barnaby Evans.

WaterFire Providence honors the thousand Rhode Islanders who have died from COVID-19

In the aftermath of looting last week, plywood windows in downtown Providence began to turn into art. A group of people gathered at the corner of Eddy and Fountain streets earlier this week to admire the impromptu outdoor gallery. The Public’s Radio Artscape producer James Baumgartner was there.

Artists turn plywood covered windows into community canvas

How can you practice theater when you can’t be in the same room? How do you make art together when you can’t share a space? How do you have a violin lesson over a Zoom call? Three after-school arts groups in Providence are finding creative answers to those questions.

After-school arts programs find creative ways to make art at a distance

The New Bedford Whaling Museum has repurposed its website to provide a 'museum from home' experience. But there's far more than what you would see if you could visit the museum right now.

Whaling Museum offers 'museum from home' with resources for parents, youth and more

While movie theaters and other large gatherings are restricted right now due to coronavirus, newportFILM has come up with a way to bring their documentary film series directly to the audience in their homes every week.

newportFILM finds a way to bring film series to your home

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