By Christy Nadalin
​Putting the Pieces Back Together, a national, juried exhibition of works by artists from across the country, is only hanging for one more week at the Bristol Art Museum (BAM), closing Friday, April 1. Try to get out to see it — you will be glad you did.
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​Putting the Pieces Back Together
“Putting the Pieces Back Together” is a juried exhibition of collages and constructions by 105 artists from twenty-two states. The works express the idea of putting life back together after the COVID-19 pandemic. University of Rhode Island Professor of Art Bob Dilworth served as juror. The organizers received over 430 submissions for the exhibition.
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By Christy Nadalin

During a visit on a recent afternoon, the Mt. Hope High School art department — four large classrooms bursting with color and creativity — was a hive of activity as students prepared their works for their upcoming exhibit. Titled “Only One Earth - Only One Rhode Island: Our Environment Through Our Students' Eyes,” the exhibit will be comprised of students’ artistic expressions of environmental degradation and climate change’s threat to coastal communities and is scheduled to open in April.

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BY MICHAEL ROSE

There is a great term employed by art historians to describe objects packed with visual stimuli: “horror vacui," the fear of empty space. In the world of collage, artists tend to fill their artworks with many fragments to create cohesive wholes. They seem to share this anxiety towards emptiness. It is a benign neurosis and one that results in fascinating art.

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