December 27, 2008 End of the Year Rebeliada with Fourteen Artists Group Show

Dear Friends,

Happy and Peaceful Holidays to Everyone!

Hope you can join us for the special End of the Year Rebel HQ Gallery Group Art Exhibit on Saturday, December 27, 2008, starting at 5 pm. We will be hosting a group show of fourteen artists featured in the invitation above.

If you wish please bring an item that represents something you want to let go of in the new year, so you can toss it into the fire. Eric Klein will be assisting anyone interested in a ritual of Letting Go. Bring your Intentions, Inspirations, Good Wishes and Voo Doos!

As always Wayne Bridge and Dorota Streitfeld are the accompanying host artists; and Richard Streitfeld is our host of honor and whimsy, bank of information and network advice. All art is offered for sale, discussion, comments and ice breaking. Bring pot luck food/drink, franks and wursts, kelbasas and sticks for the outdoor fire pit, marshmallow, hot chocolate; and musical instruments, if you play.

And as usual kindly forward the invitation to friends and foes!

With love and best wishes for the New Year,
Amy Jean, Brooke, Chrystee, Cory, Dorota, Dylan, Eric, Ewa, Janice, Jim, Kerry, Laura, Mary Beth, Patti, Rich and Wayne

November 2008 Rebel HQ with David Tobin

Thanks to David Tobin and Everybody for a great time during November Rebeliada. There were over eighty adults streaming through the space...

Hope to see everybody in December for the special End of the Year Group Exhibit. Bring your Intentions, Inspirations, Good Wishes and Voo Doos!

Holiday Festival and Downtown Stroll—December 06, 2008

PPS is bringing back the much loved Holiday Festival and moving it Downtown! On Saturday, December 6th, the PPS Downtown Holiday Festival will showcase 11 stunning lofts, located in six historic buildings that have undergone dramatic restorations! These private residences will be open to the public from 11A.M. – 4 P.M. This superb tour will feature an outstanding medley of homes, ranging from an exquisitely appointed penthouse, to sleek loft spaces and artists' studios.

Don't forget to visit our friends at the OfficeLab at the Federal Reserve Building hosting the 2008 Most Endangered Properties Traveling Exhibit, which is part of this great tour.

The Registration Center (where you pick up your guidebook which serves as the ticket) is at the Peerless Building Atrium at 150 Union Street.See below for directions. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 the day-of the tour. Pre-sale tickets will end on Thursday, December 4th at 5 P.M. All tickets after that must be purchased at the Registration Center for the Day-of ticket rate.
For more information visit the Providence Preservation Society, or the OfficeLab.

Rebel HQ November 2008 Post Thanksgiving Art Gallery Vernissage by David Tobin

Please join us for the Open House Post Thanksgiving Art Gallery on Saturday, November 29, 2008, starting at 5 pm.

David Tobin will treat us to a vibrant, expressive oil painting show. It is extremely exciting to anticipate all this mesmerizing color and incredible energy on the Gallery walls!

As always Wayne Bridge and Dorota Streitfeld are the accompanying host artists, And Richard Streitfeld is our host of honor and whimsy, bank of information and network advice.

All art is offered for sale, discussion, comments and ice breaking.

Bring pot luck food/drink, Thanksgiving leftovers, and your overnight staying guests; children born, and yet-to-be-born; musical instruments, if you play. And as usual, kindly forward the invitation to friends and foes!

GO OBAMA!

Just a Couple of the Latest Ink on Clayboard by Wayne M. Bridge

Way to Go, David, Deb and Wayne!

We are proud and happy to announce that paintings by Wayne Bridge, Deb Carlson and David Tobin have been chosen for the 22nd Rhode Island Juried Competition at the Warwick Museum of Art. Please join them for the Opening Reception on Friday, November 7th, from 7 pm to 9 pm at the Museum. The juror this year is Michael Peery, an accomplished painter and educator. For more information go to www.warwickmuseum.org/experience/experience.htm

Open the Door… Unconventional Bedtime Story Written and Illustrated by Wayne M. Bridge

Here is yet another creation by Wayne, this time the author Wayne M. Bridge. The book he wrote and illustrated is amusing, surprising, mysterious, and hmmm… scary a bit. Perfect for this time of the year. Wayne's imagination and inspiration is truly unlimited and contagious. For an authographed copy of the book, please write rebelheadquarters@gmail.com

As the author himself puts it: "Wayne is an author, artist and craftsman, currently living in Rhode Island. His pleasure in having written and illustrated this book is immeasurable. He hopes it scares your children. He is a very bad man." $40. Enjoy!

Rebel HQ October Art Gallery Party Preparation

Just a great shot of Rich (the CPA) and Wayne (the artist) getting their costumes ready for yesterday Rebel HQ Gallery. We all had an amazing fun last night, tons of pictures are coming soon. Thank you so much to all for adding your energy into creating such a wonderful sense of community and art appreciation thorough this event!

OfficeLab at the Federal Reserve Building—Working Downtown Providence is Exciting

Meeting Miriam Goldsmith and Wayne Franklin at the OfficeLab, the cooperative office space at the Federal Reserve building downtown Providence (info and the website in the blog below.)

Rebel HQ Invades Federal Reserve

Rebel HQ has set off an art bomb at the Federal Reserve building in downtown Providence, with the help of our friends on the inside. Our allies at OfficeLAB have provided wall space in their new collaborative workspace. We filled the walls with art in time for the opening event.

Paintings by Wayne Bridge, Ewa Stosik-Moers and Dorota Streitfeld can be seen at the historic Federal Reserve Building in the heart of Providence’s Downcity starting today, Thursday, Oct 9, 2008, 8:00 am—5:00 pm.

The OfficeLab is a new place for sharing office space and resources with a community of entrepreneurs, freelancers and mobile professionals. It was created through Urban Sun Investments' "Seed Providence" initiative to support and foster the city's burgeoning knowledge economy. Bring your laptop, work, relax, network, drink coffee and enjoy this unique workspace in the heart of Downcity. Try out the 8mbps upload and download speeds by either plugging in directly or tapping high-speed WIFI (Simultaneous Dual N-band). OfficeLAB is offering monthly memberships at the introductory rate of $175 for 40 hours of access per month.

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Where: 170 Westminster Street, Providence, RI (3rd Floor)
For more information go to www.officelab.us

Rebel HQ Open House Gallery Invitation—October 25, 2008 Dress Up, Not Stress Up

Please join us for the costume and art party on October 25, 2008, starting at 5 pm.

Wayne Bridge and Dorota Streitfeld are the host artists. All art is offered for sale, discussion, comments and ice breaking.

Please take it easy, if the costume issue stresses you out. Hmmm.... But that's the point. Ok, we'll have a massage (torture?) chair for those stressed out art celebrators. :)

Bring pot luck food/drink, and musical instruments, if you play. And as usual, kindly forward the invitation to friends and foes!

Heavenly September Rebel Headquarters Gallery with Ewa Stosik-Moers

Dear friends, thank you for making these nights such a blast!

Ewa, thank you so much for showing your incredible, sensual talent, love of beauty and sense of humor, and for being such a lovely Angel.

We realized that not just adults connect very nicely during the gallery nights. The teenagers, and younger crew are so natural at networking and having fun. Thank you for inspiring us, kids!

Ryan, Sasha and their friends, Diane, Jessica, Chris and Vika, Andrew, Didgeridoo David... Thank you for making music! We all appreciate your amazing talents so very much.

October 25 will, naturally, be a costume gala. Hope to see everybody here. Bring your friends or foes, what the hell!

Sponsor Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk with Marjorie Lewis

Marjorie Lewis will be taking part of the Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk on Sunday. She will be here at the next Rebel HQ Open House Gallery the day before. Please kindly sponsor her cause, walk or talk with her—she is fun! For more information go to http://www.alz.org/ri/in_my_community_memory walk.asp

Next Rebel HQ Show September 27, 2008 featuring Ewa Stosik-Moers

Please sharpen your visual appetite for the upcoming Vernissage of a wonderful, hot, spirited and wild Polish American artist. Ewa Stosik-Moers is a talented photographer, painter, illustrator, architect, art therapist and energy healer. September 27, 2008 at 4 pm.

Vernissage
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A vernissage (varnishing, from French), also known as a preview, private view or simply opening, is the start of an art exhibition. Guests may be served canapés and wine as they discuss with artists and others the works in the exhibition. Critics and press may also be present, or invited to separate private viewings.
At official exhibitions, such as the Royal Academy summer exhibition, artists, in the past, would give a finishing touch to their works by varnishing them (J M W Turner was known for making significant changes to works on varnishing day while his fellow academicians were simply varnishing). The custom of patrons and the élite of visiting the academies during the varnishing day prior to the formal opening of the exhibition gave rise to the tradition of celebrating the completion of an art work or a series of art works with friends and sponsors. Nowadays, for commercial shows it is an opportunity to market the works on sale to buyers and critics.
There also is a comparable ceremonial ending of art exhibitions, called finissage. Larger art exhibitions also may have such an event at half time of the exhibition (midissage).

Variations on a Theme Installation Photos Warwick Museum of Art—August 26, 2008

(Show Installation Photos courtesy of David Tobin, who's incredible oils we will have honor to showcase at the Rebel HQ in November!)
For more information about the Warwick Museum of Art current exhibit we are part of, and their fabulous wine tasting event on Friday September 12, please go to:
http://warwickmuseum.org/experience/experience.htm

August 2008 Rebel HQ Open House Gallery

Thanks, everybody, for your ongoing support and participation. What a great, joyful time we've had, celebrating art and food together! Please have fun going through the pictures placed on the left side of the page. If you click and hold on the slideshow photograph, it will take you to the Picassa web site, where you will be able to view and download them.

Deenie's beautiful glass and paper artwork is available for viewing for another three weeks, so please stop by to see it, exchange hugs and pick up your children and tupperware. Love and gratitute to all, lets keep it going!

Wayne's Skeleton Dance Ink & Red Wine Drawing and Marble Pear Box Oil Painting (sold)

Rebels in Providence Art Motivation Group Show

Warwick Museum of Art

http://www.warwickmuseum.org/

Variations on a Theme
2nd Annual Providence Art Motivation Group Show
Reception: Friday, September 5, 2008 from 7 - 9 p.m.

The Warwick Museum of Art invites you to join us Friday, September 5th from 7 - 9 pm for the opening of “Variations on a Theme.” This exhibition consists of multi-media artwork of fourteen local visual artists, members of the Providence Art Motivation Group. Stephanie Schechter (group organizer) Laura Atkinson, Wayne Bridge, Deborah Carlson, Chrystee Governo, Patty Johnston-Martucci, Nicole McDermott, David McGuirl, Deenie Pacik, Elise Rugens, Ewa Stosik-Moers, Dorota Streitfeld, David Tobin, and Jill Tyler will be exhibiting. Variations on a Theme explores the artistic interpretations of four subjects: Eyes, Water, Collection and Pattern.

All works are available for purchase and include a wide array of media and disciplines: Acrylic, Oil and Watercolor paintings, Collage, Digital Art, Illustration, Mixed-media, Pastel, Photography, and Sculpture. Twice monthly, the Providence Art Motivation Group meets to provide support, direction and deadlines for visual artists in all mediums who need structure to be productive. At the end of each session, a theme is selected at random from group members’ suggestions. They then have two to three weeks to complete a piece of work, based on the new theme, in the medium of their choice to be presented at the next meeting.

This exhibit showcases the dramatically different interpretations in terms of style, medium and realization of the subject theme. For instance, one artist may approach the subject of “pattern” by looking towards nature to find the patterns in a growing garden, another may incorporate swatches of patterned fabric into a mixed media collage. This show represents that one’s creative interpretation knows no bounds, and is not restricted to common vision. The artists explore deeper significance and expression of the simple subjects.
SHOW OPENS: Wednesday, September 3, 2008
ARTISTS RECEPTION: Friday, September 5, 2008, 7 —9 pm
SPECIAL EVENT: Saturday, September 6, 2008 Apponaug Day Festival, 9 am—5 pm
SHOW ENDS: Saturday, October 4, 2008

August 2008 Rebel HQ Gallery Invitation Featuring Deenie Pacik

July 2008 Rebel Headquarters Open House Gallery

Brooke Hammerle, whose photography we are proud to show off...

Ely Bridge, whose photography we hope to show off one day!

Saturday, July 26 RebelHQ Invitation

Please join us for art appreciation every last Saturday of the month. Next one—Saturday, July 26!  
Photography by our wonderful guest artist—Brooke Hammerle (www.brookehammerle.com), and art showing by Wayne Bridge and Dorota Streitfeld. Music, potluck (including grilling,) dancing, chats, laughs.

Thank you so much to everybody, who attended June festivities, and thanks to Carolyn Daniel (ckdanieldesign@yahoo.com) for her beautiful encaustics, and studio tours. Spectacular company, food, music; and amazing belly dancing, Victoria! The Art Seek and Find kids crew did an incredible job meeting the challenge. And thanks to the hair/heir of Andy Warhol for making an appearance!