Recent work by Professor Nermin Kura is being shown in Provincetown this Summer, in a group show at the Todd James Gallery.

Kura’s work, Eggtopia, and Configurations, is exhibited from August 12-September 8 with an August 24 reception from 6 to 8PM.

Visiting Professor Vikram Bhatt, Professor and Director of McGill University, Montreal’s Minimum Cost Housing Group, taught a graduate seminar this summer on Edible Landscapes/Agricultural Urbanism. Students explored principles of introducing productive agricultural space in and around urban areas, building on Bhatt and McGill’s multi-year efforts in China, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Brazil and Canada exploring productive capabilities of edible landscapes. The work proceeds from a premise that an interest in sustainable living and local growing, coupled with an evolution of aesthetic values beyond traditional ornamental landscape sensibilities, can lead to transformed landscape, economy and ecological balance.

Simone Renee Spruce-Torres is a contemporary representational artist who creates a rich variety of multicultural portraits and figures placed in distinctive interiors and exteriors, creating a sense of time and place to engage her audience. Her mediums of choice are acrylic paint and graphite pencil. Spruce-Torres has exhibited in galleries as well as museums, colleges and universities, art centers, libraries and churches. She has been told that when people experience her work, they feel a powerful sense of awareness, encouragement and enlightenment.

My purpose as an artist is to use my art as a vehicle to raise awareness of social issues and to bring about social change.

My mission is to create art that inspires individuals to take action and seek justice, raise consciousness, touch lives and give voice to those groups who are marginalized.

The American Institute of Architects Rhode Island held its annual Education Expo and Corporate Affiliates Fair at the SAAHP on July 26, co-sponsored by Roger Williams University. The program, “Why Wait:  Interim Development of the I-195 Parcels?” focused on presentations, discussion and brainstorming involving innovative possibilities of temporary development in Providence on land vacated by the relocation of the Interstate 195 highway. Providence Preservation Society (PPS) Executive Director James Hall, City of Providence Interim Director of Planning Bob Azar and RI State Representative Chris Blazejewski addressed issues, current status of lands, and policy and civic engagement related to the I-195 Commission.