The Festival Ballet offers performances throughout the year, including The Nutcracker at Christmas and classes for students of all ages.
RI DanceA listing of dance performances, workshops and classes in Rhode Island.
State Ballet of Rhode IslandRhode Island's first established classical ballet company performs regularly and offers classes for all ages.
An extensive hierarchical directory to online materials relating to art, and art history. The main directory is split into nine broad time/topical categories. Links to museums and galleries worldwide, as well as some information on prints and photography are provided.
ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual ArtFor artists, art students, and art educators in art production, art criticism, art history, aesthetics, and art education. Over 2600 entries browsable alphabetically. Provides images of works of art and quotations. Some definitions contain links to other related areas on the Web.
ArtSource"A gathering point for networked resources on Art and Architecture. The content is diverse and includes pointers to resources around the net as well as original materials submitted by librarians, artists, and art historians, etc." Includes a guide to electronic exhibitions.
World Wide Arts ResourcesThe RISD Museum houses over 80,000 works of art, ranging from ancient Greek and Roman sculpture to French Impressionist paintings, from Chinese stone and terracotta sculpture to contemporary art in every medium.
Providence Art ClubFounded in 1880 to to stimulate the appreciation of art in the community.
Warwick Museum of ArtThe Warwick Museum of Art provides a performance and exhibition space for the most talented artists, writers and performers in Rhode Island and is host of a wide array of cultural and artistic activities including comedy, theater, music, poetry and literature as well as monthly visual arts exhibitions.
Newport Art MuseumThe Newport Art Museum collects, preserves, exhibits and interprets historic and contemporary visual arts of the highest quality with an emphasis on the rich artistic heritage of Newport, the state of Rhode Island and southeastern New England.
Metropolitan Museum of Art"In formation since 1870, the Metropolitan Museum's collection now contains more than two million works of art from all points of the compass, ancient through modern times." Special exhibitions section, highlights of the collection, timeline of art history, educational resources and events and programs sections.
MOMA The Museum of Modern ArtThe collection includes 150,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects and some 22,000 films, videos, and media works, as well as film stills, scripts, posters and historical documents.
Museum of Fine Arts BostonCurrent, past and upcoming exhibitions, calendar of lectures, classes, film and music programs. Online collections database covering 50,000 works.
The National Portrait GalleryThis site is a good reference tool for finding good images, both painting, sculpture, and photography, of people of historical interest in the United States. There are ongoing exhibits of portraits of presidents, historical documentation of American history and social history as well. The images give a good representation of what presidents and other historical figures acutally looked like, along with short citations of historical note.
The RI Philharmonic provides an array of concerts from classical to pops. They also sponsor a Youth Orchestra and many education programs.
RI Civic Chorale & OrchestraThe Rhode Island Civic Chorale and Orchestra is a musical organization made up of singers from Rhode Island and surrounding areas.
Offers shows from Broadway to the Wiggles to movies.
Trinity RepertoryTrinity Rep provides its audience with theater that is compelling, artistically exciting, and that touches the lives of all of our community. We present a broad, eclectic selection of classical, contemporary and original narrative work in a formally inventive, audience-engaging style.
