Exhibitions

**BETTERPRESS LAB | Truth and Resistance: Letterpress Collaborations**
**Opening Reception: Friday, April 5th | 6-8PM**
**Exhibition: April 3rd - April 20th, 2024**
In 1932, Beatrice Warde wrote about the importance of the printing office. Today, this is equally true. In an era of “fake news” and “truthiness,” the voice of the artist is more important than ever to bring the realities of life to the people. BetterPress Lab is a unique environment in which artists can research how to express their ideas through creative scholarship. The collection of prints exhibited here reveals a deeper search for truth and a desire to resist in the face of corruption.
For the past 10 years, Francesca Colonia and Giulia Nicolai have invited international artists to collaborate with them at BetterPress Lab, a unique letterpress studio located in Rome, Italy. Truth and Resistance will feature these collaborations.

**THE BUTCHER: Visual Poetry, Ceramics & Knives**
Kylie Gellatly
Silene DeCiucies
Chelsea Miller
**OPENING RECEPTION:** Friday, March 8th, 2024 | 6-8PM

Jonathan Pitts Wiley, ALL THE WORLDS, September 18 - December 21, 2023.

**Daydream Collection by Jon Watanabe, Watanabe Glassworks [Above: Soda Glassworks,** 2023]

Olive the Giant, Glenn, [Uncle], Oil Painting, 2023

HEIRLOOM

JUNE 8TH – AUGUST 25TH, 2023

World's Fair Gallery is thrilled to present HEIRLOOM: oil paintings by Olive the Giant, neon by Nick McKnight and vessels by Fritz Glass. Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, June 15th from 6-8 PM. We’ll celebrate the evening with sips & bites!

**RISD JEWELRY + METALS SENIOR EXHIBITION**
***OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, June 1st | 6-8 PM***
***May 30th – June 5th, 2023***
World's Fair Gallery is pleased to present RISD J+M Senior Exhibition. Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, June 1st from 6-8 PM. We’ll celebrate the occasion with sips & small bites.

**AMORE AMARO: WILLA VAN NOSTRAND**
***OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, March 24th | 6-8 PM***
***MARCH 24th – MAY 24TH, 2023***
World's Fair Gallery is delighted to present AMORE AMARO: Paintings by Willa Van Nostrand, Ceramics by Athena Witscher, handblown drinkware by FACEVESSEL, and artisanal vinegars by TART Vinegar. Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, March 24th from 6-8 PM. We’ll celebrate the occasion with a curated tasting.
***CLOSING RECEPTION: May 25th, 2023 | 6-8 PM***

**LINEA: Catherine Druken and Zoë Wyner**
**OPENING RECEPTION:** Thursday, December 8th | 6-8 PM
**DECEMBER 8th – JANUARY 28th, 2023**
World's Fair Gallery is pleased to present LINEA: Little Worlds in Gouache, acrylics and Clay featuring new work by Catherine Druken and Zoë Wyner. Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, December 8th from 6-8 PM. We’ll celebrate the occasion with stunning sips, cookies and cakes!
**CLOSING RECEPTION:** Friday, January 28th | 6-8 PM

**DUST TWINS: Cybele Collins + Jesse Kaminsky**
**Opening Reception:** Thursday, November 17th, 2022 | 6-9 PM
**NOVEMBER 17TH - 28TH, 2023**
The paintings and sculptures in this show sketch out the connective tissue between living things in two and three dimensions. Earlier this year, after realizing similarities in images and approach, Jesse and Cybele discovered that they were temporal twins: born within 24 hours of each other into different counterculture communities.
Most twins share a womb and sometimes an ideology or a social sphere, but their matching DNA rarely tells the whole story. A twinning can emerge from a shared time and social cycle, a generational season of dust and sun. These epochs give us the friction of recognition: what is shared, and then, also, what differs. The DNA of all people is almost identical - slight differences in sequence create the wide variation that we see or imagine.
This twinning is an experience of identity through the senses, a recognition that we create a self from the pounding blood and light of our primordial substance. The spirit is born into an organism that creates form out of the magmic and undifferentiated flux of matter and energy. The spirit’s journey is to trace and recreate the endless possibility of connection.
OPENING RECEPTION: 11/17/22 | 6-8PM

Julia Gualtieri, *Mask Series* 2022
**TRIP THE LIGHT FANTASTIC**
October 16TH - November 12TH
**World’s Fair Gallery is pleased to present TRIP THE LIGHT FANTASTIC: A Group Show, co-curated by Mary Lindberg & Willa Van Nostrand. Please join us in the** gallery on **on October 20th for the soft opening and November 11th for the opening reception between 6-8pm. We’ll cheers this monumental show with celebratory sips**, small bites & sidewalk sauntering.
Soft Opening: October 20th, 2022 from 6-8pm
Opening reception: November 11th, 2023 from 6-8pm.
**Daniella Ben-Besatt**
**Isabel Barnes**
**Caitlin Cali**
**Esther Clark**
**Brian Chippendale**
**Muggs Fogarty**
**Olive B. Godlee**
**Julia Gualtieri**
**Jungil Hong**
**Zibby Jahns**
**John Kane**
**Susanna Kim Koetter**
**Mary Lindberg**
**Heather Mcpherson**
**Lisa Perez**
**Abby Phillips**
**John Francis Quinonez**
**Lee Tindall**
**Willa Van Nostrand**

DJ’S HAPPENING

DJ CHAPPEL ATELIER: SEPTEMBER 20TH - 25TH

World’s Fair Gallery is delighted to present artist DJ Chappel and his first HAPPENING. Join us on Tuesday, September 20th from 6-9pm for the opening reception and celebration of DJ’s atelier residency. The gallery will be transformed into DJ’s studio and atelier, a space to welcome friends, viewers and guests to meet the artist and witness his latest creations. Inspired by a profound lack of black male role models during his youth, DJ creates primary resources for the future gay black boy. His work ranges from wearable sculptures and artifacts to interactive installations. Using his curiosity in fashion and theater, DJ expresses and preserves his experience as a future ancestor.

(Above) DJ Chappel, *A Selfie of the Artist as a Reflection of His Present Self*, 2022, IG Post
*DJ’S HAPPENING*: Tuesday, September 20th from 6-9 PM

AS ABOVE, SO BELOW

**RISD JEWELRY & METALSMITHING with Society of North American Goldsmiths**
Society OF North American Goldsmiths conference
EXHIBITION: JUNE 1 - JUNE 7
World’s Fair Gallery is thrilled to present: RISD Department of Jewelry & Metalsmithing with Society of North American Goldsmiths. Please join us **Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 from 6:00-8:00pm** for the artists reception. The gallery will be open every day from 12-4pm and private viewing appointments are available.

PENUMBRA: Alessia Arregui + Ellen Nanni-Vargas
Paintings, Weavings & Vessels
March 1st - May 30th 2022

**EARTH, AIR, FIRE, WATER**
**Michael Ezzell + Merry Farm Pottery**
Intaglio + Ceramic Vessels
12/03/21 - 02/22/22

TINY SHOWCASE

A Show of Small Prints

OCTOBER 26TH - NOVEMBER 28TH

World’s Fair Gallery is thrilled to present TINY SHOWCASE: A Show of Small Prints featuring 66 artists with Rhode Island roots. Tiny Showcase is a website founded in Providence in 2004 to make collecting art affordable and accessible. Every Tuesday a limited edition of phenomenal art is released with a portion of proceeds donated to a cause near and dear to the artist’s heart. This will be Tiny Showcase’s first Rhode Island survey of prints IRL since its founding.

A new collection of ceramic vessels by Anyhow Studio and a print by Kelli Rae Adams will be released to accompany this show.

EVENING RECEPTIONS

Friday, October 29th | 6:00 - 9:00pm | OPENING RECEPTION

Friday, November 26th | 6:00 - 9:00pm | CLOSING RECEPTION

Please join us Friday, November 26th, 2021 from 6:00-9:00 pm for the closing reception celebrated with festive sips, small bites & sidewalk sauntering. Clients and guests are welcome to pick-up their print orders on 11/26 during the day or at the closing reception.

MUD & METAL: An Exploration in Ceramics + Clay Elsa Hoffman, Rena Rong & Emily Rye Opening Reception: September 9th, 2021 | 6-9pm September 1st - October 15th, 2021 — **MUD & METAL: An Exploration in Ceramics + Clay**
**Elsa Hoffman, Rena Rong & Emily Rye**
September 1st - October 15th, 2021
Opening Reception: September 9th, 2021 | 6-9pm

LEAH BEEFERMANLIGHT RIGHT NOW: VIDEO & DIGITAL PRINTS Opening Reception: Friday, August 13th | 6-9pm August 9th - August 21st, 2021 — **LEAH BEEFERMAN**
**LIGHT RIGHT NOW: VIDEO & DIGITAL PRINTS**
August 9th - August 21st, 2021
Opening Reception: Friday, August 13th | 6-9pm

CAROLINE GODDARD & EMILY NORA O’NEILUNDINE: Imbued Objects, Garments & Photography Opening Reception: Saturday, June 26th 1-8pmJune 26th - August 7th, 2021 — **CAROLINE GODDARD & EMILY NORA O’NEIL**
**UNDINE: Imbued Objects, Garments & Photography**
June 26th - August 7th, 2021
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 26th 1-8pm

CONTEMPORARY QUILTS + CERAMICS LUCIA CARROL & LIZ WELCH OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, March 11th, 2021 | 4:30 - 7:30 PM — **CONTEMPORARY QUILTS + CERAMICS**
LUCIA CARROL & LIZ WELCH
**OPENING RECEPTION:** Thursday, March 11th, 2021 | 4:30 - 7:30 PM

Human:Nature-Cara-Blaine-web.jpg — HUMAN ≈ NATURE

World’s Fair Gallery is pleased to Present HUMAN ≈ NATURE, new works by Cara Blaine + Amanda Soule. Please join us virtually for our opening reception on Thursday, October 22nd, 2020.

HOT HOUSE

A radiant collection of works on paper, paintings, and dimensional work by Providence based artists inspired by all things botanical.

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ADONIS

Providence printmaker Michael Ezzell shares his new collection of cut copper plates and intaglio prints portraying personal mythologies. Ceramic artist Ariela Nomi Kuh (ANK Ceramics) presents a collection of vessels inspired by primitive Greek forms and her recent travels through Greece..

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