The Providence Art Club holds open juried shows and provide an opportunity for people to volunteer and be members of an artistic community. In fact, according to the club president, the Club “thrives on a foundation of member volunteers.”

The Art Club’s founders hold their presence in the building with the patina that whispers through the antique rooms with original window shutters and almost speaks from the silhouetted portraits of the original founders, painted and still displayed in the Green Room of the clubhouse.

The builders couldn’t decide if they wanted the outer walls of the more than two hundred year old buildings to touch, or if there should be a walkway between. So the alleyway between the Deacon Edward Taylor House and the Dodge Gallery is so narrow that you can stretch out your arms and let you fingertips brush against the bricks and imagine Thomas Street in a Providence long before Gallery Night or the prominence of the Rhode Island school of design confirmed Providence’s place on the map of the art world.

Despite being a beautiful historical building (The Fleurs de Lys building filled with artist’s studios was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992) the Art Club is a resource as well as a support and staple for Rhode Island artists, providing a forum and a resource as well as a centralized community.

The galleries at the Providence Art Club exhibit art of media that vary from landscape drawings, etchings and paintings to a historical retrospective of pens.

The Providence Art Club is located at 11 Thomas Street and can be found on the web at www.providenceartclub.org or by telephone at 401.331.1114.

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