New Bedford — Student artists and their families filled the halls of the New Bedford Public School Administration Building on Thursday evening for the Annual Districtwide Art Show. Attendees wandered through the displays, admiring the wide variety of artwork created by students throughout the school year. The New Bedford High …
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Artist Ian Gaudreau is painting a new, smaller mural of Iryna Zarutska on the side of Opa Restaurant (Opa The Phoenician) on Atwells Avenue in Providence’s Federal Hill. Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, was stabbed to death on a North Carolina commuter train last summer (2025). The mural is part …
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Providence Mayor Brett Smiley publicly called for the removal of a nearly completed mural honoring a young Ukrainian refugee who was murdered last summer, sparking heated debate in the city’s arts community over whether the tribute has been overtaken by national politics. The artwork, painted by local artist Ian Gaudreau …
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42 artists from 38 cities across 21 states will exhibit in the third annual Curious Figure show. NEW BEDFORD, MA — For the first time since the relocation of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s College of Visual & Performing Arts, a national art exhibition will return to the historic Star …
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“The Memorial to Whalemen and Fishermen sculpture, also known as the “Neptune Statue,” will have a new home on the waterfront. The 14-foot historic statue was designed by noted American sculptor Ana Hyatt Huntington, gifted to the City, and dedicated in 1962. Its original home was by the Whaling Museum …
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Danny Barros, a New Bedford native and music producer, won a Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album at the 68th Grammys for Blxxd & Fyah, the album he produced in close collaboration with Jamaican artist Keznamdi and a talented Jamaican team. In an emotional post on Facebook, Barros reflected on …
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New Bedford Festival Theatre [NBFT], a professional regional non-profit theatre company in residence at the Zeiterion Theater in New Bedford, MA, is proud to announce we are among the only 28 statewide recipients of the prestigious inaugural MA Live Theater Tax Credit funding program. The MA Live Theater Tax Credit …
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“We were proud to gather at the historic Star Store in Downtown New Bedford for a press conference announcing our 2026 New Bedford Creative Grant recipients—even just days after a major snowstorm. If anything, the turnout proved what we already know: New Bedford shows up. This year, 23 grant recipients …
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“The City of New Bedford is seeking artists to create public art for the new Congdon-DeValles Elementary School—a major new build in the South End designed around themes of Earth, Water, Wind, and Sun. Artists are invited to propose interior or exterior murals and/or site-based installations. New Bedford residents are …
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“(New Bedford) – Work begins this week at the Global Learning Charter Public School (GLCPS) on a mural that will honor the memory of the school’s beloved patron, Joan Jacobs. The school has commissioned renowned muralist Sophy Tuttle to create the three-story mural on the south side exterior of the …
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