Welcome To The ACA’s Website
The ACA is an alliance that promotes and advances arts and culture in Newport County for the benefit of our community. We provide valuable networking opportunities for those seeking to be involved in the arts.
“We currently have an active alliance of over 100 individual visual & performing artists, galleries, patrons, non-profit organizations and companies dedicated to making art more visible and vibrant in our Newport County communities” said Cristina Offenberg, President of the ACA. For membership in the ACA, please click on the Membership Tab above.
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Annual Meeting- April 19- 2012 – Newport Art Museum, Bellevue Avenue, Newport, RI – 6pm doors open, 6:30pm meeting commences, guest speaker Lauren Scanlon of National Endowment for Arts, with introduction by Randy Rosenbaum of RISCA. Open and free to members and public.
Bridgefest – 4 day music event – July 30 to August 2, 2012 area venues showcase local live music between the Newport Folk and Jazz festival. Visit The Bridgefest 2011 website.
Arts Around the Fire – a winter monthly social networking at Spanglish 162 Broadway, Newport 6pm to 8pm utterly informal networking opportunity for artists with a featured guest of the month. April 17, 2012- guest is Sara Atkins from Social Venture Partners Rhode Island.
ART VIEW– our local cable access television production that hosts our members as guests. As an ACA member, here’s your chance to appear as a guest on the ACA’s “ART VIEW” cable TV show on Cox Cable 18. Art View presents news about the arts throughout Newport County featuring artists, galleries, museums and performers who wish to showcase their activities and talents. Art View is available in about 20,000 homes in Newport County (Cox channel 18), and about 325,000 homes statewide on Statewide Interconnect Channel A (Cox channel 13, Verizon ch. 32, Full Channel ch. 13). Watch ART VIEW at 6pm Tuesdays and 10am Wednesdays. If you or your arts organization would like to be featured, contact us: info@NewportArts.org
Seminars and Workshops- keep checking back for our workshop and seminars that assist artists in variety of topics.
Volunteer Opportunities
The Arts and Cultural Alliance is seeking volunteers for various project/events upcoming in 2012 – if you are interested in the arts and in helping our alliance please contact Cris Offenberg.
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