Providence, RI -- The Rhode Island Film & TV Office is pleased to announce that Academy Award nominated writer/director, M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable) and best-selling author Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook, A Walk to Remember) are teaming up on a supernatural romantic...
Providence, RI – A senior at Classical High School, Emmanuel Obisanya, was named the Rhode Island 2025 winner of the state's Poetry Out Loud Championship on March 8 at the Providence Public Library. He won with his stand-out recitation of the following poems: Dirge Without Music, Edna St. Vincent...
Leonardo DiCaprio's production company, Appian Way, has partnered with Rhode Island-based production company, Verdi Productions, for the authorized documentary on the life of Rod Serling, most known as the creator, host, narrator and primary writer of The Twilight Zone.
DiCaprio and Chad A....
The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) announced today that applications are now open for selected arts and culture grant programs to organizations, arts educators, artists, folk and traditional artists, and arts and health projects. The deadline to submit a grant application is April...
Providence RI —The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced today the first round of recommended awards for fiscal year 2025 of more than $36.79 million with $300,000 divided among 11 Rhode Island-based arts entities and one artist, Julia Sanches of Providence. In 2024, the reward was $275,...
Providence, RI – The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) continues to hold in-person and online meetings to improve and simplify its grant guidelines and application process. Key staff members will host and discuss changes to the grant programs they manage.
The arts agency is...
Todd Trebour, Executive Director of R.I. State Council on the Arts:
On behalf of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA), we are thrilled that Rhode Island voters overwhelmingly approved ballot Question #5, which is the Cultural Arts and Economy Grant Program.
We want to thank Gov.
Governor Dan McKee, Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green, Providence Public School District (PPSD) Superintendent Dr. Javier Montañez, and Rhode Island state, city, and school leaders gathered with students today at Hope High School for the Arts to...
Providence, R.I. – R.I. State Council on the Arts has awarded $6,000 per year for three years to three Providence-based artists, Claire Andrade-Watkins, Miguel Enrique Lastra and Sara Young.
Now entering its third year, recipients of this grant receive support to work toward large, specific,...
Providence, RI – The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) has partnered with UMass Amherst Arts Extension Service and Culture Climate Strategy to present a three-part virtual series Culture for Climate Action--Rhode Island. The free webinars cover how arts and culture organizations can...
