Art Walk at Haven Cave

Providence Haven invites you to join Art Walk! Our premiering art event by artists from Rhode Island and Massachusetts all coming together to present, display and interview with Providence Haven. Hopefully, as new connections are made in our venue Haven Cave, the number of connections each artist makes triples and quadruples once they bring their talent to our facility.

Previously, during last month’s last HavenFestPVD, several musicians answered our call to action and said yes to working in our space with us. One of them being psychedelic-indie guitarist Smoking Cadillacs, hailing from Narragansett, and took the time to meet the team, play a few originals and closed out with a to-the-point interview. Last week Providence Haven made two new relations with heavy metal bassist Trevor McCabe and glass sculptor Hoppy Glass a.k.a Nick Hopkins. Trevor, hailing from North Providence, and Nick, coming from New Bedford Mass, had no idea what to expect of Haven Cave and the roles they would play.

Providence Haven provided them with links to our media platforms such as what we write here in CoalMont Magazine, links to our broadcasting site RI4CTV, and connected them to our Facebook page and Youtube web series NDBaker93. The result and connections made with these three artists were filmed professionally by Haven member Nickantony Quach. Nickantony took his time with each artist and musician to get up close and personal and asked each of them for their contact info and where their work can currently be seen and bought.

Art Walk is the premiering art event for new artists Madison Dankocsik and Wesley Evens! Madison creates incredible dystopian themed art using micron-ink pens. Her art expresses a future where humanity has lost to climate change and lost the beauty mother nature once provided. Sea levels swallow San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, a future where Lake Tahoe is dried up, a Hawaii overrun my nuclear reactors. Madison’s black and white works give the impression that if we as a global family fail to unite then the future will be gray and dismal. Her spectrum of art styles range from these dystopian moments to calmer and surreal works depicting nature in abstract and representational forms, art that is befitting to any home or sanctuary.

Wesley Evens is bringing his talents to Providence Haven as well! Wesley is a drummer, member of bands Times Gone There and Lucidas, two progressive spacejazz metal collaborations. The cool thing that connects Wes to Art Walk is what he does with his old drumheads; he turns them into canvasses and paints intricate geometric shapes and wildly abstract scenes bearing a truly one of a kind vision. Providence Haven reached out to Wesley only two weeks ago and we are excited to develop a relation with him first as artists and, hopefully, a second relation as musicians.

Along with Madison and Wesley, returning to display and talk about his glass art is Nick Hopkins! Nick would like to become a full time glass blower and reached out to Providence Haven to use us as his network. The millennial from New Bedford met with us for the first time in person during last week’s Haven meetup, a gathering which helped us structure Art Walk’s agenda. Nick responded to a Craigslist ad that we had created for expressionists like him, an ad with a message of invitation to come work with us in Providence. This time around we will focus on several of his works and talk about his inspirations and connections with each, tuning into what exactly gets his creative juices going.

Lastly, our very own Mary Rathier will close out Art Walk with her program Art Talk! Mary wants to connect with the artists who join us and the public of Providence by taking time to create art together at Haven Cave. This is an opportunity for us in Providence Haven to show character, create a relation and simply have fun painting and drawing.

To top off Art Walk we will be having a live music performance by member and friend John Kandalaft! John has been creating original work with several other members of Haven and is ready to show the public of Providence what he is made of. Creating a space and venue for him and other artists, musicians and expressions is what Providence Haven is all about. Come and check us out!

Want to create that process together? Feel like checking out local talent or buying one of a kind art? We’ll see you have Haven Cave’s Art Walk!

4:30–6:30 Monday March 9th at 116 Calverly St. Providence. Tickets here.