OPEN celebrates the searching for, finding, documenting, and sharing of things, with things defined in the loosest ways possible. Ideas, handhelds, memories, and monuments. Not quite a gallery, library, archive, or museum—more of a shared space with things on view. OPEN moves into our first location at 50 Sims. Spring / Summer ‘25.

News

  1. Some preview photos of our space are up.

  2. MOWLWLTDOO granted $2,000 by RI Humanities—a great org targeted by DOGE. Take action & support the humanities!

  3. The Providence Art & Design Center selected for Parcel 5.

  4. OPEN played Droll Yankees LPs at the What Cheer Record Club at Myrtle on April 19. It was fun; thx to all who listened.

Upcoming

  1. Reinsulator at the National Insulator Association Conference, Marlborough, MA, June 27–29, 2025

  2. Dog Days 2025, July 22–26, 2025

  3. Public Disclosure at Narragansett Brewery, Providence, September 18, 2025.

  4. Arquivo Tony Sonto Night! at Myrtle, East Providence, October 5, 2025

  5. Star Dot Star at the RISD Fleet and Providence Public Library, Fall 2026