Join us for extended hours in the gallery on Thursday, June 10 until 7:30 pm with Ethan Cohen, the curator of the current exhibition African Avant-Garde.

Join us for an Evening Curator's Talk and Musical Performance for African Avant-Garde: Aboudia and Frédérick Bruley Bouabré at the JAC on Saturday, June 12 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm.

Tickets are $50 per person. RSVP

Watch the recorded program

May 12, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm.

The duo will be discussing their collaboration on the video work Currents, a visual, sonic and spoken word piece made in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis during this virtual lunchtime artists talk.

Watch the recorded program

“JAC Talk” is a regular program hosted by the Jamestown Arts Center to bring together artists, intellectuals, and creative minds to share their stories with the Jamestown community and beyond.

Join this virtual talk with James Payne, one of the 10 selected artist from the 2020 island-wide Outdoor Arts Experience.

Wednesday, April 28, 7:00 pm on Zoom.

WATCH THE PRESENTATION

Join Andrew Raftery for a virtual artists’ talk and learn more about this process and inspiration behind the work currently on view in New Impressions.

April 30, noon - 1 PM EST

WATCH THE PROGRAM RECORDING

Step inside the artists studio during this virtual tour and artists' talk with printmaker/painter Lisa Barsumian.

Meet + Greet with Allison Bianco this Thursday during Newport Gallery Night from 5-7 pm!

A Virtual Concert with the Heifetz Institute

April 17, 7 - 8:30 pm

A live-streamed concert from the Heifetz Institute exclusively for the Jamestown Arts Center. RSVP Required.

WATCH THE RECORDING of the talk here

Wednesday April 14, 12 - 1 pm EST

Join Serena Perrone for lunch and a virtual tour of her studio in Sicily, Italy. Learn more about her printmaking process and inspiration behind her work in New Impressions in this interactive discussion.

Saturday April 10, 12 - 3 pm.

Fausto Palma, an interpreter of guitar, sarangi (a 39-string violin from North India), ud (11-string Turkish guitar) and a composer and arranger will play live music in the JAC galleries. Reservations recommended.

Saturday, May 8, 2021

Celebrate the opening of the new exhibition African Avant-Garde: Aboudia and Frédéric Bruly Bouabré at the JAC on Saturday, May 8, with an outdoor collage workshop from 11 am - 1 pm and an opening reception with the curator Ethan Cohen from 2 - 4 pm. Reservations are recommended for the opening reception as capacity will be limited

WATCH THE PROGRAM from March 25

“JAC Talk” is a regular program hosted by the Jamestown Arts Center to bring together artists, intellectuals, and creative minds of all kinds to share their stories with the Jamestown community and beyond.

A virtual talk with James Dalessandro and Jason Hasko, who together formed Emergent Design, a design technology company focused on computational design.

WATCH THE PROGRAM from February 4, 2021

“JAC Talk” is a regular program hosted by the Jamestown Arts Center to bring together artists, intellectuals, and creative minds of all kinds to share their stories with the Jamestown community and beyond.

Sculptor Martin Keen discusses sculptural ideas and processes behind Water, one of ten pieces of outdoor art selected for the 2020 Outdoor Arts Experience.

Online through January 4, 2021

The Jamestown Arts Center celebrates the holidays with the work of artists and artisans during our annual Holiday Arts Market. In these difficult times, the JAC is still a conduit between artists in the public. This year, we are delighted to feature many of the artisans that Jamestowners are used to seeing at the physical holiday arts market virtually in our online store. Please help support these incredible local artists by shopping with us online.

WATCH THE PROGRAM from January 26, 2021

“JAC Talk” is a regular program hosted by the Jamestown Arts Center to bring together artists, intellectuals, and creative minds of all kinds to share their stories with the Jamestown community and beyond.

Sandy Sorlien presents an artists’ talk about the ideas behind her Outdoor Arts Experience installation, the marble-covered rowboat Marbelle.

July 2, 6-8 pm

Join us at the JAC for an Opening Reception for Spacing Out: Expanding the Field of Vision and Spacing Out(side)