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Newsome: Key Note Speaker at the UN Water Conference 2023

order5256

Mar 24
2 min

Newsome: Key Note Speaker at the UN Water Conference 2023

Recognized in 2022’s Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards, Allison Newsome (along with Friso Klapwijk) led the discussion on how...

Finalist for a National Search for Art in San Antonio TX

Allison Newsome

Jan 30
1 min

Finalist for a National Search for Art in San Antonio TX

Allison Newsome and re-a.d are delighted to propose a site specific installation for the city of San Antonio and aim at weaving local...

Newsome, contributor to one of the 14 projects improving water around the word

order5256

Jun 3, 2022
1 min

Newsome, contributor to one of the 14 projects improving water around the word

14 projects improving water around the world, whether in our oceans or what we drink The water category of Fast Company’s World Changing...

Allison Newsome

Mar 9, 2022
1 min

Woonasquatucket Greenway Installation

New RainKeep named 'Woony' was installed in Olneyville, Rhode Island on the Woonasquatucket Greenway with the help of local children and...

Landmark Public Artwork Finalist: "Four Directions"

Allison Newsome

Dec 8, 2021
2 min

Landmark Public Artwork Finalist: "Four Directions"

Mayor Elorza, the City of Providence Department of Art, Culture + Tourism, and the Art in City Life Commission announce the finalists of...

Three Sisters sculpture permanently installed at Casey Farm

Allison Newsome

Dec 3, 2021
3 min

Three Sisters sculpture permanently installed at Casey Farm

A shiny aluminum, yellow, and purple modern sculpture in the Casey Farm landscape: RainKeep Three Sisters Imagine visiting Casey Farm in...

Allison Newsome

Jun 8, 2021
1 min

RainKeep installation in SoHo NY

As summer quickly approaches, Allison Newsome and team installed a beautiful RainKeep in SoHo New York working with Architect, Stan de...

Historic New England has permanently installed 'Three Sisters' Rainkeep

Allison Newsome

Feb 1, 2021
1 min

Historic New England has permanently installed 'Three Sisters' Rainkeep

Historic New England has purchased 'Three Sisters' Rainkeep to be permanently installed in their community garden at Casey Farm....

NPR, All Things Considered, 'Three Sisters' Rhode Island's Public Radio, Providence For the past

Allison Newsome

Aug 21, 2020
3 min

NPR, All Things Considered, 'Three Sisters' Rhode Island's Public Radio, Providence For the past

For the past five summers, Providence has hosted PVD Fest, a multi-day street festival that fills the city with crowds watching...

Allison Newsome

Jun 15, 2020
3 min

PVDFest 2020 Public Artist – Allison Newsome and Deborah Spears Moorehead

Her ‘RainKeeps’ are sculptures that harvest rainwater for landscape use. ‘Bee Violet’, commissioned for PVDFest 2020 will collect rainwater

Allison Newsome

Jun 2, 2020
1 min

Bee Violet

RainKeep commission June 2020 City of Providence RI Visitors will be invited to use rainwater from The rainKeep 'Bee Violet' to water a...

Allison Newsome

Nov 4, 2019
1 min

Bioneer Conference 2019

'Pearl', San Rafael Ca. Sponsored by Global Athena Advisors at the 2019 Bioneer Conference. Collaboration with the lab of Anne Meyers...

Allison Newsome

Aug 15, 2019
1 min

Sculpting a Sustainable Future

As a grad student in Ceramics in the early 1980s, Allison Newsome MFA 83 CR says she was the only “nonfunctional ceramist” in the...

RainKeep at the Boston Rose Kennedy Greenway

Allison Newsome

Jul 12, 2019
1 min

RainKeep at the Boston Rose Kennedy Greenway

RainKeep at the Boston Rose Kennedy Greenway 2019. Everyone enjoying using "Big Blue" to water the Three Sisters traditional Native...

Allison Newsome

Jan 26, 2012
2 min

Arts Course Donates Mural to Hospital

“This whole hallway was empty and crying out for some art,” said Allison Newsome, a teacher in the ceramics program at Harvard’s Office for