Studio to Market

HomeMaking

Exploring domestic space as a
site of artistic inquiry.

September 12 – October 3, 2026

Ritual Spaces Gallery

719 Westminster Street

Providence, Rhode Island

Studio to Market helps artists recognize the distinctiveness of their work, understand how viewers encounter it, and develop language that makes the work more legible without changing its essence or flattening its complexity.

Participating artists learn to observe the relationship between their work, their audience, and the contexts in which the work appears. They develop clearer language, stronger self-understanding, and public-facing materials that can support exhibitions, applications, websites, studio visits, and future opportunities.

The program treats visibility as an extension of artistic practice: a way of helping the work meet the world with greater clarity, confidence, and integrity.

HomeMaking is the first cohort presented through Studio to Market.

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HomeMaking

Homemaking: About the Show

Bringing together artists across generations, HomeMaking examines domestic space as a site of artistic inquiry, cultural memory, care, repair, ritual, and material intelligence.

The exhibition centers forms of labor and making long practiced in the home: work often uncompensated as labor, unchampioned as cultural production, and excluded from the category of art.

Works range across painting, photography, illustration, installation, performance, traditional domestic materials, and contemporary art practices.

Exhibition events.

Opening Reception

Thursday, September 10 · 5–8 pm

Opening Reception

Ritual Spaces Gallery, 719 Westminster Street, Providence.

Knit-In

Saturday, September 12 · 1–5 pm

Knit-In

Bring your own lap-sized knitting, crochet, stitching, or mending project and make together inside the exhibition.

Gallery Night

Thursday, September 17 · 5–8 pm

Gallery Night

Providence Gallery Night at Ritual Spaces. Events TBD.

Bake Sale

Saturday, September 19 · 1–5 pm

Bake Sale

A HomeMaking bake sale inside the gallery. 100% proceeds go to charity.

Artist Talks

Saturday, September 26 · 3–4 pm

Artist Talks

Artists from the HomeMaking cohort in conversation. Gallery open 1–5 pm.

Costume Party · Closing

Saturday, October 3 · 7–10 pm

Costume Party · Closing

A Halloween-themed closing celebration on the final night of HomeMaking.

The gallery is open to visitors during all special events.

Take Part

Support HomeMaking and Studio to Market.

Donations help fund artist mentorship, exhibition production, artist development stipends, marketing implementation, documentation, public programming, and future Studio to Market cohorts. One unified form handles every kind of involvement.