Dirt Palace Public Projects

Dirt palace public projects facilitates its wedding cake house residencies program at 514 broadway. This program offers project based residencies with a focus on midcareer artists. Residencies give artists the space and time to work on projects. Each residency has a public component. There are no fees for artists to attend and some meals are covered. In 2024 one of these residencies was focused on artists who are parents and their children and one residency was focused on artists who are caregivers. This program hosted 43 artists and 6 youth and the public components showcased their work to 200 audience members.

In 2020 dirt palace public projects partnered with providence college galleries to launch the interlace grant fund a re-granting program supported by the andy warhol foundation. In 2024 interlace awarded $10,550 in emergency relief grants to 42 providence area artists. Interlace also continued its project grant fund which awarded 9 $6000 artist project grants for a total of $54,000.

Dirt palace public projects facilitates exhibitions at the wedding cake house wch located at 514 broadway which are accessible via public events and tours as well as public artworks on the grounds which are viewable 24 hours a day seven days a week. In 2021 we launched an exhibition in 514 broadway with 3 artists who had photographed the wedding cake house before our renovation. This exhibition continued to be on view in 2024. Public sculptures installed between 2019 - 2023 continued to be viewable from the grounds and street. 8 poets were featured on our word shelter sign over the course of the year. This sign showcases the poetry of a different poet every 6 weeks on the grounds of 514 broadway facing the bus stop.

Dirt palace public projects facilitates the storefront window gallery located at 14 olneyville square providence. The storefront window gallery is a public art exhibition space with a 6 week rotation of artist installations. 8 artists exhibited in the gallery in 2024. The exhibition is visible to the general public in olneyville square 24 hours a day seven days a week. In conjunction with each art installation we produced an interview with the artist for our blog.

Dirt palace public operated its wedding cake house bnb audience program which allows travelers to connect with artists and exhibitions through short term rentals at 514 broadway.

Dirt palace public projects facilitates the print shop at 14 olneyville square. The print shop includes screen print and letterpress facilities. The shop is run in collaboration with the dirt palace collaborative. Members of the collaborative have free access to the shop. Outside artists pay a fee to use the print shop.