Newport Art Museum And Art Association

The newport art museum offers year-round arts education programming for all ages and experience levels at its museum school. Additionally, the museum school's teaching artists provide educational experiences for a variety of partnering organizations, both on and off site. These include after school arts programs at pell and aquidneck elementary schools, a full time arts education program at lifespan hospital's bradley schools, and programs in the school's ceramics studio with fabnewport and the east bay met school. The museum school rents studio space to a dedicated group of ceramics artists and the ri open drawing group, and hosts community exhibitions in its hallway which highlight work by students and artists with diverse backgrounds.

Newport art museum has enriched the community, state and region with vibrant and diverse arts programming for 110 years. In addition to exhibitions featuring local artists, as well as those who exhibit internationally, the museum offered a wide array of public programming, which included artists' talks, scholarly lectures, discussions, free community events, storytelling, docent-led tours, a museum reads book group, and a variety of offerings with partnering organizations, including lifespan hospitals bradley schools, newport community school, the public's radio, rhode island black storytellers, the women's resource center, and many others.