Save the Date! October 20-23, Providence...

The shining heart of the residency was silence and solitude; the opportunity to wrestle with visions and fasten them to the page, to face myself, reflected in a window opening into wildness. For me, this time was a turning point in a lifetime of writing. In the midst of struggling with the perpetual self-doubts and uneven leaps forward of every artist’s life, I came to a place of clear certainty about the power and trustworthiness of what I do.

— Aurora Levins Morales

What city have Kara Walker, H.P. Lovecraft, the Farrelly brothers, Edgar Allen Poe, The Family Guy's Seth McFarland, and Shepard Fairey all called home?

Where will you find more artists per capita than any other city in the U.S.?

What conference host city -- nicknamed The Creative Capital -- boasts an Ivy League university, one of the top art-and-design schools in the world, world-renowned restaurants, a killer roller derby league, beautiful architecture, and a vibrant live music scene?

PROVIDENCE! One of the weirdest, wackiest, liveliest, awesomest cities anywhere...

Save the date for the Alliance of Artists Communities 20th annual conference, October 20-23, 2010 in Providence, RI. Join arts leaders, artists, funders, politicians, and more from around the country and across the globe in support of today’s artists – visual artists, writers, composers, choreographers, filmmakers, performance artists, and more. And explore one of the country's most artist-centered cities, home of the Alliance of Artists Communities.

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