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CALENDAR of ART EVENTS

FEBRUARY 1940

Volume Seven Number Four THE NEIGHBORHOOD GUILD OF PEACE DALE

classes and group activities were added. Manual Train­

ing, woodworking, gymnastics for men and women,

dancing, cooking classes for boys and girls, health edu­

cation and home nursing classes.

A Visiting Nurse Committee was organized and be­

came the Visiting Nurse Association of South Kingstown

and Narragansett, an important Community Health TAP DANCING CLASS AT THE GUILD BASKETBALL GAME AT THE GUILD Photo by Edgar W. Olson Organization giving nursing care to the citizens of both Photo by Edgar W. Olson

towns and drawing its support from the Community Thirty years ago one of the leading citizens of South If you should step into its halls at nine in the morning Fund. Kingstown and the village of Peace Dale, recognized you would see every room occupied with groups of the need for training in Home Making in a small indus­ The Welfare work was also a very important part of seventh grade, eighth grade and High School boys and trial village in rural South County. She opened a Home the beginning years of the Neighborhood Guild, result­ girls busy in modern foods, clothing and woodworking ing in the organization of the Family Welfare Society, Making Center in the old Post Office Building in Peace laboratories, taught and directed by a staff of trained which is a clearing house for most of the Welfare work Dale and employed a teacher starting a program which specialists. Its attractive Social Room is the meeting done in the Town. has grown and expanded. Today it stands as a model place of young people before and after classes.

Community Center—The Neighborhood Guild—. In Both Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts came into being At the same time the school classes are going on, its early days, classes in dressmaking, cooking and house­ through the energetic work of its first director. Both women from the neighborhood are using the laundry,— hold arts, constituted its program. Through the fore- organizations were housed in the building until the pro­ the gymnasium may have a group of men or boys in sightedness of its first Director, Miss Elizabeth Trow­ gram expanded so that separate administrative coun­ basketball or apparatus work. bridge, together with its sponsor, Mrs. John Newbold cils were set up and finally permanent houses were built

Hazard, a building was planned and built, which has for several troops. The Nurse's office will be holding a clinic or a Well served the Community all these years. The Neighborhood Guild today has a varied program Baby conference, while other rooms will be housing

As the Community grew and times changed, other of Recreational, Social and Educational activities. committee meetings. Its offices are busy places with

constant telephone calls giving out information on any­ classes and a group of women from the village in an dancing, social dancing, basketry and many other crafts thing from how to spell pajamas to the best method of organized singers group. are taught.

feeding guinea pigs. The Neighborhood Guild has been the promoter of In the gymnasium there will be a group of women drawing and art classes, now a part of the school pro­ Three o'clock comes and this building becomes the in a Keep Fit Class, later a group of young women in gram. Metal craft and other creative arts are now Town's Community Center with a program of Leisure heavy gymnastics and rhythmic floor work and hand housed in a separate Arts and Crafts Club. It is the Time Activities, meeting the needs of boys, girls, men drills; still later a basketball group. and women. These groups are under leadership of lead­ home of many committees and community groups and

ers especially qualified for the activity they are in The boys game room is going full blast, the wood­ has proved itself during its years of service so that its building and program have been accepted by The Town charge of. working room is busy with a group of men and women

refinishing antiques, making new furniture, building the of South Kingstown, from the Trustees who so gener­ Men and boys are interested in basketball, gym­ ously have supported the building and its program for baby's crib or a boat for next summer's fishing. nastics, badminton, table tennis, or as they say, just a thirty-one years.

"bull session" around the radio or victrola. Photography, stamp collecting, travel clubs, dra­ The Leisure Time program expanded beyond the con­ matics, marionettes, handicrafts are offered, and tap A typical evening at the Neighborhood Guild will fines of the building embracing a playground program

find the teachers in Home Economics holding a supper on five school grounds and a swimming program on

club of business women who plan the menu, do the cook­ three of the Town's inland lakes. Not stopping here, the

ing and have a meal and general social good time, or a work has extended to the winter season and through

group of young industrial girls will be busy in the clothing constant pressure of the director and staff, coasting

laboratory on winter dresses or a spring outfit. Even streets have been posted and signs protecting skaters

a marionette enthusiast may be designing an animal erected at several points. A far cry from the small one

marionette for a group of puppeteers. room program of thirty-one years ago.

In the social room, class room and Director's office, Among its services is the housing of the summer art

the Neighborhood Guild School of Music, under the exhibits of the South County Art Association, hobby

directorship of Madame Avis Bliven Charbonnel is in shows, concerts, dramatics and exhibitions of various

full swing. Individual instruction is given in piano, voice, kinds.

string instruments, together with group activities such PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS TONING PRINT Miss Emma H. Howe, as choruses, piano ensembles, rhythm bands, theory Photo by Cole-Bardsley Director EXHIBITIONS OUTSIDE OF RHODE ISLAND CALENDAR OF ART EVENTS Tuesday, 'Concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Metropolitan

Andover, MASS., Addison Gallery, Phillips Academy Theatre, 8:15 P. M. Jan. I3-Mar. 10—The Architecture of a Painting. Sunday, Feb. 10-Feb. 21—One Picture Picasso Exhibition. Lent by Gallery talk by Miriam A. Banks, "Pictures from Persian Wednesday, Museum of Modern Art. Poetry Books." Museum of the Rhode Island School of The Players' radio dramatization. WJAR, 7:30 P. M. Feb. 10-Mar. 17—Paintings, Drawings and Prints by Fiske Design, 3:30 P. M. Boyd. 'Concert by Jessica Dragonette, soprano. Metropolitan Thursday, Boston, Mass., Museum of Fine Arts Theatre, 3:00 P. M. Auspices of St. Vincent's Assembly. Department of Music, Brown University presents Sandor Vas, Feb. I7-Mar. 23—Arts of the Middle Ages. pianist. Alumnae Hall, 8:30 P. M. Wednesday,

Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum The Players' radio dramatization. WJAR, 7:30 P. M. Friday, Jan. I 5-Feb. 10—Pre-Columbian Art Modern dance recital by the Pembroke College Dance Group. Sunday, Jan. I5-Mar. I—Recent Acquisitions in the Department of Alumnae Hall, 8:15 P. M. Prints. Gallery talk by Dr. Erich Budde, "The Ganymede Myth in Art." Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, 3:30 Sunday, Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art P. M. Feb. I-Feb. 29—Sculpture and Drawings by William Steig. Gallery talk by Dorothea Daly, "Cartoonists of Today." Photographs: Portraits and Figure and Fashion Studies. Monday, Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, 3:30 P. M. Basement Studio Group: Dramatic reading of "Richard II" Springfield, Mass., Springfield Museum of Fine Arts by Shakespeare. Tea. 80 Benefit Street, 8:10 P. M. Monday, Jan. 9-Feb. 5—Sculpture by Alexander Archipenko. Basement Studio Group: Dramatic reading of "Cymbeline" Feb. 20-Mar. 17—Ceramics by Rae Koch. Wednesday, by Shakespeare. Tea. 80 Benefit Street, 8:10 P. M. 'Musical vignette presented by the Monday Morning Musical Wellesley, Mass., Farnsworth Museum, Wellesley College Club, Barker Playhouse, 8:30 P. M. Tuesday, Feb. 8-Mar. 4—Sculpture by Arnold Geissbuhler. The Players' radio dramatization. WJAR, 7:30 P. M. 'The Providence Community Concert Association presents Worcester, Mass., Worcester Art Museum Argentinitia and her Ballet Group. Metropolitan Theatre, Jan. 28-Mar. 6—Japanese Prints from the Bancroft Collec­ Thursday, 8:30 P. M. tion. 'Sock and Buskin presents three original one act plays by Brown University undergraduates. Faunce House Theatre, Wednesday, , N. Y., Museum of Modern Art 8:30 P. M. The Players' radio dramatization. WJAR, 7:30 P. M. Jan. 26-Mar. 24—Italian Classics. Lent by the Royal Italian 'Musical vignette presented by the Monday Morning Musical Government. Club, Barker Playhouse, 8:30 P. M. Thursday, Jan. 26-Mar. 24—Modern Masters. From European and 'The Brown University Orchestra presents "The Pirates of American Collections. Friday, Jan. 10-Mar. 3—Prize-winning Designs for a New Smithsonian Penzance" by Gilbert and Sullivan. Faunce House Theatre, Gallery of Art. 'Sock and Buskin presents three original one act plays by 8:30 P. M. Brown University undergraduates. Faunce House Theatre, 8:30 P. M.

EXHIBITIONS IN RHODE ISLAND Saturday, Providence Art Club Feb. 6-Feb. 18—Oil Paintings by Florence Leif. Faunce House Gallery, Brown University 'Sock and Buskin presents three original one act plays by Feb. 20-Mar. 3—Water Color Club Exhibition. Feb. 5-Feb. 10—William Carey Poland Collection Brown University undergraduates. Faunce House Theatre, 8:30 P. M. Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design Armour Gallery Jan. 5-Feb. 14—Rowlandson Water Colors. Sunday, Feb. I-Feb. 29—A Group of American Etchers. Feb. I-Feb. 29 Book-End Papers Through the Centuries. Gallery talk by William D. Fales and C. Lawrence Parker, Feb. I-Mar. 31—American Cartoonists of Today. "The Art of Hand-Weaving." Museum of the Rhode Island Tilden-Thurber Gallery Feb. I-Mar. 3 I—Exhibition of Children's Work in the Fifth School of Design, 3:30 P. M. Feb. I-Feb. 29—Etchings by Heintzelman. Grade of the Providence Public Schools. Lecture by John B. Archer on the program of the Boston Feb. 21-Feb. 29—Floral Prints. Feb. 16-Mar. 3—Providence Journal Photographs. Symphony program. Providence Art Club, 4:00 P. M. Auspices of the Monday Morning Musical Club. School Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, 14 College St. Leisure Time Activities, Inc. Feb. I-Feb. 29—Departmental Work by Students. Feb. I-Feb. 29—Oils, Etchings, Water Colors, and Pencil Monday, Drawings by Florence Leif, Oakley Spingler, Gordon Research Laboratory Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design Basement Studio Group: Dramatic reading of "Cymbeline" Peers, Karnig Nalbandian, Albert White and Robert K. Feb. I-Feb. 29—Modern Textile Designs. by Shakespeare. Tea. 80 Benefit Street, 8:10 P. M. Stephens.