PITCH Artists

Magical Approach | Ken Linehan is a sound and video artist living and working in Providence, RI. Linehan projects original 16mm films that explore the hypnotic divination of collective dream space. Films are accompanied by live manipulated sound scores.

PLANCHETTE  | Ashleigh Carraway

Based in Providence, Rhode Island, PLANCHETTE is a collective of women in filmmaking, music, and costume design. Still and moving images are collaged into micro dramas of maximum spectacle. Original musical scores are performed live at the screenings of these short films.

Willa Van Nostrand (1987) is a performance artist and curator. Van Nostrand attended the Putney School & received her BA in Experimental Theatre & Improvisation from Sarah Lawrence College in 2009. After spending a year in Florence, Italy studying Slow Food, Cinema and Printmaking, Willa returned to Providence to open World’s Fair, a site-specific gallery located at Machines with Magnets in Pawtucket, RI.

Glenna Van Nostrand (1984) graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2008. She majored in SIM, a program dedicated to new media studies, with a focus on lighting design and performance. While taking an electronics projects class, she began rewiring old telephones and radios and started a solo project known as Omnivore. Glenna moved to Providence, Rhode Island and resided at the Dirt Palace, where she contributed to collaborations such as Bonedust and Sexaphone. In 2011, she recorded her debut album at Machines With Magnets for Feeding Tube Records. She just returned from a European tour and is currently developing new work involving light// sound// video manipulation under the project name ‘Talisman.’

All shows start at dusk at Grant’s Block & are free. Bring a chair or blanket.

Sponsored by the City of Providence Department of Planning & Development and the Providence Redevelopment Agency, and Durkee, Brown, Vivieros, & Werenfels Architects